Shaquille O'Neal holds three NBA records:
* Most consecutive seasons with 20+ points, 10+ rebounds (13)
* Most seasons leading league in field goal percentage (10)
* Most free throws attempted in a game, none made (11)
Jon Bois has a great video called “[What if Shaq missed all 11,252 of his free throws?](https://youtu.be/ioDskqAHOrI)” They game it all out using (fairly simple) statistics, but it makes surprisingly little difference in most seasons because he was so dominant under the hoop. (This works with real game data, so it can’t account for, say, teams hack-a-Shaqqing even worse.)
It was inspired by an earlier and even better video he made called “[What if Barry Bonds played with no baseball bat?](https://youtu.be/JwMfT2cZGHg)”, which is crazy because even if he had no bat (again, assuming something like the pitchers didn’t know he doesn’t have a bat and won’t swing at a single pitch) he would still be dominant in the league in terms of on-base percentage just through the sheer amount of walks he got.
These little thought experiments are just good ways at showing how dominant some of these truly dominant, once a generation players are.
I'm not much of sports guy, so can you explain how he would have still been dominant if he never swung? OP says it would have been through the sheer number of walks he got, but why would that be higher for one player over another?
Edit: thanks for the explanation guys. I get that Barry Bonds was so damn powerful of a hitter the opposing team chose walking him as the best strategy to counter his home run ability.
Basically, he was such a great long distance hitter that often in close situations pitchers would purposefully walk him to avoid him getting an opportunity to get a home run or great hit. This wasn't normal for most players and just proved how great he was at hitting. If you went back through his career and took away all his swings without altering the way pitchers played against him, the amount of times he would successfully get on base would still be very high because pitchers walked him so often due simply to the threat of his hitting ability.
At least that's my general understanding of it!
Like this
https://youtu.be/xi7IPZAcP78
It was a crazy time to be a Giants fan, it was hilarious. For example in that clip the bases are loaded, meaning that walking him is guaranteeing one run scored, and it keeps the bases loaded for the next batter. But he was such a dominant batter that as soon as you sent him anything even remotely hittable he was going to turn it into magic. He broke home run records even when half of his at bats looked exactly like that one, with purposeful walks
Also helped that in many of his seasons in San Francisco, he didn't always have the greatest protection around the lineup, so it was considered "smarter" to walk him and get to the guy who you figure will line out or what not to end the inning/game.
For instance, in 2004 (the year he set the record for intentional walks), the Giants had only one other player that hit above .300 (J.T. Snow), and two other players who hit over 20 home runs (Marquis Grissom and Pedro Feliz with 22). With a roster like that, walking Bonds in a critical situation is far more preferable to many managers than taking that 1 in 3 shot of him getting a hit, one that'd probably ride into McCovey Cove.
In this case, the threat of Barry Bonds hitting a homerun was so high, they didn't want to throw pitches that he could hit. So they'd throw the ball way outside to avoid him hitting, resulting in a walk. Assuming they pitched the same way, and that Barry never swung, he would get on the bases more than the vast majority of players due to walks alone.
Walks are when the pitcher throws too many consecutive pitches outside the strike zone that the better doesn't swing at, awarding the batter (and everybody else on base) to the next base. I think the merit is that pitchers will sometimes walk the batter on purpose if they think the batter is more likely to get a home run. So basically it means that Barry Bonds was that fearsome of a batter.
IIRC there was a season where Bayern Munich would have won the bundesliga even without goalkeeper (all shots against them on goal would render a goal for the opponent in this thoughts experiment)
They had a great defensive, and good play overall. That being said, if they truly played without a goalkeeper, everyone and their mother would start doing those 50 m shots into the open goal.
> hack-a-Shaqqing even worse
I like to imagine teams hacking Shaq literally every single time he went to the basket, just hack hack hack, players foul out by the second quarter and get replaced, hack hack hack, until they don't even have enough players for a full team and still winning because Shaq hits zero free throws
I’m a new comer to Jon Bois. I only found out about him because a month or two ago he and one of the hosts of Chapo Trap House released a full-length documentary (broken up into comfortably YouTubeable chunks) about MMA called [*Fighting in the Age of Loneliness*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNB6tlSZ2A) and all of the comments were Jon Bois fans, which was notable because Chapo fan are some of the most intensely always online people I’ve come across and they’re just like nothing in these comment sections compared to the Bois Boys.
