Football vs Basketball

[LiL 369]

This clip of clavicular reminded me on how low iq the average American actually is for genuinely believing basketball is harder than european football.



We are born manipulating objects with our hands, not with our feet. Seeing this from a developmental point of view, the hands are simply our primary tools, we grab, throw, point, push.. with them from a very early age. Because of that, basketball simply benefits from our already existing motor function. Even someone who has never played basketball has already practiced similar actions thousands of times in daily life: throwing objects, catching, pushing things away... Thats why a person can be mediocre at basketball without prior experience but simply terrible at football.

Yet, everytime I see a debate on this matter, no one points this out… (at least from what I’ve seen)

 

[Swarthy Knight]

Soccer is way easier for average person than basketball. I was a wiz at soccer as a kid with no special athleticism. But when I took up bball I was limited by being a skinny-fatfuck with small-ish hands

 

[ltnbrownacnecel]

Soccer is way easier for average person than basketball. I was a wiz at soccer as a kid with no special athleticism. But when I took up bball I was limited by being a skinny-fatfuck with small-ish hands

This is why I stopped playing basketball. No point if ur below 6 foot.

 

[Swarthy Knight]

This is why I stopped playing basketball. No point if ur below 6 foot.

Wish I had done the same. I fell for the "durr work on ur game brooo" meme and wasted my youth playing that dumb sport when I could've excelled in others instead

It's an underrated blackpill tbh. No matter how much you train, if you're not physically gifted you'll never be good at certain sports

 

[ltnbrownacnecel]

Wish I had done the same. I fell for the "durr work on ur game brooo" meme and wasted my youth playing that dumb sport when I could've excelled in others instead

It's an underrated blackpill tbh. No matter how much you train, if you're not physically gifted you'll never be good at certain sports

Brutal talentpill. Applies to literally everything.

 

[LiL 369]

Soccer is way easier for average person than basketball. I was a wiz at soccer as a kid with no special athleticism. But when I took up bball I was limited by being a skinny-fatfuck with small-ish hands

The cognitive demand while learning basketball is significantly lower, you just bounce the ball repeating the same movement… With football one touch on the ball without your foot doing a precise movement and the ball is already where you dont want it to be.

 

[Swarthy Knight]

The cognitive demand while learning basketball is significantly lower, you just bounce the ball repeating the same movement…

That's really underselling it. Dribbling and being a step ahead of your defender with every move takes special precision that you got to mentally calculate in a fraction of a second. But I guess soccer is somewhat of the same in that regard