Scal takes on challengers

[ItsSensei]

I don't know how people can doubt any NBA players lol, they practice with the greatest every day.

[Dupp]

Im just wondering does everyone play one on one like this in america? Its like a video game. I'm use to keeping the ball live and going for rebounds and stuff.

[jdm_dc_fan]

I think I'm the only one who actually was given Scal more credit before the pickup game?

[deliriousmouse]

Scal still has 12 years of professional basketball on everyone on this forum.

[TheWhiteMamba]

Well, no surprise that an NBA ALL-TIME LEGEND as the White Mamba can ball.
If he was a little more selfish, he could have dropped 30k+ in the NBA easily.

[branny]

I don't know how people can doubt any NBA players lol, they practice with the greatest every day.

[Bay Based]

That seems like a really funny video to watch, I wish I could watch it on my phone right now but it's not showing up. I'll make sure to watch it when I'm on my laptop, though.

But yeah, I'd love to see some benchwarmers in the NBA play against some of these people, too. Some people always talk crap about 12th men who never get any playing time.

I noticed the talent difference of the NBA and other players this season when Kent Bazemore of the Warriors would get sent down to the D-League. Kent gets no playing time with the Golden State Warriors because he lacks an offensive game, yet when he got sent down to the D-League he scored like 27 points so effortlessly and got a couple steals, too. It's crazy how big the talent gap is between the NBA and other players.

[spearsy23]

To put the 'good college players could have beat him' notion into perspective, scal averaged 18ppg in college. Obviously as a big he's not going to be the best one on one guy.

[dundundun]

Articles about this keep mentioning that one of the guys he beat "played" at Syracuse last year. Kind of misleading; it's not like he was playing Dion Waiters, dude was a walk-on

[DanTown8587]

I don't think Scal is a good 1-1 matchup for guys who are not in the league because he has great "average" size and he's a fundamental player. I think Scal is better than a lot of current players in the league in this kind of format. What I would be interested to see is someone like Keith Bogans play someone. Someone with size but not massive.

[diablerouge]

I don't know how people can doubt any NBA players lol, they practice with the greatest every day.

there are a few exceptions. i'm from montreal and i played against joel anthony in HS. he has never averaged double digit scoring at any level (hs, prep, juco, ncaa, pros) - dude just can't score.

he played in a competitivve pro-am in montreal (lots of ncaa kids from mtl and former euro pros) two summers ago and wasn't dominating offensively at all. of course, no one could score and he was swatting every layup in the stands tho!

[therealbig3]

I don't think Scal is a good 1-1 matchup for guys who are not in the league because he has great "average" size and he's a fundamental player. I think Scal is better than a lot of current players in the league in this kind of format. What I would be interested to see is someone like Keith Bogans play someone. Someone with size but not massive.

Bogans might not look massive, but he would probably just bully people like Scal did.

Even a dude like Kobe, who looks really lanky compared to other NBA players, is like a tank compared to an average person. There's a video where he played Bow Wow 1 on 1, and although it wasn't very impressive, Bow Wow looks absolutely pathetic from a physical standpoint, even disregarding the height difference. I'm sure Bow Wow is built like an average person though.

[Birth of the Cool]

Scal was playing guys for the most part smaller than him and he was still missing lots of shots. How about the TV shows Joes vs Pros...former really good NBA players were beaten in 3on3 matchups vs guys who played college ball or whatever....NBA former pros were beat more consistently then Joes who played against former NFL or MLB guys.

Also, yeah I don't get the dead ball after a FGA rule. Is this common? As a lazy one-on-one player I would like to incorporate this into my summer one-on-one games lol.

[pacers33granger]

I think there is a bigger gap between NBA players and normal people than most think, but you have to remember that Scal is like 6'9 and has a good jumpshot. That's about enough to beat 99.9% of people on the street.

[LoveDaBoo]

I don't think Scal is a good 1-1 matchup for guys who are not in the league because he has great "average" size and he's a fundamental player. I think Scal is better than a lot of current players in the league in this kind of format. What I would be interested to see is someone like Keith Bogans play someone. Someone with size but not massive.

Bogans might not look massive, but he would probably just bully people like Scal did.

Even a dude like Kobe, who looks really lanky compared to other NBA players, is like a tank compared to an average person. There's a video where he played Bow Wow 1 on 1, and although it wasn't very impressive, Bow Wow looks absolutely pathetic from a physical standpoint, even disregarding the height difference. I'm sure Bow Wow is built like an average person though.

Right. When Linsanity broke out, someone posted this old video one of Lin's friends had made for youtube where he "plays one on one" with Lin. It wasn't a serious contest, because the friend quite obviously was nowhere near skilled enough to play someone of Lin's caliber, but what was interesting about the video is how huge Lin looked. I never thought of him as looking particularly strong watching him in the NBA, but in that video, next to a normal human being, he just looked huge. You forget how big and strong NBA guys are because they're constantly on the floor with 9 other guys who are also huge.