Comments on: The Memphis Grizzlies (gulp!) are trying my prosumer experiment

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:40:52 +0000

[...] 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment A couple of months ago, buried deep within a post about the Memphis Grizzlies’ prosumer experiment, I made reference to how the experience of “Snakes on a Plane” using an innovative [...]

By: denisbhancock

denisbhancock — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:11:15 +0000

Thanks for the comments and kind words Barry – I would love to use my hometown Raptors for a test of a variety of different theories, if they’d let me. Probably unlikely .

Hadn’t heard that Gladwell story, though I’ve heard SOMEWHAT similar for basketball – particularly in relation to the bottom 25% of talent in the NBA. Apparently there are thousands of players that are equally as “good”, but just never got (or took) the shot, for the same types of reasons I imagine.

By: Barry Martin

Barry Martin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:40:39 +0000

Great idea. Another industry dis-intermediated by the internet. Next those scouts’ll be writing for HuffPost.

And a fun read.

Colangelo Raptors would be a great test for your theory.

Only tangentially related, I heard Malcolm Gladwell tell a story about an athlete who suggested there were enough people in his neighbourhood to make their own NFL. For a variety of cultural and socio-economic reasons these people never get their shots, or even take them when they have them.

I was just thinking it would be a real test of the value of scouts vs. the aggregate wisdom of the fans if the pool were broader.

Thanks, your blog is becoming a real distraction.

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lets see Marc this year……

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