The Fence

“That's not jealousy. That's chess.”
Start Reading BelowThere is a play in basketball that requires two things simultaneously.
Trust and precision.
LeBron James doesn't throw the alley oop off the backboard and hope Dwyane Wade figures it out. He throws it to the exact spot where he already knows Dwyane Wade will be.
Not because he's guessing. Because they have spent enough time building something together that the precision is already agreed upon before the play begins.
That's not luck.
That's a fence built around something worth protecting.
There's a comment section worth pausing on. Not to argue with it.
To understand what it's actually saying underneath what it thinks it's saying.
She said she ..
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