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Episode 234 – Coach Copeland (Jr. NBA series)

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🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Jr. NBA World Championship coach Dana Copeland joins the show today to talk about his team’s experience on their way to a world championship. We also discuss player development, coaching tips, and much more!Send us a Message. If you'd like us to reply, include your contact info.

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0:00.0

If you put your effort in concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be,

0:04.8

I don't care what the scoreboard sends at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners.

0:10.1

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

0:16.7

I'm one of those set goals of cheap ones.

0:19.1

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the the drive with the guys I've been around,

0:23.5

and the guys that surround me every single day.

0:25.7

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

0:30.4

So that which gets praised, gets repeated.

0:33.2

You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle, brought you by PGC basketball.

0:38.4

Thank you. We're tuning in. You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle brought to you by PGC Basketball. Thank you for tuning in.

0:39.4

You're listening to the Hardwood Hustle broadcasting here in Orlando, Florida,

0:42.7

at the ESPN Y World of Sports headquarters for the Junior NBA World Championship.

0:47.7

I'm your host, Adam Bradley, alongside T.J. Roseen, got a great guest, a very successful guest, and the guests who may be at the top right now after what just took place on the court, Dana Copeland, before we do, jump in with our guests. Let's catch up with our friend over Shotraker. Yeah, hey, listen, I know that seems like I'm sidetracking, but as long as we got guests on it, they just got done using it, I'm going to stick with it. That's fair. Tell us what you enjoyed, what you liked about using Shot Tracker.

1:14.6

Before we jump into the interview, what you liked about using Shot Tracker during the junior

1:18.5

NBA World Championships.

1:20.2

Well, I have a three-point shooting team, and sometimes we get a little carried away of

1:25.4

shooting too many threes.

1:27.4

So at my first game, we shot 41-3s. And I used your guys' technology the second game, show what we were actually scoring from, and just showed it to the girls, and it kind of clicked to them. They obviously don't listen to me when I say calm down on the threes. But what did you show them, and what did they see? I showed them the shot chart.

1:44.7

On the shot chart, it showed all the red dots on the three-point line, and all the green dots were in the paint. So they kind of seen that... Simple enough, right. Red means stop, green means... Definitely. We got a lot of red. We need to stop shooting these right here. Exactly. Yeah, I love that. I love that. And you're actually from KC. You coach a program

2:02.9

called the Casey Prodigy. You are the Central Region representative at the Junior NBA

2:08.0

World Championship, and you just got done winning the American bracket. So you're the American

2:14.4

World Championship. That's correct. Champions. And you're going to play for the World Championship tomorrow on Fox Sports, which is really exciting, right? I mean, it's a dream come true, you know, for me and myself. But just to have my daughter plays on the team. Oh, she plays on the team? Yeah, yeah. So to have my daughter on the team and all the other girls that I care about,

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