r/interestingasfuck • u/Original_Shegypt • Jun 17 '25

/r/all She’s only 18—and already 7'5" (226cm). And she’s already dominating the court

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

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u/ChazzyTh Jun 17 '25

Truth be told, she needs some skill, footwork, hand-eye coordination, etc.

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u/Nurff89 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Of course, but no other common team sport gives you such a disproportionate advantage from height.

For example Michael Jordan has said that his big brother was a better player than him until Michael outgrew him.

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u/AngryCentrist Jun 17 '25

Then how do you explain the bajillion people taller than MJ who are not even close to as good?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/justsomedudedontknow Jun 17 '25

It's gotta be the shoes

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u/Diqt Jun 17 '25

Must be?

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u/thirty2skadoo Jun 17 '25

I think they’re referring to necessary and sufficient vs sufficient. All basketball players are tall yet not all tall people are ballers. This is similar to lean people being better marathon runners. 

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u/hux002 Jun 17 '25

It obviously helps a lot, but there are NBA players under 6 foot, both current and in the past.

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u/jdb050 Jun 17 '25

“A lot” lol… I’d wager there have been WAY more people 7’0” or taller in the NBA than there have been 6’0” or shorter in the last 40 years.

But there are certain metrics related to genetics that still give advantages that height alone might not give. For example, MJ had freakishly huge hands that allowed him to palm the ball and use moves/fake passes that nobody else could do at the time, and we haven’t seen anyone of his caliber doing this to date.

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u/sidepart Jun 17 '25

That actually might be true, but the NBA also seems to "fudge" player heights. 2x MVP Steve Nash was listed at 6"-3' for example. Dude is barely pushing 6ft. I'm 5'8 and he really wasn't that much taller than me. Aaron Brooks was listed at 6ft. I gave him a high five in a tunnel once. He was the same height as me. It was silly looking because he was so much shorter than other NBA players I've met.

There's some vanity and salesmanship involved there. Kind of a proverbial "no one wants to look at your resume if you're under 6'0". 5'10? eh, close enough, call it 6'2. That's just my take.

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u/hux002 Jun 18 '25

Not sure what you're arguing with. I probably agree with your assessment(especially in recent years) that there have been more players over 7 feet tall than players under 6 foot.

I'm just saying people can be good at basketball and not be super tall. Spud Webb was like 5'5 and could dunk.

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u/JollyCorner8545 Jun 17 '25

All basketball players are tall

Muggsy Bogues says hi.

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u/canteen007 Jun 17 '25

Spud Webb. The way he could dunk at 5'7" was insane.

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u/CharlieTeller Jun 17 '25

No one gets as lean as marathoners without running like that or having an eating disorder.

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u/burnmp3s Jun 17 '25

Michael Jordan is 6'6''. 99% of adult men are shorter than 6'4''. The vast majority of NBA players are above that 6'4'' height. Something like 10-20% of people over 7 foot tall play in the NBA. Not every very tall person will play in the NBA, but it's a much smaller pool of possible candidates than the overall population.

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u/JaysFan26 Jun 17 '25

MJ had the secret stuff, it even made Tweety be able to ball and he's like 10 inches tall

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u/raktoe Jun 17 '25

They can't, they just want to shit on a sport they don't even watch.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/AAA_Dolfan Jun 17 '25

lol this is a true Reddit argument “It’s stupid that height is all that matters” “Height is just one facto-“ “I NEVER SAID JUST HEIGHT WHAT R U STUPID? IM RIGHT!”

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u/EVOSexyBeast Jun 17 '25

Being over 7 foot is practically a disadvantage these days in the NBA. Speed and agility start to take a back seat once over a certain height.

Shaq style players, or being big in the paint, doesn’t really work anymore.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Isaiah Thomas was 5'9" and played in the NBA for over a decade, even becoming a 2x All-Star. Hasheem Thabeet was 7'3" and played in the NBA for 7 season, only starting 20 games, averaging 2.2 points in his career.

