Tasmania JackJumpers coach Scott Roth was a full-blown celebrity at Exeter Primary School greeted with a guard of honour before being grilled in a question-and-answer session with students
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00:00Who is your best overall player?
00:04Uh, the best overall player for the Jackjumpers, or...
00:08Jackjumpers.
00:10laughter
00:14That one's like a hundred out of a hundred.
00:16Everybody will ask, who's your favorite player, or so-and-so.
00:18And I will say this very sincerely,
00:20I love all of our guys.
00:22I mean, I just do. I think they're just wonderful human beings.
00:24We really pride ourselves on the Jackjumpers
00:26for having high character guys.
00:28We have guys that, you know,
00:30are just selfless,
00:32and I just love them to death.
00:34There's a few favorites here and there,
00:36but I think more importantly,
00:38we just have really good guys.
00:40The one that comes to mind that everyone, I think,
00:42has really kind of fallen in love with,
00:44and unfortunately he didn't play for us this year,
00:46was Jack McVeigh.
00:48And Jack McVeigh
00:50is a wonderful human being,
00:52but his story is really what I love.
00:54Kind of just coming from nowhere,
00:56and dreaming about playing for the Bloomers,
00:58and making that, and dreaming about playing for the NJ,
01:00and doing that,
01:02and dreaming about winning a championship with Tasmania,
01:04and he does that.
01:06That story is very relative
01:08to how we approach our days
01:10with the Jackjumpers
01:12and the work that our guys do.
01:14What's your favorite thing about being a coach?
01:16My favorite thing about being a coach
01:18is doing this.
01:20I'm able, really, to come around
01:22and hopefully inspire
01:24and impact our players off the floor.
01:26On the floor, I'm with them,
01:28but impacting the players off the floor
01:30and their families,
01:32getting them better, hopefully making them more money,
01:34hopefully having more success,
01:36being a mentor to them,
01:38and then also traveling around Tasmania
01:40or wherever I've been around the world
01:42to have a chance to talk with young kids
01:44and hopefully inspire you to be better
01:46and think about your future
01:48and what's next for you,
01:50and those are the things that really motivate me.
01:52My goal for my coaching career
01:54is really, hopefully, just to inspire,
01:56again, like I said before,
01:58the players and my staff
02:00and getting them better jobs
02:02and just be there for them
02:04and ultimately
02:06to leave a legacy of just helping people.
02:08I don't see myself as a coach
02:10when I get up in the morning.
02:12I see myself more as a leader
02:14or a mentor, and so I don't really think about
02:16I'm a basketball coach this morning
02:18and that's what I do.
02:20Being a good person and helping people.