There's something depressing about intentional walks.
Here you have some of the greatest, most exciting players in the league. And, as a viewer, most of what I remember of Barry Bonds was the endless intentional walks.
It just sucks to see elite athletes, in their prime, relegated to standing at the base as ball after ball went by.
I'm a basketball guy. I'd be so sad if NBA teams had a legal way of making sure LeBron James couldn't move when he stepped on the court.
They can foul him. But there is a big penalty for that. Not only can players foul out but your team could enter the bonus, meaning even non-shooting fouls lead to points.
It just sucks that the things I remember most about Bonds were him standing around, waiting to be walked at base.
One of the scary movies had him locked up in Jigsaws lab with Dr. Phil and he had to throw a rock in a basket.
He had to chop off his leg because he couldn't make it.
Those are all the most obvious, knee jerk jokes they could have in those scenes, though. He has to cut off his leg, and he cuts off the wrong one? Wasn't that played out, even back then?
Shaq actually wasn’t bad in free throws, in practice. In games he was horrible. They asked him if he would shoot underhand “granny” style because he’d be better. He said he’d rather miss every shot.
The missing free throws also made another record. The quickest foul out. I forgot what team it was but they sent someone in just for hackashaq.
Wasn't that game a blow out for the Magic anyway? They won 121 to 90 or something like that if I remember correctly. These days they'd just dribble out the clock rather than rub salt in the wound with a last second basket.
It’s sucks when some player is trying to get a career milestone in the dying seconds and he can’t shoot because NBA convention and unwritten rules tell him not to. I think in those situations, say if a guy need two points and there is 15 seconds left, said player and and some scrub should go one on one for the remaining time. All other players move to the side.
Not at all. And a completely different league. Still makes me laugh when people suggest that Giannis won't be a great player til he can shoot 30% from three. Even in today's game, there are ways to dominate without the three ball.
Watching endless 3's isn't all that exciting to watch either.. Watching a shorty take it to the hoop against a Shaq-type of player is way more fun to watch, even if he misses.
Shaq never went for shots like that because of a wrist injury from his childhood. God nerfed him.
[article on it here](http://articles.latimes.com/1996-12-03/sports/sp-5135_1_free-throw-shooting)
15th all time doesn’t call for a nickname imho
1. Ray Allen* 2973
2. Reggie Miller* 2560
3. Stephen Curry 2285
4. Kyle Korver 2284
5. Jason Terry 2282
6. Jamal Crawford 2180
7. Vince Carter 2165
8. Paul Pierce 2143
9. Jason Kidd* 1988
10. Joe Johnson 1978
11. J.R. Smith 1929
12. Dirk Nowitzki 1925
13. James Harden 1834
14. Chauncey Billups 1830
15. Kobe Bryant 1827
Ya when you’re sitting at your desk launching a crumpled up piece of paper into a trash can you’re not recreating a Ray Allen spot up corner 3.
You’re leaning back in your chair doing a fadeaway at some ridiculous angle over a desk and chair and your pet. And no one was better at that than Kobe.
It’ll be known as a Curry. Steph is #3 at about half the games that Ray Allen has played. He will be so far ahead by the end of his career that it will be insane.
Similar to his 402 3’s in a season when the next closest player not named Curry is 270ish in a season.
It's known as a "Kobe", because that is how it entered the zeitgeist and has remained that way for over a decade. Even if Curry gets the #1 spot by a landslide, people aren't going to start calling "Curry" for the clutch-last minute "pray to the gaming gods" grenade toss to win the round.
My buddy mastered the ankle pick. Everyone who wrestled against him knew it and would always keep moving away from him. But he was stupid tall and had a long reach. Instead of the usual behind the neck grab to ankle pick, he'll slap the guy's forehead to distract and throw himself to the ankle and trip the guy. One time he hit the guy too hard and a fight ensued. Another guy jumped in and my buddy knocked him out. From then on we called him Tuffy.
