Basketball Vs. Soccer, Which Sport requires more Athleticism/Skill???

[Blade]

Skill/ are more or less equal to basketball, but again you gotta break this down by your role and position on the floor/pitch. In futbol, you generally need a lot more endurance than you need in basketball. A lot of NBA players aren't conditioned enough to play a full futbol game without gassing out.

Athleticism is a lot more important in the game of basketball. It's not even a major part of futbol, outside of very specific situations.

 

[TNOT]

Skill/ are more or less equal to basketball, but again you gotta break this down by your role and position on the floor/pitch. In futbol, you generally need a lot more endurance than you need in basketball. A lot of NBA players aren't conditioned enough to play a full futbol game without gassing out.

Athleticism is a lot more important in the game of basketball. It's not even a major part of futbol, outside of very specific situations.

I get the endurance thing, but let's be honest endurance is something that if most of general public trained for they could be effective at it.

Soccer players are conditioned for endurance it's not a skill.

 

[Blade]

I get the endurance thing, but let's be honest endurance is something that if most of general public trained for they could be effective at it.

Soccer players are conditioned for endurance it's not a skill.

I didnt say endurance is a skill, but lets face it, lots of NBA players aren't even conditioned enough to play on both ends the full 48 minutes without bytchin about it.

 

[TNOT]

I didnt say endurance is a skill, but lets face it, lots of NBA players aren't even conditioned enough to play on both ends the full 48 minutes without bytchin about it.

Do you know how difilcult that is?!


I see some of yall have no clue.

 

[poppastoppa]

I didnt say endurance is a skill, but lets face it, lots of NBA players aren't even conditioned enough to play on both ends the full 48 minutes without bytchin about it.

Chase Steph Curry, Reggie Miller, or Ray Allen around screens all night and see if you can go a full 48 lol. I hear this thing about soccer is non stop, but lets be honest, it is plenty of lulls in the game. If the ball is on the other side of the field you see a lot of standing around, semi jogging.

 

[Blade]

Chase Steph Curry, Reggie Miller, or Ray Allen around screens all night and see if you can go a full 48 lol. I hear this thing about soccer is non stop, but lets be honest, it is plenty of lulls in the game. If the ball is on the other side of the field you see a lot of standing around, semi jogging.

Scoring off screens accounts for what, 10 to 12 percent of GS actual offense? For majority of the teams, that number is in the single digits. So that ain't full 48 min bruh. Basketball games got plenty of rest time. FFS, you got your main stars being switched onto the options 4/5 on the floor so they can preserve their energy to score.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Basketball is evolved soccer.

 

[Blade]

Do you know how difilcult that is?!


I see some of yall have no clue.

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to play the full 90 min? A lot fukkin tiring than playing full 48.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Soccer and it’s not even close. The talent pool is way larger too.

 

[Luke Cage]

i'm curious to see a soccer playbook. usually you can tell by the complexity of each players role during plays how much skill a sport takes.

 

[filial_piety]

I don't know why people are bringing up running/endurance. NBA players can do that if they train for it.

Yeah this argument about running and endurance just makes me go...

That's not a "skill" it's just a conditioning factor. And people talk as if these guys are doing suicides at full speed..when in reality, they jog and walk half the time with small instances where they need a burst of speed. It ain't even that serious

 

[3rdWorld]

I find it funny that so many basketball fans in here shytting on soccer considering just about every basketball star fukks with soccer as a sport and acknowledges the skill/athleticism needed to play it.

Basketball is about explosiveness and strength. The skill comes in with shooting and ball handling. None of that shyt is easy. But it encompasses a lot of different skill sets. I don't think most soccer fans understand how hard it is to throw a pinpoint perfect pass through traffic to a cutting teammate, in stride, into the low post. Basketball is the DEFINITION of a very easy sport to learn and one of the most difficult on earth to master. You can watch Steph shoot and KNOW that some shyt you and 99% of Earth simply CANNOT do...and he's not some world class athlete. He's skilled.

But I also think that as Americans we aren't as exposed to quality soccer...so we don't see just how hard the shyt is to do.


