ROUND TABLE 51 – WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU DO WHEN YOUR SEASON ENDS TO BEGIN PREPARING FOR THE NEXT ONE? – EPISODE 767

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Round Table 51

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March’s Round Table question is:  What is the first thing you do when your season ends to begin preparing for the next one? 

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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 51 – WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU DO WHEN YOUR SEASON ENDS TO BEGIN PREPARING FOR THE NEXT ONE? – EPISODE 767

[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 51st 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.

March’s Round Bable question is, “What is the first thing you do when your season ends to begin preparing for the next one?”

 Our Coaching Lineup this month:

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.

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[00:02:31] Andy Farrell: How you doing? This is Andy Farrell, men’s basketball special assistant to the head coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Dayton, and you’re listening to the Hoop Heads podcast.

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Let’s hear from our panel about the first thing they do when their season ends to begin preparing for the next one.

Dr. Rob Bell, Mental Performance Coach.

[00:03:45] Dr. Rob Bell: Hey, Jason, Mike. Hoop Heads. This is Rob Bell. Really like that question. What’s the first thing you do after the season’s over to prepare for the next?

And I think we have to reflect. I think we have to celebrate. I think you have to have some sort of conclusion like to the. And I just mean like where it’s just the team, not like the parents and all that stuff. So like where it’s just the team and you know, if it’s good, bad, or indifferent. I think there has to be some sort of closure.

And I don’t think we do that enough. I don’t think we do the reflection enough. And I think too often it’s like, okay, well right away we’re onto the next one. And I get the reasoning behind it. But when we win, you are not on that mountaintop very long before you have to come back down. And when we lose, it’s still painful.

And I think when you have that, that team camaraderie, that team piece about being able to come together, man share stories, something to be able to have sort of that conclusion just as a team. I think that is the very first. In order to prepare for the next season and no, no talk even about the next season yet, but there has to be that piece cuz life moves so damn fast and we just don’t stop to appreciate it and hey, I can’t wait to be patient.

[00:05:06] Mike Klinzing: Jerry Buckley. Bishop Kenny High School, Jacksonville, Florida.

[00:05:13] Jerry Buckley: This is Jerry Buckley from Bishop Kenny. Answering the question, what’s the first thing you do when your season ends to be in preparing for the next one? For us, the first thing we do is have end of season meetings individually with all of our players.

We talk about how the season went for them personally, also, how it went for the team overall, particularly what they’re going to work on for next year as far as going into our summer season. We also talk about their plans for AAU to make sure they’re set up with that if they know where they’re playing or if they need help gunning on a team or whatever the case is.

So really for us, it’s touch and base individually with all the kids, making sure we have a good plan set for the off season before we get going again this summer.

[00:05:54] Mike Klinzing: Erik Buehler, Chatfield Senior High School, Littleton, Colorado.

[00:06:01] Erik Buehler: Hey, what’s going on Hoop Heads? This is Erik Buehler from Chatfield Senior High, and this month we were asked once the season ends, what’s the first thing we start to do to prepare for the next one?

I would say for us, it’s kind of two things at once. One, we like to do exit meetings with every single player in our program. Get a feel for how the season went for them our opinion on what we saw on them and, and what we hope to see them doing in the future, as well as what their expectations are and going forward.

The second thing we’ll do is we prepare kind of our whole summer schedule, our workouts what our spring tryouts look like, what our spring leagues look like, and then what team camps and tournaments that we’re going to play in the month of June. That’s kind of what we do, as well as prepare for what we want to do in our training and our practices over the summer.

So thanks for having me and talk to you guys next time.

[00:07:01] Mike Klinzing: Toby Frazier, Color Analyst for Jacksonville University men’s and women’s basketball.

[00:07:10] Toby Frazier: The first thing I do when the season is over to prepare for the next season is provide my players with individual evaluations and an action plan outlining areas they need to improve on physically and psychologically during the off-season.

[00:07:27] Mike Klinzing: Liz Kay from Wahconah High School in Dalton, Massachusetts.

[00:07:33] Liz Kay: Hey Hoop Heads! It’s Liz Kay from Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton, Massachusetts. And I’m excited to hop on this month’s round table about the first things we do when the season ends beyond, for me at least being very, very sad, he individually meet with all players, usually within a day or two after the end of the season.

I usually to those individually with the coaching staff as well. But when we meet with the kids, I always start with our outgoing seniors to get their reflections on the season. Things that they would like to see or would like to have seen. Some good, constructive feedback is always a good thing, especially when they’re more likely to be honest, because they’re on their way out.

