Those are good contribution and help to paint a nicely balanced veiw, as well as more to think about. People with a knack for something special, to expand on Dylan’s comment, can’t always explain it. Having experienced the frustration of games that are luck dependent, I think there is definitely more than luck going on with Beilein’s recruiting. So anyways, thanks for plenty of food for thought.

• Shane Larkin (Orlando, Fla./Dr. Phillips) is a scoring point guard who can make jumper on stationary and off the bounce. His range extends to the 3-point line. Larkin is son of former baseball great Barry Larkin.

People that are exceptionally good at what they do often times tend to attribute their successes to luck rather than their own abilities as well…

Yes, Beilein did also say that Evan took an unofficial to AA and he met him before he committed. I asked JB about Evan while he was in the process of blowing up, and I think JB was just a little suprised at how quickly Evan went from being a no-name to a big recruit. He was talking about Evan with the type of smile on his face people have when they get really lucky and realize that they have gotten really lucky.

Also, Jb said he’s being recruited for the 3-4 position. He said he liked what Novak brought to the team as a 4 last year, but because of his size he got bullied on defense, so he’s hoping Evan will be like a taller version of Zach.

I’m sure he actually falls somewhere in between. I’m just happy we got Smot. It sounds like he could be better than Lubick and Regan when it’s all said and done.

“It’s a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. Well, “Blink” is a book about those two seconds, because I think those instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really important and, occasionally, really good.

You could also say that it’s a book about intuition, except that I don’t like that word. In fact it never appears in “Blink.” Intuition strikes me as a concept we use to describe emotional reactions, gut feelings–thoughts and impressions that don’t seem entirely rational. But I think that what goes on in that first two seconds is perfectly rational. It’s thinking–its just thinking that moves a little faster and operates a little more mysteriously than the kind of deliberate, conscious decision-making that we usually associate with “thinking.” In “Blink” I’m trying to understand those two seconds. What is going on inside our heads when we engage in rapid cognition? When are snap judgments good and when are they not? What kinds of things can we do to make our powers of rapid cognition better?”
http://www.gladwell.com/blink/index.html