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nojitosunrise
Profile Joined August 2011
United States6188 Posts
May 26 2013 13:36 GMT
#5321
GG korea. Those were a fantastic set of games played.

In other news, did anyone else see that LoL had almost 90% of the viewership on tving? On a sunday?
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
May 26 2013 13:38 GMT
#5322
On May 26 2013 21:05 wei2coolman wrote:
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On May 26 2013 06:19 Letmelose wrote:
On May 26 2013 05:00 wei2coolman wrote:
On May 26 2013 03:23 overt wrote:
On May 26 2013 02:17 Nitan wrote:
People are hating on yellowpete too much. I voted CandyPanda but I think the bot lane would have turned out the same regardless of who EU sent.


Not gonna lie yellowpete was probably a bad choice. But at least EU can take solace in the fact that if NA sent any other ADC our chances of winning would've probably dropped by a lot.

Lol. Nien, brunch u, wt, dont mashme, zuna, qtpie, all better than yellowpete. But could they carry as hard as dl? Dunno. Maybe nien and qtpie woulda worked.


I've noticed a flaw in your way of arguing for the overall quality of North American AD carries, you always name a group of names you are familiar with, then go on to presume that because these players have been "eye-tested" by you, these players must be better than that (insert name here) player who you weren't too impressed by. It's like arguing against a religious person as an atheist, because almost everything you say is based on your beliefs alone, and you cannot disprove a belief, because there's always a loop-hole to escape every fact-based argument. It's a common way to argue for certain agendas, but it creates really shitty debates, please consider the below.

We all have our biases. Even professional players have limited information and flawed opinions on each other, especially more so if they haven't played against them extensively. Yellowpete's laning strength, and overall visibility as a quality player has never been the most obvious, so there's always going to be assumptions made that certain players are of at a higher level than him even if they have never played against each other directly. Even when you point out specific games, and go in thorough detail how a certain player outperformed the other guy, you can only go so far with extrapolating your relative rating on those players because you never have enough information (what went on with the calls, the player's conditions, direct influence of fellow teammates' performances, if there were miscommunications etc), and you almost never have enough number of games to base your opinions on. Imagine how problematic it becomes if there's no games to even judge the players from, your opinions become next to useless. How many of those players you listed even played a single game against Yellowpete, never mind out performing him?

Listing a random bunch of names who you consider to be of a certain standard, and making assumptions that they are of a higher standard than a player who you consider to be of a lower standard is a dangerous method of basing your opinion, a trap all of us are guilty of falling into.

They're all visibly better than yellowpete. Mechanically speaking they are far stronger than yellowpete. Their ability to carry and kite out a team fight is just a step above . Also in current meta aggressive adcs seem to reign king. Dont get me wrong. I understand yellowpete gets shafted by farm priorities on his team. But even so he's marketdly worse than cop who share same farm priority. And id name all those adc as better adcs then cop (in a vacuum)


I'm sorry to be so rude, but you are regurgitating the same inane argument that will never evolve beyond simple beliefs that cannot be disproven. Regardless of whether you are right or wrong, the way you construct your arguments are totally invalid from the start. You are simply attatching random qualities you "eye-tested" personally to players you are familiar with without referencing to any specific games, or professional opinions, or even cross-referencing any of tournaments they played in. How do you rate a player in "vacuum" when obviously a player's performance varies [iheavily][/i] on various circumstances including their team's performance, the quality of the opposition, the numerous in-game circumstances I have mentioned in my previous post, and their ever-changing form?

It's totally retarded to rate players without accounting for the patch they are playing in, the circumstances of the tournament they were playing in, their opposition, the team-composition, the events that happened in-game that directly influenced their performance, and even then we cannot know for sure because we never have the full scope of understanding of the actual state of things as a mere spectator. Hell, like I mentioned beforehand, even professional players do not have neccesarily have the correct view on things.

