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Right. USA handball could just go to NCAA basketball, lacrosse, and other athletes and say "do you want to go to the Olympics?"
Like the Jamaican bobsled team!
Right. USA handball could just go to NCAA basketball, lacrosse, and other athletes and say "do you want to go to the Olympics?"
Handball is really popular in this part of the world. It's underratedly hard as hell to play well.
I have no idea why the US isn't dominant in handball and rugby.
There is nothing about watching it that indicates this is true at all. You can look at the arguments when people try and defend it but it all points to the same tactics, and skills needed to compete in the sports I listed before but with the hard elements taken out like having to swim or use a stick.
Yeah. They need a full shot of the archery stadium. We looked it up. They're aiming at circle under 5 inches in diameter from 70 meters away.
My sport crush right now is handball. What a dumb yet amazing sport. It combines the aspects of soccer, lacrosse, basketball, water polo, hockey, and eliminates the defining difficult factor of each of those sports. You can use everything but your feet, you throw a small ball around but you don't need to know how to swim, you run but you can carry the ball and don't use a stick to cradle it. You can substitute on the fly but don't need to know how to skate. You can travel but only if you don't dribble once every three giant steps. It's like a child came up with this to play at free time during recess. It would be way to easy so we will make it you can't enter a 12 foot radius around the opponents goal but you can jump in the air and fly into the region as long as the ball is thrown before you land because that's cool! Just amazing, why isn't this more popular? Where can I play this, how are people bad ever bad at it?
This. I really think Team USA Bball team could step in on a day off and at least be competitive. They've all got great hand-eye coordination and the spacing and movements are probably fairly similar. Surely they can run and jump just as well.
Have Kyrie and Durant running around on the outside. Post up Cousins or Jordan on the line. Klay Thompson could guard the other team's best shooter.
How dare you say that! Handball you don't need to use a stick and instead are forced to use something you use everyday and were born with.
Seriously, why not combine archery and horsebackriding or middle distance running and shooting? I'd watch either of those.
Not buying it, it's a sport America doesn't care about or would absolutely dominate.