2025 Recruiting: Cooper Flagg offered

[I Bleed Blue]

Konami? Try again

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[Samoo]

Dave DeBusschere?

Kiki V. might be a pretty good comp. Except he didn't play a lick of D.

 

[Deleted at users request]

Gotta be the best player ever from Maine already.

 

[fatlucy]

This is a waste of a thread

 

[Dove]

When you storm a Castle, you need a Flagg!!!

 

[temery]

Stop the white player and black player posts.

The thread is about Cooper Flagg, a basketball player.

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[mauconnfan]

When you storm a Castle, you need a Flagg!!!

Who are you Betsy ROSS?

 

[Sleepy]

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[Kathy]

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Contra code - don't think I'll ever forget it

 

[dennismenace]

AJax was a lock for Syracuse, too. When it comes time to make the decision, smart players use their head instead of their heart.

And that is exactly what we want and are looking for.

 

[dennismenace]

Lucas was in many was Dirk 40 years earlier. He briefly (maybe three or four episodes) was a regular on a summer replacement show (I may need to explain to most on this board what that was) that was a hybrid comedy show/kids educational & entertainment show. In front of a live audience ge would show memorization skills. This was during the brief time he was a Knick and I imagine the show was only broadcast in NYC area.

He would be among the most valuable big men imaginable if he played in today's game. He legitimately had 30 ft range and was a terrific passer & rebounder.

Some people have extraordinary gifts. It seems at times that AJ exhibits both physical gifts and "gifts of anticipation." It gets to be on another (unfathomable) level. Watching some of the greats (Johnson, Bird, Jordan, Dr J is almost mesmerizing. Hope AJ keeps refining his game.

I believe this particular gift of Lucas is a photographic memory. There are varying degrees of this gift. Some people have total recall for shorter or longer periods of time. It's something you are more born with and not so much a skill. At one time people with this gift and also mathematical skills would go to casinos and memorize cards played and recompute the odds and beat the house percentage. The industry called them "card counters" and refused to allow them to play. You don't have "right" to play at a casino. It is at their discretion. The industry also got around them by using multiple decks of cards and cutting the multiple deck so that not all the cards would be played.

 

[husky429]

I believe this particular gift of Lucas is a photographic memory. There are varying degrees of this gift. Some people have total recall for shorter or longer periods of time. It's something you are more born with and not so much a skill.

Photographic memory doesn't really exist. Eidetic memory does in little kids but is essentially non-existent in humans after puberty. It's mostly a myth with a few outliers (I think usually autistic) sprinkled in.

 

[Dove]

Who are you Betsy ROSS?

@temery, please flag this post.

 

[TheHorde]

If Cooper happened to scroll this thread, would we be proud of what he’d read? For the love of God please shut this thread down.

 

[dennismenace]

Photographic memory doesn't really exist. Eidetic memory does in little kids but is essentially non-existent in humans after puberty. It's mostly a myth with a few outliers (I think usually autistic) sprinkled in.

I know people who have the ability to "see" (picture like) in their memory and read something they've read and/or written in the past (usually short term). I have seen it repeatedly demonstrated. They can do this with eyes open or closed. I'd like to know what you mean by Eidetic memory or is this just semantics we are dealing with. This article differentiates the two.

Photographic memory

Photographic memory is the ability to recall a past scene in detail with great accuracy – just like a photograph. Although many people claim that they have it, we still don't have proof that it actually exists. Generally, we're better at remembering what we’ve seen than what we've heard. And...

www.newscientist.com

 

[husky429]

I know people who have the ability to "see" (picture like) in their memory and read something they've read and/or written in the past (usually short term). I have seen it repeatedly demonstrated. They can do this with eyes open or closed. I'd like to know what you mean by Eidetic memory or is this just semantics we are dealing with. This article differentiates the two.

