players with unusual body types and proportions

falcolombardi · Post #1 » by **falcolombardi** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 5:36 am

small guards with pterodactile wingspans, guys whose height is misleading because of short legs, guys who are huge but have small hands, anythingh you can think of

what are the guys with outlier bodies for basketball postively or negatively ?

70sFan · Post #2 » by **70sFan** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 7:47 am

Rondo with his giant hands and huge wingspan is quite an outlier.

Post #3 » by **Texas Chuck** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:39 pm

Kawhi's hands though

parsnips33 · Post #4 » by **parsnips33** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:19 pm

Sam Cassell had really big... nevermind

Owly · Post #5 » by **Owly** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:26 pm

Hot Plate
O Miller
Lockout and after Kemp
Lockout and after Big Country
Mike Sweetney
Thomas Hamilton
Eddy Curry
John Bagley
Glen Davis
Geoff Crompton
Mel Turpin
Caleb Swanigan
Robert Traylor
(others who took heat at times Felton, Boris Diaw, Mark Aguirre, El-Amin, Jerome James)

Manute Bol
Shawn Bradley
Shaun Livingston
Prince???
(sure I'm missing some guys here ... some 70s forward at circa PF height but under 200 pounds, don't think I'm thinking Larry McNeil [6'8, 195])

Jerry West is oft cited for wingspan. I think Russell too.

Otis Thorpe had two distinctive things. Short arms and I think big hands. Think Kevin Willis was short armed too ... probably some jokes when he went to the Raptors. For hands think anyone palming the ball is likely (Hawkins, Jordan, Chamberlain, Kawhi, Erving, Terry Tyler, Walter Herrmann).

Think it's more playstyle but has to be somewhat body related Rumeal Robinson got called a power point guard (or something adjacent). Anthony Mason I might have heard power point forward.

GSWFan1994 · Post #6 » by **GSWFan1994** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:53 pm

Andrew Wiggins' neck
Scottie Pippen's wingspan
Kevin Willis' alligator arms

ronnymac2 · Post #7 » by **ronnymac2** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:36 am

Wasn't D-Wade 6'4" with the wingspan of a 7-footer?

Im Your Father · Post #8 » by **Im Your Father** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:52 pm

I feel like I read somewhere that Shaq has an oddly low center of gravity for a man of his height.

It was something like - Most true 7 footers have extremely long legs compared to the average person, whereas Shaq's ratio of legs to torso is much more in line with a person of average size.

Was just googling though and couldn't find it again.

feyki · Post #9 » by **feyki** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 1:55 pm

70sFan wrote:Rondo with his giant hands and huge wingspan is quite an outlier.

Bledsoe's wingspan, too.

Don't think it's rare but Wilt,Kareem,Gilmore body type is the most unique form I've ever seen.

70sFan · Post #10 » by **70sFan** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 2:56 pm

feyki wrote:
70sFan wrote:Rondo with his giant hands and huge wingspan is quite an outlier.

Bledsoe's wingspan, too.

Don't think it's rare but Wilt,Kareem,Gilmore body type is the most unique form I've ever seen.

I'd say that Kareem, Gilmore and Wilt all had different body types.