ROUND TABLE 85 – WHAT’S THE SMALLEST DETAIL IN A GAME THAT MOST FANS MISS BUT DRIVES YOU CRAZY (IN A GOOD OR BAD WAY)? – EPISODE 1202
Welcome to the 85th 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.
January’s Round Table question is: What’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss but drives you crazy (in a good or bad way)?
Our Coaching Lineup this month:
- Jake Boyd – Luther College
- Stephen Halstead – Grace College
- Joe Harris – Lake Chelan (WA) High School
- Dave Hixon – Amherst College
- Ron King – Putnam Valley (NY) High School
- Mike Koehler – Elkhart Lake (WI) High School
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High School
- Dave McGreal – Penn State Altoona
- Josh Merkel – Randolph Macon College
- Michael Rejniak – We Are D3
- Don Showalter – USA Basketball
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TRANSCRIPT FOR ROUND TABLE 85 – WHAT’S THE SMALLEST DETAIL IN A GAME THAT MOST FANS MISS BUT DRIVES YOU CRAZY (IN A GOOD OR BAD WAY)? – EPISODE 1202
[00:00:00] Narrator: The Hoop Heads Podcast is brought to you by Head Start Basketball.
[00:00:20] Mike Klinzing: Hello and welcome to the 85th edition of the Coaches 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.
January’s round table question is, “What’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss that drives you crazy (in a good or bad way)?”
Our coaching lineup this month includes
- Jake Boyd – Luther College
- Stephen Halstead – Grace College
- Joe Harris – Lake Chelan (WA) High School
- Dave Hixon – Amherst College
- Ron King – Putnam Valley (NY) High School
- Mike Koehler – Elkhart Lake (WI) High School
- Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
- Dave McGreal – Penn State Altoona
- Josh Merkel – Randolph Macon College
- Michael Rejniak – We Are D3
- 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 before you subscribe on your favorite podcast app. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram @HoopHeadsPod for the latest updates on episodes, guests and events from the Hoop Heads Pod.
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Let’s hear from our panel about the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss, but drives them crazy in a good or bad way.
[00:03:12] Jake Boyd: Jake Boyd from Luther College. This is Jake Boyd from Luther College answering this month’s round table question. What’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss, but drives you crazy in a good or bad way?
Well, the detail that drives me crazy in a bad way being the coach of our defense is probably an egregious scout error, like flying by a poor shooter or guarding a known action incorrectly that might be lost on someone in the stands. One detail that drives me crazy in a good way, I suppose, is when a guy sets a screen and gets a bucket for himself for his teammate.
Not often the most exciting part of the game, but unbelievably valuable to most team success. Thanks for having me, guys. Always enjoy it.
[00:04:02] Mike Klinzing: Steven Halstead from Grace College.
[00:04:07] Stephen Halstead: Hey, this is Steven Halstead from Grace College. Tuning in for the hoop heads round table number 85 and the question this week. That Mike put out was what’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss that drives you crazy in a good or bad way?
And this question, it took me a second to actually sit down and think about it for a little bit, and I think maybe the smallest detail that maybe fans miss throughout the game is just how much time and effort that the coaches put into investing into the players. Whether that’s trying to get better at their craft of being a better coach and learning more.
Also just being able to invest all the time and getting to know them relationally. And I think sometimes in the heat of the moment in a game, you get so caught up in what’s happening, this, that, or you’re so upset. And it’s just the range of emotions that sometimes they forget. How much time and effort goes into just coaching and how much you dedicate to your craft.
[00:05:00] Mike Klinzing: Joe Harris, Lake Chelan High School, Lake Chelan, Washington.
[00:05:07] Tuck Taylor: Hello Hoop Heads. This is Joe Harris from Chelan, Washington with this month’s round table question. What’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss? What drives you crazy as a coach? For me, probably the most frustrating and often miss detail is poor or lack of defensive effort.
While many fans focus on scoring and star players, to me, a lack of hustle to get back on defense or to close out on a shooter or the rotation to help a teammate out. Just drives me crazy as a coach, the lack of effort that sh is shown by giving up an offense or rebound on free throws or not hustling back defensively can give up easy points and fundamentally, really undermines your team’s success.
Hope this is something that can help you in your planning and best of luck to all the coaches out there as you prepare your teams for success. Thanks again for having me on.
[00:06:01] Mike Klinzing: Dave Hixon, Basketball Hall of Famer from Amherst College.
[00:06:09] Dave Hixon: Hello, Hoop Heads. Dave Hixon here from sunny Florida. First of all, I just want to say it’s what a great season it’s been so far, watching streaming games on D3hoops, some great games going on out there, and so it’s really been fun. Thank you for all of you. Still involved in the game. This month’s question.
I think the part that I read and took to heart the most was that just really drives me crazy. And it’s a little thing I think, I think it’s a big thing for me. It’s my players would tell you it’s a big thing, is that at the end of the game in particular when a kid rolls the ball and gets all the way up to mid court before the clock starts, before he picks it up, is to me, is nonsensical and just drives me crazy.
I think that most people don’t pay attention to it, but I have to tell you. You have to pick guys up early, you have to make them use the clock a little bit. And the difference between having a full 32nd or 25 second clock when you get into your offense versus 20 or even 18 by just putting a little pressure on the ball, but certainly not letting them roll the ball up.
And so it’s a little thing. Most people ignore it absolutely drives me freaking crazy. And so that was the first thing that came to mind. There’s a lot of things, but that’s the one that came to mind. Thanks again for all you guys do.
[00:07:28] Mike Klinzing: Ron King from Putnam Valley High School in New York and Kings basketball.
