Pinky basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back, we're in the thick of the playoffs.

And to kind of get down and dirty and discuss some X's and O's and all sorts of hardcore schematic

things that are going on, I could think of no one better

than a first time guess someone who I have admired and consumed his work for as long as I can remember from the wonderful Half Court Hoopes channel Gibson Piper.

How's it going? Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'm excited.

Thanks for coming on.

You are, I love these things in the times we live in

where we're like 3,000 miles apart,

three time zones apart,

but when you start the podcast

it feels like you're in the same room after a while.

Yeah it's pretty cool. In these times everything's virtual so you know we kind of have to

adapt and I think it's cool just to be able to have this conversation about basketball at any point in time but especially now in

you know September it's just strange. So really quickly orient people who maybe

aren't as familiar with you and your work, sort of not just the channel, but your

background, your coaching experience, and the perspective you take, I love the

way you inject your process in a lot of your videos and content just speak to that

really briefly so we can have some sort of common ground before we dive into

teams. Yeah for sure so I currently coach high school basketball. I'm an assistant

varsity basketball coach at a school in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Just outside

a rally. My whole goal with my channel and my website the basketball

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