It's okay to believe in some things. I think amateur players on the Korean server such as Crumble Cookies has more crisp mechanics and champion pool than many of the famous professional players, and have personally seen him out-perform professional players on the Challenger League in Korea. However, I do not go around stating things as status quo, asserting a particular agenda on public forums by stating such as:

"Oh my god guys, Crumble Cookies has such an insane champion pool, and his mechanics are so out of this world, he mocks the opposition with awesome jabs at their obvious lack of skill, as he does his full rotation of skills in a perfect order. Imagine how good he would be if he didn't troll around! Also his farming is so good, he never misses a single CS! He is obviously way better than these famous players like Ocelote, Scarra, and Reginald. The difference in their mechanics is so obvious. Remember that time he outplayed Toyz when they met on the Korean Challenger League? When's the last time any of the players I listed did anything close to that? He is the greatest. I just know it."

It's stupid to state things like the above, because there's no point in spewing out your beliefs if you cannot back it up with proper arguments. I really can't see the difference in the uselessness of the statement above, and your method of rating AD carries in particular. Of course nobody can disprove your beliefs, but at the same time, there's no value at all in your statements at all because they are nothing but your personal beliefs. There's more to explaning why a certain players are better or worse than the other than putting random qualities you believe to be superior in certain players than the other. Do it in detail. Explain in which games you've watched in order to arrive to this conclusion, why these games back up your beliefs, and how the situation in the games allows you to judge the aspects of these players you noted accurately, and fairly.

Until you do so, some kid might as well start listing a random bunch of solo-que heroes people never heard of, but he thought were awesome when he watched them streaming, proceed to announce them as the greatest players ever because in vacuum they were better mechanically, with amazing decision making, and out of the world farming ability. How can you tell? Because he just knows after watching them. He just can tell. See how unproductive and time-wasting these kind of arguments can be?
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krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
May 26 2013 14:02 GMT
#5323
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Keniji
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Netherlands2569 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-26 14:15:35
May 26 2013 14:11 GMT
#5324
On May 26 2013 23:02 krndandaman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 21:09 KissBlade wrote:
On May 26 2013 17:03 krndandaman wrote:

Eh... have you seen NBA players? They are some of the most athletic superhuman freaks in the world. That's genetics and I haven't seen any Chinese person with that freak of nature athleticism that I've seen in the NBA.



Well there was this one guy named Bruce Lee. You might've heard of him ...


He's far more skilled than athletic lol.


what's the definition of athletic anyway in that way.

bruce lee definitely was atheltic lol.

Every worldclass gymnast is athletic as hell. And asians are top notch there, too.

Just finished watching today games. Korea dominant. Just amazing play. As xpecial said you can't outban them and it's so hard to pick against them. they have so many champs that are so strong. I mean you can't even outban 1, how you want to do it against 4 or 5. Koreans showing the world how to esports once again. Until other nations going to take esports serious enough (china comes close I guess) it will stay that way.
AsnSensation
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany24009 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-26 14:34:10
May 26 2013 14:33 GMT
#5325
Rewatching the CH vs KOR series currently because I was half asleep this morning

damn this is sooo high level. Still confused how Insec makes Lee word so good, Lee feels sooo weak currently whenever I play him in soloQ or meet another Lee, he even goes sightstone after Madred's so no real Combat stats.

And Madlife just *____*

I wonder if Misaya was abit cocky in Game 1 not banning TF although ambition has 100% in comp. play with him.
Letmelose
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Korea (South)3227 Posts
May 26 2013 14:45 GMT
#5326
On May 26 2013 23:33 AsnSensation wrote:
Rewatching the CH vs KOR series currently because I was half asleep this morning

damn this is sooo high level. Still confused how Insec makes Lee word so good, Lee feels sooo weak currently whenever I play him in soloQ or meet another Lee, he even goes sightstone after Madred's so no real Combat stats.

And Madlife just *____*

I wonder if Misaya was abit cocky in Game 1 not banning TF although ambition has 100% in comp. play with him.


