The SeanMoHoops Pod: Episode 4

College basketball is finally back! DC friend and DefPen writer Stephen Kalayil (@stephenkalayil) joins the Pod to chat about the Champions Classic and more. We start off with Duke and Michigan State thoughts, which includes a lot of Trevon Duval talk (1:30) before gushing over Kevin Knox (15:00) and moving into why it’s nice to see Malik Newman out of basketball purgatory (19:45). As the resident Louisville expert, Stephen shares his state of the program thoughts (23:00) before talking about potential games of the week and teams we are excited to watch down the road (26:30).

The SeanMoHoops Pod: Episode 3

The third SeanMoHoops Pod has Dinos Trigonis on as a guest. Dinos is a legendary figure in the grassroots basketball scene having coached a number of current NBA players in SoCal while also creating some of the top high school camps in the country. In the Podcast, Dinos talks about his start in the basketball world, provides a hilarious AAU story (15:48), discusses basketball being at a crossroads (26:40), his first encounter with Ben Simmons (40:45), and finally provides some names to remember for the future (47:49).

The SeanMoHoops Pod: Episode 2

The second SeanMoHoops Pod features Keiser University head coach Dante Calabria. Dante had an illustrious college career at UNC under Coach Dean Smith before playing at the highest international levels. The podcast discusses Dante’s high school career on a team that featured a legendary coach in John Miller and a team that averaged over 90 points a game (4:00), his UNC career which featured a National Championship (20:00), a plethora of talented teammates (25:00), and the UNC-Duke rivalry (41:10). To wrap it up, Dante talks about his current role as a head coach (47:00), the craziness of playing overseas (55:00), and finally the hypothetical question of the pod: What UNC championship team would win in a match-up of the 1993 and 2017 teams?

The SeanMoHoops Pod: Episode 1

The first SeanMoHoops Pod features guest Ricky O’Donnell who is the SB Nation College Hoops Editor & NBA Assignment Editor. Both Sean and Ricky were in attendance for the USA Men’s Developmental Mini-Camp in Colorado Springs featuring 54 of the top high school players in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 high school basketball classes. The podcast touches on Ricky’s latest Zion Williamson article (2:10), top-5 wing Cameron Reddish (10:50), a 2018 point guard debate (16:10), some of the top rising sophomores and juniors (20:20), the NBA rookie class (29:20), and finally the hypothetical question of the pod: Would Arizona have made the Final 4 with Tyler Dorsey and TJ Leaf (35:20)?