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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:i feel like I could at least hoist up a 3 in an NBA game. there would then be a 1-5% chance it would go in depending on How Hard I'm Feeling It that day. Wait, you don't think you'll get a concussion if you get the ball spiked in your face so hard it breaks your nose?
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:i feel like I could at least hoist up a 3 in an NBA game. there would then be a 1-5% chance it would go in depending on How Hard I'm Feeling It that day. I don't think you realize how hard it is to catch and shoot as quickly as NBA players do before someone closes out on you. There's a bunch of players at other levels that can make 3s at an NBA % but they just can't get their shot off fast enough.
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Apr 18, 2022 03:50
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habeasdorkus posted:Wait, you don't think you'll get a concussion if you get the ball spiked in your face so hard it breaks your nose? If the nose acts like a crumple zone the actual impulse to the cranium is relatively minor.
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Apr 18, 2022 03:52
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I don't think you realize how hard it is to catch and shoot as quickly as NBA players do before someone closes out on you. There's a bunch of players at other levels that can make 3s at an NBA % but they just can't get their shot off fast enough. Yeah, the only way normal guy gets a point is if the defender trips or otherwise fucks up his block attempt and fouls to give up a couple free throws.
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Apr 18, 2022 03:59
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Just imagine 5'11" Doug from FedEx crouching down to heave the ball as far as he can with his entire body while a 6'8" dude with hands the size of hams runs and jumps at him from 12 feet away.
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Apr 18, 2022 04:02
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Just imagine 5'11" Doug from FedEx crouching down to heave the ball as far as he can with his entire body while a 6'8" dude with hands the size of hams runs and jumps at him from 12 feet away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAMRziMiaZk
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Apr 18, 2022 04:05
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just for perspective there are 6’6+ ncaa caliber players every year who are at risk of not making it in the nba because their shot release is too low or their shooting motion is too slow, every year unless you are elevating like ray allen or dribbling yourself open like muggsy bogues, you’re not getting a shot up in a full speed nba game; it’s going right back in your face if it even leaves your hand
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Apr 18, 2022 04:17
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People are talking about two very different things and just posting past each other at this point.
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Apr 18, 2022 04:45
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When I was at Ohio State I played pickup ball once with Matt Terwilliger, who was 6-9 and not very good and he just dominated the poo poo out of absolutely everybody. Blocking everything, shooting over everyone, cutting off passes. We also played football in the snow once with two walk-ons who never saw the field and lol at anyone who thinks they have any idea of how good high level college players are.
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Look - when I went to the University of Minnesota there was a grad student standing about 6'2" or 6'3" who'd started for a D3 team previously that was easily the best player in pickup games I played in at the gym. Anyone who thinks they could, even by random chance, make a bucket in an NBA game under normal circumstances (EX: not a free throw) is an utter loon.
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sportsgenius86 posted:When I was at Ohio State I played pickup ball once with Matt Terwilliger, who was 6-9 and not very good and he just dominated the poo poo out of absolutely everybody. poo poo I remember that guy
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Apr 18, 2022 05:02
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How would a WNBA player do?
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Lockback posted:People are talking about two very different things and just posting past each other at this point. No I'm very specifically saying that even if that player wasn't really being guarded they'd still get most of their shots blocked because of how long it would take for them to catch and shoot.
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Apr 18, 2022 06:51
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General Dog posted:How would a WNBA player do? Some of them could do fine. Like you have Reggie Miller who is a hall of fame player saying that his sister was better than him and nobody disagrees. So some of them could definitely play with the men.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:i feel like I could at least hoist up a 3 in an NBA game. there would then be a 1-5% chance it would go in depending on How Hard I'm Feeling It that day. Though it was in my case a punted basketball hitting me square in the forehead knocking me out for a few seconds, let me assure you that an NBA player spiking a basketball in your face could easily give you a concussion.
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Codependent Poster posted:Some of them could do fine. Nobody actually thinks Cheryl would’ve been better than Reggie in the NBA, she just was more dominant in the women’s game than he was in men’s. The biggest problem with translating WNBA players to men’s basketball is that everyone would have to slide down (or is it up?) a position due to height. Brittney Griner was basically Shaq at Baylor and that led to people asking if she should play in the NBA, where small forwards are often her size. It would need to be someone like Elena Delle Donne who is long but also highly skilled, and she would probably still die on defense out there against NBA players.
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Apr 18, 2022 14:04
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sportsgenius86 posted:When I was at Ohio State I played pickup ball once with Matt Terwilliger, who was 6-9 and not very good and he just dominated the poo poo out of absolutely everybody. Yeah, I played pickup in college against a walk on who couldn't get playing time at loving NIU, and that dude was unstoppable. Had some former high school players who usually were the best players at the runs, and they looked like they had never played basketball before.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Nobody actually thinks Cheryl would’ve been better than Reggie in the NBA, she just was more dominant in the women’s game than he was in men’s. I think a good perimeter shoot who can really catch and shoot fast could at least score some against NBA players. They'd have to really hustle, or get a lot of picks to be freed up and shoot that ball as soon as it's caught to prevent blocks. Overall, they would still be worse than the last person on the bench though.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:No I'm very specifically saying that even if that player wasn't really being guarded they'd still get most of their shots blocked because of how long it would take for them to catch and shoot. NBA defense you don't go for a block if a bad shooter is pulling up from the logo. If your saying in this case the defense would be doing that, then yeah you can't get a shot off. But that's a different question.