Ambition said in his post-game interview that he purposefully refrained from playing Twisted Fate too much when they scrimmed against Team WE (they do so a lot). He felt like Misaya didn't expect him to pick Twisted Fate, because he played mind tricks on Misaya by playing AOE champions like Kennen versus the North American All Stars team, and that put him off his game. The champions he really wanted to take for his team were Twisted Fate, Jayce, and Khazix, but he didn't play any of those champions in the previous round in order to confuse Misaya. I'm not sure if it worked out, or if it just happened to be Misaya feeling confident against playing Twisted Fate, a champion he understands fully.
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13933 Posts
May 26 2013 14:56 GMT
#5327
On May 26 2013 18:20 Fionn wrote:
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On May 26 2013 18:15 valaki wrote:
Hey guys, any especially recommended matches during the final day? I've missed the whole thing.


The finals were probably the most high level games of the weekends with a lot of cool stuff, but all four games on the final day were total stomps. But the last two were at least stylish stomps. NA/Korea was just kind of sad, you knew it was coming and this is how it's going to go stomps.

The second day was pretty good I think. NA vs EU is a series people are going to be feeling for a long long time afterwords and the KR CN p1 and SEA CN series weren't too bad either.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
RagequitBM
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada2270 Posts
May 26 2013 15:50 GMT
#5328
On May 26 2013 18:33 SnK-Arcbound wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 18:19 MonteCristo wrote:
On May 26 2013 17:40 GTR wrote:
On May 26 2013 17:22 silencefc wrote:
On May 26 2013 16:35 lefty wrote:
On May 26 2013 16:26 thefreed wrote:
On May 26 2013 16:20 NeoIllusions wrote:
On May 26 2013 16:14 Azarkon wrote:
On May 26 2013 16:07 NeoIllusions wrote:
On May 26 2013 15:50 Kiett wrote:
I wasn't sure, since the last time I watched CN vs KR teams was at IPL 5, where WE completely crushed all opposition, and the Azubu teams didn't even make it all that far. Thought CN would at least put up a fight. Has something has changed drastically in the last half year? Or was that just a lucky run for WE?


Koreans have much more individual talent, that's not even up for discussion.


But why? The question is how do you answer this question. Saying that it's a matter of born talent doesn't work because Korea is a country of 50 million people while the rest of the world in eSports has 2-3 billion - ie China 1.3 billion, EU + NA 1.1 billion, SEA another 500 million. You don't just get that sort of RNG when it comes to born talent. It then has to be talent infrastructure and gaming culture. But what, exactly?

I think I'm starting to work it out but I want to hear what others have to say.


Oh, it's definitely not some bullshit like "oh, Koreans are born to be great at LoL". Fuck that.
The top Korean teams (I'm talking about Blaze/Frost in particular), they practice a shitton, they discuss and strategize, and hone their skills to an art. Do people realize that Frost has made it to every OGN Finals thus far? That's 4 straight. It's obscene.

And it all comes down to practice. Against NA, we saw it most vividly. Every one of Korea's lanes flat out dominated.

Koreans take League serious as hell. There's no bullshitting when it comes to how they prepare.



It all comes out to structure. Koreans know how to become competitive in Esports. Look at Street fighter or like KOF, starcraft. I mean they just have this down to a science.

They know that they need a coach that can analyze see things from a cold, logical viewpoint.

Also the teams they practice with, a lot of the teams have a scrim partner like Najin, CJ, MVP. And the level of the teams are all really high, so they build each other up and make them stronger.

And LOL is really getting big in Korea, so a lot of people are playing it I think that has to factor in as well.

Lastly, I really think NA and EU need a really good progamer commentating with them, cause after I heard CloudTemplar commentating, it just made me understand the game more indepth.

Also taking practicing long hours into account, it really depends on the teams. Like some teams in EU and NA practice as much as Koreans, but it's just they don't have a coach, and they're not using their time proficiently.

If you had two teams under one club, then they could also get more opinions from the opponents stand point, but EU and NA don't really get as close as the Korean scene to help each other out.

