Barry was never embraced by his fellow players. The same mind set that can lead someone to do something bad, like a ten anger driving drunk with very little encouragement, can also lead to brave or innovated behavior if you have a threshold of zero. Barry's been out of the game for more than 30 years but just talking about basket ball made him tense. There a right way to play the game, and when people didn't play it the right way, it drove him crazy.
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst foul shooters in basketball—even though he had tried a better alternative. Why do smart people do dumb things?
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