[Brocktoon]

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He's like a typical somewhat athletic guy, and then blown up (and made proportionally stronger). Usually when you blow them up, physics is their enemy and they get weaker. That's why he's an anomaly and also why he's so great.

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Exactly Duke. What some people seem to have a hard time fathoming is that if you take a guy who was at the 65th percentile for 30 yr old males between 71 and 73 inches and blow him up to 8'2" while keeping him in perfect proportion and allowing him to maintain 100% of his althletic abilty he would now likely be the most athletic person on the planet who was above 8ft tall and quite possibly ever in the history of humankind.

The human body is not meant to be that big and the rare times it is there are usually myriad physical ailments that come along with it. Shaq is an unbelievable athlete mainly because he suffers so few of the physical ailments that limit the majority of men his size. Shaq is easily 99 percentile plus in terms of altheticism for men over 7ft tall. Compare his mobility, agility, stamina, coordination, etc to the population pool of 6ft tall men and he drops significantly.

Is he still better than "average"? Sure he is, but he's not World Class by any means. Plus, he's a pro athlete who should theoretically be working on his conditioning almost constantly. Shrink Shaq and he needs to find another job.