Only one person worked on scouting in Athens, the veteran N.B.A. assistant Dave Hanners, who was the video coordinator.
He described a coach who works on scouting reports until 3 a.m. yet smiles the next morning, a smile that seemed banished at Nebraska.
There's jokes every now and then, but I'm trying to be the same person in the locker room that I was when I was a backup and working on the scout team.
The younger Mr. Dossot figures his brother owed him one, though: When George Dossot was working on his Eagle Scout project some years ago, he prevailed upon his younger brother to help him create a vegetable garden that would provide produce to a homeless shelter in Hartford.
An exception was when Jacob was working on a Boy Scout merit badge that required him to talk to someone who had been to the Olympics.
McDemott has always liked reptiles, but got into working in aquariums partly as "atonement" for keeping a Chinese water dragon in a too-small cage while he was a child working on a Boy Scout merit badge.
With Arsenal Almstadt worked on technical scouting, data analytics, financial budgeting and contract management.
The Canadians and the CIA eventually came up with a cover to get them out of the country – issuing them with new identities and dressing them up as location scouts working on a science fiction film with a middle-eastern theme.
His plan was to travel to Tehran and pretend to be part of a location scouting team working on a science fiction movie.
