Should a basketball team’s best player take all the team’s shots?
A professional basketball team has a new assistant coach. The assistant notices that one player scores on a higher percentage of his shots than other players. Based on this information, the assistant suggests to the head coach that the star player should take all the shots. That way, the assistant reasons, the team will score more points and win more games.
On hearing this suggestion, the head coach fires his assistant for incompetence.
What was wrong with the assistant’s idea?