THE GIANNIS DRAFT Ep. 2: Shut him down
The Woj Pod
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4.6 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The WojPod is brought to you by Goodyear, helping you discover the road ahead. |
| 0:04.9 | Good Year, more driven. |
| 0:07.3 | My name is Jansan de Bucumbo. |
| 0:10.0 | I was born in 19994. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm an all-around player. |
| 0:15.5 | I can jump, I can shoot, I can pass the ball. |
| 0:18.8 | I can do everything in the corner. After Greece finally granted Yana's citizenship in a passport, he traveled to national team events in France and Italy. |
| 0:36.6 | NBA scouts were in hot pursuit. |
| 0:39.9 | As the procession of front office executives steered toward the Italian beach town of Yezalo in early June to scout him, |
| 0:45.9 | there were two Eastern Conference teams especially eager to see more, Milwaukee and Atlanta. |
| 0:53.6 | Buck's assistant general manager, Jeff Welkman, spent two days in |
| 0:56.9 | March scouting Janus in Athens. Scouting in Europe is just such a different world and you just |
| 1:01.7 | never know what to expect. There's so many different levels, but even for an experienced NBA scout, |
| 1:08.8 | it was kind of at a level that was a little surprising. It was basically, I would say |
| 1:13.8 | it had to feel of like a local YMCA and you walk into a very small lobby and there's a girls |
| 1:19.5 | volleyball team going down the hall. When we watched practice, I'll never forget, man, |
| 1:25.5 | his coach came up on a motorcycle and he's wearing like faded |
| 1:28.7 | jeans and black sneakers and a t-shirt and he just spoke to like, well, this is clearly not, |
| 1:34.6 | you know, a high level. I would be surprised if many of the players didn't have day jobs. |
| 1:43.7 | From the WojPod, this is the Yonest Draft. |
| 1:50.0 | Episode two. |
| 2:08.7 | I don't think it's not, it's not really like this aha moment. It's kind of like the very slow, or in this case, kind of, I would say quick, just accumulation of information that you're |
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