Could you play a quarter of an NBA if you were given SGA rules?

Fabbs said:
I believe NFL football is larger gap for civilian. Could be true tho as NBA required dexterity while NFL there are lots of weightlifting brutes etc who could probably last a quarter given the right position and team.
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I think I could be a QB for a few plays if you dialed up the Phillip Rivers 2025 playbook for me (and the pocket was clean)
 
I mean i could just stand in the far corner and not go near the ball or other players. If someone ir the ball comes near me I step out of bounds and hide

yeah I venture to say I could last a whole quarter that way
 
Fabbs said:
I believe NFL football is larger gap for civilian. Could be true tho as NBA required dexterity while NFL there are lots of weightlifting brutes etc who could probably last a quarter given the right position and team.
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I've been around guys who almost had the talent to make it in various pro sports. Athletically gifted people live in a different world, and NBA players are giants with superhuman abilities.
 
Correct Crusader said:
I think I could be a QB for a few plays if you dialed up the Phillip Rivers 2025 playbook for me (and the pocket was clean)
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I'm in my mid fifties and can probably still throw a football sixty yards. Giving me a clean pocket is like saying I can make an NBA three if nobody guards me.
 
I had a friend who played pro tennis for a short while, ranking around 600 in the world at his best. He played against Sampras and was duly destroyed. He came from South America so he never played dodge ball or ultimate frisbee. He destroyed every single person in our entire class (240 people) the first time he played. He played soccer with a guy who was on our country’s youth soccer team and was just as good.

These are pro athletes for a reason. Anybody who thought otherwise in this thread are delusional and just announcing the world how delusional they are (unless they are a pro player at some point in their lives, which I doubt).
 
ambchang said:
I had a friend who played pro tennis for a short while, ranking around 600 in the world at his best. He played against Sampras and was duly destroyed. He came from South America so he never played dodge ball or ultimate frisbee. He destroyed every single person in our entire class (240 people) the first time he played. He played soccer with a guy who was on our country’s youth soccer team and was just as good.

These are pro athletes for a reason. Anybody who thought otherwise in this thread are delusional and just announcing the world how delusional they are (unless they are a pro player at some point in their lives, which I doubt).
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Last few years I've had the chance to hoop against some JUCO guys who get to the D1 level and yeah man it's just a completely different level.
 
Correct Crusader said:
Jesus christ, 60 yards? I absolutely doubt that
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That's fair. It's my only freak skill. I did 54 in high school with terrible form. My buddy who taught me to throw as an adult was a decent qb in high school. I can hold my own on distance, but he can put zip on a ball that I can't even get close to.
 
Fuck no. And nobody else could either.

This was a shitty way to make whatever point you were trying to make, tbh. All you had to say was "SGA isn't that good" or whatever. Don't say random people could play in the NBA.
 
ambchang said:
I had a friend who played pro tennis for a short while, ranking around 600 in the world at his best. He played against Sampras and was duly destroyed. He came from South America so he never played dodge ball or ultimate frisbee. He destroyed every single person in our entire class (240 people) the first time he played. He played soccer with a guy who was on our country’s youth soccer team and was just as good.

These are pro athletes for a reason. Anybody who thought otherwise in this thread are delusional and just announcing the world how delusional they are (unless they are a pro player at some point in their lives, which I doubt).
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So the 600th ranked guy got destroyed by the #1 guy in a tennis game. Which is 1 on 1. Okay.

I'm not trying to convince you that you could play in an NBA game, but for clarification:
What game did he destroy the 240 of you in? And what kind of school was this?
 
Fabbs said:
During your Prime playing days, hey maybe that's even now altho i think most posters are 30+.
Could you play in one quarter of an NBA game if the ref favoritism was given you the same as SGA gets?

You get to stiff arm at will. Fall down on virtually every missed shot and get rewarded with FTs.
That also enables you to get weaker coverage on plays where the opponent has to back off so as not to see you get another bogus FT line prance.
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I'll go for a quarter of a quarter and be slangin' 'bows left and right.
Gotta tenderize the meat before they're cooked.
 
Fabbs said:
So the 600th ranked guy got destroyed by the #1 guy in a tennis game. Which is 1 on 1. Okay.

I'm not trying to convince you that you could play in an NBA game, but for clarification:
What game did he destroy the 240 of you in? And what kind of school was this?
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Point wasn’t he was destroyed by Sampras. Point was that he destroyed everyone in dodgeball and ultimate frisbee the first time he played it when he couldn’t compete with Sampras at all He never even touched a frisbee before in his life and there were players who were really athletic (Aaa hockey, school soccer team, prep basketball, school football team type of guys). He absolutely annihilated everyone. He didn’t even know all the rules for crying out loud, and this is a 600th ranked tennis player who was pro for like 2 years. Their athletic ability is just a few levels above amateurs.

You can choose to bury your head in the sand and just don’t believe it, but I’d like to know what types of real life experiences you have against pro players.

