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The purpose of Shootin' the Breeze is for me to share my unique basketball experiences and perspectives while also sharing those of my guests. My entire senior season at Oakland University I did not attempt one 2 point field goal and I took a whole lot of 3’s 257 of them as a matter of fact. I have always prided myself in being a great shooter and Shootin' the Breeze gives me a platform to discuss shooting with my guests. I hope to give my listeners insight into the minds of various people I ...
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Today I have a very special guest, Sir’Dominic Pointer, or just Dom Pointer as most know him. This past season Dom played professionally in Israel with Ironi Kiryat Ata. He spent his first professional season with the Canton Charge in the NBA D League. He and I played college basketball together at St. John’s. On this episode Dom and I will discuss…
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Today I have a very special guest, Travis Bader currently playing for Basket Recanati in Italy. Travis is the all time NCAA record holder for most 3 pointers made in a career with 504. He played at Oakland University for 4 years under Greg Kampe. Coach Kampe always has a high volume 3 point shooter on his roster so after Travis graduated he recruit…
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Today I have a very special guest, the current point guard for the Oklahoma City Blue D league team Alex Caruso. I first met Alex last summer in Los Angeles during the NBA pre-draft process. He played 4 years of college basketball at Texas A&M. He attended training camp with the Oklahoma City Thunder prior to the season this year. Today Alex and I …
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Today I have a very special guest, the current director of scouting and recruiting innovations at Oakland University, Alex Varlan. I first met Alex when I first arrived at Oakland University in 2014. That was when he began his first year working at Oakland. Prior to Oakland he worked at Tennessee on the women’s side of things under pat summit for 4…
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Today I have a very special guest, assistant coach at Oakland University Drew Valentine. I have known Drew for quite some time now as he was playing at Oakland when Coach Kampe first started recruiting me. After his college career at Oakland University he was a graduate assistant at Michigan State for 2 seasons under coach Tom Izzo. He is currently…
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Today I have a very special guest, head coach of Brewster Academy Jason Smith. I played for Coach Smith at Brewster Academy for one year for my post graduate year of high school. He is in his 17th season as the head coach at Brewster Academy this year. His teams consistently send 10 or more players to division 1 schools on scholarship, while Brewst…
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Today I have a very special guest, Tom Coverdale. For many college basketball fans this is a throwback name. Tom played at Indiana University from 1999 to 2003. Up to this point, all of my guests have been current college or professional players so I wanted to get a little different perspective by having Tom on my show. Tom played professionally fo…
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Today I have a very special guest, Georges Niang. I first crossed paths with Georges in prep school in 2011. I was playing at Brewster Academy and he was at The Tilton School. We had some heated games against one another. I considered attending Iowa State when I was transferring so I spoke a little bit with Georges then, but I didn’t spend a great …
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Today I have a very special guest, Devondrick Walker. For those of you who haven’t heard of Devondrick Walker, get familiar with the name. He is a guy who has one of the most unique basketball stories I’ve ever heard. With experiences at the NAIA and division 2 level in college, as well as 3 different NBA D League teams, he has just about seen it a…
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Today I have a very special guest, a former teammate and great friend of mine who I first met at Brewster Academy, Khalid McCaskill. Khalid attended Phillips Andover for 4 years, and followed that up with a post graduate year at Brewster Academy where I met him. We have become great friends over the years despite our journeys leading us to complete…
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Today I have a very special guest, a great friend of mine and former teammate at Oakland University, Sherron Dorsey-Walker. Sherron is currently a senior at Oakland University. Today Sherron and I will talk about the shooter’s mentality, the challenges surrounding transferring schools and joining a new team, his current season, his relationship wit…
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Today I have a very special guest, a former teammate and great friend of mine at Oakland University, Kay Felder. Kay was my point guard for 2 years at Oakland and he definitely handed out a lot of assists to me. We had a great rapport on the court together. In the 2016 NBA Draft he was selected 54th and currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers. …
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