cgf wrote:Capn'O wrote:cgf wrote:
That was really surprising to me because average footballers run more than double that...7 miles over 90minutes...and sometimes closer to triple, but it does seem like that is what a ton of running is in the NBA. As Jimmy led the NBA in 2016 running 2.7 miles per game.
Maybe it's just that in basketball we almost always see _somebody_ moving fast but not everyone actually is.
Basketballers do also play a lot more often. Even the biggest stars in world football don't play more than 60-something games a year...70-something if there is a NT tournament over the summer. With a season that starts in early August and ends in late May.
Plus a basketball court is way smaller than a football pitch, so NBAers don't need to cover as much ground just to stay with the play.
Yeah, football pitches are huge. And the games are long. There was a whole to do after Argentina won about how much milling about Messi does relative to other players to gather information and conserve energy in his old age. Then he surprises everyone with quick and decisive attacks.
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/world-cup-2022/the-genius-of-lionel-messi-just-walking-around