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Jason Plumondon has been an assistant coach here at Elm's College for 15 years, in his time here he's seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. In this episode he talks about why he's unapologetic about keeping it real as a coach, how he lost 100lbs in 6 months, his rock bottom moment, and why as a player you need to develop good character in order to play at the college level.
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Denisha Parks is a Hall of Fame Women's Basketball Player and current Women's Basketball Coach at Elms College. She scored more than 2000 points, grabbed over 1000 rebounds, and currently holds 11 different record for the College. In this episode we talk about the keys to motivating players, how she developed a real work ethic, and the necessary ups and downs she experienced on her basketball journey.
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Rob Southall is the current head coach of the Elms College Men's Basketball Team, a former college basketball player, and Maxes current coach. In this episode he talks about how he tries to lead a team, the common traits of the best players he's coached, and the ingredients of a winning basketball program.
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40 Years of basketball coaching experience boiled down into 1 hour of conversation. In this episode we discussed what Coach Sutter looks for when recruiting players, the most important skills a player can learn at the high school level, and what it takes to excel at the college basketball level. This episode is packed with information that could be potentially useful to anyone trying to play college basketball, coach basketball, or just enjoys listening to the ins and outs of the game.
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Time stamps:
0:00 intro
0:50 Who is Coach Sutter?
3:45 Do You Feel Pressure to win from fans, alumni etc?
7:39 How Do You Define Success As A Coach?
10:19 Plan For Recruiting For Next Year?
14:31 What Is Coaching Philosophy?
20:08 The Ingredients Of A Successful Basketball Team
21:50 Strategies For Being A Leader
27:57 Dealing With No Playing Time
36:03 Playing Infront of Rowdy Crowds
38:49 Coaching Pet Peeve’s
42:00 Creating A Winning Culture
44:20 Most Important Skill For High School Players To Develop?
45:41 Has Having Kids Affected The Way You Coach?
48:27 Lessons From 40 Years Of Basketball?
49:50 Do Your Kids Play Sports?
51:26 Hobbies Outside Of Basketball
56:30 Life Changing Events
1:02:00 Advice To New Coaches
1:02:53 Crazy College Basketball Story
1:05:47 Big Mistakes To Avoid Making
1:06:42 One Piece Of Advice To Your Younger Self? -
Luciano a.k.a "Lucci" is a first year freshman lacrosse player for the Elms College Blazers. In this episode we talk about his early childhood, how Lacrosse gave him an outlet for his not so ideal childhood, and how went from an insecure shut-in kid to being debatably the most care free person on campus.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Lucci is the goat
1:15 Early Childhood
6:05 The beginning of lacrosse
8:42 Middle School
15:09 When Did You See Some Progress?
18:32 How Did You Stop Caring About Other Peoples Opinions?
21:55 How Did You End Up Playing College Lacrosse?
27:15 Difference Between High school and College Lacrosse?
28:53 Maxes Shot-clock Story
30:45 Work Ethic in Lacrosse
32:45 The Regis Loss
33:59 What Are the Traits of a Good Team?
35:23 Goals As A Player and A Team
38:10 Piece of Advice For Non-Ideal Childhoods
39:34 Who Were You’re Role Models?
41:12 Major and Life Plans
42:50 Rooming With Declan
44:43 One Piece Of Advice To Your Younger Self -
Connor Tobin, an ex college basketball player, current college lacrosse and golf player has had a wild ride to get where he is today. He spent 2 years at a JUCO basketball program before inevitably deciding he had a better opportunity to play college lacrosse at Elms. In this episode he breaks down what traits make up a good college athlete, the ins and outs of lacrosse, and his goals as a player.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Us Out. Instagram TikTok YouTube--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If You Liked This Consider Checking Out These Episodes:
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The Undersized Big Man | Adam Sarlan--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Time Stamps:0:00 Intro 0:52 Who Is Connor Tobin?1:21 Sport Beginnings 3:47 High School Career 8:16 Lacrosse 9:16 College Recruitment 15:37 Coming Back To Lacrosse.18:15 Lacrosse vs Basketball 19:05 Current Lacrosse Season 20:46 The Teams First Loss25:31 Is Lacrosse Easy To Pick Up28:19 What Makes a Good College Sports Team?34:11 What Is Your Why?35:20 Life Outside of Sports 36:26 Getting Work In For Lacrosse39:22 Weight Room Stuff 40:50 Lucci 43:43 Goals as a Team/ as a player?46:56 2 Lessons you’ve learned about yourself from sports?50:50 Crazy College Sports Stories 51:39 One Piece of Advice For Your Younger Self
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Just two 20 year olds attempting to explain topics that are wayyyyy beyond their depth for 37 minutes.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:40 Ramble
2:23 Sacrificing For Basketball
4:06 Progress Over Fun
8:54 Volleyball Ferda
12:54 Plan For The Podcast
16:34 Life Outside of Basketball
23:14 Perspective Changes
27:51 Out Of Content
29:52 Separating The Outcome From Your Self Worth
36:14 Straight Ramble -
Jacob got benched for 5 years in a row but remained insistent on being a college basketball player. He went from not playing to now serving a critical role and seeing 15 minutes a game on the college floor. In this episode he explains how he ended here at Elms, what he's doing to improve, and what he did to begin getting minutes on the floor.
