re: Phil Jackson: "LeBron needs to takeover like Michael did"

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And a whole lot of other stuff as well, some are things these players can't even control.

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Sure. We don't know how much of X player's performance is due to genetics, childhood development, personal dedication in what distribution.

And even personality. I think a lot of Jordan's pathological competitiveness was involuntary and ingrained in him, has a lot to do with father issues. That's a pretty reasonable and common observation, but again can't be quantified or proven. If these things could be sports would be boring, athletes would be robots, and message boards like this wouldn't exist. Though great advances have been made, it's a delusion of futurism to think we live in that world or are even close to it.

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And a whole lot of other stuff as well

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I'm really not sure what they are arguing now. MJ > LeBron because he was better than LeBron. There are a number of variables that contributes to the quality of a player, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what the exact combination is if determining the quality.

It's just one big regression equation. BUT there is a reason we have predictive/explanatory variables and an OUTCOME variable. We are trying to figure out the OUTCOME because it is what we value.

BUT WE HAVE THE OUTCOME,