ROUND TABLE 49 – WHAT DO YOU DO TO HELP YOUR TEAM STAY FRESH AS THE POST-SEASON APPROACHES? – EPISODE 741

Welcome to the 49th 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 15^th of each month.

January’s Round Table question is:  What do you do to help your team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches?

Our Coaching Lineup this month:

• Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
• Erik Buehler – Chatfield (CO) High School
• Chris DeLisio – Olmsted Falls (OH) High School
• Andy Farrell – University of Dayton
• Joe Harris – Lake Chelan (WA) High School
• Jeff Huber – Elyria Catholic (OH) High School
• Dell Leonard – Mountain Home (AR) High School
• Deronte Polite – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Matthew Raidbard – Author of Lead Like a Pro
• Don Showalter – USA Basketball
• John Shulman – University of Alabama Huntsville

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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 49 – WHAT DO YOU DO TO HELP YOUR TEAM STAY FRESH AS THE POST-SEASON APPROACHES? – EPISODE 741

[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to by Head Start Basketball.

[00:00:21] Mike Klinzing: Hello and welcome to the 49th 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 15^th of each month.

January’s Round Table question is:  What do you do to help your team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches?

Our Coaching Lineup this month:

• Jerry Buckley – Bishop Kenny (FL) High School
• Erik Buehler – Chatfield (CO) High School
• Chris DeLisio – Olmsted Falls (OH) High School
• Andy Farrell – University of Dayton
• Joe Harris – Lake Chelan (WA) High School
• Jeff Huber – Elyria Catholic (OH) High School
• Dell Leonard – Mountain Home (AR) High School
• Deronte Polite – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Matthew Raidbard – Author of Lead Like a Pro
• Don Showalter – USA Basketball
• John Shulman – University of Alabama Huntsville

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 are 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 help take your coaching, your team, your program, and your mindset to another level.

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Let’s hear from our panel about how they help their team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approach.

Erik Buehler, Chatfield Senior High School, Littleton, Colorado.

[00:03:48] Erik Buehler: Hey, what’s going on Hoop Heads? This is Erik Buehler at Chatfield Senior High, and this month we were asked what we do to keep our team fresh and how to help them peak for the post-season.

It’s hard for me to answer to get a team to peak. I feel like I’m not very good at that. We have good years. We have our bad years with our team Peaking. That’s a coat I would love to crack and get more consistent with myself. As far as staying fresh, we do multiple things. We do yoga throughout the year.

We’ll do stretching days. We encourage ice baths. We encourage stretching before and after practice. We also lift, I’m the big believer in lifting throughout the season, maintaining strength, and I th believe by the end of the year, That maintaining that strength helps prevent injuries and also gives you that athleticism that you need to finish off through your league season and into the playoffs.

That’s what we do at Chatfield. I can’t wait to hear what everyone else is doing. Thank you for having me on again, and we’ll talk to you guys next time.

[00:04:50] Mike Klinzing: Jerry Buckley, Bishop Kenny High School, Jacksonville, Florida.

[00:04:57] Jerry Buckley: This is Jerry Buckley from Bishop Kenny, talking about keeping your team fresh as the post-season approaches. There’s a number of different things we do at this time of year now that we’re in January. Number one would be shorter practices. We’re typically playing two, if not three games a week, so we’re probably going no longer than 90 minutes on the floor, maybe even less.

The main way we do that is we. Pretty consistent with our fundamental drills, but we’ll probably just cut down the time. If it was an eight minute drill, we might cut it in half, just depending on the situation. We do try to pick up our use of film at this point, whether it be watching ourselves or our opponents.

Probably not too much time, but just a little bit more frequently as far as our schedule goes. We continue with our work in the weight room. That’s something we do almost year round. So that’s very important for us as far as staying fresh and as strong as we can for the post-season. And then we try to do some things that would promote team chemistry.

So we’ll attend a local college game or just do some other type of fun activity. And then the final thing would be guest speakers. I think it’s always good, you know, they’ve been hearing my voice for a long time now, individually, to bring in somebody from outside the program to give them different perspective at this time of.

Thanks. I hope every season’s going well.

[00:06:10] Mike Klinzing: Chris DeLisio, Olmsted Falls High School, Olmsted Falls, Ohio.

[00:06:17] Chris DeLisio: Hey Hoop Heads, Chris DeLisio. Olmsted Falls. Helping your team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches is a difficult task as you want to move into playoff season and end a conference season. I think shortening practices a bit, helping your guys stay physically fresh, but also stretched out, kind of eliminating some of the wear and tear on their body is helpful.

