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A while back, I wrote about a difference I see between Suzuki and KK. It’s just a theory I have, but in light of what’s going on right now I want to share it.
All of us use different ways of thinking and processing information, but it’s been...
A while back, I wrote about a difference I see between Suzuki and KK. It’s just a theory I have, but in light of what’s going on right now I want to share it.
All of us use different ways of thinking and processing information, but it’s been...
...my experience that some people rely more on deductive, rational, analytical thought, while others rely more on intuition, emotional, instinctive thought. Psychology says we have the capacity for both but it’s only natural for some people to lean more heavily on one...
...or the other.
Based solely on observation and guesswork (and therefore possibly wrong) I think Suzuki is a deductive thinker and KK is an intuitive one.
You can almost see Suzuki’s thought processes unfold on the ice. The things he does make sense. His hockey IQ has...
Based solely on observation and guesswork (and therefore possibly wrong) I think Suzuki is a deductive thinker and KK is an intuitive one.
You can almost see Suzuki’s thought processes unfold on the ice. The things he does make sense. His hockey IQ has...
...always been praised as high.
KK is a little harder to figure out, especially with the inconsistency of youth. He’ll play a few quiet games and then pull off some fantastic play you never saw coming. It’s harder to connect the dots.
Intuitive thinking comes from...
KK is a little harder to figure out, especially with the inconsistency of youth. He’ll play a few quiet games and then pull off some fantastic play you never saw coming. It’s harder to connect the dots.
Intuitive thinking comes from...
...3 places: memory, pattern recognition, and an emotional response that is usually called “gut instinct.” Reason may intertwine with these but is often used after the fact to explain why the intuitive thinker did something, not to help them decide to do it in the first...
...place.
But because memory and pattern recognition are so important, taking an intuitive thinker through a condensed hockey season was going to be tricky enough without the memory/pattern overload that results when you change not only his linemates but his role...
But because memory and pattern recognition are so important, taking an intuitive thinker through a condensed hockey season was going to be tricky enough without the memory/pattern overload that results when you change not only his linemates but his role...
...on the ice with increasing frequency in a month in which there were 18 games.
Twice in recent games I saw evidence of “intuition overload.” Once was when KK played on LW with Danault. KK kept instinctively reacting like a center to the unfolding plays, remembering...
Twice in recent games I saw evidence of “intuition overload.” Once was when KK played on LW with Danault. KK kept instinctively reacting like a center to the unfolding plays, remembering...
...just in time to let Danault handle those responsibilities. Tonight it was the opposite: a few times KK started acting more like the LW than the center, especially on plays where Evans took the faceoff. The instinct he relies on that rises from memory and pattern...
...recognition isn’t trustworthy right now. He keeps looking lost, and I think this could be why.
I could be completely wrong about the kind of thinker KK is; I'm a fiction writer who is naturally fascinated by these and any topics about how different we all...
I could be completely wrong about the kind of thinker KK is; I'm a fiction writer who is naturally fascinated by these and any topics about how different we all...
...are, from the way we think to our actions and habits to our emotions and everything of the kind. So my hunch that KK is "intuition dominant" as a thinker is based only on observations that include hearing him talk about things on various videos etc. If I am right...
... though, then the thing he needs most next season, or even in the playoffs, is a consistent line position and a more reasonable number of linemates, so he's not "processing" a huge file of memory and pattern data before each game, and so he can trust his instincts on the ice.
