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I think that the action under the low post is the best part of basketball. Under the low post is the center's territory. How does Capella compare with Okongwu? Who is the better center, Capella or Okongwu? Are their skills sets similar to each other, or do they have different strengths and weaknesses?

What year's finals was this Hakeem vs. Shaq match up?

What does "post someone up" mean?

Wouldn't Trae Young be an excellent example of a lighter, weaker player who gets jostled around and cannot hold his position under the low post? Trae weighs only 164 pounds. Trae Young has no muscles to speak of.

According to your profile, you've been a basketball fan since 1950. That's 72 years! So you must be very knowledgeable about this. Can you elaborate on how weight and strength matter in basketball?

The first and only entire basketball game I have ever watched in my life was when I watched an Atlanta Hawks game live on November 16, 2022 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. So I am no basketball expert. I have thought a lot about basketball, and I have a theory. I have a theory that a basketball player's weight and strength might help him in a basketball game, and, conversely, my theory is that a basketball player's very low body weight and/or weak physical strength would limit a basketball player's capabilities. Here's what I base my theory on: When basketball players make a running jump to slam dunk a basketball, the bodies of the players on defense frequently end up colliding with the ball carriers' bodies when the defensive players jump up to block the ball carriers' slam dunks. As a hypothetical example, let's say the ball carrier is 6'8" and weighs 275 pounds, and let's say that the defensive player trying to block the slam dunk is also 6'8" but he is extremely skinny and only weighs, say, 180 pounds. The ball carrier weighs 95 pounds more than the defensive player. The 275 pound ball carrier makes a running jump to make a slam dunk. When the 275 pound ball carrier's body inadvertently collides with the 180 pound defensive player's body in mid-air, isn't the superior momentum of the 275 pound ball carrier going to push the body of the 180 pound defensive player backwards when they collide so that the 275 pound ball carrier keeps flying towards the hoop? Conversely, if the 180 pound player was the ball carrier making a running jump to attempt a slam dunk, and if the 180 pound ball carrier's body collided with the 275 pound defensive player in mid-air, wouldn't the 275 pound defensive player's body likely stop the 180 pound ball carrier's body from making it to the basketball hoop? I deduced this theory when thinking about how often basketball player's bodies collide in mid-air when a ball carrier makes a running jump to make a slam dunk. This is a little bit analagous to me of how weight/strength determines which linemen push the other linemen backwards in football. Am I basically correct here that weight would be a factor in basketball due to mid-air collisions when ball carriers make running jumps to slam dunk? Can anyone give me any interesting anecdotes about how weight alone has helped or hindered NBA players or college basketball players when making running jumps to slam dunk?

Thank you jaybirdhawk and gray mule

Very informative. I learned a lot from your post. Thank you

I understand the concept of gravity now and how a player with a lot of gravity will create spacing for other players on his team. Isn't Trae Young a quality 3 point shooter? If you've got a team with a lot of guys who can slam dunk well, how does an offense relying heavily on slam dunks usually do against a zone defense?

What do the 3 and 4 mean in this context?

I attended the Celtics vs. Hawks game on November 16, 2022, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. This was the first complete basketball game I have ever watched in my entire life, and I am hooked. Before this game, I had attended the big leagues of all four of the major team sports in America except basketball. I only attended this game to make it so that I could have attended the "big leagues" all four of the major team sports in America, but I was unexpected hooked on basketball. I can only remember four specific Hawks players from this game: Clint Capela, Trae Young, John Collins, and Vit Krejci. Clint Capela stood out for me because he was the starting center. Trae Young stood out to me because he scored so many points, and Young and Capela seemed to be involved in every play. John Collins stood out to me because I saw him score some spectacular alleyoop slam dunks in the game. Vit Krejci only played in about the last five minutes of the game, but Krejci stood out to me because of what I saw him do before the game. Krejci was warming up before the game practicing shooting three pointer shots. I saw Krejci swish about 15 three pointers in a row in practice before the game. Then Krejci bricked a three pointer. Then Krejci scored exactly 20 three point shots in a row.

I attended the Celtics vs. Hawks game live on November 16, 2022, and it was the first complete basketball game I ever watched in my life. I was very impressed with how entertaining it was, but I don't understand a lot of the strategy involved in basketball. So please be understanding of my ignorance. Clint Capela started at Center at the Hawks game I attended 13 days ago. When you say that Clint Capela's lack of gravity is elite, I am assuming you just mean that Capela can jump extraordinarily high. You say that Capela's lack of gravity creates zero spacing for Murray. My interpretation of what you are saying is the following: Capela's ability to jump extraordinarily high creates zero spacing for Murray. I am totally baffled. Why would anyone's ability/lack of ability to jump high create spacing for anyone else? P.S. remember I am brand new to basketball. Please be gentle.

I'm very new to basketball. I attended the Celtics vs. Hawks game at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on November 16, 2022, and that was the first time I ever watched an entire basketball game in my life. I was hooked! Very entertaining. I've been reading this message board ever since that game thirteen days ago, and a lot of the jargon you people use here confuses me. Diesel, when you say that "if there is a problem with our offense, it would be spacing", do you mean that if there is a problem with the Hawks' offense, it is that the Hawks players bunch up too much together near the basketball hoop? Then you say that on our first team, DJM and Hunter helps our spacing a lot because we have movement. Do you just mean that DJM and Hunter move away from the basketball hoop more than other players, or are you saying something deeper than that? Please elaborate. P.S. I have only watched one complete basketball game in my entire life. So please be understanding of my ignorance. Please be gentle.