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Thinking Basketball

#87: Draft grades & Black swans with J. Kyle Mann

Thinking Basketball

Thinking Basketball

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4.9897 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's J. Kyle Mann joins me for a wild discussion on player development and grading draft picks. We revisit 2016's top 10 picks, discuss the idea of the Black Swan fallacy in player development, the inverted black swan, developing ball skills in infants and more! Get $200 off Sports Business classroom with the promo code Thinking Basketball at www.sportsbusiness.classroom.com for this year's session in Las Vegas (August 9-14). Support directly at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0

I have never heard the term deep ass dive.

0:03.0

It does kind of suggest a saucy, maybe a risque nature, perhaps. I don't know. I don't know if this part's on the pot.

0:13.4

It does. Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back to yet another episode. Our first

0:28.0

off-season episode, although it doesn't feel like the off-season still because of the rumor mill and the trade season

0:36.9

free agency and Russell Westbrook plays for the Lakers and I can't figure out

0:41.6

what's going on and then of course there's a draft.

0:44.1

So to help hold my hand and walk me through it all, my unofficial therapist, the film, the film

0:54.5

film aficionado of the ringer

0:57.9

YouTube legend dime drop the one and only jay Kyle man

1:02.3

what an intro man that was uh I feel like I mean you're

1:06.9

debt for that you really went above and beyond with your your adjectives and

1:10.8

calling me your therapist.

1:12.6

I don't know where it came from.

1:13.6

It just came out of me.

1:15.0

I've heard that one before.

1:17.2

I, um, you, uh, you said something that, that, that is interesting to me.

1:24.0

Did you have this moment after the finals were over?

1:27.6

It took me a minute to like really actualize

1:30.1

that the NBA season was over.

1:32.3

Like it took me like a few days where I was like,

1:34.6

wait a minute.

1:35.3

It was almost like, like going through some kind of,

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