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Originally Posted by O.city
It's the same argument people make about basketball players at the NBA level needing to be "stronger" around the basket.
Well, when they guy bumping you is 6"8 and also a freak athlete, yeah, it's hard to do. There's a reason Lebron or MJ or whoever is such a great finisher around the rim. Not everyone can do it.
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MJ is a fascinating example. Guys could run faster and jump higher than him. But man, the stuff he could do in the air was just absurd. And it wasn't because he was bigger than those defenders - he could just contort in ways that even elite athletes can't.
Those times he 'hung' in the air - shit man, he didn't defy gravity; physics still applied to him. But he could adjust his body so seamlessly that it looked like he was up there longer than anyone else.
That's what the truly great contested catch receivers (at least the downfield versions) could do.