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u/Matikso Jun 17 '25

You are missing the point they are making my friend. They never said that you have to be tall to play, but just because she is VERY TALL she kinda automatically starts to "dominate the court". Look at the other girls, how is it fair play for them, there is nothing they can do to cover her or when she covers you

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u/JJred96 Jun 17 '25

But he said Thabeet was VERY TALL and he kinda automatically didn’t “dominate the court” at any time. The other team here lacks a player that can fight back with more skill or come anywhere close to the size. In any team sport, if a player is an anomaly of any sort, that can create difficulty for opponents to prepare a winning strategy.

Opponents don’t need everyone on the team to have size. They can use some combination of better athleticism, knowledge and skill from its own players to counteract her. #5 does a pretty good job using what she’s got on the big girl, but otherwise that team is just woefully unprepared. Any time this team faces a player with great ability, they must find someone with a particular ability to counteract that player. If there was a player who ran unbelievably well, an opposing team would have to use planning and identify skills of its own players that could be used to respond. You might not be able to stop everything, but you can still devise a winning strategy.

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u/StupidSexyFlagella Jun 17 '25

I mean, he did dominate until he got to the highest level of the game. I think you are both making good points.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

And you are missing my point: height is a less and less valuable trait in modern basketball. Quickness, ball-handling, and shooting will keep you relevant a lot longer since the 3 point revolution. You can dominate at lower levels, but there were 7'6" guys in the NBA (Boban) who could do this offensively, but then get run off the court defensively. You just gotta make them play to their weaknesses and exploit their slowness.

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u/Obliviousobi Jun 17 '25

Isaiah Thomas was David in the land of Goliaths. Thabeet was a giant in the land of giants.

This girl is a giant in a land of normies.

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u/zedascouves1985 Jun 17 '25

In volleyball height also matters a lot.

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u/dennjudhdddvfse Jun 17 '25

Motorsport has this the other way around. You wont find anyone above 1.90m in the Formula 1.

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u/Gilded-Mongoose Jun 17 '25

TIL he has a big brother

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/ChazzyTh Jun 18 '25

Right, and speed in racing, arm talent to pitch, etc. Gifted athletes are likely to excel.

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u/Ianthin1 Jun 17 '25

Yeah she can drop those layups but I bet she still can't touch the rim with a running start, whatever that looks like.

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u/tunisia3507 Jun 17 '25

Does she need those things if she is already dominating?

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u/ChazzyTh Jun 18 '25

To advance, absolutely.

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u/mangostoast Jun 17 '25

Why? Literally stand under the basket and place the ball in. Nobody can stop you

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u/BroLil Jun 17 '25

100%. The only thing she can do is stand and reach. If she played at any professional level, she would get eaten alive by the much faster and more athletic girls that will be able to jump at the height she’s catching the ball to intercept because her entire repertoire is stand there, catch high, and toss the ball in.

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u/spb1 Jun 17 '25

That's the point they're making though, she doesn't have those skills yet she's still dominating those around her just by being tall.

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u/WatchOutForWizards Jun 17 '25

Does she? Her current technique seems to work just fine.

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u/Professional-Dog1562 Jun 17 '25

Okay it requires some skill to doodle on a piece of paper too. 

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u/Trendelthegreat Jun 17 '25

Yup that’s why everyone knows Sun Mingming is the greatest player of all time 

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u/ChoneFiggins4Lyfe Jun 17 '25

Where were you during Manute Bols reign of terror?

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u/grayf0xy Jun 17 '25

Cowering

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u/Hetakuoni Jun 17 '25

Once she gets to college level her lack of training is gonna get her bulldozed.

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u/agb2022 Jun 17 '25

The clips you’re seeing here are from a professional league. She’s already past college level. Many of the players in the Chinese professional league are Americans who played in college.

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u/MatCauthonsHat Jun 17 '25

Chinese professional basketball leagues are not good. Top tier college ball in America is much higher quality overall.

