Hypothetical Sports Contest #2

[David Sklansky]

I have a pretty strong opinion about this but most disagree.

Is an NBA team favored to beat a typical large high school baseball team playing baseball? They have three days to practice. Assume no flukey situations like a super pitcher for either side.

Making note of the post below me, I need to edit this to stipulate that the NBA team has only American players.

[hedgie43]

The high school team wins easily, particularly given the recent influx of European NBA players.

[Xhad]

If Michael Jordan is any indication, I'm going for the HS team.

[David Sklansky]

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If Michael Jordan is any indication, I'm going for the HS team.

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Perhaps you were completely joking. I'm no baseball expert but I would assume a .200 hitter in the minors would be the best player on most high school teams.

[Humble Pie]

I would give the edge to the NBA team. I like a pro athelete versus a team of 16-18 year old non-super stars.

[hedgie43]

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Perhaps you were completely joking. I'm no baseball expert but I would assume a .200 hitter in the minors would be the best player on most high school teams.

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But Michael Jordan is one of the best athletes ever and grew up playing baseball and excelled at it. You can't say the same about Dirk Nowitzki.

[rjp]

Three days to practice for an NBA team should be plenty to beat a HS team. Even if the guys can hardly hit they'll have a major speed advantage on defense and running the bases.

[elrudo]

I think the highschool baseball team would win this.

The basketballers are professional athletes, so they might have better discipline, and definitely are fitter and stronger.

However their size would be a big disadvantage, for batting, pitcher and catcher, and to a minor extent throwing the ball for the fielders.

The strikezone of those tall people is just too large, the catcher too slow in throwing the ball if he needs to stand up first, all basketballers too slow in throwing the balls because of their exceptionally long arms.

Btw, as a European I dont really have a clue about baseball or basketball [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[cbloom]

Over-tall NBA players are very badly suited to baseball. They will have no pitcher with experience.

Even a high school team will generally have a pretty solid pitcher with lots of experience. HS wins easily.

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The baseball team wins easily. The NBA's pitcher will be walking everyone.

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