Jared Budd joins us for Episode 3 of On Guard For Three.

Jared is a former NBIAA All-Star at Riverview High School, 2nd team All-Star at the U-17 National Championship, Defensive Player of the Year at both Acadia and UPEI, & an MVP at St. Thomas as a senior

Jared has coached Junior Varsity & Senior boys, as well as Basketball New Brunswick’s U-16 team, and he is currently the Senior Girls coach at Harrison Trimble High School, as well as a coach with Sweat Academy off season development camp.

We make the odd decision to plug OTHER podcasts and basketball writers we enjoy (3:00),
how immersing ourselves in the game the way we do affects coaching (10:00),
my favourite Jared Budd move (18:00), the “win by seven” games he played with his older brother (21:00), the quality of basketball in Nova Scotia versus NB (22:30),

Jared and Brock have some issues with new rules governing local leagues (29:30), coaching girls versus boys (36:30) and bringing out toughness in players in general.

The funniest coach Jared ever had (41:00), when Jared fell in love with the game (48:00), the sad…SAD state of his Knicks-fandom (51:00)

We address the Masai to Knicks rumours, (58:00), the NBA trade deadline (67:00), and, given the fact that the deadline is now passed, feel free to laugh at our bold deadline predictions (83:00)