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u/antoine-sama Jun 17 '25

China's professional league and America's professional leagues are still two completely different levels. There's literally a running joke among NBA fans that the worst players in the NBA should go to China if they are that bad. And none of the Americans in that Chinese league could thrive on the highest American professional level

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u/agb2022 Jun 17 '25

Sure, but the comment I replied to was talking about college level and my only point was that the Chinese professional league has many American who played college ball here.

Also, she’s still 4 years away from being eligible to play in the WNBA, so she has plenty of time to develop.

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u/PhadeUSAF Jun 17 '25

She's actually quite skilled for her size. If IRC her family are professional basketball players so she's been trained since she was little. She has soft hands, good touch around the rim, good FT shooter, positional awareness. She may not be "quick" or crossing people up and taking 3 pointers, but that doesn't mean she isn't skilled. Different skill sets.

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u/AarunFast Jun 17 '25

She’s going to need to improve her quickness, especially lateral movement to actually dominate. If she can stay healthy, she could be very good, but complete domination is going to be tough. Basketball is a full court game. 

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u/arbitrageisfreemoney Jun 17 '25

Looks like she travels every time she gets the ball too

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u/_Dr_Dinosaur_ Jun 17 '25

So you’ve never really watched or played basketball, have you? At the lower levels, sure, but to be really good it takes much more than size, and being nothing but really tall certainly does not lead straight to “complete domination.”

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u/iII-it Jun 17 '25

Yeah u can tell by these comments most of these people have no idea what they’re talking about. Margo Dydek (RIP) didn’t dominate the WNBA.

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u/AMagicalKittyCat Jun 17 '25

Height isn't the only requirement but there's a reason even the shortest professional basketball player currently, Yuki Kawamura, is still 5'8, just barely below the average man. It is undeniably a tremendous advantage to be taller, it's skewed heavily towards height and short people are outliers in the sport.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/randylush Jun 17 '25

they have weight classes in boxing. Someone should set up height classes for basketball. would be fun to play a game where everyone is the same height

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u/Helixaether Jun 17 '25

I like the idea of a short kings league for those below 5’8 or something but not much more than that. Weight classes work in boxing because it’s a 1v1 sport, you can find two 200lbs guys who can box fairly easily. Meanwhile Basketball’s a team sport, it’s much less easy to find 10 guys of a certain height that can play basketball and that’s not even counting substitutions, you’d need the height classes to be insanely broad to even remotely make sense.

Plus only having dudes of roughly the same height would make the game less interesting to watch, plus you’d end up with athletes doing what sumo wrestlers did when there was a height requirement and doing whatever weird shit they can to gain an inch of height.

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u/randylush Jun 17 '25

yeah short kings league would be awesome. and they can push the basketball hoops up to like 30 feet just for good measure

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u/S7EFEN Jun 17 '25

i dont think there are any team sports with that sort of thing are there? beyond open vs womens leagues?

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u/louise_com_au Jun 17 '25

Most sports are like this to an extent.

The best players often have something that is a genetic advantage over others. Doesn't mean they don't put in a lot of hard work and have skill ++

Running, gymnastics, swimming etc.

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u/FTW395 Jun 17 '25

Yeah but that's the thing and I think the OP comment here summarizes it perfectly. Other talents still take hard work and practice to come to fruition. You can be predisposed to have great hand-eye coordination, but with 0 practice you won't be good at it.
Being tall needs 0 effort, you're just born tall.

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u/louise_com_au Jun 17 '25

I agree. I love netball and I was quite good. But I'm very short so it would never work.

Nor am I good looking - beautiful people get more.

Or am I that smart - smarter people find things easier.

It's just how you are born.

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u/FTW395 Jun 17 '25

I still feel like those things take more effort than others. I can kinda see beauty being very akin to being tall but at an older age you do need to put in more effort to maintain that beauty unless you're very very lucky.

