Which one takes more skill and why?

being tall is the most important skill there is. it helps not just in sport but in life and love. sadly its a skill manlets cannot grasp, or refuse to put in the work to achieve. so basketball

>The club coach who spotted 13-year-old Giannis Antetokounmpo and his brother kicking a soccer ball around a neighborhood field
>At that time, Antetokounmpo had only dabbled in basketball and was mostly interested in soccer.
>"He could not make a layup and he could not dribble," says Spiros Velliniatis.
11 years later....
>At the NBA's end-of-season awards night, Antetokounmpo was named the league's Most Valuable Player.

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Football.

>you need to learn to use your feet as your primary weapons to score.
>need positional awareness. Field is too big.
>need stamina to endure the whole duration.
>anyone can learn to play it. Very few master it.

Basketball
>you use your hands. Humans natural tools.
>if you are tall, you already have half the skill required. Short guys need not to apply.
>Court too small. No need to be aware of where you are because you and everybody can see the whole court.
>can only use your hands. No need to learn to score with the head, thighs, torso or dick.
>only need to be fast no need for stamina. You tired? Time out! go to rest.

Do your math.

So football is harder?

>or refuse to put in the work to achieve
Kek

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#1 nignog sport and 1 of only 2 they even observe as sports, #3-5 whites depending on how you want to quantify it. Hardly anyone watches pro basketball once they hit 30 and hockey is certainly more popular at that point. 80% of blacks probably think their only way out legitimately is basketball/football and rapping so out of that destructive mess the few that stick to it and have talent will show up at the top(nba)

Coping manlet

This actually. It’s harder to use your feet than your hands.

>be manlet
basketball is the hardest sport in the world
>don't be manlet
basketball is the easiest sport in the world

Talking about an average player in both sports, than most definitely Football.
Embiid, Hakeem, Giannis and some other Basketball players started to play during their teenage years, no elite Football player ever started that late.
Not to mention players like Shaq, who couldn't shot a free throw to save their lives, or any longer range shot for that matter, couldn't handle the ball etc..

How could anybody think that kicking a ball in to a giant net is more difficult than throwing a ball in to a tiny hoop? My grandma could kick a ball in to a soccer net from 22 feet out, but she's not making a baseline 3.

Is not so hard to score when you can reach the rim just by standing in your toes

Only a (north) American could even ask this question.

Something called a goal keeper.
Maybe if Basketball had goal tending like it used to it would be harder.

Basketball is one of the least skilled sports there is.

You have to reach the opponents net first, meaning controlling the ball with your feet and avoid the other guys that are constantly trying to kick you, hit you trying to rob you the ball (a kick in your shin or knee hurts more than a slap in your forearms btw) and then if you manage to reach within 20meter of the goal you then must use your feet to make the ball go inside tricking or besting a guy that can use his hands to stop you from scoring.

1. Football
2. Tennis
3. Ice Hockey
4. Baseball
5. Golf
6. Boxing
7. Snooker
8. Formula 1
9. Basketball
10. Cricket

Football obviously. Unless you're a manlet

go back to africa nigger

Plus MJ already solved scoring: just lead your opponent to the paint with your back (he cannot do much or else it's a foul) do a simple feint with your shoulders, turn back on your pivot foot, jump and then fadeaway and score. Curry solved 3's also. Nobody has solved football as of yet. Multiple styles and ways of playing have had their moments.

Football, and this is one of the reasons why: To be good in basketball you just need to be tall. That's it. It doesn't really require skill at all.

Meanwhile football is a game that has perhaps one of the highest skill ceilings of any sport. Dribbling skill, shooting skill, free kick skill, penalty skill, curling the ball skill, finesse / trick skills, etc. And look how you can have short guys (Messi) and tall guys (Zlatan) succeed. Football success is determined by your skill, and sure also things like athleticism / fitness and strength. But it isn't determined solely by your height like basketball.

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>average players
>Embiid, Hakeem, Giannis
A group of average basketball players would include guys like Peyton Siva and Jimmer Fredette, who are way more skilled than some 2nd division soccer player.

Well, with one it’s illegal to USE YOUR ARMS and the other one has the greatest athletes on the planet. So... yeah.

>illegal to use the most coordinated part of your body
that's a great argument for why it's a shit sport, but not an easy one

At the professional level, football. A technically unskilled footballer can get away with it more than an unskilled basketballer at amateur level though.

But you literally don’t have to develop and master the use of your arms/hands. Basketball requires god-tier footwork and explosive leg movements PLUS arm and hand mastery.

