Early in his career, Geoffrey Katsuhisa had the ideal mentor.
Longtime NBA bench boss Bob Hill gave Katsuhisa invaluable advice and showed him the ins and outs of leading a pro basketball team. This occurred in the 2010-11 bj-league season, when Hill served as the now-defunct Tokyo Apache's head coach and Katsuhisa worked as team manager and Hill's translator.
Looking back on that experience years later, Katsuhisa, now 36, recognizes how significant it was to observe Hill on a daily basis, putting in the work to get his team prepared for its next practice, its next game, its next timeout.