Currently, he is sitting a little short of 86% for the season. In March, Yao shot 124/139 from the line = 89% with nights of 11-11, 10-10, 11-11, 7-7, 18-20... and jumped about 5% points (IIRC). That's pretty amazing for any player, much less a 7-6 guy. Having someone over 7ft shooting that percentage only happens 1-2 a decade. So, the question is, can Yao hit a high enough percentage the rest of the games to reach 90% from the line this season? Stuart
He can. Will he? I would say probably not because it's hard to bump an average up toward the end of the season.
Sorry to be so frank, but did you do your math before posting this? There are only 10 games left in the season and Yao would have to take a lot more free throws and making 100% of them for that to be even possible. Yao currently averages 7.24 free throws per game and makes 6.18 (85.37%). Let us say he takes an above average 10 free throws a game for the reminding 10 games and very optimistically makes all of them (100%). This would only give Yao a new free throw percentage of 88.49%. If you are talking about next season or beyond, I think Yao has the tools to average that for a season. This late into the season? No way. -G'day-
A little more math. Yao has been 307-361 from the line this season. He has already missed 54 shots. In order to hit 90%, he needs to take about 18 FT per game and make them all. By that time he would have made the most ft in a row in NBA history. This % thing hits diminishing return when you have them high enough.
Since this is impossible, why isn't this thread locked? Unless this was meant as an April Fool's joke
He can do it if he care about it, but please don't expect so high. He had already the highest FT% in our team, and 85% is enough.
