1.) In China, with a gene pool of 1.5B people, there have to be SOME tall people. Most popular player among the Chinese? Not Yao Ming, but Kobe Bryant.

2.) Overconfidence always bites you in the butt. The Harvard upset over BC as you cite in the Jeremy Lin story is the perfect example. BC was high as a kite after knocking off #1 UNC, next up? Harvard – so, cake walk, right? NOT.

3.) There’s skills and mad skills. Ball handling, quickness, passing, good defense and all-around hustle will win out. Dennis Rodman wasn’t the tallest player on the court but consistently led the league in Rebounding because of hustle, second effort on the rebound and being SMART enough to be in the right place to get the rebound.

4.) Nothing to add.

5.) Focusing on one sport year-around will certainly build better muscle memory by the constant repetition, but it will also develop repetitive-STRESS injuries from over-use. Worse, it neglects and atrophies other muscles that might get worked by doing other sports in the offseason. As recently as 15 years agom, where you would develop good all-around atheletes by doing Football-Basketball-Baseball or Football-Wrestling-Track or Cross-Country-Wrestling-Tennis, or many other variations – the growth of year-round Club Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball and Baseball has really killed the idea Multi-sport athlete.

6.) Agreed. Sports should be about fun and something you can carry into college and the working world. In high school, I only participated in Football and Wrestling. I picked up Karate while in college, but found NONE of these were any good in a working, Corporate or Social environment (Fantasy Football Leagues don’t count). So, I had to learn NEW sports: Softball, Tennis, Skiing and Running. I would’ve performed at a higher-level if I had learned these in high school, but as a working adult, found that these are the easiest ones to find and participate in. Tackle Football and Wrestling remain high-school memories.

My only question is, what’s tall to you? like 6 ft+? would mixed Asians count too?

I’ve been told I’m tall for a Asian I guess, but I’m just average if compared to Americans as a whole. So when I play basketball with Asians, I’ll have to play with the frontline but when I play with others I’ll usually go back to my natural position as a guard. However with that said, I’ve seen quite a lot of tall Asians as there are short Asians probably because I like to play basketball. There’s also leagues that are ran by like Chinese/Taiwanese basketball organizations here in So Cal, but they allow other Asians to play too. The whole coach thing and DNP players happens all the time, since everyone wants to win too.