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Best of CYS: Sam Vecenie

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

Sports, Underdog Sports, The Underdog, Basketball, Nba, -- None --, Create Your Shot

4.9939 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This week Tyler and Smallz welcome on the most junior, senior writer at The Athletic, Sam Vecenie. Sam joins the guys to talk about his career, this season in college basketball, the NBA draft and even some Australian rules football. Sam gets into his draft sleepers, compares players in Tyler's favorite segment, Rothstiens and takes Smallz on a tour of Columbus, OH. The guys even talk Lavar Ball since CYS is desperate for clicks. Sam can be found on Twitter @sam_vecenie. :29: Tyler and Smallz intro 8:21: Intro to Sam Vecenie 10:56: daily schedule 12:12: Sam getting his start 17:46: Writing his way, carving a niche 20:21: Stats In context 23:52: Genesis of love for the game 26:10: Twitter Networking 29:58: Industry Networking 37:32: Draft class thoughts 41:35: Sleepers in the draft 46:45: Ultimate career goals 48:44: Rothstein's: Collin Sexton, Jalen Brunson, Robert Williams, Trae Holder, Chimezi Metu 54:10: City review: Columbus, OH 59:12: Ten Touches 1:22:46: Parting Shots

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0:00.0

The following podcast is part of the underdog sports

0:07.9

podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories.

0:15.4

Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come. overall episode of Create Your Shot.

0:33.0

As always, Tyler Lori, Chris Smalls, Angelo, here.

0:37.0

This is I think our 17th interview and we've had eight episodes of picking winners,

0:40.0

but 25 episodes Smalls, this is a pretty big deal for us.

0:43.1

We could have been canceled after the first one honestly.

0:44.9

Yeah, we can get canceled at any time.

0:47.8

I think that's what kind of keeps us going, you know?

0:50.3

That's the fuel that kind of fires us.

0:53.0

Any time this could just evaporate into thin air.

0:56.0

Right, so when we get to 25, we want to make a big deal out of it.

0:59.0

We pop a little champagne on this interview.

1:01.0

This week we have Sam Vissini he is a writer for the athletics

1:04.8

specifically for the field house which is their college basketball based site I

1:09.9

think it's run by Seth Davis so Sam works with some pretty heavy hitters at least in our industry and he was a guy that we just kind of reached out to because I see Sam on Twitter all the time and he's a young guy a year younger than me same age of smalls lives in Cali with his girlfriend and was a guy

1:25.2

that was really interesting to hear talk about like how he got kind of market share in

1:28.8

this field as like just a you know sort of a young guy who in grad school was like man I really like

1:33.2

writing about sports and I really enjoyed it because it was different like his you

1:37.5

know talking about breaking down tape as a guy who wasn't really a coach or a player like it was

1:41.5

really different and I also thought his interests were different too and this is kind of what we wanted to say is like for people out there who think that they're you know unique or they're trying to do something like there's always people that their journey can help you and I thought

1:53.1

Sam especially for media people he doesn't consider himself a journalist so I

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