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Andre Iguodala

lines on the record: 31
first: 2015-12-18
most recent: 2015-12-18
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“They used to be in the training room, but now it's like everyone has them at home. So it's one called Game Ready. It's basically a sleeve, you put it on, put ice and water in it. And then it puts pressure with ice on your knees so you're flushing out old blood and you're getting ice which reduces swelling. And then I have these boots that come from the foot all the way up here. Yeah, and I put these for after every shoot around game days, and I'm going there for about 40 minutes, fall asleep, pressure to flesh out all the old blood, and then just be ready to go and be fresh for the game.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To back. So, coach knows by looking at the catapult system hey, we need to have a light practice. Okay, it's been light the last couple days. We need to ramp it up to get these guys ready for a long road trip in a week or so. So we use a lot of different technologies. Like I said, I use technologies for my knees now because I'm getting a little older, had a lot of miles. I have two different one's an ice machine and then one are boots that basically flush out old blood to get new blood in to speed up their recovery. All these little devices and systems that you can write all through the team.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a wearable, so you kind of slide it in your back and it goes to this computer and it basically tracks your loading. So how fast are you stopping and how fast do you start? That's all that's tracking. It knows how well we play after having a hard practice versus a light practice versus our load throughout the rest of the week.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Totally different. There's so much technology used now. What used to be when we came in the league, it was just stem and ice. So you get a STEM unit, you slap it on, you turn it up, and you get the post. And basically all it does is teach the body to block out pain. But the pain's still there. I didn't know this is what they had. And now there's different technologies to where we use a system called catapult tracks our heart rate, tracks our... Every movement on the court, our pounding on our knees, it tracks everything. So it knows.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know exactly what your metrics were shooting at Game Shot, you can simulate that over and over and over again. Because like playing golf, you can do that. You can get everything together. But basketball is a little different. You got movements and all different types of ways, angles. You know, somebody's in your face. But if you can simulate that, that would be amazing.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is a very good question. From a basketball standpoint, I just saw something recently. I don't know if I can share, but he has a device, basically, where you can kind of slide it on your body. Actually, shoot a shot. Gives you your metrics on your motions in your shot. I don't know how accurate it is, but it can train you to get the exact same motion every single shot. And we hear this a lot when we're... When we're in practice, shoot game shots, shoot game shots. It's hard to simulate that because adrenaline is flowing. Someone's in your face. The crowd's there. There's an intensity there. So if you could.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's been a lot. But I think it's just all about branding. It's good and bad for the game because I'm seeing high school kids and I'm seeing elementary kids with Twitters and Instagrams and it's like they're branding themselves already. It's like you're not quite there yet. So it's putting a little bit too much pressure on our kids to try to be a certain type of person instead of just developing you develop. You didn't have all that stuff. You just were a kid and then you just grew up. Well now they're trying to grow up at a younger age.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a lot, and you have to be more politically correct than ever now, but you have to be smart with it. I think it's a way to give the fans a small piece of who you are, not everything, but just give them bits and pieces, keep the engagement, the interaction, because it's always going to be good for the game when the fans feel like they're closest to the players. But it can get dangerous at times. They say all press is good press, but when it comes to Twitter, not all press is good press.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it does. It's helped the sport because there's more engagement. Owners are setting up arenas to be fan-friendly to where the owners know exactly who's buying what, who's purchasing what, who's in their seat, at what time, so what point of the game do fans go get concessions? It's kind of taking a life of its own as far as just bringing the fans and the business closer together because it used to be, you know, kind of what do our fans want now you can kind of get to feel exactly what they're into, you know, what jerseys selling the most, what color uniforms do the fans, attract the fans to buying more. And then even with players, when we're on the road, we're on the planes, we're keeping up with every single game. So that's a big thing for us if we're flying out to Indiana, but Indiana has a game that night as well, and we can't see the game. We keep an updates, you know, our scouting, we know who's doing.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think that could work when you put. You can put guys in game-like situations to practice in because that's the hardest thing to, you can't simulate games either. Like when we're in practice, coach says go through a game like, but there's nothing like being an actual game. So I think VR will help for training. But you see that in technology today. I'm a huge golfer and I have just about every golf training device there is out there from technology standpoint that's attesting my iPhone knowing hand playing clubs playing you know am I going in and out and I'm out to end on my swing so those things have helped me become a better golfer had I not had them”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But who knows, the technology is there. I think it could be great for the game if it's done right, but we'll have to see.