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NBA scouts are already drooling over the next giant import from China.


Sun Ming Ming is China's latest NBA prospect, and at 7-foot-8 3/4, the 21-year-old is roughly two inches taller than former No. 1 pick Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets.



The Greensboro News & Record reports that Sun is working out in Greensboro for a shot at the NBA.



"With his size, that intrigues everybody," former NBA player Keith Gatlin told the News & Record after working out with Sun. "He can really shoot the ball to be that size. The challenge for him now is to get mobile, to get up and down the court."



The lure of the NBA is certainly exciting to the raw big man.



"I have more opportunities here," Sun told the News & Record through interpreter Hsiao-Yin Chu. "I have the opportunity to play with the best players in the world and get into good basketball."

If Sun is picked in the June NBA draft, his agent Charles Bonsignore hopes he'll go to a team willing to develop Sun's skills and not immediately expect him to be the next Yao Ming. Trainer James Wilson has worked with Sun on his mobility for about five weeks and said Sun is young in terms of his training years.



"I treat him like he is a high school senior lifting weights," Wilson told the News & Record. "You build from that. ... There's a progression that you need to go."



And Sun has gotten comfortable in his new surroundings since arriving in North Carolina and staying with host family Rocky and Celeste Manning, friends of Gatlin's.



"He's been great," Rocky Manning told the News & Record. "He totally changed from when he first came here. He didn't seem that happy, but now he smiles and laughs and knows a couple hundred words in English. He's a very smart guy."



Sun will stay in the United States until May when he'll return to China to play in the national games with his club team. He is expected to return in June for the draft.



China has produced three tall players who are playing or have played in the NBA. There's 7-6 Ming, 7-1 Wang Zhizhi and 6-11 Mengke Bateer.

And there are more giants headed west, according to website of the Chinese national team.
 
What about the 7' four year college players that actually know how to play? Nothing against big Chinese men, but this is as big a problem as American high school projects pushing solid, well-rounded players out of the draft.
 
This is just a simple case of "you can't teach size", or "teach gigantism" in this case. Obviously if a 7'9" guy could actually shoot and move he would revolutionize the game...or at least just be completely unstoppable. But there were a lot of extremely tall guys who barely knew the game in the draft last year, and only 1 or 2 of them got drafted. Remember some 7'7" kid from Iran who was working out but super raw. Nobody bit. Might well be the same case here. Have to show something. Still, if you had a late 2nd round pick, how many more interesting players out there would there really be for you? Why not take the flyer and see what he looks like?
 
Remember some 7'7" kid from Iran who was working out but super raw. Nobody bit.
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Your talking about Jaber Rouzbahani. (http://nbadraft.net/profiles/jaberrouzbahani.asp) The reason I know that? I was pulling for the Kings to draft him in the second round last year. And what I say? Why the heck not? Experiment with your second round pick, usually you get nothing. But I degress from that, and back to the subject at hand.

Seven foot, nine is incredible. Thats insane, I'd wanna see that guy play.
 
SLAB said:
Sun Ming Ming.

Well here's a pic I found of him.

Apparently the guy in front of him is seven feet tall. :eek:
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Hmm...actually looks pretty well proportioned...well, aside from having the head of a 5'5" man. :)

Wonder if he can move at all? A lot of very tall people are effectively deformed, but that pic makes this guy look no different fom a 6'5" guy in general build. Intriguing.
 
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Jaber is only 19, has a soft shot from 12-15, has an eight foot wingspan, and can play defense a bit.

My guess is he is still trying to get into the league, but thats just speculation on my part.
 
Bricklayer said:
Hmm...actually looks pretty well proportioned...well, aside from having the head of a 5'5" man. :)
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He looks like Jack Jeebs while his head is growing back (any Men In Black fans know what I'm talking about).
 
Bricklayer said:
Hmm...actually looks pretty well proportioned...well, aside from having the head of a 5'5" man. :)

Wonder if he can move at all? A lot of very tall people are effectively deformed, but that pic makes this guy look no different fom a 6'5" guy in general build. Intriguing.
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That's right. That is why Yao was scouted long before he became a topic of draft conversations - because he is gigantic without actually suffering from "gigantism" or whatever is the name of the disorder that accelerates growth and results in deformities.

