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re: Do you believe there are 100 Andre Johnsons walking around?
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:18 pm to Srbtiger06
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:18 pm to Srbtiger06
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Take the best 5 street guys you can find and the worst team in the NBA smokes them.
Agreed, 'street ball' isn't 'NBA ball'.
I don't know if the street ball team was from LA or NY market, and the NBA team was say New Orleans or Memphis I'd bet Stern would have both Crawfords and Bevatta calling that game
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Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:20 pm to jacks40
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I'd bet Stern would have both Crawfords and Bevatta calling that game
Depends on the rules they play by.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:21 pm to jacks40
I and I'm sure others have seen smaller-scale versions of this in university recs. Every time, the college team destroys the rec all-star squad, and its never even close.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:24 pm to SlowFlowPro
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but i was one of the first members of hoopshype.com (and i have the tshirt to prove it), so i got street cred
I'm genuinely considered the whitest guy that everyone knows
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:24 pm to SlowFlowPro
There aren't 100 Abdre Johnsons but there's easily 5 guys out there playing Rec ball that could compete in the NBA. I'm talking role players, but not star-level.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:27 pm to ApeCo80
If the NBA thought they could play, they would probably be on a team or in the D league. I can buy a couple people slipping through the cracks, but I gotta think they have scouts at bigger rec games.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:27 pm to ApeCo80
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There aren't 100 Abdre Johnsons but there's easily 5 guys out there playing Rec ball that could compete in the NBA. I'm talking role players, but not star-level.
Agreed...I think anyone that doesn't think there are 5 Brian Cardinals around are kidding themselves....haha
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:28 pm to jacks40
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I don't know if the street ball team was from LA or NY market, and the NBA team was say New Orleans or Memphis I'd bet Stern would have both Crawfords and Bevatta calling that game
at any rec team being able to contain Chris Paul.Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:39 pm to Jcorye1
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Posted by Jcorye1
If the NBA thought they could play, they would probably be on a team or in the D league. I can buy a couple people slipping through the cracks, but I gotta think they have scouts at bigger rec games.
There's tons of great athletes in the hood who were never eligible to play high school ball and thus were not recruited by colleges and thus were never even on the NBA's radar. The thing about basketball is even poor kids from the hood can train/practice basketball everyday, especially if they don't have school or jobs. That's not really the case with football and baseball where most practices need to be organized and paid for.
Baton Rouge has players that can almost hit their head on the rim, are fast, and can drain 3's.. That doesn't necessarily make them NBA material but I shudder to think what talents got left on the table in the larger cities.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:44 pm to Jcorye1
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I don't know if the street ball team was from LA or NY market, and the NBA team was say New Orleans or Memphis I'd bet Stern would have both Crawfords and Bevatta calling that game
at any rec team being able to contain Chris Paul.
I agree just trying to make a joke about NBA fixing games for larger market teams
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:47 pm to ApeCo80
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There aren't 100 Abdre Johnsons but there's easily 5 guys out there playing Rec ball that could compete in the NBA. I'm talking role players, but not star-level.
Considering the OP was a response to
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Just like any NBA scout could go into the ghetto's of New York, Chicago, L.A., or Philadelphia and find 5 black guys and make 1 NBA team that would compete with ANY team in the playoffs right now.
It doesn't mean that. BUT you would still have to scour the rec leagues of the country or at least the 10 biggest cities to find 5 guys who have NBA ready talent for even 10 guy on bench level
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:48 pm to ApeCo80
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but there's easily 5 guys out there playing Rec ball that could compete in the NBA.
i dont think people realize how tall 6"6", 6'10", etc really is. Or how gifted you are to be that tall as well as skilled like good NBA players are.
sure there might be 5 guys around the US who never played in the NBA that could suit up and get killed by a real NBA...they might look like players, but i doubt they stack up.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:51 pm to Lester Earl
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sure there might be 5 guys around the US who never played in the NBA that could suit up and get killed by a real NBA...they might look like players, but i doubt they stack up.
Does anyone else remember the show Bob Knight had like 5 years ago?
The reality show where like 6 rec league guys competed for a walk on spot @ Texas Tech?
There was one episode where these rec league guys had to play against the 6'8, 6'9 scrub white guys on Techs bench. and they got destroyed.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:53 pm to jacks40
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There was one episode where these rec league guys had to play against the 6'8, 6'9 scrub white guys on Techs bench. and they got destroyed.
yeah, exactly. Sit courtside at an NBA game and anyone who thinks it would be easy to field a team of 5 scrubs after watching a game would be full of themselves.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:53 pm to Lester Earl
I don't even know where to start in this thread/ Holy shite
Posted on 5/9/11 at 3:58 pm to BilJ
Posted on 5/9/11 at 4:00 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Just like any NBA scout could go into the ghetto's of New York, Chicago, L.A., or Philadelphia and find 5 black guys and make 1 NBA team that would compete with ANY team in the playoffs right now.
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If time was spent to really pick the best "streetballers" out there, get them a good coach and even a month of training any NBA team in the playoffs would beat them 150-25. Not even fricking close.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 4:04 pm to bomber77
They'd still beat the Cavs.
Posted on 5/9/11 at 4:05 pm to jacks40
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There was one episode where these rec league guys had to play against the 6'8, 6'9 scrub white guys on Techs bench. and they got destroyed.
Since you're talking about college try-outs I'm assuming the try-out talent pool was limited to people who were enrolled in college. Those kids likely played HS basketball and were mediocre since they didn't already make the team.
It is naive to assume that all elite athletes actually were eligible students in high school, much less college. There's some diamonds in the rough, I'm pretty sure about it. None are going to enroll in college, though.
This post was edited on 5/9/11 at 4:07 pm
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