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Topic	You can Matrix-learn 1 skill to world-class level: Basketball or Chess
ArchNemo 01/28/23 10:56:56 AM #11:	King_Rial posted... No team is picking up a 40~ year old, regardless of their skill level. Jamal Crawford was 38 years old when he played his last full game. Scored 51 points. Even as a role player and a great veteran bench player, he couldn't get on anywhere. Brooklyn gave him 5 minutes in 1 game and his career was done. And that's someone with a bunch of career highlights to back it up. Do you think they are giving a shot to a 6'1" damn near 40 year old? It doesn't matter how well I could play. They have no reference to go on for so many other things. How well I would hold up to a 82 game season is the first one. A guy that played not a single game of basketball at any camp, junior high, highschool, or college anywhere? It's not like the NBA hold Open Tryouts or anything. Not anymore at least. So you have no real way of even showing people what you can do in a 5 on 5. First you'd have to film yourself playing pickup games, then get in a rec crew. But that's never gonna lead an old man into the NBA. The best I could do is win stuff like TBT. If you can find a good group that would take you. But not a single team in the NBA would pick up that guy. I mean, we're talking about a magical situation where you wake up and can play like the greatest player on Earth. You wouldn't be playing like someone who is good for 40, you'd be playing like someone who plays like the greatest players on Earth in their prime (at least in the scenario I'm picturing when I said it depends) Granted, there's still a possibility you'd never be noticed, but in the age of social media and viral videos it's entirely possible. If a team could get a player at that level for a fraction of the cost it would take to hire a well known player at that level, why wouldn't they? Assuming you ever get noticed, which would be the hitch. In this already impossible situation, I don't think it's unrealistic to assume that a team would give a bare minimum contract to a player they wouldn't have to develop who already has GOAT skills. --- Down with the Signess. <cite>ArchNemo posted [p:971154393] in You can Ma... [t:80327472]...</cite> <quote>King_Rial posted... </cite><quote>No team is picking up a 40~ year old, regardless of their skill level. Jamal Crawford was 38 years old when he played his last full game. Scored 51 points. Even as a role player and a great veteran bench player, he couldn't get on anywhere. Brooklyn gave him 5 minutes in 1 game and his career was done. And that's someone with a bunch of career highlights to back it up.Do you think they are giving a shot to a 6'1" damn near 40 year old? It doesn't matter how well I could play. They have no reference to go on for so many other things. How well I would hold up to a 82 game season is the first one. A guy that played not a single game of basketball at any camp, junior high, highschool, or college anywhere? It's not like the NBA hold Open Tryouts or anything. Not anymore at least. So you have no real way of even showing people what you can do in a 5 on 5. First you'd have to film yourself playing pickup games, then get in a rec crew. But that's never gonna lead an old man into the NBA. The best I could do is win stuff like TBT. If you can find a good group that would take you.But not a single team in the NBA would pick up that guy.</quote>I mean, we're talking about a magical situation where you wake up and can play like the greatest player on Earth. You wouldn't be playing like someone who is good for 40, you'd be playing like someone who plays like the greatest players on Earth in their prime (at least in the scenario I'm picturing when I said it depends)Granted, there's still a possibility you'd never be noticed, but in the age of social media and viral videos it's entirely possible.If a team could get a player at that level for a fraction of the cost it would take to hire a well known player at that level, why wouldn't they? Assuming you ever get noticed, which would be the hitch.In this already impossible situation, I don't think it's unrealistic to assume that a team would give a bare minimum contract to a player they wouldn't have to develop who already has GOAT skills. --- Down with the Signess.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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