Do Recruiting Rankings Matter? Team-Building in New College Basketball Era! Mailbag!

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Adam Spinella AKA Coach Spins joins and we chat about a few different team-building constructs within college basketball. First, we ask the question: Do recruiting rankings matter? We discuss the ways in which they're dissected and talk about what matters and what doesn't within them. Then, we chat about team-building in general in college basketball today. Do you focus on the transfer portal or recruiting? How does NIL factor in at this point? How should coaches worry about continuity versus flexibility with roster spots? A lot of complicated factors heading into basketball at this point. Then we do a mailbag, and prospects of the week, including a rant about the Pittsburgh Pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:08.8	I'm Rous Sam Bessini.
0:09.7	We are presented by The Athletic.
0:11.8	We're back, baby.
0:13.3	We're here.
0:15.8	Adam Spinella is in the building.
0:18.4	Coach Spins, one of the best content creators on YouTube, my dear friend, the new co-hosts of the Game Theory podcast.
0:28.5	What's going on, buddy?
0:29.9	How are things going?
0:31.4	Sam, it's great to be here.
0:33.1	Doing great.
0:34.3	Our gym floor is getting redone at the school that I coach at. So Monday morning,
0:38.7	I'm going to feel like Christmas morning getting in there with a brand new shiny floor. But
0:42.7	just enjoying the final days of summer here. And I know everything, it's about to pick up a little bit
0:48.9	more once we get back in school and kind of how the world seems to pick up sports-wise or basketball-wise one September
0:55.5	and October kind of get here. So enjoying the last few moments of summer. But most importantly,
1:00.4	how are you feeling? Yeah. So when on vacation, obviously, vacation was amazing. Bali was
1:06.9	terrific. Would recommend to everyone, as I think people saw in the photos on my Twitter account.
1:13.4	Got home, and for the 72 hours after I got home, first and foremost, it was just an absolutely,
1:21.3	it was like a 13-hour travel day for me on the Friday that I got home because we were on an island off of Bali
1:30.4	and we had to like catch a catch a car to the port that doesn't really have a dock and then we had to
1:40.0	like get on the boat and then we had to take like a 40 minute boat ride then we had to
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