About 2 minutes into this video, Yao was working with Hasheem on turnaround jump hooks and I noticed that the mechanics of Yao's release of the ball were nearly perfect. Conversely with Hasheem's small hands and his lack of development, the ball always looked like it was falling off his hands rather than being in control and confidently spinning to the basket. I don't know his hands are going to be a liability for his entire career, but if he's able to get control the arc and spin of the ball and develop a good, go-to jump hook, he might be ok. I just don't know if you can teach the soft hands Hakeem and Yao have. It looks like Thabeet is playing with pencils for fingers.
Just once watching this clip makes me want to have yao back to see what a duo such as this one could do on a regular basis. Plus the two seem very nice and fun to be around.
He clearly has star-level size and athleticism, which is what got him drafted second in the first place. It's just a shame he's so raw. If he really wants to be great then he will find that work ethic and desire and I think his tools will take him a long way with practice and effort. If not then he will never amount to anything.
Yeah, very different from Yao's shot. Thabeet's hook is more of a push as you said, especially his left hander. It doesn't look like he's fully extending on the shot the way Yao does. Despite that, it doesn't look like that he has zero tools on offense. Anyone know what Thabeet's standing reach? He has really long arms. Yao's arms are actually somewhat short for his height so I'd be interested to see Yao's standing reach vs Thabeet.
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Thabeet brings the ball under his waist every time he goes for the hook. Hopefully he doesn't have that habit anymore.
my god this kid is raw! seriously raw I hope he has the will to be thought and puts some time into this we will have to get him from middle school to at least college level this year
He brings the ball too low and he has too many extraneous movements to his post moves. No wonder he barely scores.
He needs to stop bringing the ball so low on his hook shots. His footwork is a mess--too much extraneous movement on his post moves. Surprising touch w/ both his left and right.
CD can fix that jump hook. You can see the big difference between him and Yao. Yao is shooting it off his fingertips with nice touch while Hasheem is pushing it. Nice video!
I'd love to say its his last chance. but they know teams will pick them up just for being tall. i think kwame brown is still on a roster somewhere and hes trash. darko milicic (sp?) is probably somewhere averaging 5 and 5 and getting paid about 6-7 mil a year or even more thats the problem with the nba, teams just cant help themselves. maybe this will be solved in the next cba. trust of the matter, other than money, 75 percent of any players have no internal motivation.
Finally some more video proof that the guy doesn't not have the skills to play in the NBA right now. He is so far from it. I have been saying it since day one and you can see it in the video that he just doesn't have it right now. It's going to take a lot of work for him to become decent. On a side note Yao makes Thabeet look so small in that video it's amazing.
hasheem always shoots with his elbow bent, and with the ball coming off of his palm. his arm should be fully extended and the ball should roll off of his fingertips. there's a lot to like from these videos, but there's even more that needs work.
Pretty evident he has a lot to work on, but people are really undervaluing his immense potential. He didn't go #2 for nothing. Big men are slow to develop, and we have the track record for developing big men. Whether Yao returns to play or not, if Thabeest continues to work with Yao (during Yao's rehab) he can see how it is done properly, and maybe some of the work effort will rub off. Hell, his size alone standing in the paint like a scarecrow would improve our interior defense.
--- -shooting from the elbow vs. the wrist -lots of flailing on moves to the hole -footwork in pivot situations looks like 'white-guy dancing' +++ - 7-3 IMO if the aforementioned Really, Really Big Guys Club aids in his development, absolute ceiling on this guy is Tyson Chandler; Left to his own, he's Chuck Nevitt.
