We’ve all seen it. A photo of a basketball player with both of their arms outstretched, holding a basketball with ease in each hand. Inside their large palms and fingers, the ball looks smaller than normal, and the players look gigantic. Much like height, having large hands is a natural...
Hand span is measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the pinky finger with your hand outstretched. Hand span is sometimes referred to as hand width or spread. It’s extremely rare for even an NBA player to have a hand span of 12 inches or wider. Gregory Smith and Giannis A...
Muggsy Bogues on the other hand was short, even by WNBA standards. He was just 5 foot 3 inches, making him the shortest NBA player ever and 2 inches shorter than the shortest WNBA player currently in the WNBA. Debbie Black and Shannon Babbitt are the two shortest WNBA player's in WNBA...
Overall, it feels like average player size at the point guard position is less determined by trends and more by player talent. If you have a legendary playmaker like Magic Johnson you make him your point guard, even if he has a power forward body. But no coach would put a regular power...
Muggsy Bogues on the other hand was short, even by WNBA standards. He was just 5 foot 3 inches, making him the shortest NBA player ever and 2 inches shorter than the shortest WNBA player currently in the WNBA. Debbie Black and Shannon Babbitt are the two shortest WNBA player's in WNBA...
The first truly dominant NBA big man, George Mikan used his massive size to his advantage along with the unusually soft touch he had for a player of his era. Mikan could finish ably with either hand in the paint. There’s a reason the Mikan Drill is still used to this day. Something...
Then, in the second step a player’s performance is normalized within team and season. The full formula for PER can be found at Sports Reference (2022). On the other hand, VORP is calculated as (BPM + 2) * share of possessions of each player in a game where BPM is box plus minus...
needs to make to be an efficient offensive player… But he does have some worthwhile floor skills...
Clingan would be that complement. He can run dribble-handoffs and really pass for a player his size. He’s excellent as a screener and can roll well to the rim. Scouts also will tell you his jumper looks clean in Connecticut practices, even if most are skeptical he’ll ever be an N...
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