How God Is the Only Reason Kobe Bryant Is Better Than Tracy McGrady

Apparently, God was a little too generous to Tracy McGrady when he touched him with the talent stick. If McGrady had been a little less talented, he could have been an even greater basketball player. I know, it doesn't make sense, but follow my logic here. 

McGrady said, 

"

The crazy thing about it is… there's a lot of players like that. People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are… When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me. Had I not been so talented, I probably would have busted my (butt) in practice.

"

Record scratch. Rewind. Jon Stewart head shake. Whicka whicka. 

Read it again. 

God given talent...hinder your practice...would have busted my butt. 

Yeah, he said it. God gave him too much talent to practice. 

So follow me here. Clearly, Kobe Bryant practices. I mean he practices incessantly, working on every aspect of his game. He practices in the season. He practices in the offseason. Heck he even practices after games. 

So he must not be as talented as Tracy McGrady, who has too much God-given talent to care about such petty things as practicing. 

If he had a smidgen less talent, then he would have practiced. He would have "busted his butt in practice."

God is to blame! He overdid it! A little less talent, a lot more practice and a greater player than Kobe Bryant. 

This is why you don't want the most talented surgeon working on you. Get a less talented lawyer to defend you. 

Nope. You don't need to settle for average, but you need to find that sweet-spot of enough talent to be great, but not enough to try hard. 

Of course now I have an excuse for not working on my writing...