ROUND TABLE 44 – HOW DO YOU DESIGN YOUR FALL WORKOUTS TO GET YOUR TEAM READY FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON? – EPISODE 676
Welcome to the 44th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.
August’s Round Table question is: How do you design your fall pre-season to get your team ready for the upcoming season?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Dominic Amorosa – Strake Jesuit (TX) College Prep
- Joe Crispin – Rowan University
- Erik Buehler – Chatfield (CO) High School
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High School
- Dan Miller – San Marcos (TX) High School
- Matthew Raidbard – Author of Lead Like a Pro
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 44 – ROUND TABLE 44 – HOW DO YOU DESIGN YOUR FALL WORKOUTS TO GET YOUR TEAM READY FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON? – EPISODE 676
[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to you by Head Start Basketball.
[00:00:21] Mike Klinzing: Hello, and welcome to the 44th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table, will feature our all-star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question, a new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month
August’s Round Table Question is, How do you design your fall workouts to get your team ready for the upcoming season?
Our coaching lineup this month includes:
· Dominic Amorosa – Strake Jesuit (TX) College Prep
· Erik Buehler – Chatfield (CO) High School
· Joe Crispin – Rowan University
· Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High School
· Dan Miller – San Marcos (TX) High School
· Matthew Raidbard – Author of Lead Like a Pro
· Don Showalter – USA Basketball
Please enjoy this Round Table episode of the Hoop Heads Podcast and once you’re finished listening please give the show a five star rating and review after you subscribe on your favorite podcast app.
If you’re a basketball coach at any level, please check out our Hoop Heads coaching mentorship program. You’ll get matched with one of our experienced head coaches and develop a relationship that will take your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset to another level.
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Now let’s hear from our panel about how they design their fall workouts to get their team ready for the upcoming season.
[00:04:24] Mike Klinzing: Dominic Amorosa – Strake Jesuit College Prep in Houston, Texas.
[00:04:27] Dominic Amorosa: I design our basketball off season to include weights, conditioning, individual development, and a little bit of team. As we prepare in the fall I want them excited about the start of practice in late October. And I want them even more excited about practice in January and February. So it’s about managing the fall and building them up individually conditioning and strength wise as we get ready for October 26th. Thanks.
[00:05:02] Mike Klinzing: Eric Buehler – Chatfield Senior High School, Littleton, Colorado.
[00:05:09] Erik Buehler: Hey, what’s going on Hoop Heads. This is Eric Buehler from Chatfield Senior High. And this month we were asked what we do in the fall for the preseason to get our teams ready for the season. I don’t think we do anything special. We’re blessed that at our school, we actually have a class where most of our players are in that class every day.
And we get to work with them in there for about 50 minutes of class time. We get a lot of our weight training program done at that time. We get a lot of skills done and we mainly focus on the individual, just like we did over the summer, probably through mid-September end of September. And then October early November before the season, we start focusing in on certain concepts and ideas and maybe even putting in defenses and offenses that we’re gonna use for the upcoming season, just to get ready for the beginning.
And. Also during this time, I have kind of a, a layout of a leadership program that I have the whole program go through. And I kind of give different roles each time we do that about once a week to obviously our, our leaders or juniors and seniors are gonna have a little bit different role each day. Then the freshman and sophomores that are in those classes, but it also gives those guys an idea of what it looks like, what the, what will be expected of them as they get older and they move through our program.
That’s what we do. And thanks for having me again. And I’ll talk to everyone again next time. Bye
[00:06:41] Mike Klinzing: Joe Crispin – Rowan University,
[00:06:46] Joe Crispin: Joe Crispin. Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Rowan University. In response to how I design our fall preseason, one of the most important things to me, probably two, I guess, are connected, is one getting our players to connect with one another and two getting them to really own the team and the rhythm and the schedule.
So we do things a little bit differently because as a division three coach, I can’t actively. Work with them on the basketball front. We have them put together what they want their weekly schedule to be. So there’s a certain rhythm to it. And then we let ’em own it as much as humanly possible to hold each other accountable.
We really don’t have a say in the things that they do. There’s no disciplinary measures for missioning or anything like that. And I found that although it’s different it really helps them connect with one another because they have to organize themselves. One of the things I’ve seen just generationally is that a lot of players today and kids today struggle to self-organize as a group even individually and to hold each other accountable.
So when it comes to conditioning, when it comes to their strength stuff, when it comes to their pickup, when it comes to their skill work they are literally setting the schedule around when the gym’s available and when we can get ’em in there and then they’re doing it we give them some broad ranges.
