Later I shared that feedback with a former player who, coincidentally, had won the defensive player of the year award in his conference. He’d also seen that game, and when I told him of the readers’ objections I thought I could actually hear him rolling his eyes over the phone. "People have no idea," he said, "what it takes to play that level of offense, how hard it is to make shots when you’re running full-speed for 40 minutes."