UFC Fighter Ciryl Gane shoots a step-back 3 over fellow Frenchman Rudy Gobert
Ngl I didn’t think his form would be that clean being that swole
Gane is one of the fastest and most fluid heavy weights out there. He moves so well despite being such a giant.
People wouldn’t believe Hakeem was real if he played today
lebron has played so long people forgot what kind of freak he was early on lol
someone that big shouldn’t move that fast, it never made sense
Yeah LeBron was 6’8” 280lbs outrunning everyone and literally jumping over dudes heads with unbelievable fluidity, grace, control, and functionality
People forget what they’ve seen lol
he still can outrun everyone in a full sprint, led fastbreak stuff last year
his turning definitely isn’t as good and his first step seems to be a night to night basis but there’s still not many better which is crazy lol
there was lebron, D rose, and Russ all playing at the same time, it was a wild time to watch players out-athlete everyone else
He was never 280 but still 6’8/9 whatever he is at 250-260 is crazy.
LeBron would have easily been the greatest TE of all time if he played football.
Yeah LeBron currently has like 60% of his peak athleticism but when you start that high, 60% still makes you very athletic 😂
i’d argue for the most part he’s probably still top 10% athlete wise in the nba, him and ronaldo hilariously have the same turning radius as a boat for some reason I guess it’s old man hips or something but his general acceleration and speed and jumping ability was more than good once he got right last year after the super slow start
but even in saying that he’s still miles off from what he was
at 42 years old his fall off is just looking like an average all star level athletic player lol
Average all star is hilarious but I know what you mean. Bron shifted the Overton window of longevity in the NBA with how good he still is haha
It was like 2019⁄2020 when Lebron finally wasn’t the most athletic guy in the NBA. It just took another top 25 at worst all time guy in Giannis who is mostly a freak athlete even by NBA standards finally beating him out while being 15 years younger lol.
I’m still wondering why the basketball and football gods decided to release their champions in 84 and 85
I think it’s more like 87.19%
at 60%, he wouldn’t be able to dunk at all.
Hmmm his very highest was like nose at rim. Now he sometimes gets his elbow to the rim. Yeah 87.19% might be closer. Maybe something in between our very scientific guesses haha
I cannot imagine what that would look like up close. I remember thinking my high school coach was our version of “LeBron” and was crazy to think he wasn’t even 1% of the athlete or physical specimen Bron was.
He scrimmaged with us sometimes and was unstoppable. D2 player who retired from competitive play early due to injury and immediately became a coach.
6’4 and wide as hell (our tallest kid was 6’4), faster than our fastest guy, perfect no look passes all day right into your hand, 3s and middies looked like KD.
Granted we were bums but it really did felt like I experienced what regular NBA players experienced vs Bron
The Dream was incredible in the 90s.
What lol..
His nickname was The Dream, people didn’t believe he was real when he did play
Gane? More like Gain.
More like Bane
Easily one of the most athletic specimens ever in the UFC.
He’s a large as Francis Ngannou but moves twice as quick.
Ngannou was more herky jerky in his prime but had scary foot speed for a dude his size. Also freakish strength and hand speed.
He gets you so quick with those eye pokes and groin shots you don’t even see it coming.
Weirdly, his motor skills turn to shit when he tries to throw heat, but he is a floating butterfly when he doesn’t.
Dude fights like a dancer. Most French fighter I’ve ever seen.
I assume being a tall athletic freak he played at least some level of basketball in France
Yeah, he played youth basketball before he got into Muay Thai
yup 6’4 super long and athletic he could have been an tight end in America. He probably could have played pro bball at some level but not quite French first league level(which would still pay a lot more than 98% of MMA)
He’s basically the prime example of how MMA can be a backup sport for elite athletes. Dude didn’t do any martial arts until his mid 20’s and still became the heavyweight champ. Also I guarantee if he could have been a pro soccer player he would have lol. More money to not take brain damage would have been an easy choice.
Nah, only in heavy weight because power is the equalizer and how shallow the division is. You can see in the lighter weight class the new generation of athletes are very technical and well-rounded; they already train MMA since they’re kids, basically.
125 champ started training at 18
*interim champ…. Because he poked the legit champ in the eye
Heavyweight title fights and eye poking go together
Interim champ
How you gonna say a position where you block and catch a ball, when DE is right there.
u right, i meant if he grew up here stateside. plus as evidenced in his bball footage he does have ball skills and coordination already.
I don’t think either of you understand how many personal fouls he’d get for hands in the facemask on either side of the trenches
Most martial arts teach good footwork that helps for basketball too, not all of them but I think Muy Thai would be one of them
Probably helps hes actually an athlete and not some body builder
He got that HGH belly tho
He would be an All-Pro DE in the NFL if he was born in the US
Get his ass in a Twolves uniform RN!
