Yao's turnovers

hes deaf in his left ear?? i guess that could be a factor

 

Unless he's playing with a bunch of fellow hearing-impaired players, he should take action to repair his competitive disadvantage. I'm unaware of any deaf player making it in the NBA so he needs the hearing aid.

 

good point, but small players don't have to be sneaky, to stay quite for someone 7 foot 6.

 

I'm sure it's a factor. But I think the majority of his turnovers are due to the fact that he's swarmed on every possession. Putting the ball on the floor in that situation will naturally result in lots of turnovers.

Shaq has perfect hearing, as far as I know, and great handles. He's still been a high turnover guy because of all the traffic he draws into the paint. It's hard enough to get the ball to these guys, let alone letting them work. Yao will always average a good amount of turnovers. I really don't see any way around it for a big man.

 

I lean more towards his softhands.

 

That and his tendency to keep the ball too low. When he is stripped, it isn't often because he isn't expecting it (i.e. didn't hear it). It's because someone smacked his pretty hard and he couldn't hold the ball.

 

You think he was turnover prone last year... Wait til you see him in the high post. Just my 2 cents. Luckily Hayes ran the offense from the HP in college. A deaf ear would be a problem if it was new. But if the Oklahoma State corner back has gone 4 years without getting a penalty and is completey deaf then there is no excuse.

 

i think it mostly affects the plays where the help defender comes down the baseline directly behind him. That almost always takes him by complete surprise. I think it definately is an issue.

Now Francis's impaired ear, that's no excuse.

 

I think playing more on the high post will lessen his turnovers.

 

wait wasn't he joking about him not being able to hear properly? or am i missing something?

 

he's got lowered hearing in one of his ears from an illness in his childhood..

 

I couldn't read your post because I am blind in one eye.

 

Well, it has been known for years.

ESPN once reported about this on December 4, 2003.

I dropped a post onto yaoming.net chatroom back on December 5, 2003, to ask him whether the ESPN report is true, and whether this hearing problem had impacted his daily life.

He posted back on his chatroom the following answer:

That was the only time that I have ever communicated with Big Yao and it is over Internet !!

 

All this talk about Yao's turnovers!!!!!!!! He only had one in his first game to-day.

 

yao will have less TOs when hes at the high post. id much rather see him turn it over on a pass then get stripped clean.