Courtside Chats

This week, Hayden is joined by Bryce Hendricks of Roll Call Sports and  the Upside Swings podcast to talk all things draft!

You can find all of these topics covered in the episode:

- Draft philosophy

- Evaluating micro-skills in prospects

- How we can better evaluate prospects

Music: Flow (Sting) - MK2

This week, Hayden is joined by Jael Rucker of One37PM.com and ESPN+ to talk about:

- Her conversation with Jimmy Butler
 
- The player empowerment era
 
- The WNBA  

- Creating a more equitable sports media industry

Music: Flow (Sting) - MK2

This week, Hayden is joined by Mark Schindler of Premium Hoops and Indy Cornrows!

Hayden and Mark touch on a wide variety of topics, including:

- The Ben Simmons situation
- The Rick Carlisle hire in Indiana
- Draft prospects

Music: Flow (Sting) - MK2

Trigger warning: Sexual assault and domestic violence

The content of this episode may be disturbing to those who have been affected by sexual assault or domestic abuse.  If you are sensitive to these subjects, feel free to step away from this episode.

If you or someone you know is suffering from sexual assault, you can call RAINN’s National Sexual Abuse Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 for help. And if you or someone you know is suffering from domestic abuse you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

Resources to help victims of sexual abuse: RAINN.org

Resources to help victims of domestic abuse: https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/

Trigger warning: Sexual assault and domestic violence

The content of this episode may be disturbing to those who have been affected by sexual assault or domestic abuse.  If you are sensitive to these subjects, feel free to step away from this episode.

If you or someone you know is suffering from sexual assault, you can call RAINN’s National Sexual Abuse Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 for help. And if you or someone you know is suffering from domestic abuse you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

Resources to help victims of sexual abuse: RAINN.org

Resources to help victims of domestic abuse: https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/

Trigger warning: Sexual assault and domestic violence

The content of this episode may be disturbing to those who have been affected by sexual assault or domestic abuse.  If you are sensitive to these subjects, feel free to step away from this episode.

If you or someone you know is suffering from sexual assault, you can call RAINN’s National Sexual Abuse Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 for help. And if you or someone you know is suffering from domestic abuse you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

Resources to help victims of sexual abuse: RAINN.org

Resources to help victims of domestic abuse: https://www.thehotline.org/support-others/

Hayden is joined this episode by fellow NBA podcaster and writer, Katie Heindl to talk about her work on BASKETBALL FEELINGS, her Substack where she talks about the less quantifiable things in the game of basketball!

Some of the things that Hayden and Katie touch on in this episode include:

- Katie's reason for starting BASKETBALL FEELINGS, and how it looks at the NBA in a way that is different from traditional media.

- The greatest problems facing today's NBA.

- Their favorite storylines from the playoffs.

You can find more of Katie's work on her two podcasts, Dishes & Dimes and Uhh, Basketball, as well as her written work at DimeUPROXX!

Music:

Flow (Sting) - MK2

Hayden is joined by CJ Marchesani of The Stepien and RollCallSN to discuss the analytics movement in the NBA and CJ's new Spacing and Gravity metric! 

Courtside Chats in now on Apple Podcasts! Please leave the show a 5-star rating and review, and tell someone about the show!

Topics:

- What really is analytics?

- How do we bridge the gap between analytics and the eye test?

- How did CJ start on the path to creating the Spacing and Gravity metric?

- What "noise" did CJ run into while trying to create this metric?

- What interesting discoveries has this metric caused?

- How do some of the best draft prospects in the 2021 draft grade out in this metric?

- How can we use this metric to build better teams and evaluate players more accurately?

Join Hayden as he goes through the teams he thinks have a legitimate chance of winning the championship, and explores how the number of contenders might be higher than perhaps any other year in NBA history!

Music:

Flow (Sting) - MK2

Join Hayden as he breaks down his All-NBA Team selections, and covers two playoff matchups to look forward to!

Music:

Flow (Sting) - MK2