And then from a basketball standpoint, just trying to sharpen up some of the things you’ve already been doing. Pay attention to the detail. As you know, you’re gonna be in close games down the stretch and have some important moments. You know, those are the moments that you want to be crisp in and think it’s a great time in practice at the end of the year to really worry about their details and takes away some of the physical toll in their body.

So thanks. Those are some of the things that we’ve tried to do in the past to help us be good down the stretch.

[00:07:06] Narrator: Andy Farrell from the University of Dayton.

[00:07:11] Andy Farrell: I think one of the things that we as coaches can do to make sure our guys are ready and peaking at the right time for post-season play is being mindful of when they need to have off days completely away from the game. And then when we need to have lighter practices where it’s just more mental practices, walking through some offensive things, walking through some of your defense rotations, just getting up some light shots without really breaking a sweat too much or just completely.

I think keeping the guys fresh, mentally and physically is really, really important. As you approach post-season basketball. I think one of the greatest abilities is the availability of our players, and we as coaches have some of that stuff underneath our control with how hard we’re pushing the guys. I also think that as you approach the post-season, there should be a cadence where you’re building up to some of those things.

You don’t wanna be wearing the guys down with constantly banging, going, you know, full five on five all the time, or you know, full core drills all the time. You know, sometimes you just need to, to pull back and continue to do skill development. I think there’s a time and a place that that guys need to get up and down in, in short burst so that they can feel the game.

But at the same time, the skill development piece, making sure that everyone’s cohesive unit, I think all that stuff’s really, really important.

[00:08:31] Mike Klinzing: Joe Harris. Lake Chelan High School, Lake Chelan, Washington.

[00:08:37] Joe Harris: Hello, Hoop Heads. This is Joe Harris at Chelan High School with today’s round table question. What do you do to hope your teams stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches?

First of all, hope everyone’s doing well and that your teams are striving to reach those post-season games. As coaches, we know this is a special time of the year for so many reasons. And as a program, you may have put things in throughout the year to help your team stay fresh, but some things you can do on the back end of your season to help with keeping them fresh and, and helping them peak as the, as you reach that post-season era, you change the length of your practice, shorten it down a little bit maybe pull some drills out, change the length of your drill so they’re not quite so long.

Even though you change the length of your practice, maybe add some different drills. Add a competitive toughness drills so that your players get a different look than what you’ve been giving them throughout the year. Change the order of your day-to-day practice plan. This gives ’em that fresh look so that it’s not so repetitive.

It’s not the same thing over and over. You end practice on a positive note. This can be done with games of, of any kind, shooting half course shots, getting the players, the, the feeling that, hey, this is something fun and we want to be able to come back and do this again tomorrow. All of these things can help keeping your players fresh and and ready for the post-season.

So I’m hoping some of these things can, you can find helpful and good luck as the post-season arrives.

[00:10:00] Mike Klinzing: Jeff Huber Elyria Catholic High School in Elyria, Ohio.

[00:10:07] Jeff Huber: Hi, this is Jeff Huber, a head boy’s basketball coach at Elyria Catholic High School, and this month’s round table question is what do you do to help your team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches?

I think we try and do a couple things that probably a lot of programs do. Certainly as the season goes on, we try and, and shorten our time on the floor, try to keep guys fresh, keep them excited to be on the court. Really kind of zero in on the most important things that we need to get done and direct our practice time there.

With that said, another thing that we do that I think hopefully keeps players engaged is try and focus a little bit more on player development as the season goes. You know, early in the year, a lot of it is getting in our systems and strategies, but as a season goes along and our players have a better understanding of those things, it allows us to devote a little bit more time to player development and we try and tailor that individually a little bit to each guy’s needs.

And hopefully that’s kind of a motivating thing for them, the fact that, you know, it’s really time for them to develop and improve and become better players. And then I would say third thing is we’ll try and do some fun things as the season goes along. Whether it’s, you know, doing something away from the court as a group, whether it’s maybe doing some things in the classroom, some, some kind of team building activities.

We probably watch a little bit more film as the season goes along and try and use Ed as a learning tool. So maybe it’s not quite as much time on the floor, but, but some time doing some different things that are still, I think, beneficial either in a teaching tool, whether it’s film or building the com or, or building the comradery of the group if it’s something that’s a team building activity.

