Brian Scalabrine: Sorry, you can not beat an NBA player one-on-one!!

[staticshock]

elaborate please? MLB teams are over double the size of an NBA roster plus the farm system is much better than the NBA with lots of guys getting called up for a few games then sent back down, so in that essence they “made it” to the MLB even if they didn’t stay on roster for long.

Isn’t the mlb draft like 40 rounds as compared to just ~60 picks for the nba?

I’m not that familiar with mlb and baseball as much as I am the nba and basketball so maybe I’m leaving something out.

he said the nba was the hardest league in the world to make.

I think someone off the street can make an nba roster before they make an mlb roster. Hitting a baseball thrown by a professional hitter is way harder than anything you have to do in basketball.

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

he said the nba was the hardest league in the world to make.

I think someone off the street can make an nba roster before they make an mlb roster. Hitting a baseball thrown by a professional hitter is way harder than anything you have to do in basketball.

basketball is without a doubt a much easier sport to pick up. Similar to soccer, all you need is a ball and you can work on your handles by yourself whereas baseball you at least need a ball, mitt and another person to play catch. Odds wise I feel that the mlb has a high influx of players in and out a d a higher total # of players active so that’s why I was saying the nba is harder to reach. But I do agree that professional baseball is likely the hardest sport to play where as in the nfl you could get by being incredibly fast or strong and the nba you could be some really tall stiff and still make a roster.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Nah

MLB is

MLB has bigger rosters than NBA and a much smaller pool of talent.

Estimated 65 million people worldwide play baseball fighting for 750 roster spots. Baseball is big in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela, and most of the Caribbean and Central America. Most of the rest of the world it ain't even top-5, in a lot of countries it's completely unknown.

Estimated 450 million people worldwide play basketball fighting for 450 roster spots. Basketball is big in most of Europe especially Spain, Germany, and eastern Europe, China, Russia, Philippines, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Canada.....and damn near everywhere in the world has basketball now, Asia-Africa-Middle East-Latin America are all producing talent. And it's definitely bigger in the USA than baseball is.

 

[NZA]

joining the MLB is tough but i think NASCAR might be the hardest. seems you have to be a rich kid to even learn if you have talent, let alone develop those skills. it would be amazing to see what would happen if public schools had a kart racing budget and kids from all economic backgrounds could become part of the talent pool.

 

[The Exchanges]

I remember a vid of a dude talking shyt to a pro kicker saying he could hit a 45 yard goal.

 

[Dzali OG]

As I've gotten older I realize there are a few urban myths that need dispelling.

Myths that were originated and propagated by a class of people (us) who were systemically oppressed and had few and far between societal wins.

1. "There's brothers behind that wall better than Michael Jordan".

2. "There's brothers in the hood better than Michael Jordan, but they just didn't go to college."

I'm of the age where as I heard this constantly.

 

[Damnshow]

NBA got the smallest odds to make it, out of major sports leagues

Auto racing is tougher to make. Anyone can drive, but only 20 drive in Formula One. Figure the odds and the budget you need to make it there.

 

[Guess Who]

If you think you can beat an NBA player you probably aren’t actually that good at the sport. If you were, then you’d have the experience of playing players who are actually good who couldn’t stick in the league so you’d have a better perception of how good NBA players are compared to other pros and how good non-NBA pros are compared to everyone else.

Scalabrine is right about the tells. Non-pro players have tells that you can read that can tell you what they’re going to do. NBA players don’t have many tells at all or they’re very subtle. You haven’t seen a good jab step or ball fake until you seen a pro do it as you guard them. Trust me. I’m a lockdown defender versus most regular people regardless of athleticism or physical profile because most regular people don’t have a real bag they can go to and once you’ve seen a few possessions you figure em out. You know what they’re going to do before they do it. With pros…if you can’t read the tells then you’re trying to guard based on reacting to speed and athleticism and that’s hard to do because players on that level don’t need a lot of space and they capitalize on 90% of shot opportunities.

 

[Big Jo]

MLB has bigger rosters than NBA and a much smaller pool of talent.

Estimated 65 million people worldwide play baseball fighting for 750 roster spots. Baseball is big in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela, and most of the Caribbean and Central America. Most of the rest of the world it ain't even top-5, in a lot of countries it's completely unknown.

Estimated 450 million people worldwide play basketball fighting for 450 roster spots. Basketball is big in most of Europe especially Spain, Germany, and eastern Europe, China, Russia, Philippines, Australia, Israel, Brazil, Argentina, Canada.....and damn near everywhere in the world has basketball now, Asia-Africa-Middle East-Latin America are all producing talent. And it's definitely bigger in the USA than baseball is.

I feel like you’re inflating the numbers a bit

450 million people around the world playing basketball for 450 NBA roster spots?

450 MILLION?! Does that include me who goes and shoots around at the park three times a month? I’m being serious

the potential player funnel should really be college students maybe high school. But even high school students inflates the numbers a bit. We already know the 2nd string point guard playing JV in a vanilla suburb has no chance of making the NBA, that’s a given

 

[L&HH]

I firmly believe there's nba players that you can beat.

Scal is a skilled big man who's a good shooter. Other than his appearance, I'm not sure why he became the face of this movement.

But gimme Kendrick Perkins and I feel like there's regular ppl who can beat him straight up.

No matter how bad you think Kendrick Perkins is. Remember he's been playing and training for basketball his entire life. He was a Mcdonalds high school all america and was good enough to skip college and go to the pros and play 17 years, half those years as a starter and on playoff teams. You're not doing all that and losing to average no names who may play a few hours of basketball weekly

 

[Cave Savage]

The idea of Scal pulling up to a park and draining buckets on everyone is pretty funny

 

[FaTaL]

The idea of Scal pulling up to a park and draining buckets on everyone is pretty funny

It’s called reality

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

not a lie told. Crazy how this needs to be re-explained every other year still.

they need to bring back Pros vs. Joes

I thoroughly enjoyed older out of shape vets humiliate younger in shape brehs

 

[Cave Savage]

It’s called reality

For sure. The mental image of Scal in particular is still funny to me though.

 

[mastermind]

joining the MLB is tough but i think NASCAR might be the hardest. seems you have to be a rich kid to even learn if you have talent, let alone develop those skills. it would be amazing to see what would happen if public schools had a kart racing budget and kids from all economic backgrounds could become part of the talent pool.

Auto racing in general

Making Formula One is harder than making NASCAR, considering that’s worldwide, and more expensive.