No, the "6 rings" argument shows that people are sheep....

....unable or unwilling to think critically and form conclusions independently.

How so? Because the following two statements cannot be denied:
(a) team accomplishments are a comically terrible way to evaluate individual players
(b) the notion that team accomplishments are not only an unterrible way to evaluate individual players, but literally the definitive way of evaluating them. Why this idea has gained widespread acceptance is a slighlty separate question, but the answer is essentially a restatement of point #1.

Which is that conventional wisdom can become accepted wisdom -- and will in fact nearly always do so -- in the absence of individuals willing and able to critically analyze whether the correct answer is different from the "conventional wisdom" and to what extent.

Because people, the sheep that they are -- and if you are reading this, do understand that you probably fall into this category yourself -- don't apply such critcally independent analysis which is the prerequisite for calling out nonsense as nonsense.

You know, like:
(1) team accomplishments are an appropriate way to rate individual players, or
(2) defense wins championships, or
[insert silly "conventional wisdom mistruths here]


I say that the only excuse for not being able ot formulate independent thoughts is being too stupid to do so. And even then, go down trying...it's better than than being a....