Photographic memory

Photographic memory is the ability to recall a past scene in detail with great accuracy – just like a photograph. Although many people claim that they have it, we still don't have proof that it actually exists. Generally, we're better at remembering what we’ve seen than what we've heard. And...

www.newscientist.com

Believe me--I'm hardly an expert. But I did read a book on this last year so I have a fairly good idea I think. The two concepts are often conflated. I rarely hear people use them correctly, actually. I think even some researchers don't even bother to differentiate.

If I remember correctly, a lot of pre-pubescent kids have eidetic memories--it essentially doesn't exist in adults. It's basically the ability (short term) to recall extremely high levels of detail in something you just saw or experienced. A photographic memory has never been proven to exist outside of rumors. It would be where you could look at a page in a language you don't know and write it down word for word after. What you're describing as people "seeing" in their memory just sounds like having a good memory. Considering the rarity (or even existence) of eidetic or photographic memory in adults, I highly doubt what you saw was more than just people with strong visualization skills.

My wife knows more about this. She has pretty severe synesthesia and people assumed she had a photographic/eidetic memory as a kid, but it wasn't. She basically "sees" colors and shapes of colors for everything she experiences. She learned to read music by learning the colors in her head instead of the lines. If she's ever seen a word spelled it is extremely rare she'll spell it wrong because she can tell if the shade of the color in her head is right or wrong. She also has a weird uncanny ability to memorize recipes too.

She did well on the LSAT because she can read something and doesn't need to think about if the argument is right. Same thing for when she's reading or writing about cases in law. It isn't the right color if the argument doesn't make sense. She said she was never very good at trials because you can't say "No he's wrong because that is turquoise, orange, and forest green" in a court of law and expect people to understand you. She mostly ignores it, but some environments with really high levels of sensory input can drive her nuts. She HATES going to basketball games because there's too much going on in her head to ignore. Loud restaurants too.

 

[runner11]

Believe me--I'm hardly an expert. But I did read a book on this last year so I have a fairly good idea I think. The two concepts are often conflated. I rarely hear people use them correctly, actually. I think even some researchers don't even bother to differentiate.

If I remember correctly, a lot of pre-pubescent kids have eidetic memories--it essentially doesn't exist in adults. It's basically the ability (short term) to recall extremely high levels of detail in something you just saw or experienced. A photographic memory has never been proven to exist outside of rumors. It would be where you could look at a page in a language you don't know and write it down word for word after. What you're describing as people "seeing" in their memory just sounds like having a good memory. Considering the rarity (or even existence) of eidetic or photographic memory in adults, I highly doubt what you saw was more than just people with strong visualization skills.

My wife knows more about this. She has pretty severe synesthesia and people assumed she had a photographic/eidetic memory as a kid, but it wasn't. She basically "sees" colors and shapes of colors for everything she experiences. She learned to read music by learning the colors in her head instead of the lines. If she's ever seen a word spelled it is extremely rare she'll spell it wrong because she can tell if the shade of the color in her head is right or wrong. She also has a weird uncanny ability to memorize recipes too.

She did well on the LSAT because she can read something and doesn't need to think about if the argument is right. Same thing for when she's reading or writing about cases in law. It isn't the right color if the argument doesn't make sense. She said she was never very good at trials because you can't say "No he's wrong because that is turquoise, orange, and forest green" in a court of law and expect people to understand you. She mostly ignores it, but some environments with really high levels of sensory input can drive her nuts. She HATES going to basketball games because there's too much going on in her head to ignore. Loud restaurants too.

Moonwalking with Einstein was a cool book about memory and the extent that you can train it. I remember in school I would page through my notes in my mind. If only that meant comprehension.

 

[temery]

I wonder if Flagg has a good memory?

Ironically, many of you can't remember the thread is about Cooper Flagg.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Only on the Boneyard can a thread head off on this type of tangent.

I'm not sure if I'm proud of or ashamed of having contributed to the redirection.

 

[90BSEE]

Just watched a video. I really like this kid.

He is tough. He has great composure. He leaves it all on the floor. He has zero attitude. He just plays hard and stays focused on the game. The kid has champion written all over him. UConn is a perfect match for him.