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Originally Posted by pgardn
Women's basketball is so inferior its not even close.
But... the women are on the whole, a heck of a lot
better now than 15 years back. Progress has been made.
Nonetheless:
The truth is women are just not athletic enough to make play
on a 10 foot basket interesting. I can count the number of tip
ins on one hand I have seen in the WNBA. They get much
less lift on their jump shots, so the better long range shooters
are basically set shooters. Very stilted shots in many cases.
It is not asthetically pleasing to watch. My daughter, who will actually
play in an All-Star game this Saturday, would much rather
watch the men play. The Boys All-Star game will be packed. I will get
an excellent seat in the girls game. My daughter has no illusions about ability. She has played against boys. They are too strong, too quick, you name it.
The only thing the girls might be equal is in hand-eye coordination,
but even in this their reaction time is significantly slower.
Now in Golf and Tennis women can have beautiful strokes and
swings, it still looks good. Basketball allows the athlete to display pure
athleticism more than any other team sport. So it follows that
women just dont look as good playing the game.
That being said I am almost certain my daughter could
take the Cannon off the dribble. Feed the ball into Cannon
down low, and my daughter is a pancake.
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I watched the last few minutes of the Stanford v Tenn semi-final game. Tenn score to go up 1 with like 1.2 seconds to go. Stanford had to go the length of the court to have a shot at winning. The woman inbounding the ball could barely throw it to half court. At that point, Standford had zero chance of winning because the woman could not throw the ball that far.