Georgetown's Size vs. The NBA

[HoyaNCCT]

So I did a little research. Luckily, ESPN.com now provides the average height and weight of the NBA teams:

Georgetown is bigger (in terms of average height) than:

• Atlanta
  

Georgetown is bigger (in terms of average weight) than:

• Detroit
  
• New Orleans
  
• Memphis
  
• Toronto
  

What do you all think - would our boys stand a chance against any pro team? Maybe not the guys we're bringing to the table this year as they haven't gotten in their grove yet. But what about last year's team that was playing in March?


Data:
Team Inches Pounds
New York 79 233
New Jersey 79 230
Los Angeles Lakers 79 229
Miami 79 229
Minnesota 79 229
Washington 79 228
Indiana 79 227
Utah 79 226
Orlando Magic 79 224
Boston 78 224
Charlotte 78 224
Milwaukee 78 224
Dallas 79 223
Seattle 79 223
Cleveland 79 220
Philadelphia 79 220
Portland 79 220
Phoenix 78 220
Golden State Warriors 79 219
San Antonio 79 219
Sacramento 79 219
Denver 78 219
Houston 78 219
Atlanta 77 219
Chicago 78 218
Los Angeles Clippers78 218
Georgetown 78 217
Detroit 79 216
New Orleans 79 216
Memphis 78 214
Toronto 78 214

[hoyaLS05]

I'm going to go ahead and say that last year's Georgetown squad would lose by approx. 25 to the worst team in the NBA. I don't mean to take anything away from our squad -- I could not think more highly of them -- but the difference between the NBA and college is huge. See Jeff Green's transition.

[FairfaxHoya]

hoyancct said:

What do you all think - would our boys stand a chance against any pro team?

No, not really. Ditto for any college team.

[MCIGuy]

^^^^What he said.

[strummer8526]

hoyals05 said:

I'm going to go ahead and say that last year's Georgetown squad would lose by approx. 25 to the worst team in the NBA. I don't mean to take anything away from our squad -- I could not think more highly of them -- but the difference between the NBA and college is huge. See Jeff Green's transition.

Give Thomas a few more years with the Knicks and we may be able to pull one out.

[RBHoya]

Knicks are 1-1 and on the upswing.

To answer the original question.... with all due respect, there is a 0% chance we could beat any NBA team, last years team or this years team. The level of play in the NBA is WAY ahead of the level of play in college.

Atlanta is probably so small because 3/4 of their team plays the same position (SF) and because they keep picking guys who are 6'8 or 6'9 and trying to make them full time centers (Williams, Horford).

[JimmyHoya]

Everybody was all Big East, All ACC, All SEC, etc. in college. We'd get thumped. I don't know what would be worse--us struggling to make any 3's from the NBA distance or them slaughtering us via the college line. It would be like Princeton taking on G'town/UCLA and desprately trying to keep pace.

[royski]

What about the all-american team?

[ephoya04]

Still no chance...there's this discussion almost EVERY year by someone. Last year someone wrote an article about whether the Florida team could hang and the answer was a resounding no. Even an All American team would get beat down, b/c everyone in the NBA was "All Something".

[aggypryd]

Any NBA team would consistently beat college kids, but I do give college kids a shooters chance of winning a game.

The college kids with Grant Hill, Bobby Hurley and a few others beat the '92 Olympic team while they were training for the upcoming games.

But the pros came back the next game and beat them by 30+.