All Ball - Guest: NBA Draft Analyst Matt Babcock Discusses LaMelo Early NBA Impressions, Luka Garza, Cade Cunningham, Jalen Suggs Evals
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this episode, Doug shares a great behind the scenes story about life on the road in broadcasting, and is joined by hoops analyst, former agent Matt Babcock. They discuss his Arizona walk-on experience, his non-traditional path to becoming an NBA agent, the ugly side of the business that led him to leave it to pursue player evaluation and analyst life. He also breaks down LaMelo Ball's first month of his NBA career, his NBA scouting report on Iowa's Luka Garza, star freshman Cade Cunningham, Jalen Suggs and how COVID has impacted scouting. Make sure you download, rate and subscribe here to get the latest All Ball Podcasts!
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| 1:07.7 | Hey, welcome in. I'm Doug Gottlieb, and this is the all-ball podcast where we have a bunch of different paths that we go down during the hoops season. |
| 1:10.3 | Most times we talk hoops, but sometimes we talk other sports. |
| 1:16.2 | As a matter of fact, I have a couple friends who want to join me like T.J. Housmanzada did. If you missed that one, |
| 1:21.9 | he's got an amazing life story. It's not, ball does not also always mean basketball. It just means kind of sport. And though we usually focus on basketball and people's basketball stories |
| 1:26.9 | or basketball analysis, |
| 1:28.7 | I like to, I like to get everybody's sports story, if you will. |
| 1:33.8 | Today's guest is Matt Babcott. |
| 1:36.5 | Now, Matt was a walk-on in Arizona, their lead eight team in, was that 05, right? |
| 1:42.3 | And they lost that game to Illinois after beating Oklahoma State. Crazy. That's now Allstate Arena. That's the old Rosemont Horizon, which I'm going to share with you a quick story on that in a second. And then we'll have Matt come on. One of the things I like best about it is the ability to tell stories. So here's a good hoop story for you. All right, I'm working at ESPN. |
| 2:02.7 | And the guy who hired me now works for NBC sports named Dan Steer. Dan is a fabulous guy and an |
| 2:08.4 | unbelievable TV production kind of mind. He was like famously, he was Vital's producer when |
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