Episode 142: Tyler Thornton, Director of Player Development and Assistant Coach, Howard University

Tyler Thorton is the Assistant Coach and Player Development Coach at Howard University, Coach Tyler Thornton. Coach Thornton is a young coach in the industry, following his stellar playing career at Duke University, he would play a few years in the CBA as well as time in Nova Scotia and Finland professionally. His coaching career would start at Marquette where he would be a graduate assistant and would lead him into where he is now at Howard University. In this episode we learn about some of the unique things he has taken away while playing for Coach K at Duke, some common duties as a Player Development coach at Howard as well as some best practices to help develop the modern day bigs.