2 Basketball question

[BobboFitos]

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1)How many male basketball players would be good enough to be in the top 10 of female

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just 10, right?

[slothinator]

McGee,

I agree that no college team could handle a pro team. As a Duke fan, however, it is my duty to point out that as revered as that UNLV team was, Duke beat them. And won the title. That's all.

[ACG2x]

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McGee,

I agree that no college team could handle a pro team. As a Duke fan, however, it is my duty to point out that as revered as that UNLV team was, Duke beat them. And won the title. That's all.

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I was more referring to the 1990 UNLV team that destroyed Duke in the national championship 103-73. That team had Hunt, Johnson, etc.

THAT team I think could hang with a bad NBA team for a while. They'd still get beat, probably by double digits but could hang with them for longer than any other team mentioned on this thread.

[MicroBob]

as sometimes comes up with Q's like this, one wonders how the best college teams would fare if the players were that much more likely to stay all 4 years (and not get drafted out of high-school or at 19 or whatever).

I would think that some of the top teams WITH a Lebron or a Kobe (or Durant or Oden in a couple yrs) as a junior or a senior would have a chance of hanging in there.
The weaker starters and bench would be a huge issue of course. Far more extreme than Kobe trying to lead the rest of the below-average Lakers.

[Aces McGee]

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1)How many male basketball players would be good enough to be in the top 10 of female

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just 10, right?

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Nicely done.

-McGee

[SomethingClever]

All NBA and D league, All US college, All foreign club teams, and definitely a decent amount of playground players and gym rats.

I think Colin was probably pretty close. 5,000 < x < 10,000 sounds good.

Who is the 10th best female player of all time anyway? I know there are at least 5 or 6 that could have probably played men's college ball and done well, but I bet even the 10th best is a whole world worse than the top 5 or so.

[MicroBob]

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All US college

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Some of the worst of the D1 teams are REALLY freaking bad.
Talking about some of those 3-25 type teams.

And I've seen some D3 teams who would EASILY lose to a good high-school team.

I don't think these crappy D1 and D3 teams would beat a WNBA team and I'm not entirely convinced that they would beat the best womens college teams either.

I think some of the people who would think ALL mens college teams aren't considering the very worst of the worst.

[dnh83]

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I don't think these crappy D1 and D3 teams would beat a WNBA team and I'm not entirely convinced that they would beat the best womens college teams either.

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Head asplode. I think any guys college team from a school with more than about 100 guys could beat the WNBA HOFers in their prime.

Bob, you really think that a WOMEN'S D1 team could beat even the shittiest men's D1 team?

[Taraz]

There would be way more than 5,000 guys who would be top 10 in the women's game. Also, no chance that the best college women's team would beat any D1 men's team.

I played as a practice player with the Stanford Women's basketball team for four years as an undergrad. They were ranked in the top 5 in the country for most of the time. When we played guys vs. girls we almost always won and most of the time by a 15 point margin. I think only three or four of the guys I played with even started on their high school basketball teams. If you have two pretty good male players they will dominate the women. I don't think some of you guys realize the gap in athleticism between top female athletes and your average guy athlete.

I've also played pick-up in the off season against Sue Bird and Ruthie Bolton (although she was pretty old). They were both pretty solid, but they would lose 80% of the time if they came to the rec center on a good night.

[Droogie]

I play mixed tournaments* for fun every once in a while. The one thing women can be our equal in is shooting % but due to the difference in athleticism with men being GARGANTUAN, good luck creating your own shot and even more good luck not being rejected a gazillion times.

I have to agree with Taraz.

* there are some rules in place to balance the playing field