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a tough one. The one thing that you can't Simulated is live action, and I think that's why you see some of the crazy evaluations in sports now, because it's the only thing left sports and concerts are the only things left that you can only experience them live. They don't have the same effect, you know, tape delayed or seeing it later. So virtual reality, I saw at the NBA Tech conference kind of put on the headset and then you can subscribe to like a you have a seat, like you're a season ticket holder and you can subscribe to VR seat and you can be on the court and Spike Lee's next to you at the garden and it's like you're at the game I don't know how that's gonna translate to live like I just can't see it Is it something about like especially if your course side like there's a possibility of someone diving into you know like I don't know if you could simulate that”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's it for Andre. But it's definitely helped me out and human behavior, you know, as humans, we are, you know, we're trained to be creatures of habit. And we have these certain habits about ourselves. And when you use certain analytics and you use certain platforms that we use in NBA and different teams use, that's when you learn certain habits about guys. And when I'm on a court, I know I can force some of the top players out of their habits and make the game harder for them, which in turn gives my team a better chance to win.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two months after, and I was sure I'm like, Jesus Christ, like my free throws were so much better when I got sleep. Now it's like I'm going to sleep tonight.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, well, you have to, and then we spoke briefly about this about LeBron. Know which way to send him, knowing how to make the game difficult for the best player in the world. But also, you know, I track my sleep every day. And it's funny because I did a small thing with jawbone where they would track how many hours of sleep I was getting and then how that correlated to my performance on the basketball course. So it showed when I got six hours of sleep or less this is my shooting percentage. When I had seven hours of sleep, this is my shooting percentage. When I had eight hours to show, it was amazing because I didn't know that they would have all this data until afterwards. So I'm not going into the game like I slept eight hours a night, so I'm going to play well. I didn't know this until”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Front offices like that tend to just throw numbers on the court. You know, they forget about characteristics. They forget about basketball IQ with players. And they forget about just because it works, well, one guy doesn't mean he's going to mesh well with another guy while they're playing together. And that's what I mean by too much information can be bad information. But for us, we found the right information and putting the right pieces in to fulfill each role on the court because you're still playing with five guys and they got to play as one. So you see Moneyball a lot more in the NBA, but you got to have the proper balance of human behavior and analytics.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Does because you have certain teams like the Houston Rockets, for example. Their whole front office is basically analytics people. Not too many of their front office people actually had experience playing basketball. They watched it or they might have played it in the rec League or something like that. But like me. Right. But they didn't have any NBA experience. So when you see...”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, but there's you got to take a grain of salt with everything and sometimes too much information can be bad information. And what was important for us was finding the right information. You know, you got a million things you looking at. You got to find exactly which is the right for your talent group, for your IQ group, all those things play into that part. And I think it's the same for businesses. They get all this data and now that you have to figure out exactly what to do with it in order for your company to be successful. And for us, it was the past. It was turnover. So we found like three or four things out of thousands of things that we knew would get us over the top.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“More 325 passes or more. We were like 50 and 1. It was something crazy. And then when we had less than 300 passes, we were like, I don't know, 20 and 10. It was just crazy. So when it got to those clutch moments or those clutch games, when we got to the finals, we knew exactly what we needed to do to give ourselves the best possible chance of winning. And that was huge for us last year.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely every day. The tech world uses a lot of data analysis and that's definitely transferred into the basketball world. You look at, we have a system where every shot and every movement is tracked for every team. So you know where a guy shot from on the court, you know his percentage from that exact spot where he shoots from. You know how many dribbles he takes. The data from the outside world or from the tech world that's always been used for years has finally got to the basketball world and it's helped us on the basketball court. But the thing is you have to find the right data. You have to find the right thing, the right analytic for your team. And we found that last year interesting enough. Our number was the amount of passes we had per game. When we had 320.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So it's like winning a championship is the greatest thing and you learn so much about yourself doing that. And then when you're working with other companies, you take some of those situations. It may not be exactly the same. It may not be like you're taking the last second shot, but you got to get your information in or you got to get your work done within a day and you're overflowed and you might have to work 14, 15 straight hours, but I've been through that situation on the court of having to sacrifice for my team and doing whatever it took to win and just transferring that to the tech world or whoever I may be working with. And when you see the results, you get the satisfaction of winning.