Alvin Gentry: New Orleans Pelicans Head Coach| #ThePlaybook 107

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On Episode 107 of #ThePlaybook, Alvin Gentry, Head Coach of the New Orleans Pelicans, shares his thoughts about: How a head coach and an assistant coach can best relate to their players [3:17] The key difference between motivating college and professional athletes [6:20] Why analytics has changed the way that coaches approach the game of basketball [14:49] How mentors can utilize psychology to motivate their mentees [18:36] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're joining me this Thursday morning on the playbook, as you should be, we can't wait for the
0:04.4	NBA draft, and I have head coach Alvin Gentry, and we discuss not only the patience and the progress
0:11.6	of your profession,
0:12.8	but more importantly,
0:14.2	how and why to trust your employees and your best players.
0:18.3	It's going to be an exciting day in the NBA.
0:20.9	Come join head coach of the Pelicans, Alvin Gentry, and me for all of this and more.
0:26.0	This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their
0:34.9	personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the
0:40.2	field and in and board room.
0:42.8	I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing,
0:46.0	David Melzer.
0:46.6	This Dave Melzer with entrepreneur in the playbook
0:51.7	and I am so excited to have my first head coach
0:54.8	of an NBA team.
0:56.1	Alvin Gentry, head coach to the pelicans.
0:58.2	Very nice to see you.
0:59.0	Thanks for having us.
1:00.3	Well, your career, you know, a lot of people
1:01.8	want to be a head coach of a team and you, you know, just went gangbusters and I'll get to last season 2018, but to get there, as I'm looking through your career, you're always kind of one degree or one
1:14.3	degree away from being like even when you played in college you went to
1:17.6	Appalachian State which is a one double A school yeah right and then yeah and but you have this school. Right. And then, yeah.
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