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It's all about having good competent people who are good at what they do - especially at the top of the organization.
Leonard is no superstar. He does the basics well.
He doesn't do electrifying dunks... or shake 3 people off the dribble. He works within the system. He does the basics and little things well because he was taught to do so for the role he is playing on the team.
Look at the play in the video in the article - follow your shot, clear path to the basket. You don't need LeBron James talent to make that play.
I'm fortunate enough to have a team (Pacers) that usually drafts well and makes good decisions. The downside is that they're rarely bad enough to have much chance of getting an elite player in the draft. And being a cold climate and a small market team it's hard to attract major free agents. So they're usually stuck somewhere between mediocre and a marginal contender. Only twice in my life I thought we were one of the top contenders. The first time we ran up against a prime Shaq in the finals and lost, the second time someone threw a beer on Ron Artest and that put an end to that.
I'm fortunate enough to have a team (Pacers) that usually drafts well and makes good decisions. The downside is that they're rarely bad enough to have much chance of getting an elite player in the draft. And being a cold climate and a small market team it's hard to attract major free agents. So they're usually stuck somewhere between mediocre and a marginal contender. Only twice in my life I thought we were one of the top contenders. The first time we ran up against a prime Shaq in the finals and lost, the second time someone threw a beer on Ron Artest and that put an end to that.
Yeah...it's kind of like in football (soccer) in that the best players aren't really the best players necessarily, they had the right circumstances and the right people around them at the right time...
Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo transferred from Sporting to Man Utd...and went on to dominate the sport. Chicharicho as well...but I'm sure if you go to Portugal or Mexico you'd find hundreds of just as talented players...
It's the team that makes the player in most instances. The Spurs are the NBA example...
You could tear the Spurs apart, have them draft 10 other guys, give them 5 years, and they'd still be doing what they're doing today, as long as you kept that system in place.
I mean, if you're talented enough to play professional sports, then you're talented period. It's how that talent gets actualized that makes the difference.
I was thinking about this earlier...and it's the same way with kids that go to Harvard or Yale. If you're in Harvard, you know you're smart...but you know everyone else is just as smart if not smarter than you are. Those that thrive in those environments, I'm guessing, aren't particularly smarter than their peers. There's something else at play that gradiates them.
Looks like the spurs made out in the Trade, Geroge Hill for Kawhi Leonard.
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