#135 Basketball Athleticism with Eric Leidersdorf & Evan Zaucha
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
4.8 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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What is “athleticism” in basketball? Is it merely quickness and a big vertical leap? Eric Leidersdorf, the Director of biomechanics at P3, and neuroscientist Evan Zaucha from SIS join to present and discuss a comprehensive model of athleticism in basketball, from the not-so-obvious physical traits that help players succeed, to the mental side of the game. Model available on www.backpicks.com. Follow them at @EZ_Hoops and @leidersdorf. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome |
| 0:10.7 | back to another off-season episode where if you thought last week when we talked about |
| 0:16.7 | Development and playmaking and things like that was hardcore we are going to take it to the next level today. |
| 0:23.3 | In fact, today I think is a culmination |
| 0:26.5 | of a lot of the things we've talked about |
| 0:28.7 | on this show for the last two years, |
| 0:30.8 | with this guest who will bring in in the second, with Evansaucha who will bring in in the second with Evans |
| 0:34.8 | Oucha who's going to join us later where we've talked about different ways to |
| 0:39.6 | think about athleticism and specifically athleticism and |
| 0:43.0 | in basketball and so today's show is all about |
| 0:46.8 | athleticism in basketball and I will essentially present this model that I've |
| 0:52.0 | developed and have been working on I guess for a while it's it's been a long work in progress back to the last time that we talked here to help me walk through the first couple of components of the model from |
| 1:06.1 | P3 up in Santa Barbara. |
| 1:08.4 | He's back. |
| 1:09.4 | Eric Lidersdorf. |
| 1:11.4 | Welcome, thank you for joining me and I think this is the natural sequel to what we started a couple years back. |
| 1:18.0 | I appreciate having me on again, Ben. I'm glad to see thinking basketball survived our |
| 1:24.4 | original our original pod together and I'm looking forward to kicking it off again. |
| 1:28.8 | We won't ever let anyone know that we had to re-record that show for technical issues. |
| 1:35.4 | Today we're going to, yeah, today we're going to try to get it on the first run. |
| 1:41.2 | So let's start with the big idea, the big overview. When people talk about |
| 1:47.6 | athleticism and basketball, you hear it a lot with prospects, we just had the draft this time of |
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