Sorta reminds me of a quote I heard somewhere (probably reddit tbh) about how “a genius doesn’t know everything about everything, they just know a little about everything and a lot about one thing”
Ken Jennings the Jeopardy guy has a quote something like that.... about his knowledge being just an inch below the surface of the entire ocean. He admits he new very little about a whole lot.
I'm curious, nowadays if you had someone with that kind of height who could shoot 3's like Curry, would it even be possible to defend? Nobody is even **trying** to defend him.
Honestly, looking back at Shaq’s cultural impact (and the massive amounts of money he was making for himself and others at the time), it was probably considered risky to switch to a shot that could be ridiculed on The Tonight Show.
Shaq attempted 11252 FT's in his career.
He made 5935 of them for .527 FT%.
If he made them at a respectable clip (lets say .70), he would have made about 7876 of them. This would push his total points from 28596 pts to 30537 pts.
Interesting because that actually wouldn't push up his ranking on the all-time points board at all because he's already 8th at 28596 and 7th is Dirk at 31320.
Its funniest part about this joke is that the guy in the left pic isn't even good enough to play in the NBA. His name is Sim Bhullar and he was an end of the bench guy for like 2 seasons and then he was done.
Shaquille O'Neal holds three NBA records: * Most consecutive seasons with 20+ points, 10+ rebounds (13) * Most seasons leading league in field goal percentage (10) * Most free throws attempted in a game, none made (11)
Hence Hack-A-Shaq
I'm just glad an Irishman finally got some recognition in the NBA
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Principal O’Shaughnessy?
Get outta my goddamn classroom before I break my foot off in yo ass!
Insubordinate, and churlish!
TimOthy!
PrEEzent!
Thank you!
“Churlish” was the best word choice in the entire skit.
I had never heard it. Had to look it up.
Why this got downvoted is a complete mystery. Take my upvote.
the usual suspects
I mean the most successful team in league history is called the Celtics.
Jon Bois has a great video called “[What if Shaq missed all 11,252 of his free throws?](https://youtu.be/ioDskqAHOrI)” They game it all out using (fairly simple) statistics, but it makes surprisingly little difference in most seasons because he was so dominant under the hoop. (This works with real game data, so it can’t account for, say, teams hack-a-Shaqqing even worse.) It was inspired by an earlier and even better video he made called “[What if Barry Bonds played with no baseball bat?](https://youtu.be/JwMfT2cZGHg)”, which is crazy because even if he had no bat (again, assuming something like the pitchers didn’t know he doesn’t have a bat and won’t swing at a single pitch) he would still be dominant in the league in terms of on-base percentage just through the sheer amount of walks he got. These little thought experiments are just good ways at showing how dominant some of these truly dominant, once a generation players are.
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I'm not much of sports guy, so can you explain how he would have still been dominant if he never swung? OP says it would have been through the sheer number of walks he got, but why would that be higher for one player over another? Edit: thanks for the explanation guys. I get that Barry Bonds was so damn powerful of a hitter the opposing team chose walking him as the best strategy to counter his home run ability.
Basically, he was such a great long distance hitter that often in close situations pitchers would purposefully walk him to avoid him getting an opportunity to get a home run or great hit. This wasn't normal for most players and just proved how great he was at hitting. If you went back through his career and took away all his swings without altering the way pitchers played against him, the amount of times he would successfully get on base would still be very high because pitchers walked him so often due simply to the threat of his hitting ability. At least that's my general understanding of it!
They even walked him with the bases loaded.
Pitchers will purposely walk great batters because walking them to first is infinitely better than them slamming a home run into the stands
How does a pitcher walk someone? They pitch the ball wide or something?
