A basketballer has an incredible vertical which is useful for high jump, there're tall as well an have incredible explosive strength. So if they got a little more thinner and slender could they be high jumpers.
We will probably never know as they earn about 50x more than a high jumper, But what's your take on this?
No.
Basketball is more aerobic than power. Basketballers would be giving up their aerobic ability to play a game to jump a little higher in a high jump.
btw most Highjumpers already have sick dunks, and verticals that exceed a lot of Basketball players.
A lot of what goes into a Basketball players dunking ability is height and arm length. They could jump high undoubtedly but they wouldn't jump higher than the highjumpers.
Also a lot of highjumpers are incredibly tall, 6'4"-6'6"
Not at all. Basketball players have standing vertical leap. High jumpers aren't generally very good at that. What they do is convert horizontal speed into vertical speed.
if they allowed two footed takeoffs, gymnasts would be awesome high jumpers - what - 10 feet? more?
Why don't they allow two footed takeoffs anyway?
Of course there would be some good high jumpers that decided to play basketball instead.
This guy did both.
alot of the very tall guys verticals arent as good as you might think, they can reach higher due to their height but in high jump everybodys feet start from 0. That said, of course there are some NBA guys with ridiculous 40+ in verticals such as Lebron and MJ, but in terms of pure high jump talent you would be better off looking at the NFL.
See: Calvin Johnson , Justin Hunter (7'3 HJ to go with a 10.5 100m)
On the HS level I always tried to make bballers throwers or triple jumpers
While playing college basketball at Kansas, Wilt Chamberlain won the high jump in the Big Eight track and field championships three straight years. He also shot-putted 56 feet and triple jumped more than 50 feet.
frankfarter wrote:
Not at all. Basketball players have standing vertical leap. High jumpers aren't generally very good at that. What they do is convert horizontal speed into vertical speed.
completely untrue. Highjumpers have incredible standing verticals. Much higher than basketball players on average.
You do not know highjump.
uh, who is Marquise Goodwin.
Dwight stones has often commented that his vertical jump was less than Al Fuerbach's,a shot putter. There are many outstanding high jumpers with a standing vertical jump of less than 30 inches
mossy wrote:
completely untrue. Highjumpers have incredible standing verticals. Much higher than basketball players on average.
You do not know highjump.
Prove it, dill-hole. You don't know anything.
High jump is an entirely different kind of jumping. Developing standing vertical is a waste of time for a high jumper.
Or, if Amy Acuff could dribble as well as she can dunk....
Wrong. High jumpers develop all jumping abilities, standing jump is especially high on the list. I would know having jumped 6ft 10 1/2 outdoors.
But the most important jump ability is the jumping leg and a run up dunk was a good way to train it. I usually just dunked baseballs or tennis balls. I have some mad sick dunks son. Mad sick. I'm 5'11". Funny thing was I played basketball and couldn't dunk as well after basketball practicing for a couple weeks so I never made the team.
My vertical was 35" back when I jumped more, its only 30" now. I can still dunk, barely.
untrue wrote:
Dwight stones has often commented that his vertical jump was less than Al Fuerbach's,a shot putter. There are many outstanding high jumpers with a standing vertical jump of less than 30 inches
There are many different types of jumpers. Dwight Stones may have been more like a tall basketball player Highjumper type than a really high vertical jumping shorter guy.
Lots of short football players can out jump basketball players in vertical but have trouble dunking. It all depends on the individual, but most basketball players would not do as well at high jump as pro highjumpers. They'd still jump incredibly well. But there's a big difference between 7'2" and 7'10".
OP wtf wrote:
alot of the very tall guys verticals arent as good as you might think, they can reach higher due to their height but in high jump everybodys feet start from 0. That said, of course there are some NBA guys with ridiculous 40+ in verticals such as Lebron and MJ, but in terms of pure high jump talent you would be better off looking at the NFL.
See: Calvin Johnson , Justin Hunter (7'3 HJ to go with a 10.5 100m)
Michael Jordan's vertical was 48 inches. He could have been good at any sport based in pure athleticism.
Yes, Based on Jordan's musculature he probably could have jumped well into 7 feet, maybe even near 8 feet.
He has the same build and height as the WR holder in the High jump. But Basketball makes a lot more money than High jump.
Jordan also would have been good at Long Jump too, he was fast and his jumps had a lot of horizontal elements.
But would he be that far above Sotomayor or Powell or even Bolt? No probably not. But could he beat Eaton in the Decathlon? Definitely.
Donald Thomas was a basketball player at some small NAIA school. He decided to try the HJ at an indoor meet, and won it. Jumping in basketball shoes, he cleared over 7 feet. His form was horrible. He won the world champs HJ a year and a half later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Thomas_%28athlete%29
Here is a link to his first meet ever:
TFN ranked Bill Russell as #7 in the world in 1956.
Most jumpers period (long jump, triple jump, and high jump) have impressive verticals. The vertical component is super important even in horizontal jumping because it's about trajectory.
As far as MJ, he definitely did not have a 48 inch vertical. I'd be surprised if his vertical was even 40 inches.
The average NBA vertical is actually low 30s, but you combine that with average height of 6'7 and wingspan around 6'8-6'10.
Back to Jordan...
Jordan was NOWHERE near the best jumper...based off vertical. He, like LeBron, are 1-foot jumpers. One foot jumpers are geared toward running and jumping.
Two-foot jumpers generate all of their power straight up and generally have impressive verticals (Nate Robinson, Vince Carter).