Things they’re looking to do the kind of shape they’re trying to get in. But when it all is said and done, it’s really up to them. And one of the reasons I do that is we tell them if we wanna be a championship team it really does need to be their team and they need to take ownership and our leaders need to lead and guys need to follow.
And if not, if they can’t do that, we won’t be great anyway, and I’ll just be exhausted. So it’s been successful for us and our guys and some teams have done it better than others, but on the whole guys are, have pleasantly surprised us. And it’s one of those lessons. I think a lot of times coaches say that kids aren’t doing it or aren’t capable.
But what I found is, is oftentimes they’re not given the space. They’re not. We tell the players, we leave a gap between what we want and where we are, and that it’s up to them to fill that gap. And in the preseason that’s really more important to me than even what is done is that those two things are done because that sets the stage for real winning, so different but been effective so far and, and hopefully really effective this year.
[00:09:10] Mike Klinzing: Bob Krizancic – Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio
[00:09:17] Bob Krizancic: Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School, Our fall preseason workout. We do a lot of core work, but the majority of it and the emphasis is on four sessions. Our top eight to 12 players get at least two to three, four man sessions a week. We’ll break up into all guards, all bigs, two guards, two bigs. Our offensive coach will go through offensive skill work.
Defensive coach, go through the defensive skills. Footwork basketball IQ. Defensively will have a big man session ball handling session. But we absolutely believe in the two months of September and October that strength wise and skill wise, we’re gonna be ready to go the first day of practice.
[00:10:07] Mike Klinzing: Dan Miller, San Marcos High School in San Marcos, Texas.
[00:10:14] Dan Miller: In Texas, we’re fortunate at the high school level to have an athletic period and an athletic period basically is just a little over 50 minutes where we get our guys and we utilize it for basketball. All fall we’re in the gym. We’re working on skill development, shooting, finishing breakdown, drills, small-sided games and, and just getting them ready for October.
But we definitely get a lot of shots up in that athletic period. And we will have a live component every day you know, with competitions. We able to lift weights before school three days a week, so that we’re not using any of that athletic period time for basketball. We are for weight lifting.
We want that all to be basketball and, and ready to go. Our goal is when the first day of practice and down here, it’s in October that the guys are locked in, ready, understand the system, their shots are grooved up they’re in shape and we’re ready to start our practices, and just at our very best.
[00:11:13] Mike Klinzing: Matthew Raidbard – Author of Lead like a Pro
[00:11:19] Matthew Raidbard: Hey Hoop Heads Nation! This is coach Matt Raidbard. Excited to be back here, talking with you on another great Hoop Heads round table today discussing how do you design your fall preseason to get your team ready for the upcoming season? To me, this always revolves around defense and team. You know, inevitably because of student athletes today and culture and the emphasis on offense, it’s always gonna be ahead of your defense.
So always come in right off the bat, focusing on defense, how can we improve our defense in the previous year, new defensive principles, roles, assignments, really starting to build that mentality so that our defense concerned to catch up to where our offense definitely is from all of our, our student athletes working over the summer on, on all of their different offensive skills.
And then team building. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got an entirely new roster, a roster that’s coming. From the, from a previous season where everyone’s been successful and has great relationships, you always need to focus on team building, building that team first culture. And I always say, don’t take for granted that your, your kids are gonna get along, that your kids are gonna come together over the course of the season.
You’ve gotta put the work in and the emphasis in the pre-season. On building that culture of mutual trust and respect, not only between you and your, your kids, but between the kids themselves, between the coaches, you know, that takes time and you gotta start focusing on that from day one, in order to really build that team culture, that team camaraderie, that’s gonna carry through the entire season and continue to grow. Thanks Hoop Heads!
[00:12:58] Mike Klinzing: Don Showalter from USA Basketball.
[00:13:04] Don Showalter: Don Showalter here from USA Basketball. And I’m answering the question of what is the best way for your fall workouts to get the most out of them. I think there are three things that your fall workouts must, must do. First of all, it’s conditioning. They have to have some form of conditioning into it so that kids are ready to play when the season starts, when the practice starts. Secondly, there’s gotta be some skill work, skill development whether this be a half hour a day or whatever, but there needs to be some skill work involved. And then the third thing is I think there needs to be some competition involved, whether that be three on three work or four on four, five on five.
Probably discouraged more five on five work, but mostly three on three and four on four work for the competitive nature, because this helps develop skill level as well. And also the conditioning, so conditioning skill level skill work, and then the competitive aspect to it are the three most important things in your fall workout. Thank you.
[00:14:04] Mike Klinzing: Thanks for checking out this month’s Hoop Heads Podcast Round Table. We’ll be back next month with another question for our all-star lineup of coaches.
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