Ep 2068 Are You Using Film, or Just Watching It?

https://teachhoops.com/ How to run a first film session your players actually learn from: short clips, positives first, one theme, and players doing the talking. The first film session of the season usually goes great for the coach. The coach talks for forty five minutes, makes every point, and walks out feeling like a teacher. The players just sat in the dark. Coach Steve Collins remembers the night he looked over and found a sophomore fully asleep, head on the desk, during a full game breakdown, and realized the problem was not the kid. It was the session. Now that most teams have a few games on film, Steve walks through how to turn film from a punishment into the best teaching tool in your program. He covers keeping clips and sessions short, opening with what your players did right, choosing one theme per session, handing the conversation to your players, and connecting every film session straight to the next practice. Part 1: Getting Them in the Room Why film so often feels great to the coach and endless to the players The sleeping sophomore and the night Steve stopped using film as punishment Keeping the first session to twenty or twenty five minutes with eight to twelve short clips Previewing every clip twice and limiting yourself to one sentence per clip Practical setup: clips cued up, lights half on, phones away, faces visible Opening with good clips, and the junior role player who boxed out for a month after seeing himself on screen The two to one ratio of positive clips to corrections Part 2: Making It Stick Choosing one theme per session so players can see the pattern for themselves Picking the theme by asking what cost you the most points, not what annoyed you the most Asking "What do you see?" and letting the silence do its work Why players believe a teammate more than they believe the coach Letting captains run clips, and the point guard who ran the last five minutes of every session The one rule for player talk: discuss the action, not the person Opening the next practice with the same theme and the same words from the film room The see it, fix it, see it again loop that builds trust in film and in you Building a season long teaching library of your own players' best clips Chapters 00:00 Coach Unplugged intro 00:15 Opening hook: the first film session of the year 01:12 Pre roll: TeachHoops.com teaching clips and practice plans 02:15 Takeaway 1: Short clips, short session 03:44 Takeaway 2: Positives first 06:08 Takeaway 3: One theme per session 07:31 Mid roll: TeachHoops.com practice plans and courses 07:58 Takeaway 4: Let the players talk 09:40 Takeaway 5: Film shows up in practice 10:58 The challenge 11:12 Post roll: TeachHoops.com This week's challenge: Run your next film session in under twenty five minutes, open with three positive clips, and ask more questions than you answer. Format: Deep Dive, two parts. Resources: Practice plans, drill libraries, teaching clips, courses, and on court clinics at https://teachhoops.com/ Recorded at the Fifth Quarter Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices