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Originally Posted by fezjones
interesting. In person i've only seen the Uconn women practice, not any games, but seeing them live and what they do on TV they really do play at a level far beyond every other D1 team except for Stanford. In practice they play a lot against the men, in fact there are a handful of men on campus who proudly say they are on the womens basketball team, so i wouldn't underestimate them against a random club team.
The men would drive to the basket and score on a layup or dunk nearly every time.
The women would be forced to take guarded perimeter shots more or less the entire game. Even if we assume a good % shooting team, consider they'll rarely be open, will be shorter than the men, won't have any options to drive to the basket and are shooting against a team which can pretty much get a layup every time.
This assumes we aren't grabbing random fatasses off the street, but a D1 club team which practices very regularly and travels to other schools to play teams.
At my old school I used to play 1 on 1 with a girl who had 2 inches on me and was varsity all through HS and D1 club all through college. I have played probably less than 15 hours of basketball in my life outside of HS gym class. Maybe even far less than that. I have no concept of how to shoot or do anything really. Now I'll admit I lost because I just don't know how to get the ball in the basket. I've just never played basketball, period.
I'm convinced if I spent a few days learning just how to execute a layup I would have beat her nearly 100% of the time. Without fouling she didn't have a shot at keeping me from driving to the basket at any point, and she couldn't get to the basket on me unless I did something ******ed in trying to steal the ball... forcing her to take shots from outside the entire time. And I suck and am not a good athlete in any sport which requires any sort of coordination. I'm truly terrible.