Yao is an 85 percent free-throw shooter, but the team is shooting only 73 percent. He joked that Houston coach Rick Adelman should hire him to teach his teammates how to make them. "I'm available," Yao said with a smile. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_ylt=AlTfU6WxXr_dyTkxI0Njqo28vLYF?gid=2008012910&prov=ap
It is simple. Practice. That's how a very unathletic 7'6" got to be good a free throws. Indeed almost any NBA player could be good at FTs they simply don't have the drive to get better.
Practice is only one component. You have to practice the right thing. That is why Chuck is actually getting worse since he is ingraining the wrong habits. You either have to be smart enough to figure it out yourself or get feedback from others who know what they are talking about and know how to teach.
You can't really teach people to be hardworking when your free throws don't show up on sportscenter and get you shoe contracts.
Agreed. It takes professionalism and drive. Chuck doesn't seem to understand that his NBA career is at stake since he can't / won't improve his offense.
For a 7'6" he's athletic. Compared to a typical NBA player, he is an clumsy stiff. But through hard work and dedication, he's made himself into a premiere player.
maybe rockets are just bad at depth perception from 15 feet? Maybe its the arena? Or some crazy hater that takes pictures wiht superflash every time a rocket shoots a ft?
It depends on which NBA player you're talking about. Even against a guy like Dwight Howard Yao can post up with his back to the basket and then beat him on a spin and drive for a layup/dunk. At 7'6" that is simply freakish.
Yes, but he is often off balance and falls down more than any other NBA player. Without all his hard work, he'd be a big stiff. Yao is great because of his work ethic. It is a shame that our other star doesn't have the same approach to the game ....
I ever met him once. He was sitting on a chair and I did not feel he is that tall. But he stood up, then I realized how big he is. Really a monster to me I hope he could teach me how to shoot FTs (though I just want a handshake with him )
sometime, when I saw Yao being stripped by a small player, i called him stiff, but for a 7'6 stiff, he do work so hard to become a star stiff, he might be the most skilled 7'6 stiff... Today, in NBA TV, the host said one thing so true about Yao "the man is warrior, you think a flu might stop yao playing? the man will play with pain, seriously, he only miss games for what --broken bones"...
on the rare occasion that Yao misses a free throw its because he does it on purpose. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ohHoK4-LeuY&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ohHoK4-LeuY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
He tries way too hard to get calls from the refs. A 7'6" guy is never going to get a call from a flop consistently so he should probably abandon that strategy.
It's good idea but Yao may not be able to focus on his game practise. Nobody want to see Yao practise less and lost his concentration on games. If we are really interested in Yao skill in achieving 85% FT, we may as well hire Yao chinese coach that train him in FT when he was playing in China.
