Ep 2008 Are You Giving Kids A Role, Or Just A Number?

Basketball Coach Unplugged (A Basketball Coaching Podcast) · Aug 27, 2026 · 8m

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Second week of December, a kid knocks on the office door, sits down, and says he thought he was going to start. Most of us have lived that exact moment. And the hard truth is he usually has every reason to believe it, because nobody ever sat him down and told him anything else.

This episode takes the role conversation and runs it through a modern lens. Simplicity wins. If your role talk needs a whiteboard and eleven minutes, the kid is not listening, he is waiting to find out if he is starting. One sentence. What is your job on this team?

Coach Collins breaks down why…