Sports Noobs against Pros - spawned from tdarko's tennis thread

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I'm an athletic dude but not a professional sportsman.

I wouldn't be able to:
score a goal against a goalie


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This I disagree with, a penalty kick against a soccer goalie from anyone who can kick a ball reasonably well would hit the net at least 20% I would guess.



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While I agree with this you can't call penalty shots a good indication of soccer playing. Likewise, many relative amateurs would stomp Shaq and similar NBA players in a free throw contest, but what does that mean as far as overall hoops skills?

Swede

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True, but there are also many amatuers that can beat a random golf pro even after 18 holes. It happens every year in the open events. This is why I stated noob and not amatuer. I doubt that any person that has never shot a freethrow could outshoot even Shaq from the line (debatable). But even if you think about it from an amatuer since, you could take a highschool player and he could potentially beat Shaq in one one one if Shaq was required to dribble and run, etc, but we are not talking about amatuers like LeBron James and Freddy Adu before they turned pro.