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How To Stop Losing Your Confidence On The Court W/ Neilon "Neil" Bridgeman.
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How to Find Confidence When Shots Aren't Falling and Humbling Lessons From Playing at a JUCO
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Time Stamps:
JC Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
0:35 JC Has Been Avoiding Us
2:00 JC’s Season
5:03 Recruiting For Next Year?
6:43 Unexpected Cuts
9:11 How Did You Start Playing Basketball
12:57 Why Did You Keep Going?
14:53 Losing Weight
17:21 Food Habits
18:37 High school career
21:33 Developing Guard Skills
24:03 Recruitment Out Of HighSchool
27:24 Expectations of college basketball
28:40 how to get more minutes
31:04 Dealing With Infrequent minutes
31:48 Steps for next year
32:48 Goals After Basketball
33:57 Lacrosse
42:22 Racist HighSchool Fanbase?
45:54 Lesson From Basketball
48:34 Piece of Advice -
Adam Sarlan, the 6'3 college bigman breaks down what it takes to play when your undersized at your position, the importance of the fundamentals, and his craziest basketball story. -Check Us Out.
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Tahquell "TC" Cadle is a 1000 Point scorer at Elms College and just played his final game of college basketball ever. In this episode he talks about planning to play pro in Europe, how basketball has changed him as a person, and why no matter what you need to remain humble.
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From Court to Clothing Line: The Story of Two Basketball Players Turned Entrepreneurs:
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:35 Last College Basketball Ever
3:11 How Has Elms Culture Changed from Your 1st Year
4:20 Season Review
7:12 Differences between last years and this years team
9:20 Things You Want To See From Elms Basketball?
11:44 Playing Pro
13:14 Measure In Hundreds
16:32 Does TC Feel Pressure?
20:53 Off-Season Plan
22:16 How Has Elms Changed You?
23:54 TC Knows Everyone
25:07 What Has Changed About Elms?
27:48 How Basketball Has Shaped You As a Person?
28:33 What Would You Do If You Knew You Would Die in 10 years?
29:57 Where Would You Want To Play Pro?
31:05 Randomness
34:45 Never Too High Never Too Low
36:09 Stay Humble
38:23 Will TC Return? -
Expect to learn why you should remain disciplined, the mistakes Declan made on his way to becoming a college basketball player, what it's like living with a wild roommate, and how Declan developed his green release Lonzo Ball jumper.
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Basketball Is A Metaphor For Life | Addison Phifer: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7G0PZFzq5zJ8DpahqoaRsx?si=0dE6qyqsTSSNsi8XeOAAfA
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Time Stamps0:00 Intro1:57 The Last Of The Moheekans2:38 How Declan Started Playing Basketball? 4:09 What did your trainers teach you?5:16 Freshman Year 5:51 Sophomore Year 6:12 Junior Year 8:30 Senior Year / Recruitment 11:26 Tryout Process 12:30 College Basketball Expectations 12:52 Did not getting a jersey make you lose motivation?14:13 what did you feel when you checked into a college basketball game?15:14 dealing with confidence 16:40 Ways You’ve Grown Since Freshman Year in Highschool?17:18 Basketball as a hobby18:15 Things You Wish you would’ve done differently?18:44 mistakes you see highschool players make19:11 Differences between Declan’s high-school team and college team?20:40 living with Luciano 22:15 Declan’s Major 22:38 Daily Schedule in season/ off season 25:15 Smashing Controllers?28:09 Declan’s younger brother 30:03 Golfing 31:19 Old Head Magic 34:10 Where do you see yourself in 10 years?34:58 1 Lesson for your future son from basketball 35:43 Who is your inspiration?36:40 How do you handle adversity?37:20 One Piece of advice to your younger self
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Playing with both Chris Murray and Keegan Murray at a prep school, proving the doubters wrong, and finding a reason to keep going with Taje Green.
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The Impossible Journey Of Playing College Basketball | Chris Bieman
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:54 Taje’s origin story
4:02 Playing With Keegan and Chris Murray
6:45 What Separates NBA guys
7:58 DME Academy Facility
10:56 Development Team
14:25 How Did You Get To Elms
18:20 Goals At Elms
18:50 Taje Vs Max?
21:39 What is Your Why?
