God gives athletic ability. People dont just get it through technology, hard work, facilities, and nutrition. If that were the case our facilities and nutrition and strength program would have illinois basketball the best it's ever been. The same applies to the NBA.
Huh? Nutrition and supplements, strength and conditioning programs, training, medical care, equipment, facilities, resources, opportunities, etc., all have improved creating better athletes in all sports although the ability to differentiate compared to other athletes in your sport diminishes. That is why athletic records continue to be broken, especially in individual sports where performance can be isolated, from the effects of the team.
Illinois provides little differentiation compared to other programs, but more importantly, many of the athletes have created differentiation (evident by rankings) prior to stepping to Illinois or other programs. It is not that basketball starts at Illinois or college. For almost college basketball players/recruits it starts way before they step foot on campus.
As someone pointed out earlier, continuous transformations (like the Greek Freak below) and skills development on basketball players is hardly the act of God, it is the result of hard work as well as improvements along the aforementioned dimensions. Talent may be something that people are born with, given by God (if you are religious), or part of their hereditary DNA, but not the development of basketball skills and athletic ability at the highest level. Otherwise, people (including Illinois, HS, NBA, any level), would not invest resources in S&C, training facilities, equipment, nutrition, sports technology, sports medicine, etc.
It is hardly God that created Antetokounmpo's transformation below, not only his physical transformation, but the skills improvement as well.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sDY-L69oy2Q/maxresdefault.jpg
