![]() In a famous study of chess players by Adriaan de Groot in the 1960s, pieces were shown on a board for five seconds and then removed. Saturday Night Live pokes fun at the Other Cavaliers ![]() LeBron’s adding Raptors to graveyard of NBA pretenders Human performance studies have shown that what seems to be “photographic memory” is really extrapolation based on habit-worn paths of knowledge, the vestiges and traces left in the brain by experience. “This is one of the bedrock findings in research on human expertise: that experts have superior memory for information within their domain,” Hambrick said. It’s not surprising because researchers are seeing an ever more articulate connection between cognitive science and human performance. ![]() “It’s remarkable,” said Zach Hambrick, a cognition-performance expert at Michigan State. “Quite beautiful really,” said Andre Fenton, professor of neuroscience at New York University. “Fascinating,” said Jocelyn Faubert, research chairperson in visual perception at the University of Montreal. I ran James’ feat past some noted neuroscientists to see if it impressed them as much as it did the rest of us. When he was done, listeners broke into applause. Replay it and notice not just the accuracy but the detail: In narrating six sequences in proper order, he noted the time on the shot clock, who took each shot and missed what, where the ball was inbounded from, and Boston Celtics small forward Jayson Tatum’s use of a Euro-step and right hand on a layup. Much has been made of James’ show-offy display of memory in his postgame analysis of Game 1. Watch him scan the game and store it upstairs. Try a viewing experiment the next time James takes the court: analyze his head, and not his body. His amazing recall has led to more than one comeback and is at least as much of a force as the form that produced 42 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in Game 2. There isn’t much reason to stay interested in an 0-2 series in which the Cavs have been borderline uncompetitive against the Boston Celtics in the fourth quarter, but it’s worth watching to the end if only to see whether James will pull off one of his memory tricks. What would a cellular analysis of his brain show? Maybe a flock of starlings. If James has shown nothing else as the Cleveland Cavaliers struggle through the Eastern Conference final, it’s the quality of his mind. "There's no one in the league with his brain.Much as his brute-strength shoulders and legs define LeBron James, it’s the stuff in his head that elevates him. "There's a lot of people in the league with LeBron's body," Clippers' coach Doc Rivers told Sports Illustrated in a recent interview. To call him the smartest player in the current NBA, if not in history, would not be a stretch. There is no question that LeBron's power, athleticism and elite skill set are still the driving forces behind his dominance.īut when people talk about James as possibly the greatest basketball player to ever play, it's not just for his physical talent. Not long before the NBA went on hiatus due to the coronavirus, we saw James lock up Giannis Antetokounmpo in a crucial stretch of the Lakers' marquee win over the Bucks. LeBron has done it on defense this season, too. He's firing cross-court passes that require superhuman strength. He's finishing in the lane with spin moves. At 35 years old, he's not playing the savvy vet role of finding creative ways to outsmart players more than a decade his junior he's throwing alley-oops down on their heads. LeBron James has been an athletic marvel from the minute he stepped foot on an NBA floor at 18 years old, and in his 17th season he's still beating some of the best athletes in the world with his power, speed and skill.
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