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Female athletes have to work harder, master fundamentals and play smarter to compensate for more modest athletic gifts.
<<<All idiocy aside from my last post. Being serious for once...>>>
No. No they dont. Unless you're talking about women playing against men, this is absolutely incorrect. They're not playing against dudes... They're playing against a collection of people of the same gender with differing skills and athletic ability, just as male athletes do. No difference. Just because they might be playing the game at a lower level than top level men can doesn't change the fact that, to achieve success, they only have to be better than other WOMEN as a team.
Now... If you want to say that female coaches face a higher standard with regards to being trusted to coach male athletes, then I agree.
I'm not worried about the respect, I'm worried about it literally being a different game. NBA level male athletes just have an entirely different set of physical skills and capacities than female college-level players, and the game itself reflects those differences. There are all kinds of things that work well in the women's game that won't work in the NBA game because it would be completely impossible to execute them against NBA-level male athletes. Then the player development challenge is very different too because you are developing different capacities.
Most peripheral NBA people I've talked to, are less concerned about her being a female, and more about Gilbert hiring the first Jewish female assistant. Gilbert has established a reputation around the league........
Listen, I personally, don't give a shit about anyone's religion. Have at it....
But Blatt was Jewish, Altman is Jewish, Gottlieb is Jewish.......and there's a heavy Jewish contingency in the basketball operations department.
Again, I don't care........but there is 100% a perception around the league that Gilbert favors people of a similar background. I think the disappointing thing for Lindsay Gottlieb is that in basketball circles, a lot of people are viewing this as Gilbert continuing his trend of elevating people of his faith, rather than hiring the best female or person for the job. That a form of "favoritism" underlines this move.
Bottom line for me, is I hope she crushes her job.......
Most peripheral NBA people I've talked to, are less concerned about her being a female, and more about Gilbert hiring the first Jewish female assistant. Gilbert has established a reputation around the league........
Listen, I personally, don't give a shit about anyone's religion. Have at it....
But Blatt was Jewish, Altman is Jewish, Gottlieb is Jewish.......and there's a heavy Jewish contingency in the basketball operations department.
Again, I don't care........but there is 100% a perception around the league that Gilbert favors people of a similar background. I think the disappointing thing for Lindsay Gottlieb is that in basketball circles, a lot of people are viewing this as Gilbert continuing his trend of elevating people of his faith, rather than hiring the best female or person for the job. That a form of "favoritism" underlines this move.
Bottom line for me, is I hope she crushes her job.......
Ultimately this is much ado about nothing because it certainly appears that Beilein and Bickerstaff hit it off with their new assistant, which is excellent, but I’m curious what would have happened had the meeting of the minds not gone swimmingly.
It may be a little different when it comes to a professional setting and on the sports field. Many women I play with talk about issues they have with a number of guys treating them differently because they are female. Others say they rub people the wrong way in a professional setting because the message is comjng from a woman and if their colleague or boss was a guy doing the same thing there isn't the same issueThe head boys coach at my school is a female math teacher who played point guard for her college team. Those players never made a single negative comment and knew she was the most qualified person in the building. I think people forget that young athletes were students. Education is a female dominated profession. They have been learning from women their whole lives.
Is this a problem?
I have never encountered an article talking about this. Or anyone mentioning it until now.
Seriously?!? RMC here but how in the world is there a 100% perception across the league. I didn't know anyone you named other than Blatt was Jewish for the sake of it all. I don't know why politics/religion has to make it's way into EVERYTHING now.
At our high school the women played the men in practice a couple times a week.
Our college team would do so as well.
Is this not common?
And even so, just because they are only playing women doesn't mean what I said isn't true. How they approach the game and emphasis on certain basics is a direct consequence of the difference in physicality.
The Purdue men never played the Purdue women and they won a national title in the late 90's. They knew eachother and made a point of that, but no, its silly if they played. Back then Brad Miller was our starting center for example, what girl pro or not can compete with that.
Not at all saying you're lying, if it happened it happened, but it's a little hard to believe. There's the famous story of the US women's soccer team losing to a bunch of 14 year old guys etc. and basketball is a remarkably athletic sport. In my softball circle of over 100, there are good girls who simply do not make mistakes and know what they are doing and can place the ball where they want but field the best guys against the best girls and it'd be a bloodbathAt FSU the male team managers and walk-ons often scrimmaged against the women’s team.
The games were generally pretty close.
The women wanted every crack they could against the men, but keep in mind, with different size and weighted basketballs, neither coach was enthusiastic to let their players scrimmage.
I do recall a female player or two getting into open runs with men’s basketball team, and more than holding their own. I also recall watching Jennifer Rizzotti basically dominate a male pick-up game at UCONN with male camp counselors from all over country (mostly D-I players).....that was fun to watch....