Welcome back on SPORT VITAMINS for episode 48!
Today's guest is Benas Matkevicius.
Born in Lithuania, grew up in Germany, high school in Louisiana, college in Arkansas and then back to Germany before going to the Boston Celtics via Moscow.
Benas has now been working for the Celtics as an international scout for almost eight years, becoming one of the most essential parts of the Celtics operation
Some of the topics we touched on are:
1:00 Background 6:30 Playing career 16:45 Being passionate about the game 21:00 Transition from playing to coaching 29:00 Lack of effort vs Lack of focus 31:00 Body language 34:00 Becoming a scout 38:00 Best part of being a scout 45:00 Importance of traveling 48:30 Starting a podcast 54:30 Rapid Fire Questions
Find Benas :
https://lt.linkedin.com/in/bmatkeThe Benas Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/the-benas-podcast/id1558492852 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBenasPodcast Find me:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-iezzi/ https://www.instagram.com/roberto_iezzi34/ Find SPORT VITAMINS:
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/60wOP7cCFBnRWwDAfJVEPc?si=63b31c72124b4216 Apple Podcast
:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sport-vitamins/id1483319202https://www.spreaker.com/show/sport-vitamins #podcast #basketball #sport #vitamins #sportvitamins #nba #celtics #communication #playing #coaching #communicating #scouting #bodylanguage #effort