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Message: [QUOTE="Bull Shark, post: 3216192, member: 7690"] imo in sport a lot of people mistake talent for excitement and unorthodoxy.. same thing happened a few years ago in RL with Benji Marshall.. some were suggesting he was the best player in the game at the time.. imo he was the most or one of the most exciting, not best. when it comes to Kyrgios, people get seduced by his trick shots and powerful / unorthodox winners but is any of that good enough or sustainable enough to have gone shot for shot, game for game and set for set with the likes of Federer, Nadal & Djokovic at their peaks? I, for one, don’t think so.. I think a lot of the ‘raw talent’ that Kyrgios flashes during matches now wouldn’t be on show if he’d knuckled down and been coached, maximised his talent and become a fixture in the world’s top 10 or so.. I don’t think he possesses too much, if anything, in his bag of tricks that a Federer or others wouldn’t have had when they were young and raw and hadn’t been coached and refined into the players they became. IMO there’s a significant trade off when it comes to taking the step from a raw talent in any sport to a successful professional and a lot of it involves (rightly or wrongly), shedding much of the trickery and off the cuff flashiness that pretty much every freak and genetic outlier possesses as a youngster. so What you see with Kyrgios is just someone who simply never grew up, in that respect. [/QUOTE]

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