This is a bit of a rabbit hole, but what the hay...
We base every decision we make on information. There are two kinds of information:
1. Our direct sensory perception / our direct experience. This is what we know.
2. information relayed from other sources. This is what we believe...
I certainly agree that what is going on with the revenue sports in college athletics is a reflection of a broader social context. Trickle down Globalism.
The rise of the AAU culture certainly engendered the values of self-promotion. I think it represents a big step towards where we are now.
I think the FBI investigation into the AAU-shoe company-college axis shook-up that culture and I wonder if the same money that ran through there is still there.
Player mobility must reflect a mindset that places no value on rootedness/affiliation/kinship.
Fans of the previous generations can't relate to this mindset, and they lament.
Is there a generation coming up behind us that finds this all exciting, or do all fans think this sucks? Just when...
I don't think the players have changed that much. They have bulked-up. Otherwise I don't see a huge difference on the court.
The game has changed some. The game has spread out with a much greater emphasis on perimeter jump shooting. The officiating is much more permissive of "creative" ball...
The games are still interesting to watch. I still enjoy the contests, especially the conference games.
Following the "off season" is different. The "watching the sausage get made" analogy becomes more applicable as time goes by. I think it is actually worse in football right now.
I wonder...
aT 6'9" ~215, the issue with Baye is what position can he defend in the NBA? He looks to me to have a lot of offensive up-side. I don't know about his defense. Is he a tweener?
I think a similar story was written for Moses Wright. He could score in the NBA, the issue is, I guess, that he...
Mock drafts don't represent the opinions of teams. Each NBA franchise has their own independent scouting personnel and a GM that is going to make final decisions. Any player has to impress only one team to make hay. Then guys might take a shot at being a free agent and land on a developmental...
So much of draft position is determined by the upcoming work-outs. think what Josh Okogie did for himself with team workouts.
That fact alone makes prediction impossible because teams won't even rank a guy until they put them through work-outs.
At the core of it is a relationship that exists between the concepts of "rootedness" as a psychological state and "team" as a functional body.
In my mind, winning in basketball is not so much a mere summation of production of individual players. It really is a team game.
If a player is...
There is the old football scouting adage that "hurt players get hurt." The circular reasoning means that if injured players can't help you and you want to avoid them, then injuries may be a red flag. .
I think we can apply parallel reasoning to the transfers: "Players in the portal...
It seems to me with the recent development of extreme roster volatility that talent retention may emerge as the single greatest key to high level winning in the game currently.
The post season disappointments of both Duke and Kentucky, programs that have cornered the market on 5* high school...
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