Anthony Dabbundo

They're bigger, stronger, faster over the time.

Is it possible they've also improved at handling their pressure and emotions too?

This is follow-up from Jake from Minneapolis.

What about the impact sports psychologists have on modern players?

Top prospects, recruits, college players all work with professional psychologists, mental health experts, whoever, prepare them to play in these type of environments, big games, handle the backlash.

The impact of mental health to me is the most glaring difference in 30, 50 years from now.

It's tough because I remember doing an interview with Adam Silver at the Sloan Conference when he said actually he was the most worried he'd ever been about the mental health of players because of social media and people being online all the time and the tribalism of social and how fast people can mobilize against somebody or try to make them look bad.

Not to mention AI and all the other things.

So to me, that's an even out.

I wouldn't say that is a factor, but I do wonder like...

maybe maybe some of the psychology of sports we're getting a little better about about handling adversity maybe that's a little better this is a theory from nick from cleveland with all the au teams these guys have played um probably a thousand different gyms over the years they're constantly waking up driving three hours playing for six hours coming home um

eating McDonald's breakfast, getting back in the car, driving somewhere else.

An 8.30 finals game after a day off is a walk in the park compared to what they probably dealt with for 10 years, along with proper sleep, nutrition.

It makes sense to me that they're better.

not against that.

There's definitely, definitely, um, you're bouncing around more and you know, a gym is a gym after a while.

Um, this is the big one.

A couple of people brought this up with the refs because I mentioned with Mahoney, like you really felt like you could sway the refs, especially there was two for a long time in the seventies and eighties.

I can't remember when they went to three.

Um, there was, there's blood in the air.