Create Your Shot: Eric Hampford

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

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

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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The guys talk all things AAU hoops, scouting and event operations with Eric Hampford from future150.com. Eric is the GM and National Director of scouting for one of the fastest rising basketball media and event operations companies in the united states. 0:35 - Tyler Introduction 3:15 - Smallz and Tyler break down Eric's Interview 5:30 - Not going to college/doing what you want to do 7:45 - Smallz learns social media - Gregg Popovich and what separates scouts 9:45 - The importance of working with scouts and evaluators 12:10 - Being ready to take advantage of opportunities 14:35 - BOOK GIVEAWAY - RT podcast link, where did Chris Herren play college basketball? 16:00 - Welcome Eric Hampford 17:15 - What Future150 is, and what Eric does for them from an event and scouting standpoint 20:35 - Eric's past while trying to make it in scouting 23:50 - How to improve as a scout 26:40 - Focusing on and off the court when evaluating prospects 29:40 - Lonnie Walker and Nassir Little as young prospects 34:30 - Missing prospects and why it happens 39:10 - Dealing with coaches on both sides of the spectrum 43:00 - College coaches recruiting communications 44:05 - The craziness of AAU and youth basketball 45:30 - Tyler has nightmares about middle school basketball parents 47:30 - Eric/Tyler share funny AAU stories 51:12 - Writing a New York Times bestseller about AAU basketball 53:22: @AAUBingo and working to not show up on the account. 55:40 - TRACKBACK SMALLZ - What changes would Eric make to AAU basketballÂ 57:00 - How Create Your Shot would allow college athletes to make money 59:01 - Tyler loves complaining about the NCAAÂ 1:02:30: The Big Baller Brand and LaVar and LaMelo Ball 1:05:34 - Eric's ultimate career goalsÂ 1:08:10 - NEW SEGMENT - Rothstein's 1:08:37 - Zion Williamson 1:10:02 - Romeo Langford 1:10:35 - Mo Bamba 1:11:16 - Michael Porter 1:12:12 - Miles Bridges 1:12:30 - Who would Eric take number 1 overall in the NBA draft 1:15:10 - City Review - Charleston, SCÂ 1:21:10 - Ten TouchesÂ 1:21:32 - Funniest interview 1:22:15 - Worst travel experienceÂ 1:22:59 - Craziest AAU event Eric has ever covered 1:23:58 - Favorite book and TV Show 1:24:25 - Best AAU matchup of all time 1:24:51 - First time Eric saw someone he knew was a pro 1:25:10 - Eric's hospitality room experienceÂ 1:26:22 - Best city for HS basketball talent 1:26:40 - Best and worst thing about planning a wedding 1:28:10 - TRACKBACK ERIC!!! - Damontrae JeffersonÂ 1:29:10 - Best advice you've ever been given 1:30:10 - Face-to-face with 18-year-old self 1:30:50 - Fomobia rears its ugly head 1:33:35 - Get in touch with Eric for advice, [email protected] and @F150Eric on twitter

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the Underdog Sports Podcasting Network.
0:09.8	For a full list of our shows, as well as breaking sports news and engaging feature stories,
0:15.5	visit us at www.theunderdogsports.com.
0:20.1	Welcome to the eighth episode of Create Your Shot.
0:29.7	This week we have Eric Hamford from Future 150 in the studio.
0:33.4	Smalls and I talk to Eric about what it's like to be the National Scouting Director for
0:37.0	Youth Basketball Service, as well as an event operator.
0:40.0	We talk to him about how to get better as an evaluator, learning from your mistakes as
0:44.3	a scout, your relationship with coaches, players and AAU coaches, from kind of being an
0:50.1	acting like the middle man in these situations.
0:53.0	And then finally we talk a little bit about Eric's life and how he's gotten to where he
0:56.0	is now and understanding that if you know what you want to do right away then don't necessarily
1:01.6	wait.
1:02.6	We have a really interesting conversation at the end of the podcast about Eric's college
1:05.2	experience and why it was or was not worth it for him.
1:09.2	So I really appreciated Eric's honesty and his ability to introspectively look back
1:14.0	in his career and even now he'll tell you that he hasn't really made it yet but he's
1:19.0	doing what he loves to do every single day and it was a struggle to get to where he is
1:22.8	now and feel comfortable in what he does but when you believe in something and you believe
1:27.2	in what you do you know you don't feel like you're doing work.
1:30.0	So really appreciated Eric on the podcast this week, anybody who's looking to get into
1:34.8	recruiting or evaluating or scouting especially at a young age in an industry where young
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