#hoopsforum by Randy Sherman and Tony Miller

Last Updated: December 17, 2025
Coaching basketball discussions with A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller and Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman.
4 NBA Playoff Xs & Os
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller dive into 4 NBA Playoff Xs & Os and how specific actions create scoring opportunities for your team.

Coach Evaluations for Your Basketball Program
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller discuss evaluating your own coaching and the coaching of your staff.

5-Out Dribble Push
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down the Dribble Push options out of your 5-Out Offense.

Social Media Tips for Basketball Coaches
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Is social media really helping your coaching career? Or, have your Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok accounts become pure distractions? Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller share some practical tips for maximizing your use social media.

Spread Ball Screen Offense Adjustments (Part 2)
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller are back to talk through adjustments for you to use with your spread ball screen offense. We also may some picks and discuss "what to watch for" in this year's college basketball tournament (which in hindsight, don't make us look too smart).

Spread Ball Screen Offense Adjustments (Part 1)
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down adjustments for you to use with your spread ball screen offense.

Spread Ball Screen Offense
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller dive into the Xs & Os of Spread Ball Screen Offense and talk variations based on how the defense handles the action.

Xs & Os Strategy Deep-Dive
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout podcast's Tony Miller break down strategy choices for your Xs & Os, including 4-out, 1-in vs. 5-out offense, forcing baseline vs. influencing middle, quick-hitter alignments, and post defense.

Game-Winning Xs & Os
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In need of some game-winning plays? Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller share some Xs & Os in this week's #HoopsForum.

The Dangers of Over-Helping on Defense
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down scenarios for over-helping on defense and how to avoid putting your team in unnecessary rotations.

Mid-Season and In-Game Adjustments
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller discuss mid-season and in-game adjustments to give your team an edge as you head towards the home stretch of your basketball schedule.

Ball Screen Offense Options
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down the Utah Jazz's ball screen offense options involving Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert.

Things that Matter Less than Basketball Coaches Think
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Are you overemphasizing things with your teams that may not matter as much as they do? Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller are joined by Tulsa's Doug Brotherton to discuss some of the things that matter less than think in coaching.

Early Offense Options
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down early offense options for your transition offense, including Mike D'Antoni's 21 series.

Advice to Basketball Coaches for a Fresh Start
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout Podcast's Tony Miller provide practical suggestions for a new year as a head coach.

Four Factors Breakdown
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Radius Athletics Randy Sherman breaks down game stats from two early season games using Hudl's advance stats.

Building Your Defense from the Ball, Out
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down the teaching of a defensive system and discuss practical ways of helping your players understand the individual parts in relation to the whole.

Dribble Handoff Counters
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller talk through counters to dribble handoff actions within your half court offense.

Teaching Conceptual Offense (Case Study: Princeton Offense)
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Looking to improve your teaching of conceptual offense with your team? Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller use Princeton Offense actions to talk through the process of teaching concepts.

Playing Offense without Play Calls
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller discuss coaching out of concepts. We break down how to teach concepts and actions to your team to implement a more conceptual offense within your system.

The Syracuse Orange 2-3 Zone Defense
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down film on the Syracuse 2-3 Zone.

Preseason Checklist for Basketball Coaches
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Basketball season is just around the corner! Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller provide some suggestions as you make your final plans.

Pack Line Post Defense
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Continuing our series on the Pack Line Defense micro skills, Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down post defense and the skills needed for forwards.

Pack Line Ball Screen Defense
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout Podcast's Tony Miller discuss Pack Line Defense ball screen defense, including technique, strategies and and small-sided games.

Teaching Pack Line Defense Closeouts
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout Podcast's Tony Miller discuss Pack Line Defense Closeouts, including technique, strategies and and small-sided games.

Pack Line Defense Micro-Skills
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller dive into the micro-skills of the Pack Line Defense. In part 1 of this series, we discuss the technique of moving "on-to-off" and defending screens with the "lock and trail."

Basketball Immersion Academy Takeaways
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout Podcast's Tony Miller discuss topics from August's Basketball Immersion Academy held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Topics include teaching cues for player learning, closeouts, and constraints for small-sided games.

Princeton Offense Actions
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Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics and Tony Miller of A Quick Timeout podcast dive into the Xs & Os of the Princeton Offense. They discuss installation of the Princeton Offense as well as options within the offense itself.

5 Lessons Learned from Counseling Coaches
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On this week's HoopsForum, Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller discuss 5 things they've learned from working with coaches to improve their programs.

NBA Finals Xs & Os
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Radius Athletics' Randy Sherman and A Quick Timeout's Tony Miller break down 5 of their favorite actions from the first half of the NBA Finals.

Optimism Bias in Coaching
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This is episode 4 in our series on Cognitive Biases in Coaching. Are biases negatively affecting your decisions for your program? Randy Sherman and Tony Miller discuss how optimism bias may be creeping into your decision-making and how to avoid falling prey to this bias.

