Yeah, it ultimately doesn't matter - he is clearly blistering fast and ridiculously athletic (there's nothing subjective about those jump measurements, nor his stop-start that we see on tape)Dynasty DeLorean wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:02 pmSeen someone else say 4.38-4.45, via the video. I think anything in that range is excellent. OBJ was a 4.43 for example. 4.50 is still perfectly fine but then we’re not talking about top end speed anymore.mild wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:36 pmFWIW his 40 looks a lot more like a 4.5 than a 4.34.
https://twitter.com/jacoblogginsnba/sta ... 20806?s=46
Doesn't change a thing, of course. The tape is the tape.
If we really wanted to be accurate, the Combine would also go fully laser timed - but then times would probably be slower across the board, and where's the fun in that? But hey, at least the combine it's apples-to-apples between prospects, so you can at least roughly baseline.
Feels like we'll steadily move away from 40 times as meaning much in the future with the proliferation of the GPS game data anyway, as it becomes more available and mainstream.Since 1999, the NFL has used partially electronic timing to determine 40-yard times at the combine. The start of the run is timed by hand, but the finish is recorded electronically using a laser "plane" that runs across the finish line.
Fully hand-timed 40's from Pro Days, of course, remain a total joke...