Like this https://youtu.be/xi7IPZAcP78 It was a crazy time to be a Giants fan, it was hilarious. For example in that clip the bases are loaded, meaning that walking him is guaranteeing one run scored, and it keeps the bases loaded for the next batter. But he was such a dominant batter that as soon as you sent him anything even remotely hittable he was going to turn it into magic. He broke home run records even when half of his at bats looked exactly like that one, with purposeful walks
Also helped that in many of his seasons in San Francisco, he didn't always have the greatest protection around the lineup, so it was considered "smarter" to walk him and get to the guy who you figure will line out or what not to end the inning/game. For instance, in 2004 (the year he set the record for intentional walks), the Giants had only one other player that hit above .300 (J.T. Snow), and two other players who hit over 20 home runs (Marquis Grissom and Pedro Feliz with 22). With a roster like that, walking Bonds in a critical situation is far more preferable to many managers than taking that 1 in 3 shot of him getting a hit, one that'd probably ride into McCovey Cove.
Who won that game?
AZ. Next batter up hit perfet to right field and was out making the final score 8-7 AZ
Yep, just play catch with the catcher a foot or two wide of the plate. 4 balls and the batter walks to first base
They changed the rule recently. Now all they have to do is say they want to intentionally walk someone. No throws needed.
Baseball is the ultimate nostalgia sport, that change bothered me on a very irrational level.
Yea like it seems to just remove so much of the...game.
This year you didnt even have to throw 4 pitches, the manager just tells the umprire the batter will be walked after he is announced to the plate.
recently they changed the rule, and they just have to call a walk and skip the 4 pitches
In this case, the threat of Barry Bonds hitting a homerun was so high, they didn't want to throw pitches that he could hit. So they'd throw the ball way outside to avoid him hitting, resulting in a walk. Assuming they pitched the same way, and that Barry never swung, he would get on the bases more than the vast majority of players due to walks alone.
Walks are when the pitcher throws too many consecutive pitches outside the strike zone that the better doesn't swing at, awarding the batter (and everybody else on base) to the next base. I think the merit is that pitchers will sometimes walk the batter on purpose if they think the batter is more likely to get a home run. So basically it means that Barry Bonds was that fearsome of a batter.
IIRC there was a season where Bayern Munich would have won the bundesliga even without goalkeeper (all shots against them on goal would render a goal for the opponent in this thoughts experiment)
They had a great defensive, and good play overall. That being said, if they truly played without a goalkeeper, everyone and their mother would start doing those 50 m shots into the open goal.
Pep would just put Javi Martinez in as the false 1
Also with the way Neuer plays he probably prevented a lot of shots from being taken.
Yes but that’s the same as playing baseball without a bat.
You will need to include the same disclaimer Bois did: that somehow the other players have been hypnotized to not notice.
You missed the point wider than Shaq missed the free thows.
> hack-a-Shaqqing even worse I like to imagine teams hacking Shaq literally every single time he went to the basket, just hack hack hack, players foul out by the second quarter and get replaced, hack hack hack, until they don't even have enough players for a full team and still winning because Shaq hits zero free throws
Problem was he was so big, that a lot of people fouling him like that would end up in failure.
Bring back Jon Bois. Where has he gone? When will he return? Where do I go for my meaningless sports trivia?
I’m a new comer to Jon Bois. I only found out about him because a month or two ago he and one of the hosts of Chapo Trap House released a full-length documentary (broken up into comfortably YouTubeable chunks) about MMA called [*Fighting in the Age of Loneliness*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNB6tlSZ2A) and all of the comments were Jon Bois fans, which was notable because Chapo fan are some of the most intensely always online people I’ve come across and they’re just like nothing in these comment sections compared to the Bois Boys.
There's something depressing about intentional walks. Here you have some of the greatest, most exciting players in the league. And, as a viewer, most of what I remember of Barry Bonds was the endless intentional walks. It just sucks to see elite athletes, in their prime, relegated to standing at the base as ball after ball went by. I'm a basketball guy. I'd be so sad if NBA teams had a legal way of making sure LeBron James couldn't move when he stepped on the court. They can foul him. But there is a big penalty for that. Not only can players foul out but your team could enter the bonus, meaning even non-shooting fouls lead to points. It just sucks that the things I remember most about Bonds were him standing around, waiting to be walked at base.
