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Create Your Shot

Create Your Shot: Alex Varlan

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

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

4.9939 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week the guys are visited by an old friend, Alex Varlan. Alex is currently the video coordinator for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers after stops with the Oakland Golden Grizzlies, Delaware 87ers and Philadelphia 76ers. Alex talks analytics, networking and even tells some stories about rooming with Tyler! This weeks city review is down south in Knoxville, TN and coach speak features CYS favorite, Sam Hinkie and Pat Summitt. Alex can be found on Twitter @AlexVarlan3 0:28 Tyler and Smallz Introduction 8:32 Welcome Alex Varlan 13:00 Alex's coaching journey 17:00 Transplanting to Philadelphia and living with Tyler 22:45 Going from the NBA to the Oakland Golden Grizzlies 28:26 The differences between coaching in men's and women's basketball 32:41 Gaining confidence and learning experiences 40:11 Alex's networking philosophy and career goals 48:40 Coach Speak — Sam Hinkie and Pat Summitt 55:57 City Review — Knoxville, TN 1:01:48 Ten Touches 1:10:31 Parting Shots

Transcript

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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.

0:15.3

Visit us at www. The Underdog Sports.com. Come.

0:29.0

Welcome back to another episode of Create Your Shot.

0:31.0

I am Tyler Lori and I'm joined as always by my co-host Chris Smalls,

0:35.2

Angelos. And this week Smalls, a little blast from the past. One of my former roommates with the, when I worked for the Delaware

0:42.4

87ers,

0:43.0

Alex Varlin, the video coordinator for now

0:46.0

the Tennessee Lady Balls

0:48.0

and a guy that's worked in the NBA

0:50.0

in the D League

0:51.0

and then for the Oakland Grizzlies on the men's side and he is only about I think Alex is only 27 I feel like he's two years younger than me and he's worked a lot of different places but an interesting look for you behind the curtain because you got to hear a lot about those,

1:04.4

that D.D. Lee gear without actually

1:06.2

really experiencing a ton of it.

1:07.5

But Alex was super cool to have on, like a blast.

1:10.8

Yeah, and I just said this to you guys off air when we finished the interview, but I really personally enjoyed the

1:18.8

batter between you two, kind of reminiscing and talking about your different struggles in the same place, but also kind of the

1:25.9

bond you shared because you were wearing different hats and you were thrown into a chaotic situation.

1:31.4

I thought that was really interesting. I think Alex has a, I say unique every time so I'll say a differently like a different perspective on how to set goals on what he looks at and he's got an analytical mind which I'm

1:47.9

starting to totally connect with you guys because I'm seeing basketball a lot

1:51.4

differently I'm seeing that you can look at it in two different ways.

1:54.3

You don't have to have one lens.

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