What? I didn't say that those guys were average players, my second paragraph had nothing to do with the first one

Depends of your style of play I guess, Curry's memechucking requires a lot of skill but basic layup fags don't need it that much

There isn’t a soccer player in history that could jump from the free throw line and even touch the net, let alone put a regulation size basketball between his legs and dunk. It’s not even a comparison the level of athletic ability.

>footballers never use their arms!
Why do we allow fat yanks to comment on sports they know nothing about?

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THat's because you don't know any other sports. 'other sports' is the american football to you since you retards always compare the two. I bet you know nothing about hockey. Otherwise you'd know that being able to fucking skate and keep the balance while flying 100mph on ice takes indefinitely more skills than any kind of soccer 'skills' your favorite manlets are good at.

He clearly said skilled not about athleticism, also, those players don't dunk based on athleticism alone.
They have gigantic hands, large wingspans and are tall as hell

Football is clearly more skillful but I think basketball has better athletes (at least gymnastically) and the best playmakers and passers are smarter than the smartest footballers

>basketball
>skills

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> just throwing a fucking ball in a hoop
>call this skills

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And there isn't a netball player in history who couldn't score against a semi-decent professional goalkeeper. But this has nothing to with anything, since it's a different sport. All you have done is show how thick you are.

>It’s not even a comparison the level of athletic ability.
You're right it isn't. Football players cover between around 5 to 7.5 miles during the course of a match, while netball players dribble a ball around a tiny little indoor court. You are right, there is absolutely no comparison.

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It's all that cholesterol stuck in the burgers' heads. Makes them think funny.

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>god-tier footwork
wew lad

>netball players dribbling around a little court are "better athletes" than footballers who cover 5 - 7.5 miles per match

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>in England a 5 mile jog is a demonstration of extreme athletic prowess
Lmao @ your life

>flat out sprints required to chase down players
>a jog
Why do we allow fat yanks and their cuckolded lapdog dicksuckers to comment on sports they know nothing about?

>According to Rodman, his mom was more interested in his two sisters, who were both considered more talented than he was in basketball, and made him a laughing stock whenever he tagged along with them.
>After finishing school, Rodman worked as an overnight janitor
>Didn't play until he was 21
>Made it to the NBA at 25
>Is considered one of the best defenders and rebounders of all time

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>muh nigger can jump high
That's not skill. In football your local team's youths will trash untrained adults, and the skill pyramid only gets steeper and narrower from there.

soccer is just that, socking the ball around. apehoop takes more skill because you have to be 7 foot tall to even compete

i don’t know anything about basketball but don’t you have to jump really high?

thread is about basketball and football. I don't know why you bring up the other sports you mentioned.

>trained teenagers beat untrained adults
What is every sport ever?

Just be tall, lmao. If you are really tall you hardly need skill to succeed in bball

Basketball requires higher skill specialization and perfection. Football requires less perfection, but over a broader range of skills.

Let's compare two skills, a corner kick and a corner three. An average football player is worse at corner kicks than the average NBA player is at corner threes. So let's say between 0 and 100, the football player is a 70 and the NBA player a 90. When you compare individual skills the NBA player comes up on top. But the football player has to learn a lot more techniques than the average apehoop player.

All in all, football doesn't take as much perfection but it takes a lot more skills. Basketball is doing one thing extremely well, football is doing a lot of things very well.

Gridiron and football would be a better comparison.

playing sports with your hands is for women

I can’t kick a football properly but I can bounce a ball on the ground no problem.

Is this true. Got to respect the guy if true. And also explains a lot about his antics

Since when did gypsies have internet?

Some of them do.

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I like basketball and think soccer is shit but you obviously have to master foreign leg movements that don't exist in basketball. It's more athletic but not more skillful, otherwise you couldn't pick it up at 15 and be an all star like so many nba players do. It's obviously not usual but it happens a lot

Far as I know it's impossible to pick up soccer at 15 and be in the premier league

Now, now, you snow bigger. The only reason bball exists is so that little kids have something to play indoors during chinadian winters.

>Far as I know it's impossible to pick up soccer at 15 and be in the premier league
Who is Didier Drogba?

Read his wiki if you don't know his background, dude has led a life

>Far as I know
Is there more?

Rooney was a boxer at 15

You are joking or what? Tim Duncan, one of the greeatest ever in his positio started basketball in high school, and even that was with weak conpetition on Virgin Islands who have 100k people total. You wouldn't even be able to make a living as a football player if you started that late.