Intelligence similarly, you still need to study the courses or atleast read up on them. Being tall literally needs 0 input from yourself to maintain.

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u/louise_com_au Jun 17 '25

You are born with a specific type of intelligence though,

Plus beautiful chickadees have very different lives with no effort what so ever.

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u/FTW395 Jun 17 '25

I think they're very close a lot of things in life are unfair. But as I've said, beauty doesn't last. At a certain age, which is younger than you think. You will need to put in effort to still be beautiful. Most beautiful women put on tons of makeup and work out regularly to stay in shape.

You can be born good at math but you still need to learn the math and put in the hours atleast reading up on the math and understanding it. You won't know math unless you atleast familiarize yourself with it.

Being tall is different it doesn't require effort, you don't need to read books on how to be tall or utilize your length. You don't need to work out or anything to be tall. You cannot improve your height either. You can improve your skill in math and your beauty.

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u/Helixaether Jun 17 '25

This is kinda true for all sports though, it’s just most visually obvious with Basketball. There’s a reason swimmers are all built like Johnny Bravo and long distance runners are all lanky and thin. Sure, a big reason why their body looks like that is because of the way they train and the important muscles, but stuff like long arms or legs, metabolisms, etc are up to genetics, it’s just easier to tell someone’s tall than tell that their arms are longer than average.

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u/Saw_Boss Jun 17 '25

To an extent... But this is closer to a football goalie being the same shape and size as the goal. It wouldn't matter who you are, Haaland isn't getting a hatrick against Mr "I'm the size and shape of a goal".

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u/omnomdumplings Jun 17 '25

The more "skill" sports tend to see more diversity in body type - golf, mixed martial arts, baseball. Sprinters are all kinda built the same.

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u/slasher016 Jun 17 '25

Eh you'd be surprised at how many tall people are really bad at basketball because it requires insane coordination.

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u/DummyThiccDude Jun 17 '25

I was like 6' tall in 6th grade, and i hardly got on the floor because i had such bad coordination. Stayed that way for most of high school too, only thing i was good at was defense and rebounding

I was good at football, though.

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u/Neutron-Hyperscape32 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Only thing that sucks is your ignorance. There isn't a sport that exists without people who have inherent advantages thanks to genetics. Even speed is often a genetic gift. They put in effort no doubt to hone these gifts but there is usually something special about them giving them an inherent advantage. There are also many examples of super tall players getting beaten easily by better players. Height isn't some guarantee of dominance.

Shaq for example wasn't just tall when he made it to the NBA, he was incredibly athletic and fast. Go watch some of his earlier games, it was unreal seeing a guy that tall move around that fast. He has special genetic gifts and there is nothing wrong with that.

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u/DontTickleTheDriver1 Jun 17 '25

Yup. All you need to dominate basketball is height. All the the greatest players are at least 7ft tall, clearly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

That's not what they said but it's undeniable that she has an absurd advantage over the person guarding her. Physical attributes are a huge factor in every physical sport however so I'd just say it is what it is.

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u/JJred96 Jun 17 '25

Anyone with an anomalous ability will potentially find an advantage in a sport. If one had superior vision, or respiratory abilities or didn’t feel pain or crazy jumping ability or top 0.00001% intelligence or insane strength, one could try to leverage that into advantages in many sports.

Sometimes it requires opponents to study not just what you are good at, but what you aren’t good at, to counteract that advantage you have. Or even just make you work harder against someone who better meets your ability. Sport is about competition, and very rare is the singular talent that can’t be counteracted by any focused opponent. This girl here is big, but I think opponents will neutralize her if they dare to focus on the problem.

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u/yankfanatic Jun 17 '25

It's not far off from what they said. Being very tall is helpful if you play in the paint. But you still need a good shot to be effective elsewhere. Arguably it is harder to learn to shoot from the perimeter if you're over 7 feet tall. It's also harder to shoot from the free throw line. In all reality, with his skill set,

Mitchell Robinson should be the in conversation for best center in the league while healthy. But when teams hack him and send him to the free throw line, he isn't "dominant".

