It can work the other way too though. The very best players often make terrible coaches/GMs because they assume some subtle traits that always felt natural to them, could also be taught to players who otherwise lack that skill. But that is often difficult for a lot of reasons.

He also owns an Australian team doesnt he? Scouted isnt out of his jurisdiction. Hes also a PG. I would expect most ball handlers to know what really matches their skillset and to identify it with other players.

Nuance on my r/nba? Never!

Sounds like some of the engineers I work with lmao

I once interacted with someone who made me call them doctor because of their PHD and then had to explain not only how to attach something to an email but how to navigate their inbox and send one.

Watching LeBron on bob does sports showed this to me. Talking about how his wife was so smart for asking for no salt on fries.

I thought LeBron James was 10x smarter than that, but apparently that’s just basketball and madden smarts.

I read a textbook this year Called ‘Read and React’ by Rick Torbett, who invented the system - he has an interesting sentence in it that stuck with me - ‘as a coach you’re smarter than your players over a large time span, but moment to moment your players can be smarter than you’.

Goku is dumb in all facets of life besides fighting

To be an elite athlete in any sport requires you to have a certain type of intelligence. There’s so much information to retain and decisions need to be made incredibly fast.

Tom Brady, everyone.

The Arenas special.

Lmao. He is an extreme case but this applies to everyone when as they grow up and specialize in their career, hobbies etc…

Plenty of people understand that.

See Ben Carson

I think most people understand that

The Ben Carson special

Dumb people don’t understand a lot, but that’s a premise I think even dumb people get.

All his skill points used up on ball.

Always love when someone calls LaMelo dumb while they are making 40k/yr working an office job and LaMelo is making 40 million a year.

It’s hard for the Reddit crowd to understand that just being a human calculator doesn’t make you smart. emotional intelligence, ability to withstand pressure, ability to execute physical training programs, pattern recognition in basketball etc. are all traits that make LaMelo ball extremely intelligent.

Reddit just cant stand that a guy who talks funny and lives recklessly is smarter and more successful than them.

It’s like when they say Trump is dumb. Trump became the most powerful man in the world twice, he is no dumb man.

College student might be a stretch. Man seems as dumb as a middle schooler

i think an nba reddit user wouldn’t do what Nico done so idk

I trust myself first still.

Gladwell tells us this is good process

This is hilariously accurate lmao

That Boy Nice as a drafting strategy isn’t the worst idea

All scouting is ultimately about the vibes.

He’s like a Claude agent that has reasoning set to MAXIMUM so u know the response is going to be correct but the output is set to “caveman” to save on tokens 

“Listen man he’s got mad aura when choosing his shot and just peak Hoop-maxxing rizz for the team and he’ll be a real low cortisol guy in the locker room, you know what I mean Jeff?”

And he would be right 

“Sincerely, Gang gang”

The anxiety of a fanbase when it’s announced that LaMelo Ball will be the new VP of Basketball Operations would be worth it in itself

I mean he didn’t do any real school, only basketball like his whole life. With how much analytics being used in sports even at youth level now, we probably eventually end up with some retired player crazy good st basketball analytics who can’t do normal math lol.

We eventually going to basically engineer a basketball idiot savant with how top prospects “finish high school.” If we haven’t already done it with Lamelo! Lol

Elections being decided in a steel cage or tables, ladders and chairs match would be just as legitimate as what we currently have I guess

am i crazy for voting lamelo in this hypothetical?

So you’re saying we have hope for improvement in the White House?

Scoot just had mad PR going for him, not dissimilar to Lamelo, even prior to his final season before entering the draft. The pick literally never made sense for us despite whatever he was projected to be because we had Lamelo tho lol. Take the 6’9” wing to put beside him. KISS

I remember that scoot vs wemby game and both prospects looked like future stars

Wasn’t it Miller that ESPN tried to tank his draft stock with some weapons possession/shooting that ended up being cleared out in court months ago?

Everyone said we would be dumb if we passed on Scoot and he would go No 1 if Wemby wasn’t in this draft. And he would go no 1 in the future draft. Miller only became rated higher in mock drafts when they heard Hornets might take him at 2

No he is saying he is a real lunchpail kind of guy

Pretty sure it means he’s the first person to dive on the floor when there’s a loose ball