PSB PODCAST: Youth Basketball Organization Best Practices – Pick & Pop Series

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Each week in the “Pick & Pop” series of the PSB podcast, PSB co-founders, Logan Kosmalski and Brendan Winters, discuss and debate a relevant topic in their world of youth basketball.

The hope for this youth basketball podcast episode is that other coaches and youth basketball organizations might take some of these practices and find success with them in their own teams and clubs.

Last week, we had a guest host, Meghan Winters, on the podcast to talk about girl’s and women’s basketball.

For this episode, Logan and Brendan discuss some of the best practices of Pro Skills Basketball because Brendan is going out to Las Vegas in July to give a breakout presentation on this topic at the USA Basketball Youth Coach Academy.

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PSB PODCAST: Andy Panko – Hoop for Thought Series

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Every year thousands of high school players set out on the summer recruiting circuit in hopes of fulfilling their dreams of playing DI.

But what happens when the summer ends and none of those DI schools have come calling?

What do you do when the only schools that want you are at the DIII level?

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This was the situation facing Andy Panko in the late 1990’s. His decision put him on a path that few expected.

Andy was an undersized, skinny high school player. Like everyone else, he had dreams of playing for a power conference DI school and moving on to the NBA.

But at the end of his high school career, it was clear that the DI schools weren’t coming after him.

Andy wanted to go somewhere where he would play and play right away, so he enrolled at Lebanon Valley College…and the rest is history.

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PSB PODCAST: Women’s Basketball – Pick & Pop Series

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Each week in the “Pick & Pop” series of the PSB podcast, PSB co-founders, Logan Kosmalski and Brendan Winters, discuss and debate a relevant topic in their world of youth basketball.

This week, though, is a bit different than last week’s discussion about youth sports refs as we have a guest host in place of Logan. This week’s guest is Brendan’s sister, Meghan, who was a DI women’s basketball player and coach.

 

PSB PODCAST | Women's Basketball | Pick & Pop SeriesMeghan grew up mostly in the California Bay Area and Denver, CO. She went on to play D1 women’s college basketball at Gonzaga.

Afterward, Meghan ended up as a graduate assistant for the University of Oregon’s women’s basketball team.

After two years, she moved on to take the Director of Operations assistant coaching position with the women’s basketball team at DI Grand Canyon University.

She recently accepted a new position outside of women’s basketball in the marketing department at Grand Canyon.

In this episode, Brendan and Meghan discuss her career in basketball as a player and coach as well as some general topics about girls and women’s basketball.

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PSB PODCAST: Youth Sports Referees – Pick & Pop Series

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Each week in the “Pick & Pop” series of the PSB podcast, PSB co-founders, Logan Kosmalski and Brendan Winters, discuss and debate a relevant topic in their world of youth basketball.

Last week, the duo spoke about using social media for college basketball recruitment and personal branding purposes.

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This week, Logan and Brendan talk about the numerous issues surrounding youth sports referees, including the current shortage of officials, referee abuse, how to deal properly with referee frustrations, and more.

Many of the issues in youth basketball, and youth sports in general, revolve around refs, so this is a major problem that needs to be discussed, and hopefully, fixed!

Watch it above or listen below and let us know your thoughts!

PSB PODCAST: Social Media for Basketball – Pick & Pop Series

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Each week in the “Pick & Pop” series of the PSB podcast, PSB co-founders, Logan Kosmalski and Brendan Winters, discuss and debate a relevant topic in their world of youth basketball.

Last week’s episode was about DIII college basketball and piggy-backing off of that is this week’s episode about using social media for basketball, specifically college basketball recruiting.

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