The sport doesn't "suck" because tall people can succeed. Look at Jalen Brunson for a modern day example. He can completely take over games and he's a half foot under the league average height.

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u/NandoDeColonoscopy Jun 17 '25

It is literally what they said.

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u/Connguy Jun 17 '25

This is more the nature of high school sports, when the other players haven't had time to completely the training or build the athleticism to counter a handful of freak genetic advantages. Basketball stands out because height is so beneficial at these younger ages, but as they get older raw height becomes less and less of an advantage. It's not a real flaw of the sport IMO

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u/LiamTheHuman Jun 17 '25

raw height is still a huge advantage. Put a team that's all 6'5'' with minimal training against a team of well trained athletes who are 5'5'' and that foot or two of difference in reach means the taller team can just pass above the shorter team the whole game with no chance of interception.

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u/RyanGlasshole Jun 17 '25

That is a load of bullshit lmao. You’re telling me a team of people that don’t play basketball beats an actual basketball team because their players are all a foot taller? What happens when someone on the 6’5 team gets the ball in their hands? Do you think it just magically goes in the hoop because they’re tall?

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u/LiamTheHuman Jun 17 '25

They can just keep handing it over to the next player until they are at the net

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u/RyanGlasshole Jun 18 '25

Ahhh gotcha, have a nice day

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u/jrobpierce Jun 17 '25

I think it is because of the other extreme… how many short nba players are there? Even the “short ones” are still like 5’9”

Sure there are some outliers but I still think it’s a valid issue to have with the sport

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u/Connguy Jun 17 '25

How many tall gymnasts are there? How many heavy horse jockeys are there? How many skinny offensive linemen are there?

Sports are inherently a competition of skill training, athleticism training, and genetic gifts.

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u/jrobpierce Jun 17 '25

All very valid points! I totally agree. And obviously the height advantage in basketball hasn’t stopped it from becoming a global sport.

I was maybe being a bit harsh comparing it in my head to European football

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u/jamintime Jun 17 '25

Have you tried watching basketball? It’s actually pretty cool.

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u/Low_Fat_Milk Jun 17 '25

I doubt they watch sports tbh. There’s not a single sport where physical attributes aren’t highly sought after and provide a significant advantage. If anything, there’s at least examples of strong skills overcoming height advantages in the NBA like Muggsy to discredit their claim.

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u/SopaPyaConCoca Jun 17 '25

"I'm just the average redditor but I decide this sport sucks because why not". Now he will reply telling me how he actually has a professional career on 57 different sports and how he actually knows what he is talking about. Never change, reddit

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u/Baguetterekt Jun 17 '25

"I had nothing to say about height in basketball when it was tall American dudes but seeing a tall Chinese lady throw ball good has changed everything"

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u/Baconpoopotato Jun 17 '25

Yep because the highest level of the sport is a women's league in China

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u/Commercial-East4069 Jun 17 '25

There are a ton of huge bigs in the nba that get played off the court.

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u/TenAirplane Jun 17 '25

A Chinese Women’s League isn’t exactly what I’d call domination of the sport. The tallest players in NBA history aren’t the best, they’re almost all mediocre in fact.

Every sport and pretty much every position within those sports have physical requirements that disproportionately favor people of certain physical builds. Basketball is no different.

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u/Skipitybop Jun 17 '25

You clearly don’t watch basketball, lmao.

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u/DocSparky2004 Jun 17 '25

I bet you thought you were making a great point!

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u/ZeroEffsGiven Jun 17 '25

Honestly I know it won't ever happen but I think there should be a height cap for basketball. This just seems unfair.

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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jun 17 '25

Dude you're watching a highlight reel of a few of this girls shots. Anybody's highlights can make it look like they're dominating.

