Last Thursday I interviewed Dave Duke, the basketball coach at Adelphi University. I interviewed him because I heard he is a great coach who uses the 3 point shot in his offense a lot.  In fact, he told me that he models his offense just like the Golden State Warriors (the best 3 point shooting team in the NBA).  I was really excited to interview him and understand how he uses the 3 point line.  We spent time talking about his team and strategies for offense and defense.

The process of finding someone to interview was easy because my dad thought of his friend who has a brother who coaches at the college level.  It was made even better when I realized that he loves the 3 point line and models his offense off the Golden State Warriors.  

Coach Dave was really nice and had a ton of information about the game.  He explained stats and how he uses analytics to make his team better.  I didn’t even know what analytics were, but it has become such an important part of coaching.  He talked a lot about why he depends on the 3 point line as much as he does and how the regular 2 point jump shot is just not as important as it used to be. 

Overall the interview went great and it was really fun!