Today we have a wild and long anticipated interview with Elms Basketball Student Assistant Coach Stephon Ridley. In this podcast he breaks down how he built a program for his computer science class that can show what lineups, individual players, and pairs of players are the most effective using specific stats like plus minus, effective field goal percentage, and free throw rate. We also talked about Steph's basketball career, what Steph's plans are for the future, and Steph attempts to explain to Max and I how coding works.

On Today's episode with talk with Jack Vegter who played for Denison University his freshman year of college and realized he wanted to pursue things other than collegiate level basketball. In this episode we talk about how he's joined a club basketball team and has found a way to fill that competitive hole left by deciding not to pursue college basketball anymore, if Chicago style pizza is the best, and how it is living in Detroit.

Lots of stuff going on this episode, Chris isn't sure if the podcast is worth continuing to pursue, trying to discover the why in our decisions, should everyone make a radical change in their lifestyle?, and why Chris is only motivated by other peoples doubt.

In this episode we talk to Kenyon College forward Juan Matabuena about tearing his ACL extremely early in the seaosn and how he managed to come back and still hit a huge three for his team in his final college game ever, how Spanish basketball compares to American basketball, and why the food in Spain is way better than America.

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Time Stamps.

0:00 Intro

1:04 Life in Basketball Retirement/This Previous Season

5:00 Dealing With Injuries

9:10 Spanish Food / Living in Spain

19:23 Post Graduate Career

29:10 Passion

32:00 Lifting/ Highschool

40:00 Crazy Basketball Comeback

43:05 The Memories Are What Matters

45:46 Piece of Advice

46:59 Grade 11 Max Rolnick Stories

In this episode with Emerson College forward Shay Roban we talk about how to avoid letting your percentages affect your confidence in basketball, Shay’s wild 11 day journey into the wilderness, and his goals for next year on the court.

This is Alex's 3rd time on the podcast and he's coming off a huge season at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada. In this episode we talked about how Max can't guard Alex in ones, the feeling of going from injured, to benched, to becoming a starter for the back half of the season.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro

1:02 Technical Difficulties

3:36 Imposter Syndrome

13:09 College Basketball and Politics/ Off The Court

17:10 March Madness

19:08 Transfer Portal

23:14 Game Day Superstitions

26:47 Summer Plans

Is cereal a top 5 food of all time? You decide.

Quick season recap, Max talks about his 2 threes in a playoff game against Mitchell, Drew talks about how he felt this season went and his goals for next season, and than sprinkl ontop small amounts of brain rot.

This episode we interviewed Elm's Mens volleyball player Nick Uschmann. Nick had played 0 volleyball until his senior year of high school, in this episode we dive into how Nick managed to play college volleyball after 1 year of experience, the new Elm's volleyball coach, Nick's sales aspirations, and dealing with pressure as a college volleyball player.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

1:37 Game Day Ritual

4:12 Volleyball Beginnings

11:40 Volleyball Season / New Coach

18:36 You Can't Win Alone

23:44 Dealing With Pressure

26:00 Individual Work

28:10 Leaving Elms

35:31 Playing Against an Olympic Coach

39:50 Maxes Volleyball Skills

43:54 Holding Players Accountable

47:20 Becoming A Coach?

52:12 Outside of Volleyball

1:04:44 Piece Of Advice For Your Younger Self

I think it's time we finally just commit to turning this podcast into something, and in order to do that Max and I need to spend the next 6 months to a year putting a maniacal amount of conscious effort into learning and improving every single day. More of this discussed in the actual podcast episode.

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Link To All Our Socials.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

1:02 Shenanigans

2:56 The Attraction To Mastery

6:10 Leaning Into The Podcast Again

15:30 Back To The Mastery

31:48 Internships

47:18 Pursuing Mastery Within The Podcast

51:53 Anger Is A Choice

57:40 Sleep