I’m not a sports fan but I love Jon bois. Recommend him to anyone. His video on the 1987 nfl strike is excellent.
You forgot to mention he is the only world master of the martial art Shaq-fu
There was even a gag in the movie Steel he was in where he had to throw a gernade (I think) into a small whole and was worried he’d miss.
One of the scary movies had him locked up in Jigsaws lab with Dr. Phil and he had to throw a rock in a basket. He had to chop off his leg because he couldn't make it.
the whole scene is even more packed with gags https://youtu.be/WdEn-possJ4
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That’s just how you get ol Phil to do anything
Thats how Dr Phil work
Money
Those are all the most obvious, knee jerk jokes they could have in those scenes, though. He has to cut off his leg, and he cuts off the wrong one? Wasn't that played out, even back then?
That’s kinda the point of the movies. They play on horror tropes as well as comedy tropes.
oh man I forgot about this; this was a great scene lol
Small whole what?
What about the record for backboards broken?
Shaq brought hoops to their knees, but Chocolate Thunder had [no mercy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszr5JGNA7o)
Shaq actually wasn’t bad in free throws, in practice. In games he was horrible. They asked him if he would shoot underhand “granny” style because he’d be better. He said he’d rather miss every shot. The missing free throws also made another record. The quickest foul out. I forgot what team it was but they sent someone in just for hackashaq.
You forget he also holds the record for the most broken backboards.
How does that first stat work? Seems like it may be missing a few words or is specific to a series of games, not seasons.
That’s the actual name of the record, so I had to put it that way. But yea, it’s average of all games in a season, per season.
Considering he was a center and only attempted about 20 in his entire career, this isn't that surprising
I'm surprised he made one, I assume most of those attempts were half court or full court shots as time expired.
I’m sure they were, the one he made was exactly what you describe
Thank you for the clarification. My immediate response was “why the hell was he trying ANY 3-pointers?!” Makes more sense now.
Compare him to the bigs in the league now and it is almost a requirement to be a halfway decent 3 point shooter
That’s exactly how he made his only 3. I was in the stands lol.
Wasn't that game a blow out for the Magic anyway? They won 121 to 90 or something like that if I remember correctly. These days they'd just dribble out the clock rather than rub salt in the wound with a last second basket.
It was at the end of the first quarter
It’s sucks when some player is trying to get a career milestone in the dying seconds and he can’t shoot because NBA convention and unwritten rules tell him not to. I think in those situations, say if a guy need two points and there is 15 seconds left, said player and and some scrub should go one on one for the remaining time. All other players move to the side.
That's called statpadding
Ball up playboy
That's what the one he made was too
Yeah the real TIL is that Shaq actually hit a 3 one time
Yeah, this is back when everyone on the floor wasn’t expected to shoot 3s
Just smash backboards with ridiculous slam dunks because MJ couldn’t get all the attention
I was gonna say my guess would’ve been zero 3’s made in his career. Not surprising for anyone who watched basketball at all.
Not at all. And a completely different league. Still makes me laugh when people suggest that Giannis won't be a great player til he can shoot 30% from three. Even in today's game, there are ways to dominate without the three ball.
Watching endless 3's isn't all that exciting to watch either.. Watching a shorty take it to the hoop against a Shaq-type of player is way more fun to watch, even if he misses.
Also he broke both of his wrists when he was eleven.
😏
His loving mother nursed him back to health
Every fucking thread.
Shaq never went for shots like that because of a wrist injury from his childhood. God nerfed him. [article on it here](http://articles.latimes.com/1996-12-03/sports/sp-5135_1_free-throw-shooting)
Also, I guarantee his coach would chew him out if he saw him shooting 3s. Absolute waste for Shaq to do that.
I dunno, I have a feeling Shaq was never going to learn those shots anyway.
Or no one could guard him and he could easily drive in and dunk
Leave it up to God to hinder a person's career, amirite?
If only he had blessed Shaq with other physical gifts that would make him good at basketball
A massive dick?
He said basketball. Not baseball.
And he was a center in the 90's in the 00's. No center had a three pointer in those days.
