re: Lack of parity in the Women's game

I was talking to a coworker about this, she used to play basketball.

What she expressed, and I would have to agree is that largely women do not grow up playing basketball. Not like we do at least. Little boys have a tiny fisher price goal by age 5. Most of all males have played organized basketball at some point, even if it was at age 7. On the other hand, majority of women have not.

When it comes time for highschool basketball tryouts. The men's team can easily have 100 boys come out. Majority will at the least know how to dribble without traveling, and can do a simple layup. For women, however, they maybe get about 20 girls show up for tryouts, and some of they may have never touched a basketball before. It's entirely possible for a teenage girl to pick up a basketball for her first time at about age 16, dedicate herself to the game, and find her way playing in college if she truly wanted it. It would be damn near impossible for a boy to first pick up a basketball at 16 and end up playing in college. He would have to be both extremely tall and extremely athletic.

So yea, the pool of talent playing women's basketball is so small simply because the pool of women who plays basketball is much much much smaller.