Kyla Irwin - Time for the usual dabate

[Sonny44]

Some sites claim she is 6'1". Others state 6'2".
Maybe she's still growing. She may be 6'5" by the time she gets here.
Well?

 

[stamfordhusky]

Usual answers:

(A) One measurement is with shoes on (the most common method), other with shoes off.
(B) Schools and AAU programs often exaagerate heights.
(C) Articles often contain inaccurate information.
(D) She is still growing and the 6-2 is now the accurate height.

Maybe she will continue to get taller, although the average 16 year-old girl is done growing.

 

[meyers7]

Usual answers:

(A) One measurement is with shoes on (the most common method), other with shoes off.
(B) Schools and AAU programs often exaagerate heights.
(C) Articles often contain inaccurate information.
(D) She is still growing and the 6-2 is now the accurate height.

Maybe she will continue to get taller, although the average 16 year-old girl is done growing.

I think they said she's 15. Grow, grow, grow.

 

[jsloanjr]

Good news for her and UCONN

 

[EricLA]

Come on guys... it's 0.75 Hilton units!!

 

[xHunt3r]

Shea is 6'0" ?

 

[alexrgct]

seventy billion hectares

 

[rocky rococo]

Boys may continue to gain height after 14 or 15, it's quite unusual in girls.

 

[Samanthabrown3]

Taller than Geno. There's your answer.

 

[Zorro]

What is her wingspan?

 

[Icebear]

What is her wingspan?

It goes from the tip of her longest finger on one hand to the same on the other.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Shea is 6'0" ?

What the hell is Geno standing on in that pic?

 

[UConnCat]

What the hell is Geno standing on in that pic?

Maybe a couple of championship trophies. There are several to choose from.

 

[UConnCat]

I recognize that woman in the middle. This was from an AAU event this summer in DC.

 

[UConnCat]

Another one with Stef this time.

 

[johnnyc]

What is her wingspan?

With basketballs or without?

 

[j66kicker]

I recognize that woman in the middle. This was from an AAU event this summer in DC. Kyla Irwin and player second from the left (black top and white headband) is Megan Walker

Definitely taller than 5'9" here

 

[j66kicker]

Another one with Stef this time. Stef and Megan Walker like colorful pants.

Looks all of 6'2" here, unless Stef is hunched over and Kyla is on tippy toes

 

[Icebear]

Kyla is up lens from Stef.

 

[Sonny44]

Kyla is up lens from Stef.

"up lens"???????
Anyway I conclude she is a legitimate 6'2 & 1/4 inches with the potential of an inch or so more.

 

[meyers7]

"up lens"???????
Anyway I conclude she is a legitimate 6'2 & 1/4 inches with the potential of an inch or so more.

Don't know if I'd go as high as 6'2 & 1/4 inches. Looks closer to 6'2 & 3/16 to me. I suppose we can round it to 7/32.

 

[Sonny44]

Don't know if I'd go as high as 6'2 & 1/4 inches. Looks closer to 6'2 & 3/16 to me. I suppose we can round it to 7/32.

They should have software that calculates height from pictures. But then we would have less to bandy about [I love idioms].

bandy something about also - bandy about something
to talk about something without being careful about facts. The number $31 million was bandied about at the time, although actual losses might have been much lower.

Seems we bandy about a lot on this forum just for fun.

 

[Zorro]

Don't know if I'd go as high as 6'2 & 1/4 inches. Looks closer to 6'2 & 3/16 to me. I suppose we can round it to 7/32.

C'mon, Meyes; Husky basketball means you never compromise!!!! Perfection is the name of the game.

 

[TroyHouse66]

Sonny44-
<<But ... less to bandy about>>
[...talk about something without being careful about facts....]

Well, Sonny boy, it's good that you came to this board, where every-so-many are dedicated to an everlasting crusade for detailed factual information and the abject minutia of basketball. Even the traditional BY rule about subtracting 2" from any Guard being recruited is now subject to extension to the front court troops.
(Although this may derive from the olde UConn publicity releases explaining Eddie Slomcenski's leaping ability by consistently listing him at 6' 11")

<< [I love idioms].>>
Hey!! Be careful what you call our players...
They may be idioms at some point... but, now they're OUR idioms.

 

[Icebear]

"up lens"???????
Anyway I conclude she is a legitimate 6'2 & 1/4 inches with the potential of an inch or so more.

Closer to the camera which, especially, distorts sizes as the closer to a wide angle appearing significantly larger. It is why all those photos have deer seem have mammoth racks compared to the hunters.