Episode Details

Ep. 24 with Eric Weiss @EricWeiss_SA

Director of Learning @ Luceo Sports

Former Draft & Development Consultant @ Sports Aptitude and Head of NBA Scouting @ Draft Express

Co-Creator of CrowdScout with William Huang, a new helpful tool for finding, sharing, and breaking down NBA Film clips


Timeline: 


0:00 Introduction & Background


1:00 Creating the Crowdscout App for NBA Film Editing and Sharing


5:00 Tracking Player Development after the Draft, the full pipeline from high school through their pro career, not just up to the draft, in the Finding a Role Series with Swish Theory

12:55 Lessons learned working at Draft Express with Jonathan Givony & Mike Schmitz


15:20 NBA Draft Scouting Process - what does Eric look for in player traits that will translate to the NBA level


29:00 Being able to evaluate different contexts for a player + Scouting Liam McNeeley’s different contexts between Montverde and UConn


32:30 Prioritizing good basketball players who impact the game in many ways over hoping for potential stars + Scouting Cooper Flagg being a scalable winning two-way player 


42:25 The Luka - Trae Trade and Scouting the 2018 NBA Draft with Jaren Jackson Jr.


52:00 Creating systems that score a lot of points because the system creates matchup advantages that are advantageous for a narrow skill set


53:00 “Positionless sports” - How other sports like football have also become positionless in the aspect of more players needing to be able to do more things and handle more roles than before: mobility, versatility, awareness, processing


1:02:45 Creating entire lineups of quick-processing 5-out two-way versatility, creating as many possible matchup advantages as possible like the Boston Celtics