Taking all these things into account, is the reason why Korean scene is getting stronger faster then other regions...


A word about proper analytical commentary, Cloud Templar always mentions what the losing team needs to do in great detail to turn the situation around or how we a winning team needs to snowball by doing this and that, and what each team needs to look out for. He is also is very frank about the decision made by the players throughout the game and their thought process behind it. I love it when how he mentions the "concept" behind some team composition and what they're going for. This I believe helps the common player very much as they get some insight on how pro's think and how the game should be played, No one from the English riot streams does this from my experience and I really never gain much from watching.


Montecristo provides great analytical commentary, not on the level of CloudTemplar of course, but I think most people would appreciate it. Too bad OGN is so hard to watch regularly.


IMO Doa/MonteCristo are the best English commentators out there, but from talking with someone who casts, it seems that their humor/casting style is a turn-off to many of the casual viewers (compared to the Riot guys).


We know that OGN doesn't cater to a casual audience since we receive no promotion from Riot for the stream. Our style is intentionally crafted to appeal to more hardcore fans, for better or for worse.

It is entirely for the better. Anyone that would rather listen to blathering nonsense, rather then something stimulating, is a fickle one. You do cater to a casual audience. Everyone benefits from insightful commentary. No one benefits from retarded screaming. The only reason why your numbers aren't super high, is an english speaking audience usually isn't awake when you're casting.


I highly disagree. For League of Legends, I don't care about analysis. I watch it to have a good time, joke around with friends. I don't need analysis. Phreak trolling, and Kobe saying silly stuff adds to the flavor for me. I like Doa and MC too, but usually I prefer the Riot casters.

If having a different opinion than you makes me fickle, or what not, then so be it!

Also, being a casual myself, I definitely feel Riot does a better job of catering to me. I watch League like I watch sports. Commentators on mostly for the one liners while laughing with friends.
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nosliw
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2716 Posts
May 26 2013 15:57 GMT
#5329
On May 26 2013 23:45 Letmelose wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 23:33 AsnSensation wrote:
Rewatching the CH vs KOR series currently because I was half asleep this morning

damn this is sooo high level. Still confused how Insec makes Lee word so good, Lee feels sooo weak currently whenever I play him in soloQ or meet another Lee, he even goes sightstone after Madred's so no real Combat stats.

And Madlife just *____*

I wonder if Misaya was abit cocky in Game 1 not banning TF although ambition has 100% in comp. play with him.


Ambition said in his post-game interview that he purposefully refrained from playing Twisted Fate too much when they scrimmed against Team WE (they do so a lot). He felt like Misaya didn't expect him to pick Twisted Fate, because he played mind tricks on Misaya by playing AOE champions like Kennen versus the North American All Stars team, and that put him off his game. The champions he really wanted to take for his team were Twisted Fate, Jayce, and Khazix, but he didn't play any of those champions in the previous round in order to confuse Misaya. I'm not sure if it worked out, or if it just happened to be Misaya feeling confident against playing Twisted Fate, a champion he understands fully.

Where are you getting the interviews ?
Chexx
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)11232 Posts
May 26 2013 15:58 GMT
#5330
On May 27 2013 00:57 nosliw wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 23:45 Letmelose wrote:
On May 26 2013 23:33 AsnSensation wrote:
Rewatching the CH vs KOR series currently because I was half asleep this morning

damn this is sooo high level. Still confused how Insec makes Lee word so good, Lee feels sooo weak currently whenever I play him in soloQ or meet another Lee, he even goes sightstone after Madred's so no real Combat stats.

And Madlife just *____*

I wonder if Misaya was abit cocky in Game 1 not banning TF although ambition has 100% in comp. play with him.


