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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5532164, member: 722"]
You can't trust heights and weights anyway. We won't start trusting reported vertical leaping or 40 times any time soon. Not until the NBA or NFL combine can you trust any of those reported figures.

But, looking at that picture, if Diawara is actually 7' (a big big if), that puts Souare at 6'10 and Kyle at maybe 6'8? He, White and Betsey seem the same height.  Too bad we couldn't get Freeman in the comparative shot...

One thing that stands out is how short Diawara's neck is compared to the other guys.  Somebody once commented when talking about Elton Brand back in the day, "You don't play basketball with the top of your head."  A more useful measurement for basketball might be the shoulder rather than the top of the head.  This is one reason teams are starting to use "standing reach" and "armspan" as a proxy for height when scouting.  It doesn't matter how high your head is when standing still if your arms reach nine and a half feet into the sky when you reach up!

Look at where Diawara's shoulders are in comparison to the guys around him.  His "useful height" relative to the other tall guys on the team is even higher than his listed additional height.
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