I also get the chance to kind of just re reflect and reminisce about their time within our program as well. And that’s always a really fun time for us moving forward. And then really, I also would like to get their feedback on who they think next year’s captains should be and, and as I meet with kids individually after that, we actually have them fill out a survey as well, primarily so that we have things in writing and we’re able to reflect on individual kids’ experiences and their thoughts on the season.

We also look forward and try to get availability for working summer camps, for example, who they vote for captains and, and what they think the qualities should be in those players that are selected. And we do talk through those evaluations. We solicit feedback from the kids. Obviously we collect all uniforms and practice gear that that needs to be given back, but really it’s a time for us to kind of conclude our season and wrap up our time with our kids.

I think then after meeting with the kids, the coaches sit down. We reflect on captainship, we talk about pros and cons and things that we could have done better during the season. Things that went well, primarily with the, with the goal of keeping it fresh in our minds, and writing some notes down about what we hope to do in the, in the following season, and reflect on the personnel that we have coming back for us, captainship usually involves a couple of different things.

We obviously solicit feedback from the kids. We get their votes and, and I think also really importantly, their reasoning behind their votes. We also discuss that as coaches and who we think would best be suited for the position. And then players that are interested in becoming captain actually do a set of questions, answer a set of questions, primarily an essay form, which involves sort of their experience and why they’re qualified, as well as what they would do in various situations.

So we kind of have a. A three-pronged approach to that. And that’s something that we try to wrap up at the end of the season as well. And then we start looking forward. We start planning camps, we start planning clinics, and getting ready for our next journey ahead, moving forward. Hope this is helpful.

Happy to elaborate on anything if anybody wants to reach out. And I hope your seasons are ending. Well talk to you all soon. Thanks.

[00:10:30] Mike Klinzing: Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio.

[00:10:37] Bob Krizancic: Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School.  Right after our last game of the season. Immediately as a staff and individual players, we meet and assess our deficiencies and weaknesses.

Everybody has their strengths at this level, but you know, we want to change definitely what we weren’t strong at. We set our goals, get the deadlines for goals, get a plan for those goals, and again, assess those periodically and try to make them into strengths in the coming season. Best of luck.

[00:11:15] Mike Klinzing: The first Training Camp Elite Skill Development and Performance Combine will be held on the campus of Western Reserve Academy just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, powered by Unleashed Potential and the Hoop Heads Podcast. The camp is designed for boys rising to grades six through nine and will take place June 29th through July 1st, 2023.

An emphasis on improving individual skills in the context of a team environment will be the hallmark of the Training Camp. Mike Klinzing from Head Start Basketball and the Hoop Heads Podcast, and Joe Stasyszyn from Unleashed Potential will serve as the camp directors of this inaugural Training Camp. Campers can expect three days of hard work, intense skill instruction, and learning how to be a great teammate on and off the court.

At the Training Camp, players will participate in 10 elite skill development sessions led by some of the best coaches from across the country. Visit headstart basketball.com to get registered.

[00:12:19] Narrator: Harri Mannonen, Coach and Author from Finland.

[00:12:23] Harri Manonenn: After the season, I’ll read or reread some books who subject matter is far enough, but not too far removed from basketball while reading. I’m applying to presented ideas to basketball, to the games and practices to the past and the next season. This type of reading shift helps to shift my viewpoint, helps me as it’s not just my own work and team, but also current basketball generally.

Usually don’t read non-fictional biographies because they tend to include a storyline or like a narrative made up in inside. What I do read is books like the Halo Effect by Phil Rosen, spike. I also like books that I can barely understand, like from bacteria to BA and back by Daniel C. Dennis, and the Brain from Inside Out.

[00:13:22] Mike Klinzing: Ryan Mee, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Vassar College.

[00:13:29] Ryan Mee: After the season, the first thing I do is anything my wife or my family needs. Spent a lot of time with the team and sacrificed time with the family, so I want to make sure I pour back into them as soon as possible. In terms of preparing for next year, we Try to set up end of year meetings with our, our team as fast as possible to, to just kind of recap and we ask three questions.

Hey, what went well? You know, what are things that we need to keep doing? What, what do we need to improve or make better, or things that we should stop doing? And then lastly, hey, anything that we should know kind of moving forward to leave our program in a better spot than it was yesterday. And through our student athletes, we get a ton of very valuable kind of feedback from that.

And we can’t apply it all or fix it all in one day, but there’s a lot of points that help us get on the same page. So then from the coaching staff, we’re going to go back and, and kind of evaluate some of the things that didn’t work. Reviewing film, things that we want to be able to change or tweak with the personnel that are coming back.

