Oh, I don’t doubt that could be the case at all, but that’s experience shaping the decision, not knowledge. I guess when you say that, IMO, it implies others lack the knowledge to make his decision, and I don’t believe that to be the case. Perhaps they haven’t had his experience/his mom’s experience or, at least, been shaped by that in the same way.
I mean Trevor Lawrence could sit on his couch all year and still be the #1 pick, and he saw first hand what happened to Xavier Thomas, but he’s still playing.