22:36 Hooping in Jamaica
24:34 Question From The Last Guest
25:41 Things That Separate Winning Teams
26:33 Things That Make Coaches Successful
29:40 Insights Into young NBA players mindsets
30:50 Goals After Basketball
31:49 Being a bald coach
32:48 One Piece Of Advice To Your Younger Self -
Growing up in a small town and having no concept of what college basketball is like or how to get there, Austin Smith takes us though his basketball journey and the lessons he had to learn to get there. -
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:43 Austin’s Basketball Journey
8:53 False Sense of Confidence
11:03 Expectations of College Basketball
11:52 Tryout Process
12:22 Glitch…. Not sure what happened here
*13:09 Almost Quitting
14:17 does natural ability mess with work ethic
15:20 What Do You Need To Improve?
15:50 Scout Team
18:42 Most Important Habit or Skill For Younger Players
19:53 How Do You Train?
21:26 What seperated you?
22:40 College Basketball Misconceptions
24:43 How To Develop Confidence
26:12 Deriving Self Worth From Basketball
26:58 After Basketball
27:18 Differences from player to coach
28:33 2 Lessons From Basketball
29:07 Mistakes High-school Hoopers make
29:45 One piece of advice to younger self -
From a town of 300 people to making a college basketball team. In Todays episode we go through the path of becoming a college basketball player when you live in a small town, the unlikely events that led to me playing college basketball, and the lessons I learned during this process.
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1:43 New Year
3:10 2024 Goals
4:22 AAU Basketball Story
6:00 Back to the Goals
7:31 Chris’s Basketball Beginning
13:33 Freshman Year
15:50 Sophomore Year
19:20 Junior Year
20:48 Senior Year/ Grade 13
33:10 Why Did Chris Quit?
36:55 If You Could Change One Part Of The Journey?
38:45 Lessons From 8 Years of Basketball
44:11 This Is Why You Can’t Quit
47:40 One Piece of Advice -
Grinding 8 hours a day, realizing what the next level really looks like, and the reason most kids wont make it will all be discussed in this episode of SATB.
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Time Stamps. 0:00 Intro
1:03 Welcome Back
1:46 How did you start hooping?
5:15 Brotherly Battles
7:35 From garbage to not garbage
9:19 Freshman Year
13:52 Sophomore Year
16:34 Losing CWOSSA qualifiers
18:50 Junior Year / COVID
20:22 First AAU Tryout
26:42 Senior Year
28:38 were you okay hanging them up?
29:55 Watching Chris, do you think you could’ve played College Basketball?
34:37 Who is The Best Brother?
39:58 Grinding for 8 hours a day?
*43:04 2 Lessons From Basketball?
44:56 Goals After Basketball
*47:39 Body Building
*48:48 Favourite Basketball Memory
54:02 Worst Basketball Memory
55:33 A Quote You Live By
59:43 Father Vs Son 1v1?
1:02:38 One Piece of Advice To Your Younger Self?
1:03:34 Questions For Chris?
1:06:32 SEWERS -
Consistency being the most important skill, what creates good teams, and what separates kids who do and don't play college basketball? All of this and more in this episode of SATB.
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
1:21 How Max Started playing Basketball
2:45 When Do You Start Taking It Seriously
11:14 Was Max Frying
12:22 Junior Year
14:44 Deciding To Play College Basketball
17:35 COVID
18:34 Senior Year
20:10 American Highschool vs Canadian
21:38 Coach Kirbis
22:49 College Recruitment
27:40 Rock Bottom Moments/Maxes Injury
33:33 Training after injury
34:20 Goals After Basketball
37:22 What Separates College Hoopers
43:35 Being The Only Athlete In The Family
45:08 Lessons From Maxes Dad
47:02 2 Lessons From A Life Of Basketball
48:50 Crazy Basketball Story
56:55 Playing With Great Players
58:18 College Basketball is Hard
1:02:55 How Would You Make Elms MBB Better
1:07:05 What Separates Good and Bad Teams
1:09:08 How Do You Create a Good Team?
1:15:48 One Piece of Advice To Younger Self -
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(0:00) Intro(1:09) Kishaun Rates The Podcast (1:51) How Did You Start Playing Basketball?(2:42) when did you take it seriously (3:09) Highschool career (4:13) recruitment (5:50) Playing Angry (10:14) Tips For Younger Shooting Guards(10:50) Things kids don’t understand about college basketball (14:00) what separates the kids who make it and who don’t?(15:48) what separates winning and losing teams (17:04) Crazy College Basketball Stories (18:35) what makes a high level basketball program (19:07) Going Pro(19:40) lowest moment, why did you keep going?(20:34) favourite hooping moment (21:02) Question from the last guest (23:34) the weight room (26:43) Playing Unconscious (29:52) One Piece of advice to young hoopers
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Playing in a system, hitting rock bottom, never being satisfied and more with 25 Year Old: Aaron Sanchez
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Samuel Ackah-Yensu is from Ghana Africa and he had an extremely unlikely path to playing college basketball. From getting sent back to Africa for having bad grades to quitting AAU after 2 weeks because he hated it Sam's story is wild and inspiring.
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He didn't start hooping until junior year in High school, broke his hand, and got in a car accident. Patrick Nguyen has been through a lot and in this episode of SATB, he'll explain how he remained positive, and why you should never give up.
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