09-27-2026, 01:57 AM
(09-26-2026, 06:59 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: Growing an inch taller doesn't make him any tougher matchup than if he were 6'9. Nothing changes.
Sure it does, as long as he doesn’t lose speed or agility because of it.
It’s simply physics - just ask Holger Geschwindner!
He’s seeing better over the defense, shooting better over the defender, grabbing more rebounds and blocking more shots - it’s in the margins, but the NBA with this level of skills and athleticism is a game of margins. And being a good one per cent taller than before is a nice margin.
Some added statistics:
6’9” makes you around the 78th percentile in the NBA sizewise.
6’10” gets you up to the 89th percentile.
And the number of players taller than Cooper in the league is more than halved, from 16 per cent to 6 per cent (the players 6‘11“ and taller).
I did this analysis with Gemini, so maybe there’s a little deviation here and there, but you get the trend, right?
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