And it’s, it’ll be fun. It’s a fun process to try to fix some of the things or shortcomings you had and try to look forward to. The future is always what leaves us in a better place. So keep focusing on the process over the results. And a lot of good things happen with that. And that’s what we do here at Vassar College.

[00:14:51] Mike Klinzing: DeRonte Polite, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

[00:14:57] DeRonte Polite: DeRonte Polite here, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Women’s Basketball. And as we look to prepare for the post-season, one of the things that we really like to do is just really just dive into the numbers. I mean, we want an objective view. Of areas where as a team and as individual players where there’s improvement needed.

Also looking at the things that we did well and then matching that up with film. I think it’s a very critical time of the year where we gotta be critical of ourselves, again, as a team and as individual players and just look for, okay, who we are as a program and as a team, and what we want to accomplish.

How, how good were we at accomplishing those things? And what hindered us from doing it and then putting together a plan and a process to get us ultimately where we want to go. So that’s the biggest thing, just diving into the numbers and you can’t, can’t really argue with the numbers and then letting that it reinforce film and then coming to coming up with a plan from there it’s really a fun time of the year.

I think if you kind of research oriented and if you’re not afraid of being critical because you get to kind of dissect, you don’t have the time all the time throughout the course of the year to be able to do that. You know, you do it the best you can, but this is the time of the year where you really can do that, dive into, I’m a numbers guy so I love diving into the numbers and just kind of being point blank about where improvement is needed, where we need to continue to build on strengths and things of that nature.

[00:16:33] Mike Klinzing: Matthew Raidbard, Author of Lead Like a Pro

[00:16:39] Matthew Raidbard: Hey, Hoop Heads Nation. This is Coach Matt Raidbard here with you again for another Hoop Heads round table. This time discussing what’s the first thing you do when your season ends. To begin preparing for the next one. You know, this is a great topic this time of year. It’s always an exciting one. March Madness Conference tournaments upset Cinderella.

But you know, sometimes we forget about every time somebody loses in the conference tournament or March madness, their season ends, and that inevitable preparation for the following year starts the first thing I do after taking a little bit of time away from. Basketball and the team and just giving everybody a little bit of a break to reflect and take some time to themselves.

The first team or basketball related thing I do is I set up meetings with all of my student athletes to talk about how the season went. And then I want to hear everything. I want hear the good, the bad, the great, the ugly, the not so good. The could have been better. I want to hear everything because I want to take all that information and I want to look for what are the consistencies across what several student athletes are saying.

What are things that I hadn’t thought of before? And then I want to sit down with the staff individually and as a group and hear from them again. The good, the bad, the ugly. What could have been better? What could have been different? I want to hear everything. Because I want to take all that and I want to think about it.

I want to look at it, I want to dissect it, and then I want to use that going forward to make better, more informed decisions. Because sometimes during the course of a season or even off-season, as coaches, we could look at things with tunnel vision or in a vacuum we can say, okay, this one area was an issue. I know it’s an issue.

I want to fix it for next. And we don’t think about all of those other areas that other people are seeing on the team, our players, our coaches, other people associated administrators, supporters that they’re seeing that we’re not because of that tunnel vision, because of that, looking at things in a vacuum.

So I just want to hear from everyone. I, I call it kind of my information and data collection. It’s formal, it’s informal, but it’s all about getting that information that I could then take. And then be able to talk with my student athletes moving forward, talk with my coaches, talk to my administrators, people who support our program to again, be able to make those better, more informed decisions moving forward with more information from everybody who is a key stakeholder just like me.

So thanks everyone here out in Hoop Heads Nation. Appreciate you listening.

[00:19:13] Narrator: Don Showalter USA basketball.

[00:19:20] Don Showalter: Hi, Don Showalter here from USA Basketball. What do you do after this season to prepare for next? First of all, once you get your end of the season stuff done, such as your banquet preparation, get that over with, get your final stats done, get that over with, those kind of things. I think you really need to take some time and just do nothing with basketball.

I was not very good at this as a young coach I thought. I went right into preparation for the next year, and sometimes I didn’t do a very good job of that because I was not physically and mentally prepared to do that. So I think it’s important that you just take some time off, two or three weeks, go, go somewhere on spring break with your family.

Just have fun as a coach without doing anything with basketball. Then once, once the spring starts, you can start planning on going to clinics and what camps you’re going to do and those kind of things to prepare yourself to become a better coach. Thank you.

[00:20:15] 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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