Create Your Shot: Josh Verlin

Create Your Shot

Chris Horwedel

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

4.9 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Smallz and Tyler learn about shooting you shot with Josh Verlin, the owner, and creator of CityofBasketballLove.com. Josh gets tons of shots up, telling the guys about dropping out of law school to follow his passion, how to build a business and media empire, being known as a terrible athlete and even some Big 5 basketball predictions. Josh can be contacted @JMVerlin or [email protected] 0:36: Tyler Intro 3:00: Smallz and Tyler Intro 7:50: Take chances 11:57: Giveaway PART 2! 12:59: Josh Verlin: How CoBL is starting the year 14:48: Prepping for basketball season/Communicating with staff members 19:05: Josh's journey of starting CoBL and leaving law school to do so 22:10: Passion leading to being able to accomplish lots of work goals 23:05: This history of Josh as an athlete/Josh's youth hoops appearance 25:00: Catching the Philadelphia Hoops bug. 26:50: Finding a balance between business and life and working smarter not harder 28:16: Dealing with moments of doubt 31:50: How CoBL fits in the Philadelphia hoop scene 33:15: Storytime with Tyler: Team Yellowjackets 34:40: Everyone has a price/building a brand 36:45: Giving young reporters opportunities/Internships/Free labor 39:58: Having expectations when you break into a business 43:15: Gaining credibility within the media scene with coaches/players/media members 50:10: Expanding the CoBL brand: the future of the website and company 53:15: Big 5 predictions with Josh: MVP, MIP, ROY 100:12: Best performance Josh has seen live. 1:02:15: The most surprising players Josh has seen live. 1:06:00: NEW SEGMENT: CLICK BAIT Featuring Markelle Fultz rumors 1:10:10: 76ers thoughts 1:13:09: CITY REVIEW: Main Line, PA 1:16:50: How many bars on the main line has Smallz been thrown out of? 1:18:12: Is Smallz a good bowler? 1:19:00: The slowest 10 TOUCHES of all time! 1:19:18: Funniest interview in Philadelphia: Dave Pauley, HC of USP 1:20:57: Worst travel experience 1:21:11: How would Josh's students describe him 1:21:37: Favorite book and TV show 1:22:52: Smallz is jealous of Tyler and Josh: The improvement of Ten Touches 1:23:23: What would Josh change about college hoops 1:23:55: Best food on the road 1:24:40: Arena that Josh most wants to go to 1:25:09: Tyler is an arena expert/Phog Allen experience 1:26:00: Tyler admits Doug Gottlieb was right about Phog Allen Fieldhouse 1:27:10: Josh defends the Palestra/Tyler tells more stories 1:27:14: Craziest event Josh has ever covered 1:31:08: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner with any 3 people. Josh takes questions SERIOUS! 1:35:00: Best HS program in Philadelphia area 1:36:10: PARTING SHOTS 1:36:15: Best advice ever, not necessarily safe for work 1:37:41: Face to face with 18-year-old self 1:38:45: Finding passion through work and CREATING YOUR SHOT 1:40:23: Recognizing that you need to learn confidence and knowledge etcâ€¦ 1:41:05: Josh's contact @JMVERLIN [email protected]

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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. week Smalls and I have Josh Verlin from City of Basketball Love.
0:33.7	com in the studio and Josh talks to us about building a business starting his own
0:38.7	media company and leaving law school to do so. This is a guy who covers everything from high school
0:45.6	to the pros including summer leagues. He puts on exposure camps for small
0:51.4	colleges and for players in the Philadelphia area to come get seen. for wasn't enough for him and that he wanted to do something fulfilling that helped other people.
1:04.2	And I thought that it was awesome for Josh to come on and just be honest.
1:07.5	And Smalls and I talked about, you know, like as a media guy, you're always the one asking questions.
1:11.4	So it was really fun to ask questions to Josh and
1:13.8	hear his kind of funny takes on things and hear him talk about why he does what he does.
1:19.3	So you know it was a really awesome interview and anybody who's looking to get into the
1:23.1	journalism side you know please reach out to him he taught a entrepreneurial
1:26.6	journalism class at st. Joe's he's really active in the Philly scene he gives tons
1:30.9	of writers opportunities so if you're you're in the mid-Atlantic region
1:34.7	and you need advice or you want somebody to help you
1:37.2	get some clips, like please reach out to Josh.
1:40.2	Beyond that, we'd also love to hear from you.
1:42.3	At Create Your Shot on Twitter, at create your shot pod on Instagram
1:45.6	Create your shot on Facebook and create your shot at gmail.com reach out to us with any questions or concerns get active on Twitter
1:52.0	Enter the giveaway to win a copy of Fall River Dreams,
1:55.0	retweet podcast links.
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