Ep 2058 Are You Ready for the Last Two Minutes?

Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast) · Oct 30, 2026 · 12m

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Late game situations, up three or down two, and practicing the moments you will face in January.

Early in his career, Coach Steve Collins did not really practice the end of games. He figured his team would deal with it when it came up. Then it came up: January, on the road, down two with nineteen seconds left and no timeouts. Five kids looked at the bench, and he looked back with nothing to give them.

That night changed how he used October. The last two minutes of a January game get decided in the first weeks of practice, because whatever a team has rehearsed is what…