Sasha Vujacic on Sports Science & Waiting on the Draft
An interesting Sports Science episode, where Sasha Vujacic was brought in to look at his free-throw percentage in the face of visual distraction.
After that, the Sports Science team molds Sasha giant hands and gives him stilts to make him 7′1. He’s FrankenShaq! The scary part is, they blindfold Sasha as well, and he still makes 8 of 10 free throws with his giant hands and stilts.
Sports Science basically debunks the myth that Shaq’s big hands combined with his height makes him miss free-throws. But did we really wonder about this? The pictures of Shaq’s free-throw shooting form tells enough of the story.
Shaq has horrible form. Fix that, and he has the potential to shoot like Vujacic, who’s form looks flawless from the free-throw line, even with his giant molded-on hands.
The problem is that it has always been extremely difficult to change people’s forms. And with Shaq at 37, it’s too late to do anything like that.
If Sasha Shot Free-Throws That Looked Like This, He Too, Would Miss.
By the way guys, Shaq is 37 and Sasha Vujacic is not an “NBA Star”. What’s next for Sports Science, evaluating why Scottie Pippen shot only 32.7% of his three-pointers over his career using “NBA Star” Daniel “Boobie” Gibson?
Speaking of Shaq, there’s been no word yet on his possible trade to the Cleveland Cavaliers. With rumors also spreading that Yao Ming might be going to the Cavs (What?! How can Cleveland make that work?!), at this point, I’m hoping Shaq is the one that becomes LeBron’s teammate instead of Yao. Because LeBron and Yao would be absolutely killer.
Yao And LeBron Together? Downright Scary.
Considering the Rockets lost to the Lakers mainly due to a lack of big guys, I don’t see Yao moving unless the Cavs trade LeBron himself, which isn’t happening (no matter how many times the Rockets’ front office tells the Cavs “C’mon, we’ll give you Yao and T-Mac!)
The Laker nation is still waiting to see if Trevor Ariza and Lamar Odom are going to be signed. If they both get market value, the Lakers will be ridiculously above the salary cap. It will be interesting to see if Jerry Buss is that serious about giving the Lakers the best chance at back to back championships.
In This Play, Ricky Rubio Blew By Jason Kidd and Kept the Rest of the Redeem Team Flat-Footed With the Threat of a Pass to Score a Layup. Skills.
June 25th is the NBA draft. The Lakers have the 29th pick, and might pick a foreign player that is a year away to save themselves from signing a contract this year. I’m most looking forward to see where Ricky Rubio of Spain lands in the draft and how much the Lakers’ 6′9 guard Sun Yue will improve over the summer.
Ricky Rubio’s a 6′3, pure point guard, and he reminds me of “Pistol”Pete Maravich. I can’t wait to see the 18 year old Spaniard play in the NBA.
For the Lakers, Sun Yue is my sleeper hit of the summer, barring a Coby Karl comeback. Man, did Coby tear it up in last year’s summer league. I remember these things so you don’t have to.
Ricky Rubio is the truth. Sasha is the ultimate practice shooter.
“I like it, good idea, I like it.”
Hey laker head do you love Euro guards because you secretly think that you are 4 inches away from being one. Did pulling some mad facilitation w/ the UCLA woman’s basketball team that one time at the wooden center cement this idea? I think so.
Maybe, maybe not, but I’m not entirely convinced it takes everything into account. Certainly Shaq’s form sucks, but they’re not accounting for Shaq’s strength or truly the size of his hands. Sure they put floppy hand gloves on Vujacic, but Vujacic was still in essence shooting with his normal hand, since his hands don’t fill the glove. The extent of his control over the ball still only reached to where ever his hand ends up in the glove. Basically, the ball still rests the same way in his hands when he shoots normally, not like how it would rest in Shaq’s hands, since he doesn’t have control of the hand all the way to the tip of the fingers. I think a more accurate test would have been to shrink the hoop and ball so that at 6-7, Vujacic would have been the equivalent of Shaq on the court. There’s no perfect test, but I don’t think this one is as accurate as you can get.
No way Sasha Vujacic is 6′7, lol.
Sasha is 6′4 with his sneakers on. I agree with you Ryan, no way he’s 6′7 because Kobe is 6′7 and when they stand next to each other, Kobe has at least 3 inches on him!!! Nice try Sasha!!!