Real Life Real Faith Men of Faith March 2016 | Page 10

For an imagery example, if Steph Curry played on the great Boston Celtic teams of the 60’s, he would be playing in a team
system unlike anything he plays in now. Team systems can create greatness. Often times, when that athlete is removed from a
system, they might not perform as well.
We see this example best in players going from college to the pros. A system in college might hide a player’s limitation. We
often wonder about some athletes of past times, if they had the chance to perform in other systems now, how good could they
have been?
Football and basketball nowadays the individualism of sports the one on one can make some players look like super human
talents. It’s not that we didn't have one on one systems before, but the team system for early athletes stood out. Often, a great
player from years ago was called selfish. When we look at the greatness of Wilt Chamberlain, to this day many believe we
haven't had any one on his level of athleticism on the basketball court at his size. He had the ability to remake himself to be
great at whatever he wanted to do.
Are we really seeing and creating a new genre of athlete? When we look at Cam Newton, a quarterback the size of a linebacker
and actually, whe