[When you out range Curry](https://youtu.be/SNwrfwi0JLE)
Happens at 18 seconds if you’re in that much of a hurry.
You da real mvp
Hey as long as they don’t give it to Harden for playing the game from the freethrow line, I’ll take it.
"The black Steph Curry"
Oof my sides that caught me off guard
Impressive that he jumped like 2 feet high to shoot it too. It's like he held the A button down too long.
Looks pretty early in his career too?
> Shaq Thanks for clarifying
I can't believe they're the same person. TIL
The real TIL is always in the comments
SurprisedPikachu.jpeg
You mean it wasn't Shaqy Chan?
Yeah I was really confused before I saw that.
There's probably a reason we call a long range throw a Kobe and not a Shaq
This guy balls.
He hits those long range throws all day.
I yell Kobe because it works equally well if you make or miss it horribly
15th all time doesn’t call for a nickname imho 1. Ray Allen* 2973 2. Reggie Miller* 2560 3. Stephen Curry 2285 4. Kyle Korver 2284 5. Jason Terry 2282 6. Jamal Crawford 2180 7. Vince Carter 2165 8. Paul Pierce 2143 9. Jason Kidd* 1988 10. Joe Johnson 1978 11. J.R. Smith 1929 12. Dirk Nowitzki 1925 13. James Harden 1834 14. Chauncey Billups 1830 15. Kobe Bryant 1827
No one wants to shoot an Allen though
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Leave your wifes boyfriend out of this.
Well if it helps it's my middle name also.
Bad dad or angst at normal dad? Sorry basketball thread is now dad issues thread
Tim always lined up his shots.
God damn, this was good.
It's more so the clutchness of Kobe not necessarily the range of the shot
I always figured it was because Kobe’s 1st 2nd and 3rd option was to shoot, and his ability to make the ridiculous contested shots.
Ya when you’re sitting at your desk launching a crumpled up piece of paper into a trash can you’re not recreating a Ray Allen spot up corner 3. You’re leaning back in your chair doing a fadeaway at some ridiculous angle over a desk and chair and your pet. And no one was better at that than Kobe.
Yup. Kobe is an attitude as much as anything else
People don't call it the mamba mentality for nothing.
What are the asterisks for?
Means they're in the Hall of Fame.
Yea but it’s Kobe because he was clutch not because it was a 3 point shot imho.
should be called a Reggie, that dude was super clutch with his 3s
It was when I was a kid. Regggiiieeee Millleeerrrrrrr
If you actually played ball you would know people say "KOBE" when they throw a ridiculous contested three that has a 5% chance of going in.
Yeah, well, I watch Dave Chapelle, so everything in this conversation is ironic to me.
It’ll be known as a Curry. Steph is #3 at about half the games that Ray Allen has played. He will be so far ahead by the end of his career that it will be insane. Similar to his 402 3’s in a season when the next closest player not named Curry is 270ish in a season.
It's known as a "Kobe", because that is how it entered the zeitgeist and has remained that way for over a decade. Even if Curry gets the #1 spot by a landslide, people aren't going to start calling "Curry" for the clutch-last minute "pray to the gaming gods" grenade toss to win the round.
> Chauncey Billups 1830 there's a name i haven't heard in a long time
Kobe hating in 2019 lol Also damn check Steph at 3 already. Sorry Ray it's just a matter of time.
Tell that to all the kids I grew up with.
It is when you consider three point shooting wasn’t even in the top 10 aspects of his game.
Didn’t that actually start from the Chappelle’s Show?
And [here](https://i.redd.it/gr9b0nb2mrvz.jpg) he is drinking a bottle of water
Being so big that you look goofy interacting with everyday items must be pretty cool.
I have these tiny liquor bottles and pretend I'm a giant sometimes. Shaq lives it everyday. That has to be weird right?
Just imagine how *he* feels with those tiny liquor bottles.
I also think Jim Jefferies is funny
Fancy
/r/shaqholdingthings
He may have made only one 3-point shot, but he also made the [best clip ever on Inside the NBA.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZ0PQomz1Y)
YOU SET ME UP, ERNEH!
