The analytic invasion taking place in the NBA will last awhile but, eventually, it will pass and here is part of the reason why. In one of Robert Caro’s (extraordinary) books on President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, is quoted as saying this about LBJ: “He had an indefinable knack for sensing the mood of the House — just how far the legislators could be pushed. He also would say, later, “If you can’t feel things that you can’t see or hear, you don’t belong here.”###