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Originally Posted by loK2thabrain
Anyone shooting 80% beyond the arc could be on an NBA team within a month, regardless of appearance.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the scenario...
You're getting 24 points for every 10 attempts. Averaging 20 attempts shouldn't be a problem even if you're really short.
Records are shattered.
Am I missing something?
You would never get a try-out due to physical appearance and lack of defensive ability. When conducting tryouts(usually looking to fill those last bench spots) teams are often looking for good defensive players who can play well in practice to challenge their starters.
You're also greatly overestimating how tough it is for a normal guy to just get a shot off(with normal form) against a NBA defender, but with infinite do-overs I suppose its just a matter of enough trials.
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Originally Posted by loK2thabrain
Screens tho.
and you're underestimating how tough it would be for an average person to get open using screens. These guys are super athletic- just because they make it look trivially easy to run around screens to get open doesn't mean the average person could do it.
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Originally Posted by aejones
his reaction would be "im much, much, MUCH bigger, faster and stronger than you, i'm in front of you, now and forever, and i've stolen the ball. keep replaying life? that's okay, i have many different ways i can steal the ball from you, you foolish little white boy."
fwiw I was putting myself in the hypothetical, and with perfect knowledge of how the defender reacted during the previous trial I think it would be quite easy for me to dominate under these conditions. While you don't have my ball handling/speed, I think you're clever enough getting shots off that you could be successful as well(maybe needing more trials, but still)
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Originally Posted by Lord of the Flop
As cool as it would be to get walked in every single plate appearance (unless I managed to grind my skill up enough to luckbox a hit every now and then), it would probably be incredibly dull after like... 5 games.
again someone complaining about the "dullness" or getting "bored"...I just don't get it! This hypothetical is entertaining enough to spend time discussing it on a message board, yet if you were in front of 30,000 fans in real life playing on a pro sports team you would get bored having to rewind time for maybe ~20 minutes per plate appearance? I think this would be incredibly thrilling(even the failures that you have to rewind).
Last edited by Assani Fisher; 01-19-2013 at 02:23 PM.