Canada’s Olivier Rioux is 6’9″. He’s 12. He’s playing in a league that uses 8 foot tall baskets.
This is ridiculous. There is no competition here. But it’s legal.
Anyone complaining would be invited to watch men who say they are women crushing their competition.
What do they say about that?
Aw shucks coach… When can I shoot the ball?
#all the other players
12 what? Rumor has it, next week he’s going to self identify as a Gurl and play against them.
Just saying, I have had the opportunity to work with young people that were WAY big for their age. On the matt working with young wrestlers that were “freaks” for their age. Several of them. As a rule, they can’t walk and chew gum. Very uncoordinated. I immediately had them jumping rope. This guy seems pretty coordinated. I smelling Bull Shit.
my baby brother, when he was 14, shot up to a height of 6’4″ … he was totally clumsy, but was recruited by all the local bassettball teams
he did well for about 3 years, until he didn’t grow an inch more, & his skills, for what they were, never developed due to poor coaching & exploitation of height = intimidation
early sad lesson on exploitation
Life is not fair (I can still hear my father say that 30 plus years ago). I really hope he enjoys his time on earth, so many people of such stature have so few years.Thanks for the video really makes you think.
See, this is why midgets don’t play basketball.
Instead, they become jockies. I guess Olivier will not become a jockey.
It all evens out in the end.
Yea, my BS meter pegged. WAY too coordinated for that age/height. Reminds me of the Taiwanese Little League pitcher in the 90s. 6’3 and needed a shave who threw 90 MPH fastballs.
It’s even worse than you think. It says he’s 2.13 meters tall, which is the metric equivalent of 7ft. A meter is 39.37 inches.
Looks wrong to me.At that age rotate the
kids so everyone gets a few minutes of play
at least.That’s how it was done at the Y when
I played.
So what? 7’+ players play in the NBA and can jump 4ft. They haven’t raised the basket to 15 ft. Basketball sucks.
In some juvenile football leagues they had to institute weight limits.
There was a 350 pound black boy going against 120 pounders’.
DOH!