Coaches Office

Troy Baughman is currently in his 4th season as varsity assistant for the Mishawaka Marian Boys basketball program. Troy has also coached travel basketball for 16 years. Tune in for a great conversation.

Joey Garwood is a senior at Penn High school and key member of the basketball team. Joey spent last summer as a member of the 5Star Basketball program. Tune in as we discuss his basketball journey. 

Hosts Brae and Brandon are joined by Austin Cripe and Jared Frick. Austin Cripe is a senior at West Noble High School and a player in the 5Star Basketball program. He is committed to playing basketball at Bethel University. Jared Frick is the current Head JV Boys Basketball coach at Concord High School and coach in the 5Star Basketball Program. 

Come for the basketball talk. Stay for the chicken sandwich debate. 

Tune in as we welcome the Head Women's Basketball Coach of Kuyper College. Coach Janikowski is also a coach/recruiting coordinator for 5Star Basketball. We review Coach Janikowski's coaching journey, what it is like recruiting for a start up program, and as the ultimate question. Do you foul up 3?

Tune in for discussion on program culture and a recap of our recent trip to the University of Indianapolis' annual coaches clinic. 

Episode 28 features a quick recap of our summer session, preview of our fall league and more!

Tune in to Episode 27 for a behind the scenes look into some weekly struggles of running a travel basketball organization. Brandon also talks through some adjustments he is making to his offense to help put his team in a better position to be successful. 

In episode 26 we discuss the HS shot clock and D1 or bust mentality players have during recruiting. 

Tune into episode 25 for a recap of the 2022 Bill Hensley Memorial Run N Slam and our top 5 least and top 5 favorite venues to play in. 

Episode 24 consists of a couple rants to open the show by Brae and a recap of a great weekend of girls hoops this past weekend in Milwaukee, WI. 

In episode 23 we recap both our boys and girls opening weekend of the summer. We discuss breakout players, things our teams need to get better at, and team focusses heading into our next events. 

Episode 22 includes talk about the timing of the first NCAA Live Period and a preview of the boys summer basketball season.

On episode 21 we welcome on player guest Avery Markel and preview our girls summer teams. 

We continue our run of guest with Jared Frick. We talk some NCAA tournament coaches and their success, Jared Coaching history, how he got involved with 5Star, and his recent promotion to Head JV Coach at Concord High School. 

Tune in to episode 19 of the Coaches Office as we welcome our first player guest to the Podcast. Noah Zmuda is a Junior at Northridge High School. He talked about this past season, how he battles through injuries and what motivates him.  Brandon and Brae also talk about practice intensity. How do travel team practices compare to high school practices. We also give a quick preview to our spring travel season. 

Episode 18 features some major program news. Seth Maust from Five Star Life joins us to help give some background on Tipping Point Basketball's merger with Five Star Life. We also recap some local girls basketball sectional action.

Tune in for Episode 17 as we recap the first couple practices of our Winter AAU season, discuss how COVID is impacting our program, and much more!

In this episode of the Coached Office we discuss how player personnel impact what schemes you run on offense and defense.    Episode Situation: What do you do when your team cannot stop a run by the other team. 

We are back in the Coaches Office! In our return episode we talk about some new personal news and discuss our plans for the future!

In this episode of the Coaches Office we discuss coaching through losing seasons. How do you stay positive with your team? How do you keep the team morale in check? We discuss that and much more. Thank you for listening.    Find us in Twitter: @braebeadles @coachabel_42

Thank you for tuning into the Coaches Office. In this episode we talk about playing time and how to get a substitution rotation down for your team.  Find us on Twitter: @braebeadles @coachabel_42

In this episode of the Coaches Office podcast we talk about building relationships with high school coaches. What do we do to make high school coaches feel confident in sending their player to play in our program? Find us on Twitter: @braebeadles @coachabel_42

In this episode of the Coached Office we discuss eliminating mid range jump shots. It is becoming a trend to not allow your players to take mid range jump shots anymore. We discuss if that is something we agree with and if we are adopting that play style.    Episode Situation: Featuring Notre Dame Men's Basketball coach Mike Brey on preparing for late game situations.    Find us on Twitter: @braebeadles @coachabel_42

In this episode of the Coaches Office Podcast Brandon and Brae discuss the use of zone defense at the youth level.  Episode situation: Your team is up two with 3 seconds left. The opposing team is in-bounding the ball on a side OB. How are you defending it?   Find us on Twitter: @braebeadles @coachabel_42

In this episode of the Coaches Office Brandon and Brae discuss the ever lasting battle of players who leave your program. This applies to players who decide to no longer play basketball (to play another sport) or players who leave your AAU program. Lot's to dive into here. Let us know your thoughts.  Find us on Twitter. @braebeadles @coachabel_42

In this episode of the Coaches Office Brandon and Brae discuss the struggles they faced during the first week of practices after an extended break. Were the players in as good of shape as they expected? What are their plans to get everyone back into a routine? How will you manage your team after returning from such a long break?   Find us on Twitter.  @coachabel_42 @braebeadles

In this episode of Coaches Office we talk about the relationship between a head coach and their assistants. Brandon and Brae give examples of their experience working with their varsity head coach and they talk about their coaching relationship together.  Episode Situation: Down 2 with 6 seconds to go. Your ball with full court to go. Find us on Twitter: @coachabel_42 @braebeadles

Brandon and Brae have talked briefly about the 25,000 Shot Club and decided to take a deeper dive into the details. They discuss different strategies to reach 25,000 MADE shots in the off season, the different ways a program can implement it, and player commitment to the program.    Episode Situation: How to begin practices after a Global Pandemic.   Find us on Twitter @coachabel_42 @braebeadles

Welcome to the Coaches Office. Brandon and Brae continue their discussion about coaching now compared to 10 years ago. What situations have we been coached in that we would coach differently? What program rule changes would we make? Building your roster around a position less principles, pace of play and much more.    Find us on Twitter @coachabel_42 @braebeadles

Welcome to the Coaches Office. In this episode we discuss the differences between coaching today compared to 10 years ago. What has changed? What has remained the same? How has basketball evolved over the past 10 years. Brae and Brandon discuss things they would do differently from, practices, player discipline, and what it takes to be great. Please subscribe and share! Find us on Twitter @coachabel_42 @braebeadles

Welcome back to the Coaches Office. We begin this episode with a defensive situation where our team is down 4 with :35 seconds left. We discuss our strategy and different approaches you could take to this situation. Brae and Brandon then transition into talking about their defensive philosophies and what changes they have decided to make when teaching defense to their AAU teams.  Discuss with us on Twitter. @braebeadles @coachabel_42

Episode 2 begins with a late game situation and how Brandon and Brae decided to attack it. What were discussions like during the timeout when they addressed their team? Brandon and Brae also begin to breakdown their offensive philosophies and explain what has influenced their offensive ideas as they begin to explain the offense they have created and are now teaching a program.  Discuss with us on Twitter: @braebeadles @coachabel_42

Welcome to the Coaches Office. In this episode Brae and Brandon introduce themselves and give their coaching backgrounds. Tune in to learn more and to see what we have planned for future episodes.  Find us on Twitter @braebeadles @coachabel_42