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I really enjoy the business development side of it and the data trending. Get into something, you see a business grow. You learn a lot from it. You learn from a lot of people that you deal with. The lives are changing. It's just a fun process. It's similar to basketball. Being a GM, you come in from scratch. You put a team together. You put all the right pieces in the right place and you just watch it grow. You know, you learn each and every day about yourself. And when I'm working with a product or people that I really enjoy working with, it's just an awesome thing seeing it come together from scratch.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Products for people of color because our skin is just naturally different. And this first product was the razor. And it's funny because he's like, you know, do you use a razor? He knew my answer. No, I don't use a razor. You know I use clippers because we don't use razors because the way our hair grows in our skin is curly and more coarse. So the way our hair grows, when we do shade, we get razors.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, Tristan, um, Very unique in the world he's come from, and he's done it before, he's been successful before, so he knows how it works. But his story was very compelling to me. And I've seen it firsthand. You know, we travel a lot, and sometimes you forget your toiletry bag. So whenever we go to Walgreens or CVS, we need the things we need for grooming. And we going down, it's always the same aisle. It's always the same bottom shelf and it's always... Much space of our products, and you got to filter through what you need, or you got to concoct some things together to make it work. So I've seen firsthand his pain. So he came up with this idea of”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that's very tricky. Tricky because Athletes and entertainers want to work with tech companies has become a vanity plate where it's the cool thing to do. Lot of people don't understand what goes into that. They just say, oh, it's cool. So I'm going to get into it. Well, next year you may not know. It may not be cool anymore. So I think for tech companies, they have to know who they're involved in themselves with. And I also think Just like they vet VCs on who they take money from, you got to do the same thing with who you involve yourself with from entertainment or athlete standpoint and those same things flow in both worlds.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How do I affect their Group of consumers and vice versa, they bring their side to the basketball side, which is becoming a global sport. And I think it's number two in the world and it's moving up closer on soccer globally.”
2015-12-18 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Want to do it differently than we've seen before, and as you've seen each generation, you've seen athletes. The way they do their marketing has become the cookie cutter deals as of late and I wanted to get away from that. Everyone kind of wants to model themselves after how Michael Jordan did it. Michael Jordan kind of changed the landscape of how athletes market themselves. You get paid, you pitch your product, you get a commercial, and that's pretty much the extent of it. You may get lucky like Michael Jordan to have your own shoe line with Nike, which turns into $2 billion per year in sales, but that's just one guy. So for me, I want to do differently. I wanted to, how can I take my brand and implement that into the business system and vice versa? You know, their brand helping my brand, my brand helping their brand, you know”
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“Having a lot of time in your hands at 23 24, it's easy to fill that time up. There's plenty of bad things. But as you get older, you mature a little bit. And then being in this space that I am now, I find myself having time to have immense amount of information to take in to learn, and then to try to incorporate my brand into.”
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“Yes. But that's been the fun part. When I first came into this league, we have a Ricky Transition program. It's called RTP where all the rookies come in and they give you these scary statistics, the average career being bay players, 5.4 years. I think it is. So you're not even guaranteed to make it out your rookie contract. And then the sad truth is most guys have spent all their money after the rookie contract because they think there's another after. So they're trying to prepare you for life after basketball. Coming here was really something that. Was thinking about life after basketball, and this would be the perfect place to kind of make that transition. So you learn at that program you're going to have a lot of time on your hands.”
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“Well, I sat down with my financial advisor, my business manager, and we talk about first things that interest me because it has to be something I have a passion for or liking too that's organic. I don't want to do anything that doesn't fit who I am. And then we look at the benefits and do our homework. And as you've seen, Rudy and myself have been doing a lot of work over the past couple years, just trying to get our feet wet. And now that we're kind of up to our ankles, we feel like we can dive in and take on some more responsibilities. But it's been a lot of fun. Just looking for that challenge and enjoying seeing how I can play a part in business development.”
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“Thank you so much Said, I'd love to see you start this year. So you've talked a lot about this, but one of the factors for you coming to California was and thinking about post-career and interest in technology. So you really dived in and tried to immerse yourself in technology. How do you decide what to get involved in? How did you work on your initial approach?”
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