A lot of us, meaning fans, don't fully understand how difficult it is to make an NBA team, much less to stay there.
It helps to be a big guy because they’re inherently less common, but even so, the difference between making it and whiffing can be pretty small.
So we might see our guys at Duke or whatever school you might pull for and think, well of course he’s an NBA player.
Well maybe, maybe not. Talent is indispensable but at the highest levels of anything, skills and hard work trump mere talent.