Hardwood Hustle Podcast: More Thoughts on Coaches Using Profanity
In this episode of the Hardwood Hustle Basketball Podcast, Alan Stein (Stronger Team) and Adam Bradley (Ball Hogs Radio) reignite their long-standing debate on the issue of coaches using profanity. Listen Now
5 Tips to Coaching Youth Basketball
It is said time after time that our youth is the future; unfortunately our youth today are so consumed with television, video games, and social media that they are learning poor habits earlier and earlier. I will give you an example, I was working a camp recently in which a player was in charge of the lay-up […]
Hardwood Hustle Podcast: Making the Cut-How to Handle Basketball Tryouts
In this episode of the Hardwood Hustle Basketball Podcast, Alan Stein (Stronger Team) and Adam Bradley (Ball Hogs Radio) discuss many issues dealing with high school basketball tryouts – from both the player and coach perspective. Listen Now
Managing the Officials
During one of my most recent Full-Timeouts during the Hardwood Hustle Podcast, I had an opportunity to speak on properly managing officials. As coaches, we all become frustrated with officials at some point of another. Let me tell you a secret, they aren’t going anywhere any time soon. Officials are responsible for controlling and managing the game. […]
Hardwood Hustle Podcast: Qualities of Great Players
In this episode of the Hardwood Hustle Basketball Podcast, Alan Stein (Stronger Team) and Adam Bradley (Ball Hogs Radio) discuss and dissect the qualities, traits and characteristics of truly great players like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Listen Now
Creating the Read and React Offense
I was asked recently to speak about the process I went through to create the Read & React. I’ve written on this before, but usually from a standpoint of the problems I was trying to solve. This time I talked about a different aspect of the process. Many coaches think that there are 2 versions: […]
Hardwood Hustle Podcast: Alan & Adam’s Most Memorable Moments
In this episode of the Hardwood Hustle Basketball Podcast, Alan Stein (Stronger Team) and Adam Bradley (Ball Hogs Radio) take a stroll down memory lane and share their favorite memories from the first 100 episodes. Listen Now
Hardwood Hustle Podcast: Hustler Shoot-a-Round #2
In this episode of the Hardwood Hustle Basketball Podcast, Alan Stein (Stronger Team) and Adam Bradley (Ball Hogs Radio) share a second installment of their popular series in which they tackle four mini-topics (broken down in to 4 quarters): Do you like consolation games? What are your thoughts on players reclassifying? Which is harder to win – […]
Are You a Real Team?
We loved this article from Jon Gordon so much we had to share it with you! If you aren’t a subscriber to his newsletter, we highly recommend you sign up for free. There’s a difference between being on a team and being a real team. People who are on a team focus on their own goals. People […]
Hardwood Hustle Podcast: Characteristics of Successful Practices
In this episode of the Hardwood Hustle Basketball Podcast, Alan Stein (Stronger Team) and Adam Bradley (Ball Hogs Radio) share tips and insight on what it takes to hold truly successful basketball practices. They offer suggestions on preparation, goals and the 3 E’s – energy, effort and enthusiasm. Listen Now