#36 Maurizio Gherardini - Career Longevity, Challenges & Communication

The Benas Podcast

"Maurizio":

My guest for this episode was non other than the long time Fenerbahce Istanbul GM, Maurizio Gherardini. Maurizio has a long and very successful career as a basketball executive from which he has countless titles to show for. The most recent international title he celebrated was the Euroleague title with Fenerbahce Istanbul in 2017. His front office career began in the early 1980s in his hometown club of Forli, Italy. The success he had there carried him to Benetton Treviso and plenty of domestic titles to come with that role. At Fenerbahce, he had the pleasure of working with Zeljko Obradovic and enjoyed plenty of domestic and international success.

Today we talked about plenty of different topics but mostly about the longevity of his success and the reasons for it. We also touched on the topics of scouting coaches and recognizing talent, working together with Zeljko as well as other coaches and what the secret to success is in the process. We also talked about the difference from his rookie eyes to his experienced eyes when observing players these days, approaching Final Fours as well as the strange times afterwards as well as much more.

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Today's Topics:

• Career Longevity
• Importance of Curiosity
• Scouting A Coach
• Communicating With The Coach
• Rookie Eyes vs Experienced Eyes
• Intel / Questions On Players
• Evaluations / Decisions
• Pre & Post Final Four Moods
• ATOs

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