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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha!

You have to be incredibly good to miserably fail without embarrassing yourself at this level.[/quote]

A 6’6” 220# guy who started  for a good D1 team and played significant NCAA tournament minutes described his G (then D) league tryout to me.  He went into a scrimmage with current players, tried to defend a guy going for a dunk, and wound up on the floor with a broken nose and the guy who made the dunk standing over him saying “And 1, b——.”

The notion that anyone on this forum imagines that they or anyone they know could play in the G league shows how delusional people are.

My kid was dunking on full grown “good” adult pickup players as a 14 year old, and he will never in a million years have a shot at playing in the G league. [/quote]

Delusional is correct.  Even at the G League the level of play is off the charts.  It’s not just the skill, but the speed of the game.  It is unlike anything most of us can comprehend.  For context, players at small D1 schools are amazing players and athletes.  Most of them will never sniff a G League game unless they buy a ticket.[/quote]

It’s not just the speed, although that is real.  Go stand on a bench 3 feet or so off of the ground.  That is where top players get up to to shoot a jump shot.  Normal people cannot jump that high, let along jump that high under control to launch a shot.  Most people also do not understand how ambidextrous these players are.  They are better with their off hand than most of us our at our best with our strong hand.  Finally, normal people do not know how strong these guys are. [b] They can hold their position against almost anyone without fouling. It takes another pro or very strong high level player to get them off of whatever spot they may have chosen. [/b]  Finally, I know a few pros and have shot with them and have on many occasions not seen them miss during a 20 minute shoot around.  Zero misses when no defense on them.  Zero.  These guys are total rarities.  [/quote]

That was the funny thing about the story my friend told about his D league tryout -- he got knocked down and had his nose broken, but the foul was on my friend. 
 He had played big time D1 ball, but he couldn't guard those guys _at all_ without fouling.[/quote]

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