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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Is it pump fake where you pretend to shoot and then you don't? Yeah. Yeah, Steph Curry does that a lot.
Yes, he's very good at it.
It's like when you're about to shoot a product and then you don't. Like air power. It's like head fake. Yo, what's up, people of the internet? Welcome back to another episode of the Waveform Podcast. We are all of your hosts. I'm Marques. I'm Alex. I'm Andrew. And I'm David. And in this bonus episode, we're going to be covering a whole bunch of things, but mostly sports.
And the way that we're going to do it is we have our fellow non-ball knower, Andrew and David over here, guests slash hosts who we want to explain the massive amount of overlap between sports and tech. And we have a lot of...
analogies and similes and ways of explaining that and alex and i ball knowers of the podcast and maybe we'll get some uh some rufus and adam over there chiming in as well uh i don't know anything we split the part the producer table okay rufus is on our side okay even better even better okay so then we're gonna use all of this to hopefully get you guys caught up to speed on the incredible world of what's happened in basketball for the last couple weeks slash months by using tech
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Chapter 2: What are the core tenets of basketball?
The Knicks for a long time did not have a good point guard, which is why we all love Jalen Brunson so much. So the point guard is the guy who brings the ball down the floor, sets everything up for everyone. The shooting guard is the second position. There are two guards. So the shooting guard also generally a little on the smaller end for a basketball player. Slightly bigger.
Yeah, which is to say 6'5". Yeah. I'm 5'9", baby. Point guard. That player, typically high-level athlete, good shooter, scores the basketball a lot, delivers lots of products, right? Small forward, so there are two forwards. There's the three now. One of them is called the small forward. What was the second one again?
The first one was the one point guard. The second one is the two, the shooting guard. Now we're on the three, even bigger. The small forward. Are they always shorter?
I mean, you know, Kevin Durant is considered a small forward, but he's like seven feet tall.
We're roughly going in order of size. 6'11", Alex. The one is a little bigger. The shooting guard is a little bigger. The small forward is a little bigger.
Everybody keeps getting a little taller traditionally. The further you go down the numbers. So the three is a guy who's maybe 6'7". 6'7". 6'7". And will be a versatile player, defensive minded usually, plays good defense, can shoot well, that sort of thing. And then you have your power forward. Four. Big, powerful. Now we're getting to the biggest guys. Right. Tank. OG on the Knicks is the four.
Big, strong man. Big, broad shoulders. Typically like 6'10", 6'11", 6'9", maybe something like that. And then you have the center, which is the biggest player, the five. Otherwise known as the pivot because they pivot in the post and they score down low. They bang elbows and they get rebounds. That's not Jalen Rodson? No. I feel like he does that.
Do they generally score the least amount of times?
Depending on the center, some of the most prolific scorers in NBA history have been centers, like Wilt Chamberlain, who we'll talk about later. Wilt Chamberlain. We'll talk about him later. But in the modern game, yes, I would say centers generally score the least of the players on the team, for the most part.
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Chapter 3: What do coaches discuss during timeouts?
Because my question about the coach is like, you know, they like call timeouts and then they talk to the players. But like, what are they talking to them about? Like, how does this work? Yeah, so the coach knows the range of talents of the players really well.
And before every game, they do the hard work of looking at what the other team is really good at and how their team compares and what they should do to beat the other team.
Chapter 4: How does a coach strategize against an opponent?
So the players, they come to the table with their skills and they're like, yeah, I'm going to dunk it. And they're like, all right, you're good at dunking it. I'm going to put you in positions where you get a lot of dunks.
But if you're playing against a team that's really good at defending dunks, they're like, all right, you're going to get rebounds and pass it out to the shooter because they're bad at defending shooters. So they're the brains orchestrating what the players are doing in theory.
Yeah. I mean, if we're talking about like a technology, if we go to the hardware side, they're like the logic board or whatever.
It is you with a bunch of agents.
You are the orchestrator.
All the players think they're building this incredible thing, but they need the person from...
outside to wrangle them back in right like snapchat could have used a coach to tell them those glasses yeah ridiculous yeah yeah like okay so the snapchat ceo in this analogy who clearly is the one that thought those were a good idea well i don't know about that You had to wear them. It seems like it. I don't know.
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Chapter 5: What is the role of assistant coaches in basketball?
But so whoever the person was that was pushing for the Snapchat spectacles the most. Yeah, the specs. The specs. That person is like a basketball player that needs to be wrangled in. And needs to be told, you're shooting too much and you're not making your shots.
Yeah.
So we're going to bench you.
Okay.
So that's the purpose of a coach. So that's like the board? Sure, maybe.
Because the board can like switch out.
Can kibosh it.
Can switch out the CEO if they're not doing a good job.
Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. This is not a pure one to one because there's also some way to say that like the coach could be the coach and the assistant coaches could be like a CEO, COO, CMO, that sort of thing.
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Chapter 6: How do fouls and violations work in basketball?
Hey, I know you're good, but you're getting tired. Let me put the bench player on.
They also set the roadmap in a way because so, for example, the Knicks this year played a style of defense under their old coach where you would try to force people to the perimeter to try to get them away from the inside of the.
So that they could get more two-pointers because Jalen Burns is good at two-pointers?
Well, so I'm talking about what they would do on defense. So the Knicks would try to make the other team not get to the inside for easy shots, right? Right. Oh, I see. And then the Knicks, during their worst stretch this year, tried something new and said, what if we defended the perimeter a lot, the three-point shot, and let teams get to the inside?
And then teams were just getting layups left and right, and it was not pretty. So then they switched their scheme back. Okay.
They didn't have like a Wembley.
Yeah. Right. Alex just broke a little bit. The Spurs... They didn't have anyone to flagrant foul the other team.
The Spurs, you might know, have a player who's 7'6", with really long arms, called Victor Weminyama.
Defensive player of the year.
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