
#135 Basketball Athleticism with Eric Leidersdorf & Evan Zaucha
Thinking Basketball
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Pattern Recognition in Athletic Decisions
When you can chunk all those inputs together in a way, you're almost like parallel processing them all. Bill russell has been said to have the same thing, where you can go and re enact a bunch of plays. And usually that comes from pattern recognition. You also see this with great passers, with luga danchich manipulating the pick and roll. Ah, i've seen this before i know exactly what's happening. If this guy goes here, i can do a. If he goes there, I can do b yen. So another kind of like player who seemed to be really strong at pattern recognition used that defensively.
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