Unless they are photoshopping his pics this guy looks like someone who can make it.
 
Bricklayer said:
This is just a simple case of "you can't teach size", or "teach gigantism" in this case. Obviously if a 7'9" guy could actually shoot and move he would revolutionize the game...or at least just be completely unstoppable. But there were a lot of extremely tall guys who barely knew the game in the draft last year, and only 1 or 2 of them got drafted. Remember some 7'7" kid from Iran who was working out but super raw. Nobody bit. Might well be the same case here. Have to show something. Still, if you had a late 2nd round pick, how many more interesting players out there would there really be for you? Why not take the flyer and see what he looks like?
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You really like them big boys don't you ;)
 
if he is there in the 2nd round... take him... what do we have to lose? erik daniels?
 
SacTownKid said:
You really like them big boys don't you ;)
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The sport is basketball -- size always has and always will be a critical factor. All things being equal, big guys beat little guys. And REALLY big guys may beat little guys even if things AREN'T equal. Now this guy may be TOO big to really move, but IF he could move he'd be very interesting.

Ponder this -- he is 7'9" :eek: and looks to, even undeveloped, easily weigh 300+ lbs. At that height he can probably dunk the ball standing flatfooted. And there are only 1 or two players in the entire league who could even pretend to effect his shot. If he could move at all all he would have to do is run down into the paint -- nobody could muscle him -- tower over his opponent, and turn and shoot down into the hoop unimpeded. He could grab rebounds long before the 7ft twerps ever had a chance at them. He would be just about the most imposing defensive roadblock in the history of basketball by just standing there with his arms up.

Again, if he could move.
 
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Yes, if he can move. Can you imagine having someone who could simply reach for rebounds over all the flat-footed 7 footers. I don't care if he is flat-footed as well, if he had 7 to 9 inches on the other team's tallest player. And defense in the post...it is unimaginable. Almost 7'9" and 300 lbs......**sigh**
 
Man just think of all those offensive and defensive rebounds........


Anyways, I wonder if he can just give me a foot of his height.......***sigh***
 
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Yes, if he can move. Can you imagine having someone who could simply reach for rebounds over all the flat-footed 7 footers. I don't care if he is flat-footed as well, if he had 7 to 9 inches on the other team's tallest player. And defense in the post...it is unimaginable. Almost 7'9" and 300 lbs......**sigh**
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Not even sure it would be fun to watch (well after the novelty wore off) -- wouldn't even really be competitive, and kind of in some ways breaking the geometry of the game. Of course, I'd much rather be on the side of the guy nobody could compete WITH than the side doing the non-competing. :)
 
WOW!! I was actually surprised to see how solid he is considering his height...I would expect someone like that to be gangley....but then again look at Shaq, he is the anti-gangley..I will be interested to see how his career progresses, not sure yet what to think until I see him on a court...
 
EmKingsFan4 said:
WOW!! I was actually surprised to see how solid he is considering his height...I would expect someone like that to be gangley....but then again look at Shaq, he is the anti-gangley..I will be interested to see how his career progresses, not sure yet what to think until I see him on a court...
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Exactly. He's proportioned right and looks to be pretty thick (at least in comparison to Yao). And like Brick said, if the guy can actually move with some kind of coordination, he'll be almost unstoppable.

Can you imagine if we were able to pick this guy up and have Vlade (as an assistant coach of course) work with him? Damn my imagination.
 
Superman said:
He looks like Jack Jeebs while his head is growing back (any Men In Black fans know what I'm talking about).
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Hahaha, I'm not much of a "Men in Black" fan but I know who your talking about. The character played by Tony Shaloub (Monk).
 
Bibby_Is_Clutch said:
Must be something in the water over there...
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Doubt it, I'm only 5'11". :( Man, imagine if he could move and jump like the average NBA player. Heck, imagine if he could run and jump like the elite basketball players! 7'9", with a 40" vertical. ::drools::
 
Found the whole story that that pic came from (7'9" 350lbs BTW):

http://www.news-record.com/sports/local/bkbtraining_041305.htm


Gotta love this picture too :eek: :

basketball_041305.jpg
http://www.news-record.com/graphics/april/basketball_041305.jpg
 
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