Soccer is about endurance and control and the skill comes with certain types of explosiveness. Here are two goals that illustrate my point.

Bergkamp here illustrates immense skill and strength at the end. The pass is decent from Pires but his touch, turn and control all are world class...which he then follows up by holding off the final challenge, a show of strength to stay on his feet...many players would have gone down looking for the penalty.



The second is the classic Messi goal. You look at this and see the explosiveness coupled with the skill. Now Messi makes a habit of being explosive...he walks around most of the match then receives the ball and explodes pass defenders either with speed or dribbling. Here he did both.



The issue here is that the sports are opposite sides of the same sporting spectrum. Which is why I think the athletes of those sports have a mutual admiration for eachother. There's nothing wrong with knowing an NBA player couldn't play in La Liga and vice versa.

US fans also believe American football (nfl) is the greatest thing since sliced bread..nothing wrong with that but Rugby exists..once again, lack of exposure will leave you in the dark.

 

[filial_piety]

This is so far from the truth its laughable. You only really see this with big men. Most guards have been playing for almost all their lives. Because you never played high school doesn't mean you didn't play organized basketball. Its literally tapes of Steve Francis playing since a kid, and he was also heavy on the AAU circuit.

And this skill argument that is being said that basketball players are not as skillful is ridiculous. I've been around NBA players while practicing, the things that they can do with a basketball is mind blowing. Take any player from either sport and make them play the other sport, they both wouldn't be able to dribbling or shoot/score at nowhere near the level of professionals. With that being said, athleticism favors basketball hands down, skill is pretty even.

And really how much skill does it really take to be a goalie?

100% in my humble opinion, the most difficult and competitive position to play professionally is the NBA PG. Either way, to get into the NBA you basically have to be raised through training camps probably no later than 10.

Dudes are getting it fukked up if they think you can just start playing HS bball and become a stand out and make a notable D1 team to get into the league. It doesn't work that way. Most dudes on UNC Chapel hill or U Michigan, Duke etc came up through a system of professional training from when they were kids. By the time they hit HS, they are already known to recruiters through these feeder programs and tournaments. It's an entire ecosystem of its own. The NBA has a good idea of who they expect to make it long before these guys actually do.

Either way, there is little actual "skill" in soccer that translates into anything tangible to define it by. The scoring and "wow" moments are so rare and infrequent and low, that a lot of the time it just comes off as "luck." In the NBA, its statistically and visually easy to prove that Kyrie is an elite PG where others are not.

 

[poppastoppa]

Scoring off screens accounts for what, 10 to 12 percent of GS actual offense? For majority of the teams, that number is in the single digits. So that ain't full 48 min bruh. Basketball games got plenty of rest time. FFS, you got your main stars being switched onto the options 4/5 on the floor so they can preserve their energy to score.

Scoring off screens is like 90% of all offense in the NBA now lol. And just because someone is not scoring, doesn't mean there isn't off ball movement. Plus you just state that there are switches throughout the game, which means a screen was set somewhere.

 

[poppastoppa]

100% in my humble opinion, the most difficult and competitive position to play professionally is the NBA PG. Either way, to get into the NBA you basically have to be raised through training camps probably no later than 10.

Dudes are getting it fukked up if they think you can just start playing HS bball and become a stand out and make a notable D1 team to get into the league. It doesn't work that way. Most dudes on UNC Chapel hill or U Michigan, Duke etc came up through a system of professional training from when they were kids. By the time they hit HS, they are already known to recruiters through these feeder programs and tournaments. It's an entire ecosystem of its own. The NBA has a good idea of who they expect to make it long before these guys actually do.

Either way, there is little actual "skill" in soccer that translates into anything tangible to define it by. The scoring and "wow" moments are so rare and infrequent and low, that a lot of the time it just comes off as "luck." In the NBA, its statistically and visually easy to prove that Kyrie is an elite PG where others are not.

What's so funny is you see these gifs of some soccer player making these dribbling moves and the result is 80% nothing.
That's like a player crossing up people but only scoring or assisting on 2 out of 10 drives. Hot Sauce has a better percentage than that.