So those are some things that we try and do and we’re, we’re starting to get close to that time as we’ve just hit the new year. So that will be coming up soon. All.

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[00:13:43] Mike Klinzing: Dell Leonard, Mountain Home High School. Mountain Home, Arkansas.

[00:13:49] Dell Leonard: Dell Leonard, Mountain Home High School. Mountain Home, Arkansas. The question this week for the round table is what do you do to help your team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches? The number one thing that we try to do is simply cut our practice time back to one hour on the floor. If we go any longer than that, it may be that we do some competitive shooting drills after that hour, or we simply go to the film.

Other things we do is if we have a long road trip the night before or maybe an overtime game, whether it’s at home or on the road, or just a real physical game. We just try to be real cognizant of their legs and where they’re at physically, and probably more important mentally. And we meet as a staff and talk about, you know, do we need to cut back some on that particular day?

And we also put a lot of of input or give our players a lot of input. And our seniors are really good about communicating with us. And if we go to them and talk to them about where we’re at mainly and physically, we’ll gauge a lot off that. And we also give them the freedom to come to us and talk to us.

So, Keeping the kids fresh and and keeping their legs fresh, and as I said before, even more so mentally fresh, I think is huge as you go into post-season play. Well, hoop Heads, thanks for having me, and good luck to everybody out there as you get into the second half of your season,

[00:15:26] Mike Klinzing: Deronte Polite University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

[00:15:33] Deronte Polite: Deronte Polite here. Women basketball coach, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as it concerns the end of the year. And really just trying to stay fresh and make sure we’re peaking at the right time. You know, one big thing is shorter practices, at that point in time you kind of know who you are.

So shorter practices really just kind of. Dialing in on some of the detail things. A lot of, you know, for us at that time of the year, it’s a lot of scout oriented cause of conference. So you’re seeing teams for a second time. So you just trying to spend as little, you know, during practice, less wear and tear during practice.

A lot of focus on shooting, you know, so just getting those reps in more and more during practice. And that’s weight room concerns. I mean, that, that gets really low. And it’s more about recovery, stretching and things of that nature. So, and even from a mental standpoint, I mean, we, we just lighten the mental load of practice too.

So we might mix in a little bit more fun during that time of the year to help, you know, lighten things up and again, lighten the load from a physical standpoint, but also from a mental standpoint. So that’s the biggest thing. Shorter practices a lot more shooting and. Incorporating some fun while we’re, again, we’re, we’re walking through a lot of the details.

[00:16:51] Mike Klinzing: Matthew Raidbard, Author of Lead Like a Pro

[00:16:59] Matthew Raidbard: Hey, Hoop Heads Nation. This is Coach Matt Raidbard back with you for another Hoop Heads round table this month discussing the question, what do you do to help keep your team fresh and stay at peak as the postseason approaches? This is, I think, an extremely important question, particularly as we get to this time of the year.

Conference season is underway. We’re getting towards the back half of conference season, and even though as a coach you never wanna look ahead, you always have to keep those post-season aspirations in mind when making decisions about the amount of load and work you put on your student athletes’ bodies.

So starting off, I always thought about tapering. You know, when are we playing games? How much load can we point on at the start of the week and then taper it down as the week went on. I also thought about what drills, what aspects of practice could hit the most areas. So if through certain drills we really focused on one specific.

I might kind of, you know, lean away from that as we started going through the week and move towards drills or activities that I could get kind of more bang for my buck. That by putting more time into it practice, I can touch more areas, get more out of it, affect more players in the team in a positive way.

So really trying to condense practice, being very specific and intentional about what we did at. And what those drills and the benefit was gonna be for the season moving forward, I think is so important. And then I think as a coach, really prioritizing rest, letting your, your student athletes know again, how important sleep is, how important being off your feet is, you know, getting that early bedtime, making sure that your time management skills, you’re getting all your academics taken care of, you’re getting all of those other ancillary things that go on, you know, on a college campus, on a high school campus, whatever grade that you.

Make sure that those things are getting prioritized so that your athletes can get to sleep at regular time, get the amount of time, rest and recovery that they need. Also, you know, making sure that you’re always prioritizing, you know, stretching after practice, getting in the hot and cold tub, living with your athletic trainers as much as you can.

You know, making sure that they’re doing all of those things so that when they’re at practice, you could avoid some of those injuries that can crop up at the end of the year that happen due to overuse and not enough recovery time. Thanks, Hoop Head Nation. Glad to be with you again this month on the Hoop Heads round table.

