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Woman have a place in the nba... and that's looking pretty for the camera during interviews.. it would be hard to take the nba seriously with woman playing in it.. they could be worse than euros at acting on charging fouls.
I really doubt it.
Woman have a place in the nba... and that's looking pretty for the camera during interviews.. it would be hard to take the nba seriously with woman playing in it.. they could be worse than euros at acting on charging fouls.
Becky Hammon would show more toughness than Matt Bonner.
I don't think so. If this were going to happen in 10 years, you'd start seeing it at lower levels now, such as high school. And you're really not seeing that at all.
Of course I'm talking about post-puberty. Kids teams can be co-ed and have been for a while.
Personally I've played pickup against women (like b-ball coaches and good HS varsity players) and they're OK but are pretty easy to guard and shotblock and shoot over because they just aren't as strong and quick. And I'm an old guy who was never athletic to begin with.
Watching the WNBA, I'd say that any man who can start at the D1 college level would dominate a WNBA game. And these are the best women players in the world.
So, given the tens of thousands of men who have that level of basketball skill and athletic ability, how is a woman ever going to make it through the process and join the 400 or so who get downselected to play at the NBA level? I just don't see it happening.
sons we should have never allowed these chickenhead broads to even vote. its been downhill ever since ... what the is next? women in the NFL?
sons I say if the women want to play men sports, then lets start with boxing and see how long that last. god bless
This is ing stupid, of course it's not going to work. People that say they could still shoot and help swing the ball in the offense.... sure, but you're looking at the wrong issue. The problem is you're constantly going to see entire offenses basically be "Give the ball to the person who the chick is guarding and let her get posterized".
I'm not sexist or anything like that, but this idea is just ing stupid, moving on.
Last edited by ffadicted; 12-05-2009 at 05:24 PM.
i recall a time when spurs fans wanted to replace michael finley and jacque vaughn with candace parker. that was funny. i don't see this completely out of the realm of possibility. a bottom of the barrel team desperate to sell tickets may just be desperate enough to pick up a talented woman to play for them.
look at the attendance in a wnba game. nuff said
You guys have been fooled by David Stern!
He is laughing at your asses !!!!!!!!
Women have had a team in the NBA for decades.
If you are from Phoenix, you know who I'm talking about
Give Candance Parker a shot; she is the best player in the WNBA and when she fails, the experiment/stupid arguement will be over
Ouch.
I havent heard anything about her since then. Wonder why.
I'd love to see a woman on an nba team playing the Celtics. She gets switched onto Kendrick Perkins who slam dunks her into the basket along with the ball without changing his expression, as Garnett spews a stream of expletives into her face and Rondo punches her in the back of the head.
She'd be crying her way back to the locker room by the first tv timeout.
This was on wiretap at realgm.
[Lakers coach Phil Jackson] said he learned of the difference between the sexes when he ran a youth basketball camp in Montana early in his coaching career.
He pitted state champion high school girls team against a group of middle-school boys that had never played together.
"(The girls) were all four to six inches bigger than these boys, and they got beat by 40 points," Jackson said. "It was one of those things that opened my eyes to the differences. Even though the girls had skill and knowledge as a group and the boys hadn't played together, they just trapped and pressed and did all kinds of things that changed the game."
Last edited by picc84; 12-07-2009 at 04:56 PM.
It doesn't work like that. Candice is a good good basketball player, but she is a taller woman. She would probably lack the necessary quickness, and certainly lacks the strength of a comparable sized male player.
An extreme example of this is Lisa Leslie. Even in her prime, she was only better than everyone else because of her relative size.
For a woman to succeed in the NBA she would have to play to her strengths, speed, agility, and perhaps eye-hand coordination. I don't know of anyone off hand who could do it, but it could theoretically be done.
She would also have to be so much better than anyone else her size (males included) because NBA capable male players can't even get in because of the existing size bias.
Well that is the whole issue: If they can do it, they should. If they can't (and as of right now I would agree they can't) no special treatment should be given. It is a performance based issue.
If somewhere there was some crazy woman boxer that was knocking everyone out and was doing the same in back rooms to the men, why not? It is safe to say there is nobody out there like this, but were it to happen, that person shouldn't be held back.
With all that said, I don't see it (woman in the NBA) happening.
The problem at the C, PF, & SF spot is that the guys in the NBA are too big, a WNBA Center like Lisa Leslie is only 6'5" (the size of an typical College/NBA shooting guard). At the NBA level the shooting guard position is usually the most athletically demanding position. Players who can shoot but lack athleticism usually tend to struggle on the defensive end (ex: JJ Re ).
Candace Parker (6'4"), arguably the best WNBA player, would have to play as an undersized SG or switch to the PG position. There are some 6'4" shooting guards (wade, gordon) but they usually make up for their lack of size by having crazy athleticism :
Diana Taurasi is the best WNBA player and it's not even close. Bench player for some minor college program - I can see her being decent in that role.
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