spursfaninla
05-26-2012, 01:18 PM
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/43584/the-unthinking-brilliance-of-tim-duncan
Very creative article with some interesting research basis.
Basically, years of experience lead to an accumulated store of unconscious knowledge that the best players tap to then make good, creative decisions. The article considers a critical play that happened in a championship match with Federer:
"Perhaps Federer was so upset because, deep down, he recognised that his opponent had tapped into a resource that he, an all-time great, is finding harder to reach: unthinking.
Unthinking is the ability to apply years of learning at the crucial moment by removing your thinking self from the equation."
The article also quotes Griffin, who said that TD makes great decisions without over-thinking. The author says that thinking too much, trying to consider too much data consciously when making a key decision that must be made quickly is too hard; you have to rely on a store of unconscious past data instead. The best don't freeze, they react automatically in those situations.
Like TD.
Very creative article with some interesting research basis.
Basically, years of experience lead to an accumulated store of unconscious knowledge that the best players tap to then make good, creative decisions. The article considers a critical play that happened in a championship match with Federer:
"Perhaps Federer was so upset because, deep down, he recognised that his opponent had tapped into a resource that he, an all-time great, is finding harder to reach: unthinking.
Unthinking is the ability to apply years of learning at the crucial moment by removing your thinking self from the equation."
The article also quotes Griffin, who said that TD makes great decisions without over-thinking. The author says that thinking too much, trying to consider too much data consciously when making a key decision that must be made quickly is too hard; you have to rely on a store of unconscious past data instead. The best don't freeze, they react automatically in those situations.
Like TD.