DiscoverHoop HeadsRound Table 84 - How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them? - Episode 1191
Round Table 84 - How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them? - Episode 1191

Round Table 84 - How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them? - Episode 1191

Update: 2025-12-19
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Welcome to the 84th edition of the Coach’s Corner Round Table on the Hoop Heads Podcast. Each episode of the Coach’s Corner Round Table will feature our All-Star lineup of guests answering a single basketball question. A new Coach’s Corner Round Table will drop around the 15th of each month.

December’s Round Table question is: How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them?

Our Coaching Lineup this month:

  1. Dominic Amorosa – Strake Jesuit (TX) College Prep
  2. Jake Boyd – Luther College
  3. Erik Buehler – Arapahoe (CO) High School
  4. Chris DeLisio – Olmsted Falls (OH) High School
  5. Mike Grosodonia – St. John Fisher University
  6. Stephen Halstead – Grace College
  7. Ryan Hintz – Blue Valley West (KS) High School
  8. Dave Hixon – Amherst College
  9. Ron King – Putnam Valley (NY) High School
  10. Mike Koehler – Elkhart Lake (WI) High School
  11. Bob Krizancic – Mentor (OH) High
  12. Josh Merkel – Randolph Macon College
  13. Don Showalter - USA Basketball
  14. John Shulman – University of Central Arkansas
  15. Joe Stasyszyn – Unleashed Potential

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Let’s hear from our panel about how they balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them?

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Round Table 84 - How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them? - Episode 1191

Round Table 84 - How do you balance pushing players to improve while also keeping the game fun for them? - Episode 1191