NBA Defenses - Changing the Game

[triplehate]

Becoming a great post player takes a lot of work, and the skills needed to become one are difficult to learn, plus it's a lot of repetition, coaching and failing needed to be nice there. Nevermind you have to rely on someone else to get you the ball, It's just easier to have a kid rebound and catch alley oops on the AAU circuit than it is to teach the guards to be unselfish and feed the post.

@mastermind and I have a theory also, strong father figures result in strong low post players, hence John Thompson churning out big man after big man for Georgetown.

Shaq
Duncan
Ewing
Kareem
Wilt
Robinson


All had active fathers in their lives that weren't about to let their sons play like some bytches. Shaq always tells the story about how his pops took him to a Hawks game and told him how much Jon Koncak was making when Shaq was trying to be like Magic Johnson in HS.

I got a similar theory I'm working on that great shooters come from two parent households. You won't become a great shooter by just going to the park, but having somebody toss you the ball and going thru shooting drills daily is a different level.



Before people come in with their exceptions just a theory

 

[mastermind]

Becoming a great post player takes a lot of work, and the skills needed to become one are difficult to learn, plus it's a lot of repetition, coaching and failing needed to be nice there. Nevermind you have to rely on someone else to get you the ball, It's just easier to have a kid rebound and catch alley oops on the AAU circuit than it is to teach the guards to be unselfish and feed the post.

@mastermind and I have a theory also, strong father figures result in strong low post players, hence John Thompson churning out big man after big man for Georgetown.

Shaq
Duncan
Ewing
Kareem
Wilt
Robinson


All had active fathers in their lives that weren't about to let their sons play like some bytches. Shaq always tells the story about how his pops took him to a Hawks game and told him how much Jon Koncak was making when Shaq was trying to be like Magic Johnson in HS.

All of this.

That Magic/Koncack/Shaq point also goes back to my other theory on Magic Johnson contributing to the destruction of the back to the basket player in America.