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Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast)

Ep 2050 Why Is Your Gym So Quiet?

Oct 22, 2026 · 13m

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https://teachhoops.com/ Teaching players to talk on defense, and why a quiet team is usually a confused team. Walk into almost any gym during the second week of the season, close your eyes for one defensive possession, and listen. Sneakers. A dribble. Maybe a coach. Five kids guarding the ball and not one of them saying a word. For years Coach Steve Collins treated that silence as a toughness problem, stopping practice to yell "Talk!" and getting about two possessions of noise before the gym went quiet again. What finally changed his thinking was simple: kids do not stay quiet because they are shy, they stay quiet because they are not sure. A quiet team is usually a confused team. In this…