[00:07:35] Ron King: This is Oronde King, better known as Coach King, founder of King’s Basketball, NY and Varsity boys head coach at Putnam Valley High School. And today’s round table question is, what is the smallest detail in a game that fans miss but that drives you crazy, good or bad? For me, that’s the easy one. It’s talking.
When my players aren’t talking, it drives me crazy. Now fans may hear when my players are talking, but when they don’t talk, the fans don’t think anything of it. I mean, think about it. You never hear a crowd chanting, we want talking. We want talking. Or you never hear a cheerleaders cheering for talking.
talk more guys. Talk more guys. So you never hear about talking. But that’s the one thing fans miss. When the players don’t talk, they don’t think anything of it. But drives me crazy when my players don’t.
[00:08:31] Mike Klinzing: Mike Koehler from Elkhart Lake High School in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
[00:08:38] Mike Koehler: This is Mike Koehler at Elkhart Lake High School in Wisconsin.
What’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss? What drives you crazy as a coach in a good or bad way? It seems to me that fans generally pay attention to what happens in a basketball game versus what does not happen in a basketball game. And sometimes it’s the things that do not happen that have a great impact on the outcome of a game.
The one player who did not know the play, and because of that, the spacing is off the, the player who may have missed a box out. The player who does not crash for a rebound a, a player who doesn’t sprint in offensive or defensive transition. These are the things I pay attention to as a coach, but may not be on the radar screen of a casual fan.
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Bob Krizancic, Mentor High School, Mentor, Ohio.
[00:10:29] Bob Krizancic: Coach K, Mentor High School, the smallest detail, but one of the most important in our program is setting the pick and then using the V cut to come off it really tight because if we do execute that. We have a major, major mismatch. We do this in our offense in obs and even on the press, and we always try to get that guard to big and big to guard mismatch.
So really executing the pick and coming off it is absolutely huge, even though it seems like a very small detail. Best of luck.
[00:11:11] Mike Klinzing: David McGreal from Penn State Altoona.
[00:11:17] Dave McGreal: Hey, Hoop Heads Nation, Coach McGreal Penn State Altoona. Back at you man. Happy New Year to everybody. Hope everybody had a good holiday question today. Regarding the smallest things that fans don’t see that drives a coach crazy. Mine’s easy. ’cause I think it happens almost every game, and I don’t know if there’s any coaches out there to feel my pain on this one, but when, when we’re in a timeout and coach draws up what he thinks is going to be a really good play and tries to do a good job executing, and then the guys go out there and don’t execute the way it looks and leads to a turnover or not a very good shot. So that drives me crazy on that end. But I am guilty as well of calling a timeout and, and, and not feeling, giving the team the right preparation going out either. So that’s one thing I’m glad the fans may not see.
So. But yeah, that’s one I just think kind of, kind of gets coaches. I know me especially that spend time and the time out work on special situations and and it kind of go, they go out there and look like they’re no, don’t know what they’re doing. Sometimes, sometimes that has to do with the defense, don’t get me wrong.
But other times it’s just guys go from the sideline to the court and I guess forget which which x they were on the, on the draw up board there. So. Hope everybody continues to have a good new year. Wish everybody the best coach, McGrail Hoop Head Nation. Good to talk again. Hope you’re doing well.
[00:12:51] Mike Klinzing: Josh Merkel, Randolph Macon College,
[00:12:57] Josh Merkel: Mike. Hope all is well and hope you can hear me. The two things that I think of most attention to detail or little things on game days are when a player comes out. Going all the way down the bench, shaking everybody’s hand. You’re honoring those guys by doing that and then coming back up to the front of the bench to get any instruction from the staff, but going all the way down first and then coming back and then huddling on free throws.
Just making sure that get a quick huddle, get regrouped. Those are things that would drive me crazy that maybe not everybody’s paying attention to. Hope you great. See you.
[00:13:35] Mike Klinzing: Michael Rejniak. Coach Rej from NCSA and We are D3 TBT.
[00:13:43] Michael Rejniak: Hey, hoop heads, this is Coach Rej. We are D3 and Prep Hoops. And my answer to this month’s round table question, what’s the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss, but drives you crazy in a good or bad way?
I think there’s, I’ll give a couple. One is the different types of screen coverages that go on during a game based on the tempo of the game versus personnel, et cetera. You can get really intricate and these college and pro coaches are, whether they’re icing, doubling, hedging, flat hedge, hard hedge, soft hedge.
I always find that very intricate. And appreciated as a coach, but the casual fan might miss. And then kinda along those same lines is as you step up and level with the colleges and pros, et cetera, whether it be overseas, but also just how intricate these offenses are. It’s not just a ball screen, but what is going on off the ball, how the cuts are red.
You know it’s very intricate. That often gets overlooked and people are just looking at what action is happening on the ball. So it’s really just how intricate the game of basketball really is versus what the casual fan is watching. Take care and hope everybody’s well and much blessings in this new year.
[00:15:21] Mike Klinzing: Don Showalter, USA Basketball.
[00:15:27] Don Showalter: Hi, Don Showalter here from USA Basketball. What is the smallest detail in a game that most fans miss, but drives me crazy, a good or bad way? Great question. First of all, I think the lack of knowing. How the basket occurred. And this goes into people not seeing the assist or also not seeing the hockey assist, which is the assist pass leads to the assist.
People just watch and see the basket, but they don’t see how the basket occurred. I think that drives me really crazy because I always try and. Make a point of recognizing that those passes. The second thing I think that really drives me nuts is how good a defender can stop the ball. And people don’t recognize that that is a very difficult thing to do.
If you’re guarding the ball, it’d be able to stop that person from driving to the basket. Thanks.
[00:16:38] Mike Klinzing: Thanks for checking out this Month’s Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. We’ll be back next month with another question for our all-star lineup of guests.
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