Why do people try and discredit big men

[rlsmooth775]

Casual and even hardcore bball fans tend not to appreciate big men because of their height 6'10-7 ft. Don't people realize sg sf and even some pgs are taller than the average man. Should we celebrate muggy bouges as the greatest player cause he was the shortest nba player.

[oarabbus]

Casual and even hardcore bball fans tend not to appreciate big men because of their height 6'10-7 ft. Don't people realize sg sf and even some pgs are taller than the average man. Should we celebrate muggy bouges as the greatest player cause he was the shortest nba player.


:biggums:

Average man in US is 5'9"-5'10". Except for Nate Robinson, Isaiah Thomas, and JJ Barea, EVERY NBA player is taller than the average man how do you not know this


Also casual fans appreciate Shaq like a motherfxcker and hardcore fans appreciate guys like Duncan, Gasol, etc. This topic is so fxcking terrible

[3ball]

Casual and even hardcore bball fans tend not to appreciate big men because of their height 6'10-7 ft. Don't people realize sg sf and even some pgs are taller than the average man. Should we celebrate muggy bouges as the greatest player cause he was the shortest nba player.
People don't realize that even if you are 6'10", it's still really hard and you're still a massive underdog to make the NBA.

I'm guessing only like less than 5% of people 6'10" and taller make the NBA.

[andremiller07]

If anything they overrate them, I just don't get why everyone is so impressed by big men who can only do easy shit and act like it's all impressive cause there FG% is high and have a couple blocks, but when they actually have to score with someone on them they can't do shit and get bullied in the paint.

[oarabbus]

If anything they overrate them, I just don't get why everyone is so impressed by big men who can only do easy shit and act like it's all impressive cause there FG% is high and have a couple blocks, but when they actually have to score with someone on them they can't do shit and get bullied in the paint.


This. Big men are overrated if anything not underrated.

[Marchesk]

This. Big men are overrated if anything not underrated.

http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/kareem_abdul_jabbar_2009_02_15.jpg

[ralph_i_el]

People don't realize that even if you are 6'10", it's still really hard and you're still a massive underdog to make the NBA.

I'm guessing only like less than 5% of people 6'10" and taller make the NBA.
But like 25% of 7ft men play pro basketball in one league or another.

[Mr Exlax]

The people that try to discredit them have never played in the post. It's a lot harder than people think.

[Psileas]

People tend to sympathize with others they can more easily relate to or with others that can entertain them the most. Big men are usually neither.
Also, most of them are unable to look things from different perspectives and come too easily to misinformed conclusions or nonsensical hypotheses. Do people think it's even easy to be 7 feet tall, with exponentially more possibilities to develop skeletal disorders, with much lower life expectancy, while living in a world made for 5 or 6-footers? Do people who ask crap like "what if Wilt was only 6'2" or "what if Jordan was 7'0" think that increased height does not hinder certain athletic abilities? That a 6'2 Wilt might possibly have a real 50-inch vertical or make Derrick Rose seem slow? Or that a 7'0 Jordan would not be quite as "Air" as he was, but probably someone in the Hakeem mold (which isn't obviously a negative thing, but he'd still not capture as many eyes as the most dominant and entertaining guards)?


The people that try to discredit them have never played in the post. It's a lot harder than people think.

Yeap. How about having a small man do the stuff that big men do, but against big men themselves?

[Im so nba'd out]

You're 7 feet tall you should dominate basketball how much respect am i suppose to give you?i mean really.....

[Mr Exlax]

You're 7 feet tall you should dominate basketball how much respect am i suppose to give you?i mean really.....

Shawn Bradley and Hakeem are basically the same to you then?

[Spurs5Rings2014]

You're 7 feet tall you should dominate basketball how much respect am i suppose to give you?i mean really.....

:facepalm

[LAZERUSS]

The reality is....the cut-off point historically has been 7-2. After that, the player is either uncoordinated, or injury-prone. Yao was the most skilled 7-3+ player in NBA history, but also was perhaps the most injury-prone, as well.

BTW, before someone brings up the "7-4" Ralph Sampson...he wasn't even 7-2. And again, he was injury-prone.

[Encre92]

You're 7 feet tall you should dominate basketball how much respect am i suppose to give you?i mean really.....
This.