If I understand you correctly, then Dame and Ant playing point guard but choosing to focus more on scoring didn't mean defense and playmaking were weaknesses in their game. If something about you is detrimental to your ability to perform a task, it's a weakness. It doesn't even matter whether it's by choice or by nature. But even psychopaths can to some degree mask some of the worst traits in their behavior to achieve a goal, even if that goal is to become a great serial killer. I interviewed a 19-year-old last night after the best game of his career. He told me the reason to play basketball is to win. That's it. That's the quote. The primary goal as a competitive basketball player is to win. That means being able to not only co-exist but work with your teammates. That means not costing your team points and possessions with a constant stream of technical fouls that perhaps gets one disqualified from the game entirely. One might not be able to change their skin color, age, ethnicity, but, to a certain extent, behavior is manageable. And I guess choosing or not being able to manage it might be a characteristic, but one can have characteristics that are weaknesses, or we might have more 5-3 players in the NBA. If you can't stand young people, it would be both a characteristic and a weakness in teaching. If you hate women innately, that might be a characteristic, but acting out on it is a weakness socially and in other ways. Heck, I'd say it's a bigger weakness if you acknowledge the damage something can do to yourself or others and continue to do it under the auspices of "it's just me being me" than if you lack the self-control mechanism in one's brain. Anyway, if you are trying to look like a credible analyst or podcaster or just someone who doesn't look like being highly emotional makes them lose sight of the most obvious of facts, you don't say Bill Walton wasn't a great college player. He was by every conceivable measure one of the greatest college players of all time. To say otherwise makes someone look like they have no ability retain objectivity in the face of a negative emotion. A lack of self-control in our world almost unanimously would be considered a weakness in our societies, at least it would have before 2016.
