Player Evaluations and the Elam Ending with John Hollinger, Dan Feldman, and Dr. Nick Elam
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Nerder She Wrote's Dave DuFour, Mo Dakhil and Seth Partnow deliver one of the nerdiest basketball episodes of all-time. First up: Dave and Seth are joined in Chicago by The Athletic's John Hollinger and NBC Sports' Dan Feldman to talk about the inner workings of player evaluations, draft combine secrets and more. Then at (50:00) Dr. Nick Elam joins Dave, Seth and Mo to talk about eponymously named Elam Ending that was featured during the NBA All-Star game.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Nerdr, she wrote, we sit down at All-Star Weekend with John Hollinger and Dan |
| 0:04.5 | Feldman and talk about inside the NBA front office and how decisions are made. |
| 0:09.3 | And then after that, we have Dr. Nick Elam, inventor of the Elam ending, to discuss different |
| 0:14.2 | things that he's been working on and his thought process behind the Elam ending. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to the back-to-back pod on the athletic podcast network. |
| 0:26.7 | This is Nerder she wrote with your host, Dave Dufour. |
| 0:29.1 | With Moe DeKeele and Seth Part now. |
| 0:31.6 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:48.5 | Hello and welcome to a special all-star edition of the Nerders She Road podcast on the Back to Back Podcast on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm your host, Dave DeFour. |
| 0:52.1 | And Mo DeKille is not in town. |
| 0:52.7 | Seth. |
| 0:53.7 | I feel bad. |
| 0:54.3 | Should we call him? |
| 0:54.8 | No. |
| 0:55.2 | Okay. |
| 0:55.5 | No. |
| 0:56.9 | I don't feel bad enough to, like, break out Skype or put him on speaker phone. What's the weather like in L.A.? No, I don't feel bad at all. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. It's like 12 degrees here. And, you know, he sent us the weather report for L.A. In his stead, we've got the athletics own John Hollinger and from NBC Sports, Mr. Dan Feldman. |
| 1:12.9 | It takes two. report for LA. In his stead, we've got the Athletics Zone, John Hollinger, and from NBC Sports, |
| 1:18.2 | Mr. Dan Feldman. It takes two of us to replace him, I think. No, no, that's, it's not accurate. That's, we pride ourselves on accuracy on this program, and that is absolutely not accurate. So, |
| 1:24.4 | we had dinner last night and, uh, had a great conversation and we're just going to |
| 1:27.8 | recreate the entire thing here. No, that's not happening. I think we touched some things. Yeah. |
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