If Griner "makes it" it'll be because someone wants a publicity stunt. The first female that makes it would be a female knuckleballer
If Griner "makes it" it'll be because someone wants a publicity stunt. The first female that makes it would be a female knuckleballer
If a woman is going to make it at the highest level in a stick and/or ball sport, it's going to be golf IMO.
GL
Kelly Kulick won a national tournament on the Men's PBA tour, if you consider bowling a sport. Which I do. In the stepladder finals, she beat Mika Koivuniemi and then bested Chris Barnes in the final by a score of 265-195.Those are two pretty stout bowlers she handled.
She was a bit lucky in that she did not have to face any of these competitors.
camisadelgolf (04-06-2013),dougdirt (04-06-2013)
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Why? Her entire game was predicated on using her height advantage over the rest of the Women's game. She was able to score points by turning and shooting over a much smaller defender. What I also thought was ironic was the hoopla made about her ability to dunk. Its pretty impressive for the women's game but when you compare it to the men's, 80% of the players are able to dunk the ball the way she can and its regarded as common place.
If you take a male basketball player who is 6'4" with an ok jumping ability they will be able to shut Griner down. The lower half and core will be stronger, their athletic ability will be able to nullify any height advantage Griner has. Just using a local example, you put a guy like Parker on her, Parker being someone who is a Euro league player at best, he would be able to dominate her on offense and defense.
dougdirt (04-06-2013),Hillsdale87 (04-18-2013)
I guess this settles it.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...draft/2086353/
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