Too many europeans on this team ?

[Bendit]

You sound like Jimmy the Greek.

That extra muscle which AAs have in the quad area has everything to do with why they cant be in sports management

...Al Campanis

[rdiaz101]

The evidence is staring you in the face. The proportion is black to white players in the NBA is probably something like 60-40; yet who is the most athletic white player in the game? Chris Anderson? Now look at the top tier white players. Nowitzki, Nash, Gasol, Kaman, AB, JC, Turk, Lee.

How many of those are good defensive players? How many are serious athletes?

Who was the last white winner of a dunk contest? Brent Barry?

Here's another when was the last time a Euro/N.America White player led the league in Rebounding or Blocks ?? Anyone anyone?
AK-47 was leading in blocks in 04 other than that nobody else.

[trizzo]

I think this thread is getting a little stupid now. Are we seriously saying that the best way to tell if a player has potential is to look at the colour of his skin? If you are a darker black, does that mean you have more potential than a lighter skin one?


Genetics are significant in determining a pro athletes abilities. However there isn’t a single person out there that can tell me the gene code of an individual just by looking at the pigment of their skin.

There are plenty of black players that have been cut, that could not hack it in pro sports, or defensively in the NBA. There are also white players that are considered above average defensively in this "supposed" black league.

In fact, a person can have predominantly "European" genetics and have the part of their genome responsible for pigment and appearance be mostly of "African" descent. Or vice versa, an individual can look white and have a significant part of their genetic code derived from a black ancestor.


The way chromosomes cross is so unpredictable that if you know anything about this subject you will NEVER judge a person based on their outward appearance.



So since the most educated doctor, still needs to rely on blood samples to tell you if you have inherited a genetic trait, it blows my mind that the casual fan is so quick to conclude (via sample size) that blacks are better than whites at basketball.


I am sure this does not hold for all blacks, or all whites. There obviously are genetic factors that are dispersed amongst all races, in some cases these pools are rich, in others they are not.... but that still does not mean that there will never be a white rebounder leading the league.

Hence we go back to square one and judge both blacks and whites on how they perform on court. Imagine that.




(Note: Lots of blacks have failed to become pro athletes. Lots of talented whites did not go in that direction because they had easier options. Poverty seems to contribute a lot to the motivation of an athlete.)