>sport so easy cavemen were playing it vs sport that requires hand-eye coordination and extreme precision
The best basketball players are better than the best divegrass frauds

Started at 10 yo

>It's more athletic
Footballers cover between 5 and 8 miles, roughly, during the course of a game. Netball players don't. Don't try and tell us that dribbling a ball around a tiny little court is "athletic".

This.

check out zlatan
then eat your words as you ate your wife's bf's cock last night, fatcuck

Rooney played club football since he was 9 yo or even younger

>you have to be dominant starting at age 12 with no slip ups.
There are players who played in garbage leagues up until they're 18 and still manage to make the NBA

Anyone can run 8 miles.

for me its soccer

remember when canadians tried to make good shitposts?

>hand-eye coordination
try feet-eye coordination one day gringo

based

Firstly that is of course wrong, and secondly while some people can, they won't be able to stop and and sprint as quickly as top footballers.

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no

literally the two worst sports on earth but obvious soccer takes way more skill.

If they trained for it they could. Football doesn’t require freakish athleticism really, most reasonably sporty young people could get as fit as professional footballers if they trained like them. It’s a good thing really and increases the talent pool if you don’t need to be a freak to compete.

Hate soccer and have been losing interest in basketball with how terrible the NBA is, but soccer takes more skill since skills win over athleticism/build in that sport more than they do in basketball. What I mean by that is a 5'8" soccer player would destroy/perform better than a less skilled 6'2" opponent through his superior skill set even if that larger and more athletic opponent were faster, stronger, and bigger.

Giannis, Anthony Davis, Joel Embiid are probably not even among the top 100000 most skilled basketball players in the world. There's any number of rec league and streetball manlets who can dribble, shoot, pass far better than those 3 players, but won't have a chance in hell due to their stature and inferior athleticism.

Funny enough, this makes basketball the harder sport. You could be the most skilled basketball player in the history of mankind, but if you're cursed with a 5'6" build, you have little hope of reaching the NBA, unless you're also a freak athlete (i.e. Nate Robinson). And even then, you just might be a serviceable NBA player even with your superior skillset and athleticism. The sport has the largest physical barrier to entry out of any sport. Some might say this makes it a shit sport, but I think it's cool that a sport that allows 6'8" people to excel exists. Usually people that tall can't really play many of the other mainstream sports well (despite the outliers, Aaron Judge in baseball, Crouch in soccer, o-lineman in football, and tennis seems to be trending taller) with the exception of probably Aussie Rules.

nice blog Pedro

batting or spin bowling in cricket requires more skill than any of those sports except soccer. you will never make it as a batsmen or (good) spin bowler if you havent done it all your life. fast bowling is the only thing thats not too bad since its more about height/body/athleticism than pure skill and technique.

>the other one has the greatest athletes on the planet. So... yeah.
There are literally australians who couldn't make it in the AFL playing in the NBA at the highest level with $120 million dollar contracts lmao
NBA doesn't even have the best athletes in America let alone the world. NFL players would shit over NBA players athleticism.

>Basketball is doing one thing extremely well, football is doing a lot of things very well.
For bigmen, sure. But perimeter players need to pass, shoot, dribble, finish off the dribble very well. I would say the learning curve in developing point guard skills is as high as developing all around soccer skills, but as you said, basketball has more specialized positions where you can get away with a more one-dimensional skillset (bigman, spot up shooter, defensive specialist, etc).

>Got to respect the guy if true
No I think you have to disrespect the meme sport he played

Not a completely fair comparison. There's no money in the AFL for an NBA washout to switch his focus on the AFL, only for his ceiling to be at best a middling player who might get a 100K contract.

On the flip side, a walk on college basketball player who wasn't very good and who never heard of Aussie Rules football made the league after a few months of training. Mason Cox. I don't think there's a comparable AFL to NBA example (Patty Mills, Ben Simmons, etc all played basketball growing up. Cox never heard of Aussie Rules before 22).

I'm not trying to penis measure the sports, it's just not a good barometer since more Aussies play basketball than Americans play Aussie Rules.

>Mason Cox.
Glad you brought up this lop. He proves what I've been saying to all my bogan brethren over the years how skill-less and brain dead Aussie Rules Football is. In ANY other sport, you would never see a foreigner who never heard of the sport take it up for a laugh at 23 and then make the league's highest level. Sport is a joke. It's all about meathead size, really.

And to compare it to the beautiful game is a joke.