WET BALL!
Bane
I was surprised on one of the embeddeds he could swing a golf club decently well but he was zipping a football with a flick. I was like that guys a HW?
Why is there a single Giannis jersey up there 😭😭😭
It’s a resort in Mykonos, Greece.
That’s messed up, don’t they know the brothers come as a packaged deal?
That’s unacceptable. I’m leaving a yelp review!
It’s Giannis plus one applicable brother. The unpicked brother will go to a rival organization in attempt to pretend that they care about his family with plans to recruit Giannis within the next free agency.
He got raptured in this gym, they left the jersey where it stopped rising
It’s in Greece but I went down a rabbit hole and can’t find anything about Giannis specifically. I’m just going to go with country pride! They need to update the jersey though ;)
Dudes be having Kobe jersey hanging in their bedrooms
Having rock walls all around looks pretty sick
No diving for loose balls
Would be cool if they were actually made of foam lol
You wouldn’t dive for a loose ball into a regular wall either
I’m built different bro
Batcave looking ass court
Installed just for Gane. So he doesn’t finger poke holes in drywall
I don’t know why but its making me feel claustrophobic.
Don’t bump into the walls at an angle unless you wanna be a meat crayon
Probably to help with echo
It’s only taking away a few hundred square feet, no biggie
Why are they playing inside a quarry?
Because it’s dope
Also probably keeps things cool more naturally
Also Gobert has infinite money. His brand deals in France are probably pretty nice too, before Wemby he was the #1 star for years in a country where basketball is relatively popular
Honestly as a Frenchman, I never felt like Gobert was that popular here. Obviously basketball fans knew him but he wasn’t a name non-basketball fans would know. Or they might if they tuned in to a random Olympics game but no more than say Nic Batum or Boris Diaw.
Tony Parker and Joakim Noah were the only two basketball stars that non-basketball fans knew about pre Wemby. And Noah is probably 80-90% because his father was the best French tennis player ever and remained semi-relevant as a singer after his playing career.
Is Wemby popular in France?
This season my dad kept texting me about what crazy shit Wemby did last night. He doesn’t watch basketball haha. But Wemby’s star is still rising
I feel like a lot of non basketball people know his name at least
I feel like I haven’t seen any ads featuring Wemby yet. More Tony Parker tbh
one would think the UFC HW champ would have made a ton from his fights; but…. maybe a rookie contract if that?
Maybe a late second round pick, any lottery contract shits on his career earnings. Under 2 million for sure. If he can get a few more title defences, when he retires he can go do influencer boxing for a decent bag
dana white pays people in doordash gift cards unfortunately
There’s a Giannis Jersey in the rafters too. I’m guessing it’s in Greece
it does say mykonos in the @
Yeah, that’s the sweetest practice facility I’ve ever seen. That place is amazing.
You’ve never hooped in a quarry before?
Get this- this dude has never even hooped in a quarry before! 🤣 What a fuckin casual!
Right! And then you got the Giannis jersey hanging from the ceiling. Like what is going on here lol
cause its sick as hell?
this is what I imagine Batman’s half court gym looks like
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I think Patrick Williams would agree
He got paid he don’t give a fuck lol
Watch the eye pokes, Rudy!
this man knows his mma lol
Not as much as I used to in the GSP days, but enough to know Gane loves himself a good eye poke lol
He saw Jon Jones career and said, “I can do better”
I thought Gane was gonna cross rudy over n give him some back of the head shots
Surprise he didn’t get Goburt after the follow through.
Translation of caption: Bro, don’t count on me to post the other videos.
Lmao, I love Rudy’s sense of humor
Pretty sure it was Gane who posted and said that, not Gobert
Wolves found their PF
lol he’s 6’4
Did he stutter
So is NBA champion Josh Hart
And strong as fuck lol I think he’d manage
So is Barkley
How many of the taller guys are moving him off his spot? Half the tall guys are built like twigs these days.
And that’s before including the MMA grappling advantage he will have tussling in the paint
Yeah he could come in as an enforcer. Do something dirty to one of our stars then Gane is checking in. Not to f up the random who did the dirty play but one of your stars.
He would be 6’5 in NBA, he’s not listed with shoes on like nba players are
6’6 after a morning dead hang. He’s bigger than Draymond.
And can beat up every person in the league lol
This is r/nba. Someone here will try to tell you James Johnson could KO Gane lol.
I hope this subreddit is smarter than that. James Johnson would get folded in 20 seconds at most. His supposed 7-0 MMA record and 20-0 Kickboxing records are completely fake. There’s no record of his fights anywhere, and Tapology tracks everything down to very low-level regional amateur MMA fights. If they’re not on there, they probably didn’t happen.
