James Kerti

I’ve relaunched a basketball scouting website!

A couple years ago I closed the doors on my old website HoopsThink and archived the content on my personal blog here.

I had stepped away from active involvement with college and NBA teams and needed a break.

But I didn’t stay all the way away.

I began teaching Digital Video Editing with Synergy Sports class for Sports Management Worldwide. And I’ve enjoyed the teaching, the mentoring, the conversations.

I had been thinking for a bit about setting up another basketball website.

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What’s true on a Monday morning in the middle of the longest December of our lives?

There’s a lot of stuff that’s hard right now.

I’ve thought a lot lately about the contradiction in difficult emotions and in struggle.

They convince us that we’re alone. But they’re one of the few things we share with everyone else.

Everyone struggles with difficult emotions sometimes. Everyone feels hurt sometimes.

Yet when we’re feeling that way, we so often become convinced we’re the only ones in that place.

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I remember when I discovered I could write.

Really write.

In college at Villanova, I didn’t bring much enthusiasm to my coursework. Basketball? Yes. Classes? Not so much, especially any not related to my computer science major.

My freshman year humanities class, taught by a middle aged priest with penchants for smoking cigarettes and chasing away squirrels, covered several standard classics. I recall Plato’s Cave and Shakespeare’s Othello.

This professor had a reputation for tough grades. Word filtered to my classmates and I that no one ever scored better than a B on the first assignment or two, and that an A was the rarest achievement at any point during his classes.

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