Chris Oliver with Insights from 400 Episodes (EP400)
The Basketball Podcast
Chris Oliver
4.3 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this week's basketball coaching conversation, Basketball Immersion founder Chris Oliver joins the Basketball Podcast to reflect on 400 episodes of the podcast.
The Basketball Podcast, hosted by Chris Oliver, has reached an incredible milestone: 400 episodes since its launch on May 28, 2018. Listened to by coaches at every level — from NBA head coaches to youth coaches — and in more than 85 countries worldwide, the show has become a trusted source of evidence‑based insights, practical strategies, and thought‑provoking conversations that shape the way the game is taught and played.
In this special episode, Chris reflects on the journey by sharing memorable quotes and key takeaways from many of the guests who have helped define the podcast’s legacy. The very first guest, Dave Paulsen (now head coach at Holy Cross), set the tone with a line that continues to resonate: “The game has to look like our practice, and not their practice.” That philosophy — making practice representative of the game — has guided countless coaches and remains a cornerstone of the show’s mission.
Whether you’ve tuned in for one episode or all 400, this celebration is a thank‑you to the global coaching community for learning, growing, and sharing the game together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey coach, welcome to the basketball podcast. Can You Believe We Made It to episode 400? I'm |
| 0:09.0 | overflowing with gratitude for every single one of you who has tuned in since we hit publish. |
| 0:15.5 | Our very first guest was Dave Poulson, who is now doing great work as the head coach at Holy Cross, |
| 0:21.1 | and I'll never forget the standard he set for this show right out of the gate. |
| 0:26.0 | He dropped a line that has stuck with me ever since. |
| 0:29.4 | The game has to look like our practice and not their practice. |
| 0:35.9 | For me, obviously, that connects in so many ways. |
| 0:39.1 | If your practices are representative of your games and how you play, |
| 0:45.0 | players will carry those behaviors into games. |
| 0:47.7 | And the games will reflect your philosophy rather than your opponent's philosophy. |
| 0:53.2 | I thought there was a great quote to start |
| 0:54.9 | off this episode 400 of the basketball podcast. So today, whether you've been here for one episode or |
| 1:01.9 | all 400 of them, thank you for learning, growing, and sharing the game with me. I'm going to go through |
| 1:08.5 | a whole bunch of things from the different episodes that I've written down through my years. |
| 1:13.4 | And obviously, I apologize up front. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm not going to mention every guest and all of them that become part of our community of people sharing the game. |
| 1:23.0 | Big shout out to Debbie Peterson, who's the head coach at O'Clair North. |
| 1:26.7 | She's been with me through |
| 1:28.0 | almost this whole journey in some context and works behind the scenes and tremendous coach in her |
| 1:33.0 | own right, but a tremendous person that helps put together this podcast. And Mark Jablonski, |
| 1:38.4 | Mark is now an assistant to Trinity University with Marwin L. Rockabowahou. Marwin is also a podcast guest, episode 25. Marwin reached out to me |
| 1:48.3 | online, connected with the information I was sharing about connecting practice to games and transfer |
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