In this interview, which took me twenty minutes, I learned alot about college basketball and Ken’s experience with basketball. I felt excited to learn more about college basketball and the purpose of talking to him was successful as I was able to gain even more of an understanding of the talent gap between NBA and college basketball. It was nice to talk to someone that knows a lot about this topic, rather than just researching. The interview was definitely my favorite part, but one of the way challenges was finding research on which to base my questions.
I first needed advice from my dad and he gave me the recommendations of interviewing his friend who was a coach at Adelphi, or a local basketball trainer. However, both of these people did not work. From this, I then got the idea to interview a family friend named ken barer who played in high school, college, and professionally overseas, and was a division two basketball coach at UMass. Although it was hard to figure out who to choose, once I found Ken I felt relieved. The hardest part about this whole process was writing the questions. I kept getting stuck on certain words and wanted to make sure that what I was asking made sense. I also wanted to make sure that I was not repeating myself. I finally came up with questions that I felt good about and I think Ken liked them too!
My experience of conducting the interview went great. The whole conversation was so exciting and fun. We were also able to talk about some different things that we had in common. I definitely learned a lot more than I expected throughout the interview. Ken really did love all of my questions and seemed to be super excited to share his experience with me. I also learned some new things about him. I did not know that he played professionally overseas. Some of the new things I learned from him was the major talent gap between NBA and college players. I also learned that the best skill is hard work and that he loves to coach players who are hard-working. Also, another thing that was interesting to me was the college recruitment process and the way that he did it.
Overall, in this interview, I learned alot and I am glad I chose to interview ken. I also loved this interview because I was able to talk about my favorite sport, which is basketball.