Episode 8

Riley LaChance - Overseas Professional Basketball Player - Episode 8

Riley LaChance is a point guard from Brookfield, Wisconsin who played his college basketball at Vanderbilt in the SEC. He spent last season playing for Okapi Aalstar in the EuroMillions Basketball League in Belgium.

5:38- How to stay focused om progress when you aren't the best or most athletic player

12:30- Why he chose Vanderbilt and what he focused on in choosing his school and what he learned transitioning from high school to d1

14:30- How to build resilience

21:36- What would you tell a kid that doesn't practice? 

24:17- What is the micro and macro of the Riley LaChance's pro basketball workout routine?

30:00- Why more white Europeans play in the NBA than Americans

34:00- Have we lost the playground?

34:45- The best of the best from coaches he's played for...

42:00- Crazy European stories- Get to Final Four as a first year coach, and I step down, "Why are you the worst player Riley?"

47:31- How do we feel about America right now?

Twitter - @lachance_13

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Trevor Huffman is a former two-time NBA cup o' joe, 12-year European pro point guard turned overseas head coach that is dropping dimes and teaching what really happens inside the huddles, routines, habits, and minds of pro athletes, coaches, skill trainers, sports psychologists, and thought leaders in sport.