The drive was more impressive than the shot, bro definitely hoops.
What is this basketball court
The .mykonos tag makes me think this is Greece.
That would explain the tiny Giannis jersey and the white-stone look
Rich people shit
Hotel in Greece: Fouquet’s Mykonos
https://www.hotelsbarriere.com/collection-fouquet-s/mykonos/experiences/fitness
Could be a basement and the house was built on bedrock and then just went with part of that as a foundation?
Engineers - tell me if I’m talking out of my ass
It’s where basketball games are played
This is gonna be another ammo for a future slander post lol
Shaq is saving this video for his next hit piece on Gobert
Whats with the tiny Giannis jersey lol
He is ever watchful
A silent protector
it’s probably in greece
that was actually a clean ass looking jump shot
clean ass form lmao
That gym is sick
Best athlete in the ufc by far
Meanwhile Jon Jones embarrassed himself attempting a dunk. Didn’t matter when they fought though.
Rudy hates seeing that move lol
His caption says “bro don’t count on me to post the other videos” which is honestly quite good self-derision
he’s used to it😅
The Luka special
This is clearly, if you want to take that go ahead bro
Man hit him with the Luka classic
Rudy ain’t about to play tight d and get his eyes gouged
He Luka’d him
The drive and layup was more impressive to me
I remember when him and Ante Delja fight got cancelled at Fight Island cause of contract situation with Delja and PFL. They instead played a full on basketball game with their coaches as their teammates. Here’s the clip
boy got some sauce to him. salute.
Pretty form can tell he can hoop
Gane athletic as fuck
Gobert in playoff mode
The guy might be playing the wrong sport
you don’t want this fool playing basketball. He’s going be taking out so many eyeballs going up to block shots
The whole NBA gonna be wearing Kareem goggles if that happens.
He’d be playing in the NFL if he was born in America
Gane is a huge man and he looks tiny compared to Gobert.
He looks bigger than Gobert. He just also looks shorter, because he obviously is.
Actually I found it the opposite. He looks like a machine compared to Gobert.
Noted 3pt line lock down defender Rudy Gobert?
If Rudy was trying Gane wouldn’t get a shot off
Ciryl Gane is French, but does Rudy a Slovenian special.
This guy has played, that was nice!
PTSD for Luka stepback over Gobert in game 2
This video is tre French - they’re even listening to French Montana
Ciryl Gane is a UFC heavyweight - 6”4 250lbs.
That’s an enormous human being in most places, but in the NBA he’d be a Guard and one of the shorter players on the court.
That said I’m really impressed by his ballhandling and shooting skills. He looked really smooth with the ball.
Seen a video of him doing a 360 dunk. He’s probably a mean pick up player. Dominates most gyms.
I think he played youth basketball when he was younger which would explain it
He’s enormous in the nba too. His out of fight build is probably beefier than Zion and late career shaq. There are dudes that guard fours and fives that are lighter than him
The ultimate pickup player. Has skill. No one will ever fuck with him or his team.
That gym is so sick
Oh. He csn hoop. You can tell.
Gobert having flashbacks of Doncic doing that to him.
gobert getting cooked like some bbq chicken
Court is sick but is nobody worried about crashing into the wall? Loose balls sound like a risky proposition
Are they playing in a cave?
That court looks cool af
This looks like the basketball court a bond villain would have
Surprised he didn’t eye poke him. 😂
Guys see Luka do it one time and everyone’s doing it to Gobert.
What is that jersey hanging from the ceiling lol.
This dude is a crazy athlete
Then poked him in the eye
Proof Gobert is most overrated defender of all time
I’m surprised Gobert didn’t get his eye poked
That was pretty impressive.
Anyone else in absolute awe at this gym setup? Like wtf bro. It’s dope.
Two Frenchmen playing basketball, listening to French Montana.
Ok this guy just became my new favorite ufc guy
How many attempts did this take?
That was pretty damn smooth for a dude built like that
Rudy really looks like he’s giving it his all
Can’t wait till Bhen sees this
r/timberwolves - I think we found our 4!
I wonder how long it took them to install that mountain quarry.
Did him like Luca
This guy does not look that short next to Rudy, that form was beautiful too
Can he play PF?
people here wonder why gobert gets 0 respect when he’s out there letting ufc mfs cook him 😂
This might be the smoothest basketball move I’ve seen from someone who never played professionally
Good for Gobert. Play it safe. I wouldn’t want to do anything to be on Gane’s bad side.
Mofo will counter you out of nowhere. He is so good at it, man.
Rudy big dog come on man
Players worry about cameramen and fans so close to the boundary lines, this is crazy
Luka flashback for Gobert
Good form actually, wasn’t expecting that
Sign him. We need a PF
He’s used to his fellow Frenchmen scoring on him.