Ambition said in his post-game interview that he purposefully refrained from playing Twisted Fate too much when they scrimmed against Team WE (they do so a lot). He felt like Misaya didn't expect him to pick Twisted Fate, because he played mind tricks on Misaya by playing AOE champions like Kennen versus the North American All Stars team, and that put him off his game. The champions he really wanted to take for his team were Twisted Fate, Jayce, and Khazix, but he didn't play any of those champions in the previous round in order to confuse Misaya. I'm not sure if it worked out, or if it just happened to be Misaya feeling confident against playing Twisted Fate, a champion he understands fully.

Where are you getting the interviews ?



Korean broadcast I guess
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AsnSensation
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany24009 Posts
May 26 2013 16:51 GMT
#5331
On May 26 2013 23:45 Letmelose wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 23:33 AsnSensation wrote:
Rewatching the CH vs KOR series currently because I was half asleep this morning

damn this is sooo high level. Still confused how Insec makes Lee word so good, Lee feels sooo weak currently whenever I play him in soloQ or meet another Lee, he even goes sightstone after Madred's so no real Combat stats.

And Madlife just *____*

I wonder if Misaya was abit cocky in Game 1 not banning TF although ambition has 100% in comp. play with him.


Ambition said in his post-game interview that he purposefully refrained from playing Twisted Fate too much when they scrimmed against Team WE (they do so a lot). He felt like Misaya didn't expect him to pick Twisted Fate, because he played mind tricks on Misaya by playing AOE champions like Kennen versus the North American All Stars team, and that put him off his game. The champions he really wanted to take for his team were Twisted Fate, Jayce, and Khazix, but he didn't play any of those champions in the previous round in order to confuse Misaya. I'm not sure if it worked out, or if it just happened to be Misaya feeling confident against playing Twisted Fate, a champion he understands fully.


thx for the insight, Amibition you sly dog :D

holy fucking shit, in game 2 Shy was just raping PDD, I didn't even think of waiting till all the zac blobs are in the center and kill them all of at once with one acceleration Blast. That was sick :D
Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
May 26 2013 17:50 GMT
#5332
On May 27 2013 01:51 AsnSensation wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 23:45 Letmelose wrote:
On May 26 2013 23:33 AsnSensation wrote:
Rewatching the CH vs KOR series currently because I was half asleep this morning

damn this is sooo high level. Still confused how Insec makes Lee word so good, Lee feels sooo weak currently whenever I play him in soloQ or meet another Lee, he even goes sightstone after Madred's so no real Combat stats.

And Madlife just *____*

I wonder if Misaya was abit cocky in Game 1 not banning TF although ambition has 100% in comp. play with him.


Ambition said in his post-game interview that he purposefully refrained from playing Twisted Fate too much when they scrimmed against Team WE (they do so a lot). He felt like Misaya didn't expect him to pick Twisted Fate, because he played mind tricks on Misaya by playing AOE champions like Kennen versus the North American All Stars team, and that put him off his game. The champions he really wanted to take for his team were Twisted Fate, Jayce, and Khazix, but he didn't play any of those champions in the previous round in order to confuse Misaya. I'm not sure if it worked out, or if it just happened to be Misaya feeling confident against playing Twisted Fate, a champion he understands fully.


thx for the insight, Amibition you sly dog :D

holy fucking shit, in game 2 Shy was just raping PDD, I didn't even think of waiting till all the zac blobs are in the center and kill them all of at once with one acceleration Blast. That was sick :D

Even PDD did not think of this. He posted of Weibo(Chinese version of Twitter) that he never though that Jayce EQ could just kill all his blobs at one like that.
Terran
iKill[ShocK]
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Vietnam3530 Posts
May 26 2013 17:52 GMT
#5333
im assuming most of the interviews (post finals) won't be released until later due to the great firewall?

really looking forward to some player thoughts about the games.
<3 Kim Taeyeon
AsnSensation
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany24009 Posts
May 26 2013 18:03 GMT
#5334
pretty much sums up today's 3 Madlife Thresh games
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lol at Insec'ica Alba and Shy Hooker
checo
Profile Joined November 2008
Mexico1364 Posts
May 26 2013 18:31 GMT
#5335
I would have love to see a NA vs Garena match... just for the hell of it
El amor no mueve al mundo, ni hace brillar el sol, pero el amor hace latir este corazon....
overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-26 18:36:28
May 26 2013 18:35 GMT
#5336
On May 27 2013 03:31 checo wrote:
I would have love to see a NA vs Garena match... just for the hell of it


Next year Riot should really do some kind of round robin/group play for the five teams. Then seed the 4 best into a bracket.

