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#135 Basketball Athleticism with Eric Leidersdorf & Evan Zaucha

Thinking Basketball

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Cognitive Load in the Play Offs

Cognitive load is a capacity to handle all these different components, both athleticism and cognition at once. The bigger your capacity this cognitive load means you can handle more of thos previous things. And then there's the novelty, which is taking in new things that you don't have that familiarity with and integrating them. In the play offs though, like every thing has to be perfect to a t - if any of those plates drop, there's going to be a breakdown or points are going to be scored because of it. I think i made the example of chasing steff curry around. I think this is actually one where, sort of, league wide, against 90 something per cent of

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