Create Your Shot: Drew Valentine

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

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

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week Tyler and Smallz talk with Drew Valentine, assistant basketball coach for the Loyola Ramblers. Drew talks about what the recent final four run was like, what its like being a young coach, what its like having a brother who plays in the NBA and much more! Drew is a fast riser in the profession having worked previously at Michigan State and Oakland. City Review this week is Grand Rapids, MI and Coach Speak includes Tom Izzo and Greg Kampe. Drew can be found on Twitter @CoachDrewLU. 0:30 Tyler and Smallz Intro 7:24 Welcome Drew Valentine 9:10 What its like to coach in the Final Four 14:30 Making the choice to coach right away instead of trying to play professional 17:40 Going from player to GA at Michigan State and coaching his brother, Denzel Valentine 21:30 The sacrifices of being a young coach and rising in the ranks 26:00 Drew's networking strategy 28:30 What Drew has taken from the coaches he has worked for 30:15 Drew's ultimate goals and the mindset of being the best 32:20 Coach Speak â€” Tom Izzo and Greg Kampe 38:04 City Review â€” Grand Rapids, MI 41:40 Ten Touches 55:00 Parting Shots

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
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0:15.4	Visit us at www dot the underdog sports.com. Come.
0:29.0	Welcome back to another episode of Create Your Shot.
0:31.0	I am Tyler Lorry joined as always by my co-host Chris Smalls,
0:36.5	Angelos and Smalls. I don't want to say that we've made it but this week an assistant coach from a final 14 and I don't
0:48.0	know smallest what does that mean does that mean we're famous I mean yeah a famous
0:52.2	by association yeah of course and I've always
0:56.7	pledged my allegiance to sister Jean I've always supported her so this is is a moment. I was glad to meet somebody from there and Drew was just awesome.
1:07.0	And I know you were floored by him as well. He was a really good guy and spoke really well as well.
1:15.0	Yeah, I mean in my haste of saying we were famous I didn't actually intro the guest.
1:19.0	It is Drew Valentine who was an assistant coach for the Loyola Ramblers, the Nation's Darling, you probably guessed that based on Smalls talking positively about Sister Jean for one of the few times here.
1:32.0	But yeah, I was really floored honestly as well. for one of the few times here.
1:32.6	But yeah, I was really floored honestly as well.
1:34.8	And Drew and I have a mutual friend, a good friend of mine,
1:37.4	who I worked with when I worked for the Delaware 87ers.
1:41.4	And he worked with Drew when Drew was an assistant at
1:43.1	Oakland and kind of reached out and said like hey I think Drew would be really good
1:46.5	on the podcast and I was really impressed with kind of how he carried himself but also
1:50.8	how quickly he made the transition from player to coach because he played at
1:55.0	Oakland obviously his brother is Denzel Valentine who was a first team all American at
1:59.6	Michigan State and now plays for the Bulls first round pick. But Drew was a really good player at Oakland.
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