[00:19:30] Narrator: Don Showalter, USA Basketball.

[00:19:36] Don Showalter: Hi, Don Showalter here from USA Basketball, and the question for this session was, how do you keep your team fresh as, as the seasoning goes on? I think a number of things that you have take in consideration, first of all, What’s the, do you have a, do you have a team that’s experienced or are they a very young team?

I think that makes a big difference for an experienced team. I think you can kinda make sure that take a day off here and there is always good. Maybe play, have a, have one night where they play instead of going to practice, they go bowl you, you take ’em bowling. You have a wiffle ball game, I think that’s always good just to give ’em something different to laugh about and be together with a younger team.

You, I think maybe be sure you cut your practices short because I think they get tired and, and mentally more than physically, but I think keep your practices a little shorter. Always concentrate on the fundamentals of at least a little bit every practice. We do our practices in thirds. We have a third of fun fundamental skill work.

A third of offense, a third of defense can be mixed around. It doesn’t have to be for an hour. You don’t have to be straight 20 minutes of one, and then 20 minutes of the other can be intertwined. But I think those are the things that keeps ’em fresh. I, I think team activities throughout the season, especially as the season goes on, are really important.

Keeps the kids communicating with each other in a good way outside of basketball, I know we always try to have players over our place and maybe just play games, board games, or make up some type of thing that they can do volunteering at a food bank and, and those kind of things are always good. At the end of the season because I think this keeps ’em a little bit looser and they get a chance to be with their teammates.  Thank you.

[00:21:25] Mike Klinzing: John Shulman, University of Alabama, Huntsville, and the 720 Sports Group.

[00:21:32] John Shulman: This is John Shulman, head coach at Alabama. Huntsville. Question this month is, what do you do to help your team stay fresh and peak as the post-season approaches? Great question. Great question. And I think every team is different.

I think the first thing, just be honest. The first thing is don’t lose your team in November and December. I know we’re in January right now, but some teams are already done. You got beat on a tight one at the buzzer, or you screwed up something and you lost your mind as a coach and you never recovered from a game in November in December.

Basketball is a tournament sport and so you’re trying to be good for postseason postseasons in February and March and. So really in theory, November and December are pre-season stuff. You’re trying to get better. We used to talk about, I had a associate head coach at Chattanooga, a guy named Charlton Young, who is one of the elite coaches in the country, and he was big on happy and hugging.

Happy and hugging in February, happy and hugging. The teams that want to play in February. And the teams that are still having fun are the teams that. and if your team’s not having fun, then you’re probably not going to want to continue. Yes, it’s a game, but it’s a hard. And you put a lot of pressure on your kids and your kids put a lot of pressure on themselves, and the parents put a lot of pressure on them.

If they’re not having fun, they’re done. And if they’re done mentally, then you ain’t winning. You’re not winning in February, march. And trust me, in my career, I’ve won in February, March, and I’ve lost in February, March. And the common denominator is those kids, you better be happy and hugging in February.

And that, and that’s the key. You don’t, you know, it’s like a horse race. You don’t wanna be whipping that horse and, and trying to get going in, in November and December. It’s time to start bearing down in, in January. Shorten your practices in, in January, February, and make sure you’re fresh and make sure they wanna play and make sure they feel like playing.

If they feel like playing, they’re, they’re going to keep on learning and keep on getting better. And that’s the only thing that I, you know, helps your team stay fresh. Don’t practice as. Take a take a day where you play whiffle ball, take a day where you go to a movie that we were four and six in the league last year, and instead of coming back and killing them, we went to eat pizza and went and saw a movie that night.

We went 13 and two from that spot for the rest of the year. And so everybody’s got a different plan. Everybody’s got a different idea. Those are my ideas. And sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t work. But I’ll say this, if kids want to be playing basketball, You know, we used to play the Southern Conference Tournament when I was at Chattanooga.

It was right around spring. And you literally, some of those kids in in our league would’ve rather gone to spring break than the NCAA tournament. Well, if that’s the case, you ain’t gonna win. And so understand it’s a long season and they’ve been playing AAU in high school. They’ve been playing AAU since in JU in June and July.

You had team camp in June. They played AAU in June. They’ve been working out in August. You start back in late August. There’s never a. You better be fresh and the most important time to be fresh is February, March. Hope this helps. Take care. Thanks.

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