NBA should basically tell refs to not call offensive fouls on Yao for an entire season. It will allow Yao to develop his aggressive side. Rasho backed into Yao and Yao did not get a charge call. Yao backed into Rasho albiet a little more aggressively and got called for an offensive foul. Worrell and Bullard commented about the inconsistency. Shaq in his early days played like a bull, but the offensive fouls were not called as much. Yao hardly ever plays aggressive, but he gets called for offensive fouls when he does. I doubt Yao has created some ref hate. How can anyone hate Yao? Maybe Stern needs to call the refs directly.
I wonder what the relationship is between JVG and the refs. I think Steve in particular got shaken down by refs last year unfairly. Maybe Steve and Cuttino were right in complaining about the refs. If TMac is going to get no superstar calls from the refs, that is a problem. TMac is a superstar in the NBA. He should be getting calls all the time. I know refs disliked Pat Riley. Does it extend all the way to his protege, JVG?
Holy crap! My original post was light hearted to begin with, does anybody honestly believe theres a 50% chance of Yao getting a turnover everytime we pass to him? Its WAY more like 40%! Anyways, to my own defense, i did say "ROUGHLY" 55%. So ah HA! Cringe math zealots upon your failure to defeat me once again!
no matter how you crunch the numbers that looks pathetic. so if Yao loses the ball 45% of the time he touches it.. and he connects on 50% of his shots.. 5 % margin of error.. it means for every 10 times Yao touches the ball he only scores 3 times (approximately) that sounds pretty bad and on top of that he ends up losing the ball 5 times (rounding up) .. haha now im curious how does someone like TD or KG stack up? any ideas? J
Every single pass into the post to Yao should be high. It shouldn't be too high as to sail past his raised hands, but it should be high enough to prevent a defender from easily reaching around Yao to get the ball. I notice a lot of the passes to Yao are at his feet (one of the passes from JJ last night) or passes to his chest. Shaq almost exclusively receives passes up high. I watched the Lakers back when they were winning with Shaq. Shaq never jumped up to get a pass. He just put his back into the defender and raised his arms up high. The passer passes right into his hands. Of course, this may mean Ward is the best passer. Heisman trophy winners at QB may be the best bet at throwing a good pass.
I actually think top of the chest is perfect - i.e. where your arms would be if you extended them parallel to the floor. This is where I like it when I post up. Any lower you have the problems as pointed out. Any higher, theoretically someone can reach over the top to tap away or defend around the side.
Why bother? To begin with, how did he come up with those percentages? Did he count them, how many times?
If there's one rule that I hate, it's the VLADE FLOP FOUL! That offense foul rule is counter to big centers. It's basically saying that big centers should be quick-guards instead. Finesses post-players. Sometimes Shaq is called on it. But Yao seem to get called on it more.
