Ep 2048 What Is Your Bench Doing When It Is Not Playing?

About this episode

https://teachhoops.com/ Keeping the eighth through twelfth players locked in, ready, and part of the team, not a row of spectators in warmups. Picture the third quarter of a close game. Your starters are grinding, and down the bench one kid is retying a shoe that does not need it, two are whispering, and your twelfth man is staring at the scoreboard. Then a starter turns an ankle and you have to call one of them in. Coach Steve Collins opens this episode with the moment every coach dreads, and the early career loss that taught him a bench player who has been watching like a fan is not ready to play. In this two part deep dive, Steve walks through how to keep your eighth through twelfth…