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Originally Posted by Banzai-
Because the avg/below avg player plays basketball better than he did. Just like Akani Simbine (dude noone's ever heard of who came 5th at Rio in the 100m) is provably a better sprinter than Jesse Owens was. Call it "stupid" all you want, it's still true.
he's faster, but can still argue he's not a better sprinter than Owens. you need to consider environment; Simbine benefited from all sorts of things like better training techniques, nutrition, coaching, etc that Owens didn't have access to. you need to control for environment which is why comparing to peers is the only way to really do it.
if you consider the time machine scenario, and transport a 1 day old Jesse Owens to 1995 where he is raised by some middle class family near a major city he probably ends up faster than Simbine. I doubt on a pure 'nature' basis our DNA has changed that much over the last century, but environment has.
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