is the best WNBA player good enough to be in the NBDL?

[Devilzsidewalk]

according to Wikipedia, the last WNBA MVP was Lauren Jackson, I'll assume she's the best WNBA player. Do you think off of talent alone, not as a sideshow attraction, that she could play in the NBDL?

[2poor]

No.

Candace Parker doesn't even have a chance and she's probably the best individual women's basketball player I've ever seen.

[Harry Heinous]

No, no chance. Too physical, too much power, and size.

[Nuzzo]

You mean the same league that send to NBA players like Kelenna Azubuike, Chuck Hayes, Ime Udoka, Matt Carroll and Mikki Moore. The league with NBA players like Shannon Brown, Ian Mahinmi, Fazekas and Alando Tucker and athletic beasts like Elton Brown, Rod Benson, Gabe Muoneke, James Lang and Kyrylo Fesenko.
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If the answer is yes, then Lauren Jackson wont be able to play in it

[greenbeans]

yes, she already does. Ms. Sczerbiak

[adjacent2bench]

I don't think the best player in the WNBA can play in a Div II NCAA program. It's just to physical. With that said, I'm probably one of the few ppl on these boards that actually look forward to the WNBA season. It's some good basketball those females play. Some good, fundamental ball that makes you enjoy the sport even more.

[crzy]

I don't think the best WNBA player can make it onto my high school basketball team.

[2poor]

I don't think the best WNBA player can make it onto my high school basketball team.

Yeah, I'd probably even go that far. I doubt a WNBA player could even keep up with your average top-25 (state) high school team.

[hermes]

I don't think the best WNBA player can make it onto my high school basketball team.

you must have a pretty good basketball team
i know a wnba team could beat my high school basketball team
pretty easily

[Prophet_C]

I don't think the best player in the WNBA can play in a Div II NCAA program. It's just to physical. With that said, I'm probably one of the few ppl on these boards that actually look forward to the WNBA season. It's some good basketball those females play. Some good, fundamental ball that makes you enjoy the sport even more.

I don't blame you. If I were a Knicks fan I'd want to watch some good bball myself.

[cucad8]

No.

Candace Parker doesn't even have a chance and she's probably the best individual women's basketball player I've ever seen.

Watching last season's Blazers, as a season ticket holder, I think Candace Parker would have been better than Dan Dickau. I'm pretty sure of it.

[Rooster]

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Yeah, I'd probably even go that far. I doubt a WNBA player could even keep up with your average top-25 (state) high school team.

Their main problem would seem to be lack of size and - Lauren Jackson, at 6'5", wouldn't suffer much there against most high school programs. I'm sure she could do okay.

What I've always thought is that if a woman makes the NBA, she'll either be a 7' centre or a 6' guard. Nothing in between makes sense because any woman 6'2"+ gets the big man training anyway.

adjacent2bench, I'd love to back you there but I can't. It's not good basketball, and the fundamentals are horrible. They're advertised because it's so rare for these women to actually dunk. (Although you'd think an athletic 6'6" woman could dunk at ease anyway...) Next time you watch a WNBA game, look for things like a pass over the key, poor rebounding position, poor shooting form, etc. because they're rampant. I tried to watch it and I really wanted to but it was that bad.

[greenbeans]

seriously though, i think one could cut it in the D. just a pure spot-up jump shooter though. it wouldnt exactly be pretty but i think it could work, albeit on a short, like 5 game schedule. she couldnt last through a season imo

[2poor]

Their main problem would seem to be lack of size and - Lauren Jackson, at 6'5", wouldn't suffer much there against most high school programs. I'm sure she could do okay.

Most elite HS teams have plenty of big guys on their team. Hell, I graduated in '99 and my HS team (ranked in the top 10 in Illinois) had two 6'6" guys, another 6'8" guy, and our center was 6'10"

[raptor21_85]

Diana Taurasi is a great player...

[a-rod]

regardless. Wnba= fundamentally sound League

[revprodeji]

at her prime Chamique Holdsclaw could have made a roster as a 3rd pg. She was 6'2 180 and athletic with a high BBIQ.

[Liqourish]

I know most men would never want to concede their strength and size to a woman , somehow thinking it diminishes their manhood, but there are some WNBA players who are definitely stronger and more athletic than a few NBA players and mostly likely quite a few NBDL players as well.

Cheryl Ford, Katie Smith, Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings, Margo Dydek, Janel McCarville all come to mind right away.

[Rooster]

I know most men would never want to concede their strength and size to a woman , somehow thinking it diminishes their manhood, but there are some WNBA players who are definitely stronger and more athletic than a few NBA players and mostly likely quite a few NBDL players as well.

Cheryl Ford, Katie Smith, Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings, Margo Dydek, Janel McCarville all come to mind right away.

It's not that at all. I wanted to like the WNBA. I even like the idea of women who are bigger than me also being stronger. I wanted to see 6'9" women dunking the hell out of the ball. That would've been awesome. What I got instead was poor fundamentals (yes, a-rod, try watching...)

Margo Dydek should be receiving lob passes all game.

revpordeji, kinda OT but the name Holdsclaw always makes me think of coleslaw. Regardless, think she had the handles?

[exkonvict]

I'd take Cynthia Cooper over Smush Parker.

I'd take Lisa Leslie over Kwame Brown.