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unless you are a good 7' basketball player.
by sahaj 16y ago
unless you are a good 7' basketball player.
- electromagnetic 16y ago7' tall basketball players are only good because the game is played inefficiently. Shorter players have a distinct advantage when throwing underarm and can get ridiculous score percentages. Tall players throwing 'properly' are taking a side-shot at the goal rather than confronting the problem head on by going vertical. Basketball is such a bastardised sport that height and speed are the dominant skills at play in the sport. No accuracy is required when the majority of your goals are scored by (using a soccer term) walking it into the goal. It's pathetic and boring. The entire point of the sport is that the goal is high to challenge players to exhibit accuracy that is rarely routinely (and especially not consistently) required in other sports. Yet that doesn't exist any more in the NBA it's circus freaks putting balls through a hole instead of sportsmen exhibiting great accuracy like an archer.
- TheSOB88 16y agoBut if it works, why not?
- lanstein 16y agoOk, I have to ask: When was the last time you watched basketball? Nobody showing great accuracy? Ray Allen? Kobe Bryant?
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- bootload 16y ago"... Ok, I have to ask: When was the last time you watched basketball? Nobody showing great accuracy? Ray Allen? Kobe Bryant? ..." From the foul line nobody beats Rick Barry using the underhand free throw ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eJSjwlD5o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eJSjwlD5o&feature=relat...
- BRadmin 16y agoI think you're talking about H.O.R.S.E... the game of basketball includes something called defense, which generally calls on productive offenses to be faster / stronger / taller.
- starkfist 16y agoHave you watched pro basketball since the NBA legalized zone defense in 2001? Most of the shots taken in games these days are 3 pointers. The days of Dikembe Mutumbo (or even Shaq) hanging out in the paint and doing tiptoe dunks ended about 8 years ago. Even 7 foot guys like Rasheed Wallace and Kevin Garnett take 40% or more of their shots from 3 point territory. Wallace shoots 35% on three pointers (30% is the "he's a good three point shooter" threshold). The real three point shooters make half of their shots... a feat of accuracy which is really fucking hard, even more so considering they also have to get to the shot and deal with defense. There is no question most basketball players are genetic freaks but anyone playing in the NBA these days is also scarily accurate. I hate to agree that I now find the NBA kinda boring... but it's not because it's a circus act (circuses are pretty interesting, actually.) The NBA is boring because almost every player is now so superhumanly good that it's hard to imagine how difficult what they are doing really is.
- BRadmin 16y agoI like what you're saying but there's some pretty gross hyperbole going on here. You cite zone defense as though it's drastically changed the NBA - but it's rarely deployed. You say most shots taken in games are three pointers, but they actually make up 18-22% (over the last decade) of them. And you say KG and Rasheed take over 40% of their shots from three. Kevin Garnett takes 3.3% of his shots from downtown. For Rasheed it's just under 25%. Both are career stats....
- starkfist 16y agoWell it's the internet, i reserve the right to hyperbolize. I guess i was pretty far wrong about KG though... my bad. But, threes are up like 40% over the past 10 years. Over the past 5 years the games have been more shooting oriented than ever before. The WSJ had an article a while back suggesting that the real reason is because the league hasn't been doing that great financially, and it's cheaper for teams to get a set of 3 point shooters vs. one LeBron or KG.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoMichael Jordan is 6'4"
- thrdOriginal 16y agoNo, he is 6'6" which I'm sure is in the 99th percentile.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoGoogle says 6'2"
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoWell, he is getting older.
- mace 16y agoI wouldn't believe everything Google says.
- thrdOriginal 16y agohttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=Michael+Jordan+Height http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Michael+Jordan+Height Or you could try his Wikipedia page, NBA profile, or any reputable bio of him produced, ever.
- joe_the_user 16y agoNo - first 5 entries at least say 6' 6"
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoSorry, got wrong Michael Jordan - Google auto-completed my search and flashed that number, the basketball player is 6'6" as stated/
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