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A junior high bball team can beat a WNBA team? Is that a ****ing joke?
No, not at all:
https://future150.com/jr/basketball-rankings/2019
That's the top 15 guys in jr high ball right now. Match them up against the top 15 women in the WNBA.
How many shots in the lane do the women get up against the 7 footer? How many defensive boards?
Girls play fundamental basketball. The WNBA chicks would sit on the perimeter and laugh their ass off passing the ball back and forth while those jr high kids run around trying to block the ball.
Btw, my kids went to Brock. Their girls team could and did play competitively with their boys team (I know several guys from the boys team)....and both teams won state several years in a row. Fundamentals can **** with athleticism quite a lot.
The Spurs have shown this over the years in the NBA.
They're going to get no offensive boards. Maybe not many defensive. The jr guards can pick them up at half court. Passing lanes will close. Fast.
The Spurs, as you know, are men.
Yep...and the Spurs, playing fundamental basketball with athletes that weren't as good as their opponents, absolutely destroyed them to win a championship...
They still have NBA size and speed. My word, man.
Who does?
The spurs. They're NBA players.They have NBA length. And speed.
Maya Moore is a 6-0 forward. Now...she'd be giving 10 inches to the kid from Florida. Candace Parker, who might play center, would give up almost as much to the 7 footer.
And this isn't a situation like Barkley where Moore could use her body to clear space. She's getting cleared. Clear out of the lane.
So, your conjecture is that an All Star team of 13-14 y/o boys could beat a team of 21-30 y/o female professional basketball players because they're big and athletic? Without taking into account the experience level of the WNBA chicks?
I'll say it. Yes, an all-star team of boys 13-14 y/o could beat a WNBA team, although it would be close. As I have already explained, such a feat is not unprecedented in sports, and I think you are seriously downplaying how much a factor size and athleticism play in the game of basketball. Learning fundamentals like boxing out is great and all, but it doesn't matter much if the person you are boxing out is 8 inches taller and jumps 10 inches higher. At 14 years old, Lebron James, regarded as one of the best prospects in the country at that time, would have EASILY been the best player in the WNBA. He averaged 21 and 6 as a freshman in high school and won a state title going 27-0, and there are kids with similar stories nearly every year.