I ' m a 6 , 5 point guard and I ' ve only faced about 23 players that are that short and from my experience they are extremely fast , especially if you add speed boosting . They are very easy to block and it ' s impossible for them to grab boards though . Edit I ' m all star 2 if that gives any context as to how many there are . <| sep |> We had patriotism absolutely pounded into our heads from before we were even able to speak . In school , at home , everybody always taught you that the US is the greatest country in the world , that it is an enormous privilege to live here , that we should thank our lucky stars that we weren ' t born anywhere else but in the US . When I was in school , we had to say the pledge of allegiance every day , hand over your heart and all that . A good portion of every school day was literally it ' s so great to live in the US . We were also taught that to say or believe that the US isn ' t the greatest place ever is extremely unpatriotic . In short , brainwashing . I ' m not exaggerating either . Those exact things were said to me over and over by many different people . I even believed it for a time . But , I saw through the bullshit as I got a little older .