The format for this years All-Stars was pretty lame and it would've been a lot cooler to get to see all five teams play against each other. How would EU fair against CN? What about NA, EU, or KR against SEA? It could potentially be too expensive or something as they'd either need to make it a four day event or else play a ton. Although, maybe they could just do the group play on Friday/Saturday and then do the semi-finals and finals on Sunday.

Aside from the format this event was spectacular though. Riot did a great job with their first All-Star event. I wonder if next time regions will vote differently or if we'll still see Gambit and WE win all five spots.
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
May 26 2013 18:35 GMT
#5337
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AsianEcksDragon
Profile Joined March 2008
United States1036 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-26 18:49:39
May 26 2013 18:49 GMT
#5338
Where was the African All-Stars team? They would've beaten Korea.
神は乗り越えられる試練しか与えない
redemption
Profile Joined February 2006
United States112 Posts
May 26 2013 19:06 GMT
#5339
On May 27 2013 03:35 krndandaman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 26 2013 23:11 Keniji wrote:
On May 26 2013 23:02 krndandaman wrote:
On May 26 2013 21:09 KissBlade wrote:
On May 26 2013 17:03 krndandaman wrote:

Eh... have you seen NBA players? They are some of the most athletic superhuman freaks in the world. That's genetics and I haven't seen any Chinese person with that freak of nature athleticism that I've seen in the NBA.



Well there was this one guy named Bruce Lee. You might've heard of him ...


He's far more skilled than athletic lol.


what's the definition of athletic anyway in that way.

bruce lee definitely was atheltic lol.

Every worldclass gymnast is athletic as hell. And asians are top notch there, too.

Just finished watching today games. Korea dominant. Just amazing play. As xpecial said you can't outban them and it's so hard to pick against them. they have so many champs that are so strong. I mean you can't even outban 1, how you want to do it against 4 or 5. Koreans showing the world how to esports once again. Until other nations going to take esports serious enough (china comes close I guess) it will stay that way.


yes i'm not denying that bruce lee is athletic or that gymnasts are athletic. i'm saying that NBA players are by far the MOST athletic. they are physical specimens beyond their peers.

for one, to even compete in the NBA you need to be at the very least somewhere above 6 foot. and even then, these guys are quick as hell. basketball requires extreme speed/agility, body control, physical strength, vertical leap, etc. no other sport demands that much physical requirements. athleticism is so important in basketball that some people who are completely dumb and have extremely low basketball IQ are in the NBA (ex. Kwame Brown) just because of their rare physical attributes.

Guys like Lebron James can probably play multiple sports as a professional athlete easy. I'm willing to bet my money that LBJ could become an NFL player right this second and that if he wanted to, could have been a professional soccer player or baseball player. He is just that physically gifted and athletic.

just curious, do you watch basketball/NBA?

I would say both football and soccer require significantly more athleticism than basketball. I don't understand how you can say NBA players are the "most" athletic. Sure, Lebron James could probably play football instead of basketball if he wanted to, but he's a freak of nature. Most NBA players would get completely crushed in the NFL, who are you kidding? Derrick Rose gets injured if someone breathes on him, while football players get tackled and beaten up every single day.
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May 26 2013 19:14 GMT
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And to counter your other point, world class gymnasts are 10x more athletic than NBA players. The entire sport is based on athleticism, whereas you can get away in basketball by being a smart player who sets up plays or by having a good touch on your jumpshot. Gymnastics.... there's no way around it except by being a beast. Have you even watched Olympics male gymnastics and what they have to do on the rings??
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