Steve Prohm’s last few weeks have been an absolute whirlwind.

He has a new job. He’s getting to know his new team and new community. He hired a new coaching staff.

There has been a lot of adjusting in a short period of time in the Prohm household.

Now, he can finally exhale and start focusing on the fun part of the job — actual basketball.

“All the other stuff is different,” Prohm said. “But once you get out there [on the court], that’s the same. That’s just coaching basketball and teaching guys and that’s what’s fun. That’s your sanctuary.”

Soon, the hoopla surrounding a coaching change will die down and the focus within Prohm’s sanctuary will be basketball once again.

Prohm will be able to concentrate on getting in the gym with his players, employing his basketball strategies and getting the team ready for the 2015-16 campaign.

What does that entail?

“Slowly implement our defensive system how we want to play [and] slowly implement offensively how we are going to play,” Prohm said. “We’ll do some skill work with the guys, make sure they’re lifting, running and then slowly toward the tail end of July start getting our team practices together for Spain.”

As the team begins to mesh with its new head coach, Prohm and his assistant coaches will also have to begin meshing as a staff.

Prohm retained ISU assistant T.J. Otzelberger, who interviewed for the head coaching job that eventually went to Prohm.

“I think everything went great,” Prohm said. “I think I tried to handle everything as professionally as I possibly could. When I went into this somebody said, ‘Talk to him not as T.J. that’s been here, talk to him as T.J. is he the best guy for this job to help you win?”

After reaching out to Otzelberger’s previous head coaches, Prohm decided the answer to that question was a resounding yes.

Some may think that it could be awkward with two coaches who were both gunning for the same job are now working on the same staff.

But Prohm has other ideas. 

“I’m not caught up in head coach and assistant coach and all that,” Prohm said. “We’re a team. I’m the head coach and they’re assistants, but we are team and we got to get the job done together.”

With the team now able to focus on basketball, the sky-high expectations begin to come into focus yet again. Prohm’s team is a preseason top-10 pick, complete with Big 12 title aspirations and phrases like “Sweet 16” and “Elite 8” being thrown around.

Prohm said he deals with expectations by taking everything “day to day.”

“You can’t get caught up in the hype,” he said. “Just got to focus on the process.”

Now that it has been a few weeks since Prohm’s hiring and busy and unorganized days are are turning into calm and planned days, Prohm is able to get back to his sanctuary, where that process he mentioned is beginning to take place.