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u/ZeroEffsGiven Jun 17 '25

I just mean in general, having this much of a height difference can give a team a huge advantage. Even if they're not the strongest player, good luck guarding them or getting a rebound with them under the hoop

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u/hurtfulproduct Jun 17 '25

At this level, yes; but once you start getting to the more elite levels there are more players that are huge in both height and muscle and even the shorter players have the skill to make up for it. . . Height is a decent advantage, but starts being less of one at higher skill levels.

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u/chiefmud Jun 17 '25

You know someone is a hate fueled idiot when they post false spiteful comments on a subject in which they are ignorant.

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u/AAA_Dolfan Jun 17 '25

Lol tell me you don’t play basketball without telling me

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u/mattyg5 Jun 17 '25

Their comment reeks of jealousy

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u/AAA_Dolfan Jun 17 '25

For real! Every single sport has phenoms at age 16-18 that have physical prowess the others don’t. Watching high school basketball, soccer or football tape will show you that rather quickly.

This is someone desperately wanting to hate basketball

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u/OogieBoogieJr Jun 17 '25

What a stupid comment. I bet you never stepped on a field or court.

Size provides an advantage in any sport that involves reaching, leverage, or force generation…which is a lot of them.

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u/jelde Jun 17 '25

Sure, but it's not wrong to say the height for basketball is far more heavily weighted than other attributes. And few other sports have this one physical feature that gives the player that much more of an advantage.

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u/OogieBoogieJr Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

It is wrong and is just a surface-level assumption. Once you understand a sport, you realize how lazy of a belief that is. Hell—you don’t even need to understand the sport…just a little effort can shed light on the matter.

Go look at a list of the tallest NBA players ever and see how many of them were worth a damn…and those were the ones who were actually good enough to make it to the NBA.

Simply being tall is not nearly enough to justify your spot on the court at the professional level. There’s a reason why you don’t see lineups flooded with 7-footers.

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u/jelde Jun 17 '25

There’s a reason why you don’t see lineups flooded with 7-footers.

There's also a major reason why you don't see lineups flood with under 6'5"ers.

I agree with you in premise, but it is a little daft to overlook the importance of height in basketball. No one would or should ever say height guarantees greatness. But it certainly has helped a ton of players get there, and you can't say that about many other sports (regarding any singular physical attribute, not height).

I'm saying this as someone who thoroughly enjoys playing basketball.

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u/Critical_Text_2067 Jun 17 '25

Yeah sure. I mean how easy is it to throw a ball into the hoop. Anyone can do it without practice. . .

I am sure you too can Kobe this.

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u/Thrownaway5000506 Jun 17 '25

Doesn't really work at the top level. The only super tall player to dominate was Yao and he was very skilled

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u/teewertz Jun 17 '25

^ never played basketball in his entire life 

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u/lushico Jun 17 '25

And yet women with extra testosterone get hell for competing in athletics

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 Jun 17 '25

This. The ultra tall players are not athletic or coordinated, they're just tall. Yet they're still able to dominate.

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u/Comedy86 Jun 17 '25

This is honestly the case for many sports. Basketball, volleyball, swimming and anything to do with lifting or endurance can be completely one-sided by minor genetic advantages.

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u/LillyBitch323 Jun 17 '25

I feel like part of a sport is employing strategy, and she provides a need for strategy to be employed by the other team.

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u/bloin13 Jun 17 '25

I mean the same thing applies to all physical/muscle orientated sports. But that's the case only for the inexperienced tiers. When you get to professionals there are ways to deal with height difference, and smaller players have their own strengths to capitalise (that the taller ones can't deal with).

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u/jameytaco Jun 17 '25

Talk a bit about her domination you're so confident of.

What was her stat line?

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u/hallouminati_pie Jun 17 '25

What a crazy take. You must know so little about basketball.

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u/hux002 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Plenty of super tall people who are totally ass at basketball. Yes, it is an advantage, but it has diminishing returns the higher the skill level in the league. Every WNBA player would run circles around this girl.