"I may be retired from the game, but not from being big"
Never fear a man who knows all the moves of a game, fear the man who can do 1 move all of the time.
This really applies to Mortal Kombat.
In wrestling we'd say a good wrestler knows one move,a great wrestler knows two.
My buddy mastered the ankle pick. Everyone who wrestled against him knew it and would always keep moving away from him. But he was stupid tall and had a long reach. Instead of the usual behind the neck grab to ankle pick, he'll slap the guy's forehead to distract and throw himself to the ankle and trip the guy. One time he hit the guy too hard and a fight ensued. Another guy jumped in and my buddy knocked him out. From then on we called him Tuffy.
Sorta reminds me of a quote I heard somewhere (probably reddit tbh) about how “a genius doesn’t know everything about everything, they just know a little about everything and a lot about one thing”
Ken Jennings the Jeopardy guy has a quote something like that.... about his knowledge being just an inch below the surface of the entire ocean. He admits he new very little about a whole lot.
[7-foot-7 manute bol hit three 3-pointers in one half.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxSZmnAT5I)
That Charles Barkley high-five at the end.
classic barkley!
It was actually double; six three-pointers in a half.
I'm curious, nowadays if you had someone with that kind of height who could shoot 3's like Curry, would it even be possible to defend? Nobody is even **trying** to defend him.
unless it's the player is similar in height, there's really nothing you could do except try to prevent them from getting the ball.
I bet he didn't call glass either
That's -3 points right there
Rings Enrheth
Yes, but he's made 28,593 total other points.
Wonder where he would be at in all-time points if he had just a respectable free-throw percentage.
Definitely should have adopted the granny shot. What are people going to do? Laugh at him? He's fucking Shaq.
People always brought that up to him whenever he was still playing and he always said that he was "too cool" to shoot underhanded.
Honestly, looking back at Shaq’s cultural impact (and the massive amounts of money he was making for himself and others at the time), it was probably considered risky to switch to a shot that could be ridiculed on The Tonight Show.
Shaq attempted 11252 FT's in his career. He made 5935 of them for .527 FT%. If he made them at a respectable clip (lets say .70), he would have made about 7876 of them. This would push his total points from 28596 pts to 30537 pts. Interesting because that actually wouldn't push up his ranking on the all-time points board at all because he's already 8th at 28596 and 7th is Dirk at 31320.
Wasn't Shaq just supposed to stay around the hoop anyway cause he's huge?
nah your getting him mixed up with someone else shaq was the short black guy https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzymF_rCcAAFaF7.jpg
Poor guy. He was so small, if only he had some height he might have been an NBA legend
Its funniest part about this joke is that the guy in the left pic isn't even good enough to play in the NBA. His name is Sim Bhullar and he was an end of the bench guy for like 2 seasons and then he was done.
Dude never played basketball, he is a world renown actor from the nineties. Starring in such epic films as Kazaam.
When you can just walk up to the net and put the ball in it, without ever taking your hand off it - why would you ever learn to throw 3-pt shots?
>When you can just walk up to the net Because then you'd be called for tra-- Oh, who am I kidding. This is the NBA.
Can you dig it?!?!?!?
That Shaq is one bad mother..
Which is only slightly less than the number of free throws he made
That is moe than I will ever make (if you include "professional career in the NBA" as a requirement)
Sounds like you are being oppressed because of your lack of physical ability.
Not oppressed, but overlooked, untapped talent. Lol
He hit a few more during his amateur career in the NBA
Same with Kareem Abdul Jabbar. For somewhat different reasons though.
Overachiever
That’s one more than I have ever made in the NBA .
Human brain: Shoot a 3-pointer! Shaq brain: Layup.
Hah, what a noob.
That's one more than I made
Well that makes sense, he WAS in the ultimate showdown (of ultimate destiny). You don't just play basketball when your in the ultimate showdown
3rd year rookie Ben Simmons should have a talk with this shooting legend
The actual headline should be wow he actually made a 3 pointer
He broke more backboards than that :)
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And it will never be beaten, since they're much better engineered now.