Basketball Hall of Famer Steve Nash credits his childhood background in soccer with building his elite passing vision and footwork. While he has frequently expressed deep respect for the sheer mechanical difficulty of professional soccer, he specifically highlighted in interviews that because basketball allows you to use your hands, the same spatial angles and passing decisions felt "unfairly" easy to master on the hardwood ESPNFC
@carramrod the Ozzie smith elite athletes have quit in droves. Having lived in the south its country football rejects
You don't have to be an elite athlete to play baseball. It's why a lot of central and South American players are good at it. Just like soccer😁
@snarlcakes no baseball players are the opposite end of the spectrum. you are correct. Stephen A said it perfectly. it's a combination of endurance, speed, fast twitch muscles, bravery, mechanical skills, spatial awareness, and when you throw in the amount you have to suffer and be brave there's really no comparison. certainly not baseball. a sport of largely out of shape central americans and red neck southerners who got cut from football
Stephen A. Smith recently made waves for claiming that American athletes cannot match the extreme conditioning levels of top soccer players. He argued that while NBA stars like LeBron James and Steph Curry are in remarkable shape, soccer requires an entirely different, relentless level of continuous cardiovascular endurance.Smith also highlighted legends like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to illustrate the sport's intense demands. Unlike in American sports, where players can occasionally get away with being out of shape or pacing themselves, soccer demands 90+ minutes of high-intensity running. For Smith, this means soccer players represent a gold standard of sheer athletic conditionin
@bar-down if the NBA and NFL players cut all their muscle mass to become soccer twinks they would have no problem matching the conditioning of soccer players.
@carramrod twinks? I thought you ran cross country? Literally the sport of last hope. After cross country it’s collect cards or build model trains
The only way to settle this dispute is the old fashioned way: sport v sport stars battle it out on Battle of the Network Stars.
@snarlcakes no baseball players are the opposite end of the spectrum. you are correct. Stephen A said it perfectly. it's a combination of endurance, speed, fast twitch muscles, bravery, mechanical skills, spatial awareness, and when you throw in the amount you have to suffer and be brave there's really no comparison. certainly not baseball. a sport of largely out of shape central americans and red neck southerners who got cut from football
Stephen A. Smith recently made waves for claiming that American athletes cannot match the extreme conditioning levels of top soccer players. He argued that while NBA stars like LeBron James and Steph Curry are in remarkable shape, soccer requires an entirely different, relentless level of continuous cardiovascular endurance.Smith also highlighted legends like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to illustrate the sport's intense demands. Unlike in American sports, where players can occasionally get away with being out of shape or pacing themselves, soccer demands 90+ minutes of high-intensity running. For Smith, this means soccer players represent a gold standard of sheer athletic conditionin
Being a long distance runner isn't appealing to me as a sport. I played soccer for a year as child and it was fun, but that's about it. Football and basketball are a lot more fun to play and watch. I'm just busting your balls because you're trying so hard to defend it and think guys like PCA wouldn't be unreal at it.
think guys like PCA wouldn't be unreal at it.
why would he be unreal at it? being able to play baseball provides zero evidence that the person would be good at soccer. an nba point guard might have more relatable skills. spatial awareness. vision. etc. but who knows what their feet are like. touch etc.
think guys like PCA wouldn't be unreal at it.
why would he be unreal at it? being able to play baseball provides zero evidence that the person would be good at soccer. an nba point guard might have more relatable skills. spatial awareness. vision. etc. but who knows what their feet are like. touch etc.
You can use whomever you like. I was just using PCA as the example of an elite athlete. I disagree that soccer, basketball, or football are that difficult to pick up for athletic people who are coordinated. What separates the top 1% of the 1% is athleticism, effort, and size.
@carramrod twinks? I thought you ran cross country? Literally the sport of last hope. After cross country it’s collect cards or build model trains
The Ancient Greeks ran what was known as Dolichos as far back as 720 BCE which was an outdoor, 3 mile race, and effectively the same as XC. It has since that time always been the single greatest measure of human, grit, determination and endurance. Not for the faint of heart.
The first international soccer match was played in 1872 between England and Scotland. It ended in a 0-0 draw. A snoozefest. The more things change the more they stay the same.
@snarlcakes My 4 year old niece had 13 goals in one game this year. They couldn’t take her out because there weren’t enough players to sub.
@zeke4ahs my five year old had seven goals weekend before last. a goal scorer's instinct, to be sure. he gravitated to the goal like a magnet. at just five he already recognizes that his value is in the attack, that it's vital that he conserve his energy for going forward, and that the relentless calls (whines) to get back MUST be ignored, both from his teammates and his coaches. i was super proud of him. service to him was incredibly poor, almost to a toddler. very rarely were balls played to his feet, requiring him to chase down shitty passes, wasting his precious energy. honestly it was hard to watch. but he soldiered on, limiting his tantrums to less than a dozen. to the untrained eye it probably looked like he was at times just wandering around. he wasn't. he was taking a mental picture of the formations he was seeing, finding the space, for later. unfortunately this was lost on his "teammates."
More of this.@zeke4ahs my five year old had seven goals weekend before last. a goal scorer's instinct, to be sure. he gravitated to the goal like a magnet. at just five he already recognizes that his value is in the attack, that it's vital that he conserve his energy for going forward, and that the relentless calls (whines) to get back MUST be ignored, both from his teammates and his coaches. i was super proud of him. service to him was incredibly poor, almost to a toddler. very rarely were balls played to his feet, requiring him to chase down shitty passes, wasting his precious energy. honestly it was hard to watch. but he soldiered on, limiting his tantrums to less than a dozen. to the untrained eye it probably looked like he was at times just wandering around. he wasn't. he was taking a mental picture of the formations he was seeing, finding the space, for later. unfortunately this was lost on his "teammates."