Survivorship Bias in Coaching
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This is episode 3 in our series on Cognitive Biases in Coaching. Are biases negatively affecting your decisions for your program? Randy Sherman and Tony Miller discuss how survivorship bias may be creeping into your decision-making and how to avoid falling prey to this bias.

Outcome Bias in Coaching
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This is episode 2 in our series on Cognitive Biases in Coaching. Are biases negatively affecting your decisions for your program? Randy Sherman and Tony Miller discuss how outcome bias may be creeping into your decision-making and how to avoid falling prey to this bias.

Choice-Supportive Bias in Coaching
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This is episode 1 in our series on Cognitive Biases.  Are biases negatively affecting your decisions for your program? Randy Sherman and Tony Miller introduce the cognitive biases and how choice-supportive bias can be impacting your decision-making as a coach.

Ball Screen Coverage Adjustments
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What is your primary ball screen coverage? Ice? Hedge? Drop? Instead of always using traditional coverages, what about using slight adjustments to give your defenses an advantage? Coach Tony Miller discusses adjustments to the traditional coverages to use in ball-screen scenarios.

Offseason Player Workouts
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Would you like to up your offseason player workouts? Interested in ideas for designing workout plan? Tony and Randy discuss organizing and executing offseason player workouts for your basketball program.

High School Shot Clock Strategies
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Is a shot clock good or bad for high school basketball? Randy Sherman (Radius Athletics) and Tony Miller (A Quick Timeout podcast) discuss the implications of a :35 shot clock as well as strategies for thrive in the modern game.

5 Actions for Your Playbook
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Looking to improve your playbook this offseason? Randy and Tony share five of their favorite scoring actions and give you suggestions for designing plays in your playbook.

Self-Scouting through Film Breakdowns
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How do you evaluate your program through film-watching? Do your players know how to watch film? Randy and Tony explore the art of watching film and share suggestions for focusing your efforts on what matters.

Offseason Self-Scouts for Your Basketball Coaching Staff
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What's your plan to improve yourself as a coach and your basketball program? Randy and Tony provide a 3-step process for evaluating your team and preparing for the upcoming season.

The Best Xs & Os from the NCAA Tournament
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Looking for some plays to add to your playbook this offseason? Tony is joined by Andrew Wingreen (Stetson) to break down some of the best Xs & Os from the NCAA Tournament.

Changing Coaching Jobs
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Are you prepared for your next coaching job? Randy and Tony examine common questions during the interview process as well as skills needed to land your next coaching job.

The Four Factors and the NCAA Tournament
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What can we learn from this year's college basketball tournaments that can improve our own teams? Randy and Tony discuss the Four Factors from this year's NCAA Tournament as well as some of the best Xs & Os from a few of the top teams.

Zone Offense Tips
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How's your zone offense? Searching for more ideas to add to your offensive strategy? Randy and Tony discuss ways to attack various zone defenses.

March Madness for Basketball Coaches
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It's time to gear up for 2021 March Madness! Guest host Richie Schueler (ESPN) joins Tony Miller provide an NCAA Tournament primer for basketball coaches.

Pressure Man-to-Man Defense Tips
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Interested in improving your team's man-to-man defense? Thinking about using more pressure man defense? Randy Sherman and Tony Miller discuss strategies for teaching and improving teams' pressure man defense systems.

Postseason Prep for Your Basketball Program
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Are you preparing your team for the postseason? Are you wanting to be even more prepared in the future when your team has the opportunity to play beyond the regular season? Randy Sherman and Tony Miller are joined by Milton High School's Allen Whitehart and Bob Jones University's Burton Uwarow to discuss practice ideas and strategy for the postseason.

Statistical Breakdown for Team Improvement
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Do you want to better use game data to improve practices and game performance? Randy and Tony break down game analytics and discuss how the four factors can improve your coaching.

Pace & Space Offense (Part 2)
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Looking for suggestions for creating more space in your half court offense? Randy and Tony discuss positioning, spacing and the common ways for creating better offense for your team.

Pace & Space Offense (Part 1)
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Thinking about using a conceptual offense? Want your team to place with greater pace? Randy and Tony discuss the elements of common "Pace & Space" offense and provide suggestions for how to coach your players to play with both increased pace and better spacing.

Fostering Competition on Your Team
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Ever had a player who you thought just wasn't very competitive? Ever had a team that got off to slow starts because they weren't focused? Randy and Tony shares thoughts and ideas on competitiveness and how to improve the competitive nature of your team.

Maximizing Your COVID Season
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Our seasons have all been impacted by COVID-19. Randy Sherman of Radius Athletics) and Tony Miller of A Quick Timeout Podcast discuss ideas for optimizing your season despite the pandemic.

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