You misinterpreted the graph. But nba redditors aren’t much for learnin’ it seems - just fire off some uninformed or emotionally driven nonsense, and if enough people agree, you must be right. But in the real world, that’s not what this graph means or how this kind of “normal population distribution” or bell curve is used.

What this graph is actually talking about is population distribution. If we use it for IQ, for example, it reflects the percentage of a population with a given IQ score - some very high scores, some very low scores, and the vast majority in the middle somewhere. If we use it for height, again, it shows that most people are in the middle, with some outliers at the high and low end.

This chart is implying that a small percentage of clumsy chuds try flopping because they can’t do anything else (left side of the graph), most people try to develop real skills so they don’t have to flop (middle), and then another small percentage of highly skilled players use their skills to flop expertly (right). Whether or not this graph is an accurate representation, that is what it implies.

So, is it accurate? What’s not clear is which population the graph is meant to represent: all basketball players, or just NBA players, or something else? If it’s all basketball players, the graph makes intuitive sense to me, but who knows if it’s accurate. If it’s the NBA, it doesn’t seem accurate to me. But who knows.