Ep 2050 Why Is Your Gym So Quiet?

Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast) · Oct 22, 2026 · 13m

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…