you cant teach height

[mstateglfr]

At 7 feet, 9 inches, Olivier Rioux is the world’s tallest teen and an intriguing basketball project

Florida freshman Olivier Rioux is the world's tallest teenager. The 7-foot-9 walk-on center also is an intriguing basketball prospect.

apnews.com

7'9?!?!
For context, #2 in both pictures is 6'4.

 

[TNDawg1]

Will probably suck for a few years and best case scenario is Purdue. He looks gantry crane slow on film.

 

[RocketDawg]

Will probably suck for a few years and best case scenario is Purdue. He looks gantry crane slow on film.

A 747 looks slow when landing as well. But they're really going pretty fast.

 

[mstateglfr]

Will probably suck for a few years and best case scenario is Purdue. He looks gantry crane slow on film.

Yeah, it may take time for him to put everything together and dominate.
...heck, he may never dominate, who knows.
But for as much as its preached that the traditional post position is dead in modern basketball, he is at a major college and could help show its only mostly dead.

 

[Dawgzilla2]

He'll be playing behind Handgloten (sp??). UF is definitely about to find out if the post position is dead.

 

[mstateglfr]

He'll be playing behind Handgloten (sp??). UF is definitely about to find out if the post position is dead.

Thought he was redshirting because of that whole leg snapping incident last spring?

 

[HotMop]

Color me unimpressed: