Basketball: I'm not very good at being tall.
This may seem like a childish argument, but since I've been playing about 2 basketball games a week, one with my church and the other with a Jr. Jazz team, I can't help but notice. As I get shorter and shorter than average, basketball seems to become more difficult to play. Sure, there are many of people that I play against that are out their practicing while I'm not and as we get older they get better, but this cannot account for every case. I rarely find a good basketball player who is short, and none of them are shorter than me. Ah, except for John Stockton. He's pretty short right? Well, actually he's 6' 1''.
Anyone who knows much about basketball knows that really short people just don't make it, no matter how good they are. You're not going to see anyone much (if at all) shorter than John Stockton on the court in the NBA. It's just the way basketball is. If you had a team full of tall people, and another full of short, but the short guys make up for the height is speed then who would win? Is this a fair experiment? Sure, they will get plenty of steals, that is if the tallers decide to dribble. But why dribble when you can just pass it over their heads and let the basketball go out of your hand a foot away from the basket? The short people shouldn't have a hard time dribbling to their basket, but it would still be difficult to make a basket when the lanky team is getting all cocky because they would hit the ball back down with ease every time. They just have long arms. It's not like they can help it.
So what should I do? I can't really complain because that's just how the game is. I can't blame people who are tall and just so happen to be coordinated with a basketball. Getting mad at something no mortal has any control over would just get me into trouble socially and mentally. Everyone is born differently and that's the way it is. For me to complain would be like a mentally retarded kid complaining that he's not as quick as everyone else. It's just the way things are, the way they're supposed to be, and I can't do anything about it. I'm sure there are benefits to being short seeing as natural selection hasn't killed small people off yet, as humans slightly progress every generation. Everyone has some talents that others may not have, but when it comes to basketball, I think I'll stick with jamming out in the Pep band on the trumpet, unless I'm playing with kids a few years younger than me. :)
Anyone who knows much about basketball knows that really short people just don't make it, no matter how good they are. You're not going to see anyone much (if at all) shorter than John Stockton on the court in the NBA. It's just the way basketball is. If you had a team full of tall people, and another full of short, but the short guys make up for the height is speed then who would win? Is this a fair experiment? Sure, they will get plenty of steals, that is if the tallers decide to dribble. But why dribble when you can just pass it over their heads and let the basketball go out of your hand a foot away from the basket? The short people shouldn't have a hard time dribbling to their basket, but it would still be difficult to make a basket when the lanky team is getting all cocky because they would hit the ball back down with ease every time. They just have long arms. It's not like they can help it.
So what should I do? I can't really complain because that's just how the game is. I can't blame people who are tall and just so happen to be coordinated with a basketball. Getting mad at something no mortal has any control over would just get me into trouble socially and mentally. Everyone is born differently and that's the way it is. For me to complain would be like a mentally retarded kid complaining that he's not as quick as everyone else. It's just the way things are, the way they're supposed to be, and I can't do anything about it. I'm sure there are benefits to being short seeing as natural selection hasn't killed small people off yet, as humans slightly progress every generation. Everyone has some talents that others may not have, but when it comes to basketball, I think I'll stick with jamming out in the Pep band on the trumpet, unless I'm playing with kids a few years younger than me. :)
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