Studio de Ame to the rescue

I apologize for this really high-effort post, but it was an excused to revisit something for me.

It's really, really strange because generally the best coaches in team sports usually are not formerly elite players. Or even formerly great ones. There is a huge misconception about what makes a good coach, and naturally gifted athletes for whom things come easy actually are rarely it.

Just as a straw study thing, I took a look at the 12 active NBA head coaches with the best current career records. In this mix you have:

-1 former NBA MVP and Hall of Famer (Steve Nash)-1 other player who was an NBA all-star once (Doc Rivers)-2 other players with very respectable NBA careers but nothing amazing-2 career bench warmers, one of whom lasted in the NBA for a year-5 people who only played in college and never played in the NBA. Some did play overseas professionally. Some were good D1 players, some were good D3 players, none of them were considered major prospects or seemed like they would have accomplished anything in the NBA.-1 guy who never even played college ball

And again, these 12 are on paper the best active head coaches in the best basketball league in the world.

Basically of the 12 best NBA head coaches right now, the median was a really good college player who was either barely or not-quite NBA-level.

How well this translates to eSports I have no idea, but again, it just seems like teaching requires and doing aren't really the same skillset, no matter what the discipline. Sure, in both cases you have to know the subject very well. "Subject competency" so to speak. But that's where the definite overlap ends.

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