Colin Cowherd

Feisty, great leader.

But he went to Purdue because the Texas recruiters were like, yeah, not big enough.

Or Jordan Spieth, who in 2015 was the number one golfer, and he was like 79th in distance off the tee.

Well, the truth is, Bobby Jones, Tiger, Rory, Jack, DeChambeau,

Most of the great golfers put themselves at a really good spot by their second shot.

So 6'2", overachieving point guards are rare.

Now, Isaiah Thomas was an all-timer, I mean, in high school, college.

But I mean, Brunson, Parker, Isaiah Thomas, Jalen Brunson are kind of seen as, wow, they got more out of their talent than we thought they had.

If you look at the top 20 players in the NBA, it's a lot of big, long, tall guys, right?

And there's a guiding principle and then historic truth in almost every business.

If you're a college football or basketball coach, you want to be great, you got to be good recruiting.

You can't do it with schemes.

You got to get players.

In the NFL, you don't have to recruit.

You got to be good with schemes.

So the influence...

of Europe, the influence internationally of basketball, I do think has made hyper-athleticism overrated.

It's a passing, shooting, dribbling league now more than ever, where it prioritizes athleticism but necessitates skill.

And that's where it plays into Brunson.

Brunson to me is Steve Nash,