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My brother was an all-state basketball player as a young sophomore, and pretty cocky. One day at the start of practice the coach yells out "Ok...Whoever scores the most points in practice today will start in tomorrow's game!" Seems like a pretty good incentive metric to get the boys to practice hard right? ... So my Brother stayed only on the offensive side of the court, never bothering to go and play any defense. After a few minutes of this the coach got ticked, blew his whistle and screamed at my brother "What the h*ll are you doing!" My brother simply replied back "I want to start tomorrow night coach. Scoring points will get me that right?" (The implication being that according to the metrics set up by the coach himself, defense was worthless) As in all things, there is a danger of overshooting though and throwing out all measures altogether. Finding the "correct" measure is the secret sauce of success.— Armon Eaton
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