I see what you mean and your insight is interesting. But I’m only talking about how difficult it is for an athletic guy to reach a high level in both (I don’t care if 30 guys in the NBA can play in the NFL). On the feasibility of transferring from one sport to another. And as crazy as NFL players may be technically (and they are!), there are barriers to entry from a technical standpoint that seem much higher to me in basketball.
It’s not because we’ve been doing it since we were very young and it seems natural to us that we should forget how dribbling head-up with a guy in our support trying to take the ball from us is complicated in terms of technique. , motor skills and coordination. Same for shooting, etc. A guy who has almost never done it can’t show up and hope to perform well (I’m not talking about joining the NBA but doing well at a good level) for quite some time. He won’t play right away, because there are five players and they all have to have a very broad (there is much less specialization) and ultra-high technical base.
In a sport like US football, the technical “refining” is monstrously high at high level, but the barriers to entry are essentially physical and athletic. A guy who arrives with an advantageous mix of speed and power, an ability to manage contact can do well in football. Once again, I’m not saying that it’s not a technical sport, and to be among the best you have to master things that the pros take very far in terms of precision.
But they are more affordable initially for a guy who is fast and powerful (like a lot of basketball players are) than dribbling or shooting are for fast and powerful guys.
With equal motor skills and physical abilities, you find your place more quickly, I think, in US football than in basketball. Especially since it is “simpler” to find a spot in a very specialized sport as you say, because there will necessarily be something that suits you a little more, than in a sport where ultimately there are few technical specialization (you have to know how to dribble, shoot, pass at a minimum level which is not easy).
As a result, I find that transferring from one sport to another is simpler for the entry prerequisites. Which does not mean that US football at the highest level is not infinitely technical. There is no very high level sport with money where the technical level is not high. On the other hand, the sports are access (aka at the beginning) different from a technical point of view
2024-05-09 00:13:58
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