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Welcome to another episode of Create Your Shot.

I am Tyler Lori and this time unlike last week I am joined by Christopher

Smalls, Angeles and we had the pleasure of being joined by Ted

Rawlings aka Teddy ball games. Smalls will have to tell us in the intro how he got that nickname but he is the director of basketball operations at George Mason and small's

Unbelievable talker just a great you know you meet people in this business and you can tell like who loves

networking and who loves meeting people and telling stories and Ted Rawlings that guy he

was great I mean he was awesome I think that's what attaches you to Ted.

Just when I was coaching and he was at time and says the interactions we had on the road and

things like that, very approachable and yeah the stories like I think we saw each other a couple times out at night in Philly at the sheep and it was never like, oh I'm with my friends.

It was like, let's have a conversation and it's Delco.

It's like a 10 minute conversation turns into an hour

and it's the Phillies and like you said on the podcast it's about your third beer instead of your first and that's the type of guy he is.

It's just approachable. He's going to ask you about your life. He's going to tell you a lot about his and what's going on and it's always interesting. So you always get something new. So when we talk about like a natural networker and genuine relationships, that's Ted, because it's never something, he's never trying to get something out of it.

It's really just like, we're gonna have a conversation, you're gonna remember that guy, and you're going to want to pick up the phone or text him and things like that.

So that's sad.

There were two things I thought, and the first one was his background is it's quite frankly like what you would expect in the business for somebody who was a manager and a non player but you know he was director of lacrosse operations at Penn. He was a manager for the Penn basketball team. Then he did a year as an assistant at

Youth Sciences in Philly. So that's obviously how you guys met. Then a year as an Obsky Brown and now he's at George Mason so kind of that

natural progression of like I want to get into coaching but I'm going to get as

much experience as possible and then the other thing smallest and everybody you know we

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