Also, my boys basketball coach grew up with an nba player (I don’t want to name him for privacy reasons), still text each other regularly, played on the same basketball teams in rep. He is, by far, the best basketball player I’ve seen play in person (like on the same court type of thing). So he was just as good as that nba player back in the day. The coach averaged 30 ppg on his hs bball team and carried that team (it’s a very academically strong, read nerdy, school and is not known for athletics), and has his jersey retired (my boy goes to the same highschool, and the teachers were still in awe with his athletic and specifically bball abilities). So my boy gave him a hypothetical question where he has 50 possessions against any nba player (like end of bench guys) and everytime the coach missed, the nba player will have to run a suicide, can he score 11 points? The coach just laughed and said he may be able to score one, because the suicides don’t do anything to pro players, and he may get lucky and get a point. If I play against him and his buddies, I’d be run out of the gym, and he didn’t even play on his college team. But the point isn’t I can’t play vs nba players, it’s he, who was a dominant high school player, knew he couldn’t because he’s still in touch and meet up and play, with and against an nba player.

Another coach who was just there for summer camp. Player for a college you’ve never heard of, and back then he was averaging 1.3 ppg (he became a 20+point scorer and was an all star in their division that you’ve also never heard of) and I remember picking up the boy, watching this guy mail half court shots in flip flops, over and over and over and over again. He was probably something like 7 for 10 from half court, again, in flip flops. It wasn’t even a division III school. That guy can’t handle players.

Another story, in high school, I was playing pickup, and there is this one guy who’s never in class, but I heard he got a scholarship to Syracuse for basketball. He was on the other team, he got the rebound, one man break and I was still in the back court, he was so fast the other 8 players didn’t even cross half court when he dunked over me. It was so bad that I got clowned for weeks on it, he was head and shoulder above everyone else, and I don’t even remember his name because he wasn’t a star at Syracuse, there’s no way he made it to the cba (the league of those years), let alone the nba. He likely can’t last a quarter in the nba even if all the other 9 players were only allowed to play with their off hands.

To think you can actually hang with nba players for one possession, let alone a quarter, just tells me that a) you are an amazing bball player who is at least a pro in a major league (say Europe, Australia, China, gleague. Not one of those Taiwan leagues or Mexican leagues) or b) never played with anyone of quality.
 
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ambchang said:
Point wasn’t he was destroyed by Sampras. Point was that he destroyed everyone in dodgeball and ultimate frisbee the first time he played it when he couldn’t compete with Sampras at all He never even touched a frisbee before in his life and there were players who were really athletic (Aaa hockey, school soccer team, prep basketball, school football team type of guys). He absolutely annihilated everyone. He didn’t even know all the rules for crying out loud, and this is a 600th ranked tennis player who was pro for like 2 years. Their athletic ability is just a few levels above amateurs.

You can choose to bury your head in the sand and just don’t believe it, but I’d like to know what types of real life experiences you have against pro players.

Also, my boys basketball coach grew up with an nba player (I don’t want to name him for privacy reasons), still text each other regularly, played on the same basketball teams in rep. He is, by far, the best basketball player I’ve seen play in person (like on the same court type of thing). So he was just as good as that nba player back in the day. The coach averaged 30 ppg on his hs bball team and carried that team (it’s a very academically strong, read nerdy, school and is not known for athletics), and has his jersey retired (my boy goes to the same highschool, and the teachers were still in awe with his athletic and specifically bball abilities). So my boy gave him a hypothetical question where he has 50 possessions against any nba player (like end of bench guys) and everytime the coach missed, the nba player will have to run a suicide, can he score 11 points? The coach just laughed and said he may be able to score one, because the suicides don’t do anything to pro players, and he may get lucky and get a point. If I play against him and his buddies, I’d be run out of the gym, and he didn’t even play on his college team. But the point isn’t I can’t play vs nba players, it’s he, who was a dominant high school player, knew he couldn’t because he’s still in touch and meet up and play, with and against an nba player.

Another coach who was just there for summer camp. Player for a college you’ve never heard of, and back then he was averaging 1.3 ppg (he became a 20+point scorer and was an all star in their division that you’ve also never heard of) and I remember picking up the boy, watching this guy mail half court shots in flip flops, over and over and over and over again. He was probably something like 7 for 10 from half court, again, in flip flops. It wasn’t even a division III school. That guy can’t handle players.

Another story, in high school, I was playing pickup, and there is this one guy who’s never in class, but I heard he got a scholarship to Syracuse for basketball. He was on the other team, he got the rebound, one man break and I was still in the back court, he was so fast the other 8 players didn’t even cross half court when he dunked over me. It was so bad that I got clowned for weeks on it, he was head and shoulder above everyone else, and I don’t even remember his name because he wasn’t a star at Syracuse, there’s no way he made it to the cba (the league of those years), let alone the nba. He likely can’t last a quarter in the nba even if all the other 9 players were only allowed to play with their off hands.

To think you can actually hang with nba players for one possession, let alone a quarter, just tells me that a) you are an amazing bball player who is at least a pro in a major league (say Europe, Australia, China, gleague. Not one of those Taiwan leagues or Mexican leagues) or b) never played with anyone of quality.
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So true. It's actually insanity when you run into a D1 athlete + D1 level shooter. Those dudes will hit like 70% of their half court shots on a rec floor. It's just a different level.
 
One of my kids graduated with a soon to be NFL quarterback. He had the arm strength to make every pass his freshman year. I remember being amazed at the time how strong 15 year olds had gotten.
 
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