Ep. 562: NBA Scouting and Development with Michele Berra and Rick Fois
Down to Dunk OKC Thunder Podcast
The Athletic
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast Michele Berra and Gonzaga’s Rick Fois discuss the following topics:
Analytics in the NBA
What defensive metrics are trustworthy?
Using analytics to build a culture
NBA Player Development
Developing a shot in the NBA
How Russ and Schroder fit
And so much more
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| 1:30.1 | So he has a friend, Rick Foist. He is an assistant coach for Gonzaga and they're going to talk |
| 1:37.6 | all things scouting. It's a fascinating podcast. It's a really good conversation. It runs like about 40 minutes. So please |
| 1:46.4 | listen to this and give us some feedback. We'd like to do probably some more things like this, |
| 1:52.1 | kind of inside basketball, inside kind of the recruiting process and the way that NBA teams |
| 2:00.0 | are looking at players. |
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