Big Data and Sport: What Can We Predict? 

Broke the NBA it will be Wembanyama ... you 💯 will see and he is big, just like you saying it's haven't relationship with

Life would be pretty boring if we only pursued shit we were ideally inclined for based on algorithms. Also saying all the big themes have been studied shows a lack of imagination. If Mozart or Beethoven thought Bach already did everything there was to be done...

the answer is obviously that being successful at professional basketball is merely a social construct and race has absolutely nothing to do with it. The only reason Eskimo women don't dominate the NBA is just because of the relentless sexist and racist discrimination they experience throughout their lives telling them they can't be professional basketball players.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, you're wrong about big guys and shooting, and also hand-size and shooting. Plenty of huge guys can shoot free throws and field goals: Yao Ming (over 80% FT, good FG shooter, 7'6" monster), Jokic, Embiid, Brook Lopez, KAT, etc. And Kawaii Leonard has huge hands, and is also a great shooter from everywhere. Michael Jordan too; he was good, could have been great at FT with better technique. The hand-size correlation with bad shooting is a red herring, a correlation not linked to causation thing. If it were true, then normal-sized adults like you and me would have an inability to shoot a small basketball (a womens ball or kids ball) because of our relatively huge hands compared to the ball; there's no evidence for that. It's like how baseball pitchers can't hit: it's not because they are all this or that size, it's because they weren't selected for good hitting, and hitting is a specific set of skills that are hard to develop. If you find some measurement of this or that about baseball pitcherst to explain their ineptitude at the plate, it's likely wrong: it's all about the technique and practice. What determines basketball shooting ability is always shooting technique plus the amount of time and concentration practicing good technique. Wilt Chamberlain had god-awful shooting technique, as did Shaq, Bill Russell, Dwight Howard, and all other bad shooters (yes, it's virtually 100% of them). Smaller guys who can't shoot at all, like Ben Simmons, also have terrible shooting technique: he doesn't use his lower body, has a flat-arc arm throw for his shot, which makes the hoop smaller, and the arm-only motion leads to an inability to do fine distance control. Even if Simmons could aim straight, he wouldn't likely be a good shooter, no matter how much he practices, because his ball trajectory has a smaller hoop opening. Do yourself a favor and watch ALL 90%+ FT shooters and 40%+ 3-point shooters. You'll find that all of them have a very similar, near-perfect stroke from the feet up, and are within a tight range of shooting arc, and a release very near their eyes for good aim. They also practice it a ton and have great concentration when shooting, and great FT shooters also have very quiet routines and only move body parts that are necessary (no swaying, big knee bends, etc.). The best FT shooter of them all has the best stroke of them all: Elena Delle-Donne. All good FT shooters use a derivative of her near-perfect stroke and routine, with slight differences that reduce their % compared to her. It's much like how great golf iron and wood players all have very similar technically-pure swings, from the feet up. They have some unique superficial differences, but the fundamentals are all very similar. The same with great snipers.

Personally I hate baseball, and the Fascist people involved.