NBA Scouting Process, Draft Express, Crowdscout, Prioritizing Quick-Processing 5-out Two-Way Versatility Winning Impact over Individual Star Potential when Building NBA Rosters with Eric Weiss

Learning Basketball

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