players who defy logic

[andremiller07]

Reggie Evans being the best pure rebounder in the NBA for like the last decade.

[ace23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBEl7hsaBQ4

From the comments:

Monta would be working at McDonalds if he wasn't in the NBA.

luckily he's not so you can keep your drive thru headphones on

[Bandito]

There is a strong genetic component that comes with "skills" that people just refuse to acknowledge. Some people are just born stiffs and lack the fluidity to play basketball at a high level.On top of that add Drummonds and Deandres massive frames and you get clumsy mother ****ers. If they werent so tall and jumped high/run fast they obviously wouldnt make it. But they might have been luckier in the skills department so who knows.

Id wager they work on things like free throw shooting more than other players. And they could score better if put in much lower levels of competition.

Sidenote, Drummond isnt that inept offensively in my opinion though. Just raw. De Andre will never amount to much more than dunking offensively.

Tall or big has nothing to do with it. Examples of this are Yao and Shaq. Both are tall and have big frames and they were skilled.

[Bandito]

Reggie Evans being the best pure rebounder in the NBA for like the last decade.

Cant play a lick of defense

[Nash]

How does a perimeter player who attempted over 300 3's in a season end up with a FG% of 57%?

[dh144498]

How does a perimeter player who attempted over 300 3's in a season end up with a FG% of 57%?

[Purch]

Josh smith

[Dresta]

Still baffles me how freaks of nature at the center position can suck so much ass offensively. Like Andre Drummond or Deandre Jordan..like both players, but it makes zero sense to me how they're so laughably unskilled considering the level they're playing at.. You're getting paid millions of dollars to play basketball, it's not just a hobby but it's your job to work on your game and improve, and you're at a ridiculous physical advantage damn near every single game you play, and yet you can't hit a decent hook to save your life, hit 2/2 FTs once a year, etc? Seriously how can you be so completely inept skill-wise with such high level training, coaching, analytical resources, etc available to you at all times?

Because they are nearly 7 feet tall, and tall guys tend to have poor coordination. You rarely catch a guy 6'8 and above that isn't massively spasticated when it comes to playing basketball. People who have coordination and size and athleticism are extremely rare. Guys like Hakeem and Kareem were exceptions.

[navy]

Tall or big has nothing to do with it. Examples of this are Yao and Shaq. Both are tall and have big frames and they were skilled.

Exceptions, Which is why they were so good.

[DCL]

Another thing about size -- obviously, huge dudes have room to suck in many areas and still be useful. But what makes some of them less developed as adults might be because they never worked on shit that was seemingly irrelevant to them when they were younger. If they had always beasted in high school and college without needing to do shoot anything beyond 8 feet, they had no reason to practice shooting. Little guys, on the other hand，cant get away with that. They HAD to be skilled or extra special to overcompensate. But a guy like tyson chandler? He was already unstoppable in offense throughout his youth before he reached the nba. He probably didnt spend too many hours shooting jumpers after practice because he thought he didnt need to. Inside buckets were already easy for him in high school. That's like the shaq syndrome -- you don't have the motivation to be more complete because you feel like you already dominate everything with what u got. then you look at deandre jordan, who's another massive ass, but some of you might think he's offensively clumsy in the nba, but going back to his childhood to teenage years, who the hell was stopping this guy from scoring all day in the paint? he was busy lifting weights, not practicing circus shots like steve nash.

[GimmeThat]

maybe Jason Kidd.

[WallIn]

Roy Hibbert in the 2013/2014 NBA season

[Rolando]

Rajon Rondoooo.

Leads the league in assist per game.
Leads all point guards in rebounds....rebounds better than most players.
Can't shoot for shit.
Will crush any nationally televised game with a triple double at least.
Otherwise chills.

Currently worse at freethrows than Shaq.

[dreamwarrior]

Curry is athletic, but he has a different type of athleticism than the players you mention above.

He has insane cardio. Guy never seems to get tired. The explosive athletes can't keep up with him on every single play.