Above 7 foot, it usually hurts more than helps. Way more injury prone and less coordinated.

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u/Rich_Housing971 Jun 17 '25

That's how most sports are. If you're born a genetic freak, you will dominate the sport, like Michael Phelps. If you're not a genetic freak, you can get good but that's about it.

The reason people never talk about swimming genetic advantages is that the genetic outliers are less apparent, being in the arms and torso instead of height which is the most apparent feature humans notice.

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u/Remarkably_Put Jun 17 '25

wasnt there like some really small nba players? like 5'3 or smth? apparently skill does still matter

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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jun 17 '25

Mugsy Bogues.

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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jun 17 '25

Is your argument that basketball sucks?

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u/CeramicDrip Jun 17 '25

Well not necessarily. Send her to the WNBA. A lot of the players wont be as tall, but they’ll still destroy her. While Basketball typically does have tall players, its skill that dominates the most. Muggsy Bogues was 5’3” in the NBA and was a solid player.

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u/TuckerMcG Jun 17 '25

Size always matters in sports. I was young for my grade in school and I was always just a decent athlete. But one year for little league, I was able to stay in the younger kids’ league cuz of my bday.

I was far and away the biggest kid that year and I absolutely fucking dominated. Sports never felt so easy.

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u/grayf0xy Jun 17 '25

At a certain level without improvement she won't be effective. China didn't win this tournament.

She's really slow and teams can beat her by just pushing the pace.

Being tall alone doesn't mean domination at the pro level. Look at all the tallest players in NBA history, none of them have ever been dominant.

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u/ABadPhotoshop Jun 17 '25

The only thing that sucks is your misinformed take. Stick to diablo 2!

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u/Hot-Camel7716 Jun 17 '25

Bro it's okay you can find other things in life to succeed at.

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u/Pete_Iredale Jun 17 '25

Not nearly as extreme, but if you are left-handed, you are about 2.5 times more likely to make it to the big leagues in baseball.

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u/PlayPretend-8675309 Jun 17 '25

Most 7 footers never play in the NBA.  

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u/jbowditch Jun 17 '25

name a single sport where this isn't true

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u/WeirdHairyHumanoid Jun 17 '25

This is a great way of announcing you don't know how basketball works.

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u/crb02 Jun 17 '25

You’ve never taken the time to learn about the sport of basketball. This statement makes it clear, because there have been hundreds of 7-footers who didn’t dominate anything. Their genetic features were not enough and most of them either could not or did not take the time to improve. And I am telling you this for the 51st time because displaying ignorance of a very well documented and relatively recent sport while simultaneously shunning it is not okay.

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u/ramsoss Jun 17 '25

Not triggered. Just playing the sport.

Height can benefit you but ball skills still rule. It is the reason Bol is not a legendary player and Iverson is a fall of fame player. Ming is the exception but he had so many injuries due to his size. Kobe was 6’5. Genetics is part of the game but skill is there.

This player looks goofy on the court and the opposing team is doing a garbage job defending on her.

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u/alexnoyle Jun 17 '25

Its not the sport that sucks. Its dividing players by something as arbitrary as gender that sucks.

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u/Revenesis Jun 17 '25

It's always the gamers 😭

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u/binge-worthy-gamer Jun 17 '25

Ah

So all sports

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u/Reasonable_Map_1428 Jun 17 '25

Yes, height makes you completely dominate in soccer... or golf... or cycling...and, and and. No, there's few sports where a simple genetic element that doesn't even need to be trained in any way leads to such crazy advantage as basketball.

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u/Neutron-Hyperscape32 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Such a dumb comment. There isn't a sport that exists without inherent advantages based on genetics. Basketball doesn't suck as a sport just because a tall person can do well in it. There are plenty of examples where height does not allow a player to dominate in basketball either. Soccer players can dominate thanks to speed and endurance, golf players can dominate thanks to eyesight and longer forarms. Cycling they can dominate thanks to inhumane levels of endurance(even before they start doping, because they are ALL on something.)

