Frank说,如果不是一系列的偶然因素,林书豪还会呆在板凳上的。他也提到我前些天写过的奥克兰棒球队用科学方法选球员的故事(“争先进就不该学先进”这篇文章很值得一读)不过认为“坏人”不是俱乐部主人,而是那些职业“寻宝”的专门到二流球队选球员的那些人。“None of the people paid to envision, could envision.”
Frank的这一段话也很好:“But, in counterpoint, what is so dispiriting is to contemplate not only
how many basketball players, but how many other athletes, how many
artists and actors and musicians and writers, how many special creative
talents never get fulfilled because the so-called experts are always
looking in the same places.”他说,不单单是运动员,还有艺术家,音乐家,作家,以及许多类似的靠特殊技能吃饭的人才都可能因为“伯乐”看错了地方而被埋没了。