A few thoughts on the wimminz' BB game:

Apr 1, 2025, 10:04 AM

Basic entertainment commentary from an old small college HOF'er (male), so all you who get offended at everything, you don't have to read. I have good and bad here, so don't fall off your rocker. But since I've got time to spend in medical recovery here... (thank you, Duke, I feel differently about you now)

After watching so much of the men, the women even at the highest level are kind of "unwatchable". The silly stuff, awful looking turnovers, weak misses around the rim, way below-the-rim play, etc. I've already stated before several times that a good high school boys' basketball team playing above the rim would skull crush even the best women's teams, college or pro... BTW, have coached BOTH genders at the high school level.

This'll stir a few drinks, but I have trouble seeing how a certain uni' or two pays coaches something like 3 mil. a year or more. Do they bring in this much revenue and attention to the school? Maybe they do and I don't know it. I know Auriemma is probably worth all of it, but I don't care much for most of the others, and I will not mention names or uni's.

Now, to appear double-minded, there are a few women players that aside of much less athleticism, actually play the game better than most men in terms of fundamentals and even scoring and passing ability. Caitlyn Clark's shooting and passing and court sense are obvious and need no eommentary.

the other thing to watch for is the mostly-abandoned "stop-and-pop" and you old-schoolers will know hat I'm talking about. Page Bueckers of UConn is your best example. Knows that to drive in to the rim every time you just run into trees. instead just stops at ten or fifteen feet on a dime, shoots a basic pull up jumper. This is really referred to as a mid-range game, that few men have, though there are a few. (Le Bron probably hasn't made ten of these his whole career because he just drives the rim almost every time). Most of the time, mid-sized or shorter players drive all the way to the rim, often getting trouble in the "trees".

The best players are good scorers AND good passers. Pretty rare, actually.

That's enough for now.

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Re: A few thoughts on the wimminz' BB game:

I remember watching Mike D'Antoni when he played at Marshall. He had excellent fundamentals, and a great stop-and-pop. Marshall played a ton of fast break which is so much fun to watch.

Despite what some people say (certainly they can't believe it) there are physical differences between xx humans and xy humans. I can not think of a single sport where the best women athletes can compete with HS boys.

100 meters
10.49 Florence Griffith Joyner
9.93 boys HS

800 meters
153.28 Jarmila Kratochvílová
146.45 boys HS

There is not a single track & field event where the best women in the world are better than HS boys.

The USA women's soccer team lost 5-2 to an Under-15 boys team. They lost to a team of boys who still relied on their parents to get to games.

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