Tyler Cowen: belief

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…I think it has to do with just lotto fever. People want as much as they can get for as little effort. A three-point shot is worth 50 percent more than a shot from inside the three-point arc. There can be a strategy that says if you got people that can make those shots, it’s going to work to your advantage. You gave some instruction to Joakim Noah over the last year. He’s injured right now, I believe. Did you try to suggest he learn a skyhook? I tried to show Joakim the skyhook, he wasn’t interested. I did show him some things that he could do defensively and how to help his team, and the next season after I’d worked with him he won Defensive Player of the Year. I know I had some impact, and he thanked me, and I thank him for giving me the opportunity. It’s worked out pretty well. It was going well with Andrew Bynum, but Andrew finally got to sign his contract for $50 million, and then at that point Andrew thought that I didn’t know anything and that he didn’t have to listen to me, and we don’t know where Andrew is right now.…

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