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Old November 4th, 2010, 05:37 PM   #8 (permalink)
allen st. john
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What's more important to being a "good" player?
Practice.
What's more important to being a "great" player?
Talent.

Change it to sports. To get to a point in basketball where you can shoot baskets consistently and dribble effectively, there's no substitute for practice.

But no matter how much I practice and how much I improve, I'm never going to be Michael Jordan. I'm going to reach a point where I'm just not getting any better. (I did something pretty close to that in tennis, actually.)

That's what the NBA Dev league and AAA baseball is, a bunch of guys who reached the ceiling of their talent. (Mixed in with some talented guys who weren't willing to work hard enough.)

Talent or practice? You need both.
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