WNBA Champs Vs. The McDonald's Highschool All-Americans

[College Boy]

4 12 minute quarters, 6 fouls, 25.5 ball.

[Mr. Savage]

The HS players, even if they don't make it to the NBA or to a top Euroleague club, will still be professional players in some league.

Their athletic advantage alone will be enough to beat any WNBA team rather easily.

[J-Mezzy]

WNBA champs and by a landslide. Hell, I think even the NCAA champs would beat the all Americans.

The all American game is full of knuckle heads who are very immature and individualistic. Gerald Green types, the WNBA champs have chemistry and discipline, along with fundamentals. No contest here

[Mr. Savage]

WNBA champs and by a landslide. Hell, I think even the NCAA champs would beat the all Americans.

The all American game is full of knuckle heads who are very immature and individualistic. Gerald Green types, the WNBA champs have chemistry and discipline, along with fundamentals. No contest here

So ? Gerald Green is still an NBA calibre player, while there is no female player who can claim the same.

[AdamTheGreek]

All-Americans, but only because the WNBA players would forfeit after dozens of t-bagging attempts.

[J-Mezzy]

This is like when U.S lost to teams with lesser talent and athleticism because of a lot of stars and individual talents. Better athletes doesn't translate to winning. The WNBA champs play together for years and are very disciplined and fundamentally sound. I don't think the High schoolers can beat them. I just don't, haven't we learned anything from watching the U.S in international competition?

[Benedict_Boozer]

This is like when U.S lost to teams with lesser talent and athleticism because of a lot of stars and individual talents. Better athletes doesn't translate to winning. The WNBA champs play together for years and are very disciplined and fundamentally sound. I don't think the High schoolers can beat them. I just don't, haven't we learned anything from watching the U.S in international competition?

Are you serious? That is a bad analogy IMO.

I would be surprised if the women bigs could even get shots off. The guards might be able to borderline be competitive as their handle and shot is good, and you can overcome height differences on the perimeter with quickness and skill.

But in the paint, forget about it. HS team would murder them. Think about it this way - Lebron James was a HS all-american not to long ago, he alone could beat the womens team..same with Kobe, KG, etc.

[J-Mezzy]

Well, Lebron nor Kobe are there this year, as a matter of fact, there is not some freak in hich school right now that would be ready to be a stud in the NBA.

Maybe I am giving fundamentals too much credit, I just think a well trained disciplined and talented women's team that ha s been together for years can beat a bunch of immature knuckle heads who are most likely ball hogs and showmen that have only practiced together once or twice, but that's just me

[kevC]

Are you kidding? Highschoolers twenty times out of twenty. I read somewhere that an average WNBA team is about as good as a good high school boys team (District champs in a big state or something like that).

[Texas Longhorns]

Men always dominate women in the aspects for sports. Any sport, any time, Man.

[Hard2dhole]

Men always dominate women in the aspects for sports. Any sport, any time, Man.

Billy Jean King- Tennis

[Hard2dhole]

WNBA all stars went on tour and played NCAA teams across the country right before thier inagural season and only lost 1 game. They played solid team ball. The All Americans are all used to being the center of the game at every position having to share is something most of these guys aren't very good at yet.
I expect the all Americans would be far more entertaining but the WNBA team would win.

[BubbaTee]

Are you kidding? Highschoolers twenty times out of twenty. I read somewhere that an average WNBA team is about as good as a good high school boys team (District champs in a big state or something like that).

During the run-up to the 1996 Olympics, NBC showed the US women's team scrimmaging against men at an Atlanta YMCA and they did okay, winning about 60% of their runs. Predictably, they struggled inside - especially in terms of boxing out - while holding their own pretty well on the perimeter where size and strength were at less of a premium.

They won the gold that year - one of the driving factors behind the formation of the WNBA.

[Basileus777]

The women would lose, even highschool men would have a huge athletic advantage over them.

[elbowthrower]

If the All-America team plays like it does during the McDonald's game, they'd get slaughtered. All of that showboating would have no chance against a team that plays together.

Plus you're talking about underdeveloped boys, for the most part, against athletes playing at their peak ages and in peak conditioning, even if they're women.

So it depends on how long the All-America team had to practice together. If they had a couple of months, they might have a chance to beat the WNBA champs. Otherwise they'd get crushed.

[Yangsing]

All-americans. It would be close though imo

[HOTCARL_o]

The game would be Facial galore.

The WNBA will players would be outmuscled and can't match the athleticism. The only way I could see the All-American team is if they take the game as a joke.

[SmoothKobra]

The high school kids every time...the last couple crops of All Americans have produced a bunch of stellar freshman that could come in and be NCAA stars right away(Durant, Oden, Beasley, Gordon, Mayo, Rose). There is no way any WNBA player has the athleticism to guard any of these players, even they were more skilled. Even though the 2008 high school all american class doesn't have the star power of the last couple classes, they still possess the ridiculous athleticism and are obviously talented. Who in the WNBA is going to stop Tyreke Evans? If the high school kids didn't think of the game as a joke, it would be a complete slaughter. Alley oop dunks all day.

[Duiz]

mmm... probably the Detroit Shock could do it. Women's basketball is far more technical and young players are not so well developed.

Expect lots of offensive fouls by All-Americans, but probably points galore for such an organized team like the Shock, or outstanding such as the Mercury.

[rsavaj]

I think the WNBA champ(this year's Mercury) would definitely win.