Actual Heights of Celtic Players

kdp59 wrote:Biggest surprises to me were Rob Williams and Grant Williams

I expected them to be shorter , but not a full 2".

now when do we get to see all the rest..I wanna see if Durant is a full 7 foot instead of 6-9. for one.

bobheckler wrote:

tjmakz wrote:

kdp59 wrote:Biggest surprises to me were Rob Williams and Grant Williams

I expected them to be shorter , but not a full 2".

now when do we get to see all the rest..I wanna see if Durant is a full 7 foot instead of 6-9. for one.

Durant is now listed as 6'10".
They were talking about it on NBA radio this morning.

The league should publish a complete list.


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bobheckler wrote:

worcester wrote:To all those who decry the quality of NBA stars in bygone eras, perhaps these new stats show that Bill Russell did have the physical stature to land a spot, maybe,  on one of today's NBA teams, even if only as the #15 on the bench.

Worcester,

Russ was 6'10", in bare feet.  That makes him taller than Theis and as tall as Kanter.  Only Poirier and, of course, Tacko are taller.

He had a 7'4" wingspan, which is three inches longer than Kanter's.  RWill's wingspan is 7'6", but he is now 2" shorter than Russ, who had always been measured without shoes.

When Russ graduated from USF he was ranked the 7th best high jumper in the world.  He tied a future Olympic high jump Gold Medalist at an AAU meet.  None of them used the "Fosbury Flop" technique, which is how every new world record has been set since 1978.

His BBIQ was also off-the-charts.

So, yeah, I think it is safe to say he could make an NBA team today, and not just as a 15th man.


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bobheckler wrote:

swish wrote:

bobheckler wrote:

worcester wrote:To all those who decry the quality of NBA stars in bygone eras, perhaps these new stats show that Bill Russell did have the physical stature to land a spot, maybe,  on one of today's NBA teams, even if only as the #15 on the bench.

Worcester,

Russ was 6'10", in bare feet.  That makes him taller than Theis and as tall as Kanter.  Only Poirier and, of course, Tacko are taller.

He had a 7'4" wingspan, which is three inches longer than Kanter's.  RWill's wingspan is 7'6", but he is now 2" shorter than Russ, who had always been measured without shoes.

When Russ graduated from USF he was ranked the 7th best high jumper in the world.  He tied a future Olympic high jump Gold Medalist at an AAU meet.  None of them used the "Fosbury Flop" technique, which is how every new world record has been set since 1978.

His BBIQ was also off-the-charts.

So, yeah, I think it is safe to say he could make an NBA team today, and not just as a 15th man.


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bob

No question that Russ, when compared to his generation, was a superior athlete - but that generation of basketball players does not come close to the size (weight) and shooting skill of the present generation.
  1956-57,,, Ave weights for centers  = 213.5 lbs
  2018-19,,, Ave weights for centers  = 251.0 lbs

  1956-57,,, 2 point shooting percentages - see below chart.
  2018-19,,, 2 point shooting percentages - see below charts

 
http://bkref.com/tiny/oUsU4
http://bkref.com/tiny/rPaGn
 swish

Swish,

8 team league, still 82 games/season.  They played each other a lot and who was Russell's #1 opponent?  7'1", 275# Wilt Chamberlain.  And we know how that went, physical dimensions only counted for so much.  7'1", 275# would make Wilt the biggest big man in today's NBA (Tacko isn't in the league, yet, and even if he was we couldn't even mention him in the same breath as Wilt).

Stats are helpful for understanding why things happened, to help predict what might happen in the future and for checking our eyeballs but using stats in lieu of eyeballs is, to me, sterile analysis and our eyeballs never saw Bill Russell play in today's game.    That is why I usually stay out of inter-generational comparisons.  They are, in my opinion, irresolvable.  


bob


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