critical thinking wrote:
Tinkerbelle Belle wrote:
Say you round up a truly elite all-star team of the very best WNBA players. You put them in a camp for 6 months and allowed them to fully engage with each other. You then take that supremely great team and put them up against the best NCAA team like Duke. In a best of 5 series could that team of WNBA superstars beat the Duke team?
I hate these discussions because they end up seeking so demeaning. Anyway, for basketball at least, the best you’ll get is probably elite 12-13 year old boys vs WNBA all stars. That would probably be a tough game. Once the boys are in HS, they are far too big & strong.
I think they would be able to beat some boys High School varsity teams
They would probably be somewhere in the middle and able to beat average and weaker high school teams
No way could they beat Elite level boys high school teams or even very good high school teams
It would depend a little bit on how the games were organized as women play with a slightly smaller ball
That actually makes a difference when you spend your whole life getting used to one size ball but for all intensive purposes I think they could beat weaker boys varsity high school teams
Also basketball is a very different type of sport than running and there's a greater difference between men and women in basketball in there isn't running
Still comparing it to running doesn't really make sense
For example Katelyn Tuohy and other Elite high school girl runners can be better than a lot of boys.
You're not going to get the same thing in basketball the very best girl high school basketball players would probably only be able to make the team on the very weakest boys basketball teams.
So for comparison Katelyn Tuohy is a better Runner than 90% of boy Varsity distance runners
The best girl basketball player is probably only better than about 30% of boys varsity basketball players if that maybe only 10 or 15%