chuck hayes has small hands with sausage fingers but he has really good hands...its not the size of your hand as much as your basic feel for hte ball
Jordan has pretty decent hands... he caught a slick bouncepass from Bud in the lane and finished smoothly on the other side of the rim with a nice hook.
I think Yao had the same problem in the earlier parts of his NBA career. I remembered him practising his hands by catching tennis balls during one of his rehibilitations. It paid off with his ball catching ability improving over the years.
Who cares if he has small hands, the guy is young and learning the game. A positive spark off the bench, I like his play, he plays hard. Kevin willis had small hands, but he was good at what he did, so who cares really as long as they perform
A lot of it seems to be him either trying to make a move before he catches the ball and not watching it into his hands (no true feel for the game yet) or him not expecting the pass or not expecting it in a certain location. He has far fewer issues with defensive rebounds. As someone said, once the game slows down a bit for him, it will work itself out, but some good old tennis ball training will certainly help speed up the process.
That is not true. You start off throwing tennis balls, move to the much more unpredictable wiffle balls. You can get them where they more and more unpredictable. Eventually with this type of training his hands will improve. It is not hand-eye as much as hand feel that you are trying to train.
I remember Kwame Brown had the WORST hands ever. Countless times he'd be wide open under the basket, Kobe would hit him with a pass and he'd do a Jacoby Jones-esque drop At least Hill isn't as bad as Kwame.
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He seems like he has enormous hands to me, once he has the ball in them, it seems like he can do a lot with it. Kinda reminds me of OT in that way
yes you can. go outside and bounce a rubber ball off a wall and catch it 1,000-2,000 times a week and tell me if you don't have better hands in 2 months.
O and I had no clue they trained yao with tennis balls. I had to do this in college but 4,000 times in a week and i improved greatly in catching any type of ball.
