With all the negatives I hear about Yao from these boards and others or out on the street this guy is really much more aggressive this year in my opinion.i give him 2 more years he will dominate. If you think back to his first year everyone would yell at him and tell him to dunk the ball even me even now at times he should slam it but he chooses the lay up.But not this year he's in the top ten sitting at #4.Proud of the big guy. Dunk-O-Meter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Year-to-Date ยท Daily Dunk-O-Meter Year to Date Rank Player Pos Team Dunks 1 Shaquille O'Neal C MIA 77 2 Amare Stoudemire C PHO 72 3 Dwight Howard PF ORL 41 4 Yao Ming C HOU 39 5 Pau Gasol PF MEM 38 6 Kenyon Martin PF DEN 38 7 LeBron James SF CLE 35 8 Stromile Swift PF MEM 34 9 Eddy Curry C CHI 32 10 Nazr Mohammed C NY 32 11 Shawn Marion SF PHO 31 12 Mikki Moore C LAC 31 13 Brendan Haywood C WAS 30 14 Chris Wilcox C LAC 29 15 Drew Gooden PF CLE 28 16 Jason Richardson SG GS 28 17 Dwyane Wade PG MIA 28 18 Carlos Boozer PF UTA 26 19 Tim Duncan PF SA 26 20 Andre Iguodala SG PHI 26 21 Richard Jefferson SG NJ 26 22 Darius Miles SF POR 26 23 Shareef Abdur-Rahim SF POR 25 24 Al Harrington SF ATL 24 25 Emeka Okafor PF CHA 24 26 Erick Dampier C DAL 22 27 Kevin Garnett PF MIN 22 28 Chris Bosh PF TOR 21 29 Kobe Bryant SG LAL 21 30 Tyson Chandler PF CHI 21 31 Alonzo Mourning C TOR 21 32 Josh Smith SF ATL 21 33 Carmelo Anthony SF DEN 20 34 Steven Hunter C PHO 20 35 Chris Andersen PF NO 19 36 Dan Gadzuric C MIL 19 37 Lamar Odom SF LAL 19 38 Rasheed Wallace PF DET 18 39 Steve Francis PG ORL 17 40 David Harrison C IND 17 41 Tracy McGrady SG HOU 17 42 Chris Mihm C LAL 17 43 Tayshaun Prince SF DET 17 44 Chris Webber PF SAC 17 45 Lorenzen Wright C MEM 17 46 Kelvin Cato C ORL 16 47 Samuel Dalembert C PHI 16 48 Nene PF DEN 16 49 Caron Butler SF LAL 15 50 Jerome James C SEA 15
it was posted before....but this is a nice update since he moved from 6 to 4. he has come a loooooooong way from when he had to be taught how to dunk in the nba.
I dont know hw that works, but I think Yao should be in the 60's trailing behind Shaq and Amare. I dont want Yao to be Shaq, but man, he's got to just learn to steam roll over people in the semi-circle like those 2 and dunk on fools!!! Its really the easiest aspect of his game he could improve. And while we are at it, someone get him some of those "handgrip" work out things. Dudes grip is horrendous.
The semi-circle doesn't exist for Yao, since he starts his moves in the paint. Shaq's been called for much more offensive fouls this season, part of the reason he's not putting up the same numbers.
Yao needs to work on his vertical. I think I have a higher vertical then Yao does and that my friends is pretty scarry stuff!!!
yao's vertical won't improve... he broke his leg when he was 18 or something, and his vertical sucked since. but he just grew taller and taller..
I've noticed that he's winning a lot more of the tips this year. I also thought that he was showing more vertical than I remembered in the last game. On one jump shot he made, he jumped and seemed to hang in the air and then shot the ball - it looked a lot more like TMac than Yao. I think Falsone's work is starting to pay off.
Indeed. And let's not also forget that falsone is not done with Yao, he is still a project and he will get stronger and stamina should increase even more, unless China's version of the YMCA creates a summer league every year that Yao has to play for
Yao is so one dimensional. All he does is dunk. I mean look at the company he's with. Shaq, howard, amare. All dunkers. No skills at all
I noticed t-mac is tied with Francis at 17. T-mac drives more than people notice I think. He just does it so smoothly almost avoiding all contact it seems. Just my opinion though. But yes I'd still like to see it more often. The guy just seems unstoppable to the basket.
Actually, the more Yao stays on the ground, the better. He can block shots and rebound with good position and strong upper body.... no need to risk foot, ankle, and leg injuries by jumping all the time. Let's just get us a lanky power forward to jump center and be done with it.
The reason that Yao won many tips this year is because he leaned the tricks, that jump before the ball reach the highest . You know, the refs should throw the ball higher than Yao, so he just tip the ball away conveniently when it passes his hand
Yeah, for Yao to move into the same dunk class with Shaq and Amare, he needs an improvement of over 50% from here. I don't think it's gonna happen. But just counting dunk shots is a bad measure for whether a player is dominating the court or not. Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis are dominating this year, and they ain't up there. Kareem would have never been on a top 10 dunk list. But he dominated. Larry Bird had about 2 dunks the entire season. But he dominated. Yao is not a dunking type player. When he becomes dominant it won't be because he's throwing down as many dunks as Shaq or even close. It will be because he has become consistent, quit turning over the ball, and is demanding the basketball in the post, and he is blocking shots and rebounding 10+ per game to go along with 55% shooting and 25 ppg scoring. It will be his overall game that will show his domination, not his highlight reel dunk shots. Tim Duncan is down at #19 but we would still have to consider Duncan as being more dominant than Yao at this point in time. These kinds of stats go in the stupid stat bin.
