Create Your Shot: Jimmy Fenerty

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

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

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Tyler and Smallz talk to Jimmy Fenerty of the Lafayette Leopards. Jimmy is a 27 year old division 1 assistant coach which is a rarity in today's industry. His playing career was average at best, he described himself as the hype man on a good Division 3 team, the Dickinson Red Devils. Listen to Jimmy tell about gaining confidence and credibility on a daily basis as he works to make his dreams a reality. 6:00 - Jimmy Interview Starts 7:00 - How things are going at Lafayette this year with a new staff. 7:37 - working with an older HC 9:01 - Technology in coaching 10:20 - Jimmy's background 12:12 - Jimmy's work ethic 15:10 - Scouting/Evaluating/Recruiting 16:30 - Parents impact on his life 18:00 - Jimmy's HS basketball career/roles of players and recruits 19:52 - Taking advantage of opportunities/spending time learning and studying 20:55 - being a yes man 22:00 - What's your ultimate goal 23:43 - -Jimmy's dad telling him to go to law school 25:25 - Taking chances on players/stealing from his father 26:35 - Becoming better at your craft 28:55 - Finding diamonds in the rough 31:09 - Trackback Smallz, dealing with insecurities 34:30 - Owning your own personality/FENERGY 36:06 - Passion in coaching 38:29 - Coach Speak 38:47 - James Franklin on beating Pitt 40:04 - Iphone Alarm to remind himself to text recruits 41:10 - Marvin Lewis on closers 43:00 - Pressure in coaching 44:15 - Learning/mastering coach speak at a young age 45:30: City Review - Carlisle, PA 46:02 - Alibis in Carlisle, PA 47:04 - Living in Central PA 48:00 - Dickinson College experience 49:36 - What would Alibis say about Jimmy 51:29 - 10 Touches 52:00 - Funniest person he's worked with 52:54 - Worst travel experience 53:30 - Craziest task a coach has ever made you do 54:40 - Favorite Book 55:22 - What were you doing if you weren't coaching 55:59 - Wildest AAU experience 56:33 - Pregame routine 57:08 - NBA Comparison 59:10 - Least favorite drill 1:00:05 - Expanding the NCAA tournament 1:05:08 - Parting Shots 1:05:19 - Best advice ever given to you 1:06:11 - Face to face with 17 year old self

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0:00.0	The following podcast is part of the underdog sports
0:08.0	podcasting network for a full list of our shows as well as
0:12.0	breaking sports news and engaging feature stories
0:15.5	visit us at www dot the underdog sports dot com Come.
0:29.0	Welcome to the second episode of Create Your Shot. This week Smalls and I talked to Jimmy Finnerty,
0:33.8	assistant men's basketball coach
0:35.2	for the Lafayette Leopards.
0:37.0	Jimmy gave us some really, really great insights
0:39.5	for young people trying to make it in sports.
0:41.5	We learn about Fennergy, which is his way of doing his
0:44.6	job on a daily basis and how he connects with players and members of the staff.
0:48.6	And I think that one of the most important things of this particular podcast is understanding and
0:53.8	owning your own personality and some days it's hard you might not be the most
0:57.6	confident guy and Jimmy kind of talks about how learning to loosen up and relax and
1:02.3	be comfortable in your own skin allows him to do his
1:05.0	job better and I think it was unbelievable advice for anybody whether you're trying to be an athletic
1:08.8	director or you want to be a sports writer or you want to work in development or anything like that.
1:15.0	You know, we tend to try to work really hard and try to emulate who our idols are, but in reality,
1:21.0	everybody has things that make them who they are and I thought that Jimmy did an
1:23.4	unbelievable job of explaining that we also dive into coach speak and we hear from
1:28.3	our friends James Franklin and Marvin Lewis we hear about Jimmy's College Town of Carlisle, PA, and we learn about his favorite book and his funniest memories.
1:39.0	So as always, we are at Create Your Shot on Twitter at Create Your
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