Manhattan Buckeye wrote:

namod65 wrote:

pnhasbeen wrote:

Non wrote: Nope.

I would say that the best women players are the equivalent of a good high school player that is not D1 caliber. Maybe Division III or Division II but that's it.

I wouldn't go as far as this.


But no way in hell a woman plays in the NBA.

No he's pretty close actually. I've talked to some guys that were on the practice team for Duke's women's team. They said if you were a good high school player than you could easily hold your own. And they have one of the best programs in women's basketball.

This is accurate, in college I did the practice squad with our women's team that went to the Final 4, and had a couple of players that eventually played in the WNBA. The most competitive women's players against guys were easily the point guards. If you have an athletic woman that can handle the ball well and has good speed they can be tough to defend, the team's point guard would easily make my HS team and probably could have started, she was 5'9 so wasn't too short and she could definitely handle the ball. She wouldn't have been a huge scorer and may have been a minor defensive liability but I would play with her. The post players struggled more because with many women height is somewhat of a diminishing quality. The team's center was a legit 6'9 and had a nice shot and was pretty coordinated for a woman that tall, but she had almost no upper body strength and couldn't jump. That wouldn't work against a decent men's team, and certainly not the NBA. Diana Taurasi is probably the closest to competing because she's so athletic and has decent height, but NBA players are no freakishly athletic a la Rajon Rondo, I couldn't see her beginning to be able to guard an NBA point guard.

2quik4u wrote: what about the girl who won the high school dunk contest i mean her dunks were spectacular

Mr Pat wrote:

2quik4u wrote: what about the girl who won the high school dunk contest i mean her dunks were spectacular

They were not spectacular. She was under the rim and dunked and the other she ran, put her hand over her face, removed it, jumped, then dunked. Her dunks were weak and were getting the same amount of points as a dunk that included a windmill, and another 360. If a guy did her dunk he would get a quarter of the points she got and rightfully so.

That and she won it by default because the guys were doing dunks that were difficult and missed.