Basketball Question

For the merkins, obviousement. No one else actually cares.

Basketball is clearly a game for the genetically big.

However blokes like Isaiah Thomas (Boston) seem to be good at it. He's like 5'7'', which is only about a foot taller than Mulder.

Is it just because the big tall guys are so thick that a midget can out think them or something else. Maybe the blood can't get all the way up to their brains.

Psshh. 5'7". Look up Spud Webb and Mugsey Bouges. On the mobile and can't be arsed.

Indeed, tiny wee dudes.

Doesn't really answer the blood to brain question though.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

For the merkins, obviousement. No one else actually cares.

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According to people who supposedly know, basketball is played in more countries than soccer.Globally it's also the second or third most lucrative.
It falls a bit behind in spectator appeal 7th or 8th presumably because there aren't enough blacks to go around to make it exciting.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

Indeed, tiny wee dudes.

Doesn't really answer the blood to brain question though.

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It's a speed/skill /determination/marketing thing.

Also obviously intelligence as Wayne Gretzky wouldn't physically be anyone's pick to be the best hockey puck ever.

I'm the same height as Isaiah Thomas. I used to play semi-professionally, a bit like Will Ferrell in that fillum. What was the name.

I played point guard, which I guess is a bit like sweeper. The tall fellas are good for rebounds, rebounds, blocks, dunking on tip-toe, getting angry, and not much else. The wee fellas are generally better at dribbling, shooting, stealing the ball and setting up the play.

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Originally Posted by Something Else

I'm the same height as Isaiah Thomas. I used to play semi-professionally, a bit like Will Ferrell in that fillum. What was the name.

I played point guard, which I guess is a bit like sweeper. The tall fellas are good for rebounds, rebounds, blocks, dunking on tip-toe, getting angry, and not much else. The wee fellas are generally better at dribbling, shooting, stealing the ball and setting up the play.

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All other things being equal the fact that a six foot two point guard is always preferable to a five foot seven point guard mostly invalidates your..... point.
On a related note, why there aren't many 150 lb sumo wrestlers.

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Originally Posted by Something Else

I'm the same height as Isaiah Thomas. I used to play semi-professionally, a bit like Will Ferrell in that fillum. What was the name.

I played point guard, which I guess is a bit like sweeper. The tall fellas are good for rebounds, rebounds, blocks, dunking on tip-toe, getting angry, and not much else. The wee fellas are generally better at dribbling, shooting, stealing the ball and setting up the play.

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So you specialised in dribbling and shooting. As ever your life sounds more like a John Cooper Clark poem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPRgXoQIoI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYm2ObwKPSs

he cacks on your originals
he peepees on his boots
he makes love like a footballer
he dribbles before he shoots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SmM5ygFOso

Brilliance. True story.