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Post by c_d on Nov 6, 2011 9:49:00 GMT 8
Since basketball is hands-down the most popular sport in our country, we have a lot of high school basketball players. However, not all of them end up having a career in basketball. Some don't even get the chance to play collegiate basketball despite having stellar careers in high school. The reason being is that most of these boys grew up playing "big man positions" like center or power forward but don't grow tall enough to play the same position in college. Being players who are used to manning the shaded lane, these boys are used to swatting balls away when blocking shots or plucking them down from midair whenever they go for a rebound. If they were coached well, they would even know how to tap the ball to an open teammate if they can't get the rebound. If they were trained to be "utility players", they are not afraid of contact and diving for loose balls. I was just thinking, why not recruit these undersized 5'11-6'2" centers and power forwards to be trained to become goalkeepers? I did some googling on the topic and here's something I found: developyourbballiq.com/goalkeepers-and-talent-development/As mentioned in another thread football and basketball can co-exist in the Philippines. On second thought, maybe the PFF and local football clubs can use basketball's popularity in this country to our advantage. What do you guys think? |
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Post by spam on Nov 6, 2011 10:09:06 GMT 8
look at Muller here from Ace Bright's twitter twitter.com/#!/acebright/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F7aokfl |
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Post by c_d on Nov 6, 2011 11:03:32 GMT 8
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Post by stellarboy on Nov 6, 2011 13:20:44 GMT 8
look at Muller here from Ace Bright's twitter twitter.com/#!/acebright/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F7aokfl Surprising, isn't it? ;D This reminds me that NT captain Aly Borromeo, who started as a goalkeeper early in his football career, played basketball in La Salle Greenhills before focusing on the sport he is in now. Yes, GKs need to have the dexterity and hand-eye coordination like a basketball forward or center. But it does not really consider the advantage of height because you can be 5'6" like Eddie Hopkinson of Bolton Wanderers and still be a great goalkeeper. Wonder how the PFF & local football clubs thought of this?  |
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Post by c_d on Nov 6, 2011 14:55:05 GMT 8
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Post by jvictor on Nov 7, 2011 5:52:03 GMT 8
Tall players can also be trained as CENTRAL DEFENDERS! not just goalkeepers
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Post by buddha on Nov 7, 2011 9:17:18 GMT 8
c_d, did you also notice another pattern in goalkeeping? It tends to be hereditary.
Or to say it more accurately, the MENTAL QUALITIES needed to be a goalkeeper are hereditary.
And one more thing, goalkeepers tend to be masochistic... they actually enjoy a bit of pain.
Cheers!
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Post by stellarboy on Nov 7, 2011 10:59:47 GMT 8
c_d, did you also notice another pattern in goalkeeping? It tends to be hereditary. Or to say it more accurately, the MENTAL QUALITIES needed to be a goalkeeper are hereditary. And one more thing, goalkeepers tend to be masochistic... they actually enjoy a bit of pain. Cheers! If every thread had a "Like" button in there, I would click it a lot of times! ;D Goalkeeping skills tend to be passed on from generation to generation so we should focus on how players from our goalkeeping pool pass on to future ones - including those "frustrated" basketball forwards. |
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Post by Ka Roger on Nov 10, 2011 13:21:09 GMT 8
Besides sa physical, how about po sa psychological upbringing ng mga basketball players? There was a slide show shown by a psych professor in a lecture series in our university. It says that Basketball players tend to play individually, compared to a football player that depends on all of his team-mates to play the sport.
Can ego ba ho be a factor with man who switched from a basketball player to a football player? I don't know if the slides of that lecture series is right or wrong.
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Post by stellarboy on Jun 7, 2012 16:02:14 GMT 8
Besides sa physical, how about po sa psychological upbringing ng mga basketball players? There was a slide show shown by a psych professor in a lecture series in our university. It says that Basketball players tend to play individually, compared to a football player that depends on all of his team-mates to play the sport. Can ego ba ho be a factor with man who switched from a basketball player to a football player? I don't know if the slides of that lecture series is right or wrong. Interesting question there. I also took up Psychology (although I am taking (and finishing) my Computer Science degree) in University, and it was discussed in our discussion in teamwork dynamics, that individual perceptions do affect a team's performance. However, isolated cases wherein teams are actually acting according to individuals not working each other and still make favoured results. Yes, basketball was designed for focusing on individual skills over teamwork. That's why you usually see "star players" being overemphasised in a basketball team who does most of the scoring and passing. Football is the other way around; the "star players" you see in football clubs tend to say upon themselves that they depended upon their team mates to produce the results they wanted. The individualistic thinking of basketball players aspiring to be goalkeepers (or maybe central defenders in some cases), might slightly affect their shift to football, but eventually they will eventually build up the thinking that he depends upon the other players upfront to prevent the opposition to take the lead. |
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Post by mrpmosh on Aug 17, 2012 12:12:56 GMT 8
There's an Honduran player with a basketball past though... Georgie Welcome, he's forward but he really sucks.
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Post by macduff on Aug 20, 2012 11:58:10 GMT 8
Hakeem Alajuwan went the other way, going from football keeper to basketball big man. My team turned a rugby player into a keeper.
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Post by thekerouac82 on May 23, 2014 15:41:09 GMT 8
Hakeem Alajuwan went the other way, going from football keeper to basketball big man. My team turned a rugby player into a keeper. Ateneo's 6'5" Quimson, who played behind Ford Arao a few years back, was a keeper first, then switched over to the hard court in high school. One could say he got his legendary toughness from all the roughhousing on the field  |
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Post by johnmarki on May 25, 2014 0:05:49 GMT 8
I think it will be a hard and long transition for a basketball player to be a keeper/footballer. It's not easy, the basketball player needs to study real hard to be a decent footballer. If for example a basketball player, decided to go into football. He will never be successful as a footballer if basketball is still in his heart and mind.
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