Sam Hinkie

If you get an open three on the wing and no one's within 10 feet of you and you make it, well, fine.

We should give you some credit, but it's not that hard a shot.

You're pretty open.

We should probably give the passer and the coach and the screener a bunch of credit.

We should probably dock the defender.

If you've hit an amazing shot, call it Kyrie Irving at the end of...

Game six or game seven, I guess, an amazing shot.

That's quite difficult.

You should get an amazing amount of credit for that.

There's some luck in that, but there's a ton of skill in that too.

Those were the kinds of things that he was adjusting.

But to do that, you had to have an underlying set of data that was quite robust at the time.

And then the skills and abilities and sort of at that time, industry know-how to be able to build on top of that.

What's in common between people that continue to evolve on that same trajectory?

So you said used to be mispriced.

Tends to be that things like that in basketball or in markets that are competitive, advantages erode over time as more people become aware of them.

What have you learned about people that can evolve with the erosion of pre-existing edge to find a new edge?

humility about what they don't know, always worried there's someone else out there looking harder, somebody smarter, somebody hungrier, someone trying to find an edge while you rest on your laurels.

My favorite kinds of hires back then, often these people are wildly data-oriented.

We'd give them a bunch of standardized tests as part of it.