Fascinating article on the mental advantages in Steph Curry's favor

"Steph Curry Literally Sees the World Differently Than You Do" -- Drake Baer

The third and fourth paragraphs: "...Just by looking at Curry, you would never guess that he’s the most dominant player in the league. He’s six-foot-three, 190. He doesn’t bulldoze like LeBron or fly like Michael. His advantages are subtler. The remarkable quickness and off-the-charts shooting skills are ones that everyone knows about already. But the evidence also points to Curry being an extreme outlier — it wouldn’t be wrong to say genius — in his ability to process sensory input, even in the most stressful, complex, and fast-moving situations. In simplistic terms, he’s seeing more of the game, allowing him to exploit opponents’ positioning to create shots, find passing lanes, and force turnovers. Moreover, he is at the forefront of an emerging practice, among pro — and even amateur — athletes, of training their perceptive powers, just like ball-handling drills hone their physical skills and sports psychologists help put them build a winning mind-set. In short, Curry is something of poster boy for an new era in sports, where superior neural circuitry is regarded as just as much of an advantage as a higher vertical or a sweeter jump shot.

It’s “the cutting edge of sport performance,” says University of Central Florida sports scientist Jay Hoffman. “It’s being able to look at multiple stimuli on a court,” he says: seeing not just where your teammates and their defenders are, but, like a judo master, recognizing where your defender’s body is in space and using it against him. Curry “has the ability to see [all that stimuli], and get somebody into a position that’s favorable for him,” Hoffman says. “This is what separates great players from good players.” In other words, Curry’s brain is able to read his defender’s positioning — a foot set at an odd angle, a nose edging his weight too far to one side — and use the right ball movement — a head fake, a crossover — to create open looks out of thin air..."

Can neural circuitry be measured? Will it become part of the pre-draft examination? Granted, it's a piece of the pie that is made up of many other elements but it's a critical measurement.