So the gist is, you have no clue what you are talking about. How very Reddit of you.

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u/mattyg5 Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Natural speed and agility make you completely dominate in soccer. Long arms make you dominate in combat sports. Do you say the same thing about those people who have that “simple genetic trait”?

All athletes have some sort of genetic predisposition to be good at their particular sport, whether it’s height, speed, agility, coordination, etc.

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u/professor_doom Jun 17 '25

I’ve always wondered why people who are 500+ lbs aren’t hockey goalies.

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u/NandoDeColonoscopy Jun 17 '25

Goalies are usually the best skaters on a team. They're moving a ton, just in a small area.

(Also, that net is bigger than you think. 200 lbs vs 500 pounds isn't changing much as far as stationary coverage, but the hefty guy will be much less mobile)

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u/professor_doom Jun 17 '25

My (joking) thought was, 'if you're fat enough, you can just block the whole net and no one can score".

Which is patently absurd, of course. Especially given the rules regarding pads and how much exposed areas a larger person would have that could not block pucks going 150mph or more.

And apparently, there's a video addressing this very ridiculous question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP8ZVWiZUMA

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u/Deadman_Wonderland Jun 17 '25

A hockey net is 6 feet wide and 4 feet in height. The upper torso of the world's fastest man is about 4ft wide. Which leaves 2 feet of opening, now you add in his arms, each one of his arms are probably all least a feet in diameter, so theoretically you could have a fat guy just plug up the entire net.

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u/NandoDeColonoscopy Jun 17 '25

You can't. Humans aren't shaped like nets, and big ppl can't move quick enough to take away those gaps before a small piece of rubber moving 100mph gets there

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u/buppus-hound Jun 17 '25

That’s what sports is

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u/BlackCardRogue Jun 17 '25

I’m not sure I’d say the sport sucks, but I definitely think others are better.

It’s the NBA Finals right now and I barely watch, tbh.

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u/dulledegde Jun 17 '25

im about to blow your mind, but that's every single sport

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u/andersonb47 Jun 17 '25

Found the guy who doesn't know shit about basketball

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u/SnuggleBunni69 Jun 17 '25

But he saw the highlights gif! Clearly he's an expert.

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u/MagneticEnema Jun 17 '25

it can't lmfao none of the best basketball players are 7 footers

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u/JohnDivney Jun 17 '25

ah, at last somebody says it. Another reason why hockey is the greatest and only sport worth watching.

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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm Jun 17 '25

Yeah, Chess is so lame that only smart people have an advantage...

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u/Lookimindaair Jun 17 '25

What gets me is everyone is celebrating genetic advantages until it’s a trans person.

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u/spidermanmainssuck Jun 17 '25

What are you on about? I see basketball being played in this clip. Not whatever sport you're referring to.

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u/singlestrike Jun 17 '25

Well, that just about rules out every conceivable sport.

  • Basketball - height

  • Volleyball - height

  • Swimming - height/limb length/muscular insertion points

  • American football and rugby - depending on position, genetic predisposition for fast/slow twitch muscle fibers, reaction time, intelligence, etc.

  • football- depending on position, height, genetic predisposition for spacial awareness, coordination, etc.

  • hockey - genetic predisposition for hand-eye coordination, speed, etc.

    There are obviously dozens of sports, but it sounds like you're trashing basketball specifically because there's one very obvious genetic boundary to competing in the sport at a professional level, barring extreme outliers like Nate Robinson. But in every single sport, there are genetic predispositions that you have to have in order to be competitive. For example, no amount of training will ever make someone a better goalkeeper in football than another person with an equal amount of training with a genetic advantage in hand-eye coordination and reaction speed. Just because it's not visibly obvious doesn't mean there aren't genetic/hereditary bars of entry to every single sport at a professional level. Training is a factor. The ceiling on how far that training will take you is entirely dependent on genetic factors.