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Apr 18, 2022 18:00
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Goons could shoot free throws better than Ben Simmons
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I suspect that a skilled amateur might be able to win a hole in match play against a pro golfer and that's about it.
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You can even see it with motorsport pros who change to a different discipline. Plenty of folks going between NASCAR, IndyCar, F1 and having different levels of success, but it's definitely not instant. I know he's older, but if an all-time NASCAR driver like Jimmy Johnson struggles in IndyCar, the amateur driver might not even get to lap 2, let alone finish the race at a slow pace.
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Nybble posted:the amateur driver might not even get to lap 2, let alone finish the race at a slow pace. Haven’t watched a race in awhile, but when I was, you could tell even the guys starting near the bottom of the NASCAR or IndyCar grids we’re active dangers to the rest of the field and those were like the top 50/30 drivers in their discipline. An amateur racer wouldn’t just crash themselves out, they’d probably get someone killed.
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That's basically what's happening here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QIVf61s4DR4&feature=emb_title
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Cognac McCarthy posted:That's basically what's happening here: Now THIS is podracing!
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Cognac McCarthy posted:That's basically what's happening here: And that’s with somebody who’s had more training and experience. Let’s see somebody with less of both but lots of money, somehow! https://youtu.be/O4HSpx3aBq8
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Nybble posted:You can even see it with motorsport pros who change to a different discipline. Plenty of folks going between NASCAR, IndyCar, F1 and having different levels of success, but it's definitely not instant. I know he's older, but if an all-time NASCAR driver like Jimmy Johnson struggles in IndyCar, the amateur driver might not even get to lap 2, let alone finish the race at a slow pace. Eh a large part of motorsport is tied to what team you're on because like you have to basically be on like one of three or four teams in NASCAR Cup series to really have a chance at winning (and even then youd really have to be like #1 or #2 on the team, because they dont dole the good poo poo to #4) F1 you're not going to podium unless you're basically on Mercedes, Ferrari, or Red Bull unless somehow all 3 of those get taken out in some form in a race mostly because they all have the money to really spend and design in spec advantages and really train mechanics and crew but also a lot of those teams are also really picky on who they pick because of sponshorship and you're never going to get an am driver 8n one of them anyway
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General Dog posted:How would a WNBA player do? I played pickup ball with Katie Smith once as well and while she was very good, it was surprisingly underwhelming. Honestly didn’t feel much different than a normal rec center game.
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think I started this exact conversation of randos playing real sports in the ncaafb thread last offseason and have one I didn't think of then: PKs against a pro-level keeper. The goal looks really big, and they go in like half the time cause the guy just guesses wrong. What is the minimum level of skill where he can't just assume that your leg is not capable of sending anything on target at a speed and location he can't get to by just standing pat and waiting until the ball comes off your foot to react
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Lmao, unless he’s taken a real hard turn into NFTs, it appears NBA writer Vince Goodwill got hacked by an NFT collective. Yikes.
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harperdc posted:Lmao, unless he’s taken a real hard turn into NFTs, it appears NBA writer Vince Goodwill got hacked by an NFT collective. Yikes. What are these idiots trying to do, anyway?
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Every NFT huckster thinks the only thing keeping them from being a millionaire is that people don't know about their specific randomly generated jpegs
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The glorious future: buying NFTs of Darren Rovell tweets
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Crazy Ted posted:The glorious future: buying NFTs of Darren Rovell tweets I feel bad for our blockchain but these NFTs hold tremendous value
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The Athletic has another deep dive into a college coach treating players like poo poo, with the usual feckless administrators doing nothing to stop it and allowing them to move from job to job. https://theathletic.com/3292876/2022/05/05/cynthia-cooper-dyke-texas-southern/ quote:At Texas Southern, Cooper-Dyke’s alleged actions led to a Title IX investigation that prompted the no-contact order. Records of the investigation reviewed by The Athletic indicate that among the allegations probed by the school:
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clean ayers act posted:The Athletic has another deep dive into a college coach treating players like poo poo, with the usual feckless administrators doing nothing to stop it and allowing them to move from job to job. Maybe I'm a prude, but even if you take out the directly abusive stuff, I'd still find her to be disgusting. If a male coach said equivalent things to me and a team of men, I'd think he was a scummy piece of poo poo.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Maybe I'm a prude, but even if you take out the directly abusive stuff, I'd still find her to be disgusting. If a male coach said equivalent things to me and a team of men, I'd think he was a scummy piece of poo poo. I feel the same way, tbh.
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Shams' life sounds like a weird huge bummer https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1524824196253110281?s=20&t=_Q6e-IXcqYmBQd2oKGFe0w
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Yes but have you considered how fulfilling it must be to be a hotter basketball Adam schefter who manages to get scooped by players
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