Did Shaq ever attempt a 3 Pt basket?
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/847/career;_ylt=Au4omfZxzUZEsZhgBkOu9zOkvLYF\n\nLooks like Season 95-96 he had a 50% 3PT percentage - Made 1 shot out of 2 attempts.  \n\nhttp://www.nba.com/playerfile/shaquille_oneal/\n\nThree Point Field Goals Made  1 vs. Milwaukee 02/16/96\n\nBelow are the seasons where 3PT attempts were made:\n\n92-93  ORL    0-2 \n93-94  ORL    0-2\n94-95  ORL    0-5\n95-96  ORL    1-2\n96-97  ORL    0-4\n98-99  LAL    0-1\n99-00  LAL    0-1\n00-01  LAL    0-2\n01-02  LAL    0-1
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That's a good guess.  I say since he is around 530lbs, he should do at least 600lbs. \n\nIf a man can't do at least his own weight, then he either has too much fat, or too little muscle or a combination of the two.  I can do 20% more than my weight and I'm just average, I don't lift weights much.  Shaq has gainned a little fat, but he still has lots of muscle, so I would also guess he has a 600lb bench press.
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well, its almost impossible to draw up a play like that.  All you can do is throw up a 3, hope it goes in and you got fouled and then make the 3.  I doubt any teams really practice this.
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In the NBA the 3-point line is furthest away at the top of the key where it is 23 feet 9 inches from the center of the basket. The shortest distance is near the baseline on either side where it is exactly 22 feet away from the center of the basket :)
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Magic, he could actually shoot the ball from around the court.  Shaq is a post up player without much in the way of shooting ability from any kind of distance.
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Shaquille O'Neal at 325 pounds or 147.4 Kg
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Sometimes I do. Sure he helps the team out but he's getting too much. They picked Shaq because he would be a major "presence" at the Olympics, but didn't pick Allen Iverson who works so much harder....
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It has probably happened, but has never happened officially...\n\nWilt Chamberlain most likely had a few quintuple doubles during his career... he got a lot of steals and blocked shots before these became official NBA stats one year after he retired from basketball.\n\nThere have only been four "official" quadruple doubles in NBA history:\n\n    * Nate Thurmond, October 18, 1974, Chicago vs. Atlanta; 22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists, 12 blocks.\n    * Alvin Robertson, February 18, 1986, San Antonio vs. Phoenix; 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals.\n    * Hakeem Olajuwon, March 29, 1990, Houston vs. Milwaukee; 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists, 11 blocks.\n    * David Robinson, February 17, 1994, San Antonio vs. Detroit; 34 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 blocks.\n\n\nOnce, Jason Kidd had a triple double (points, rebounds and assists) and also had 10 turnovers.\n\nChamberlain and Russell would have undoubtedly be the all time leaders in triple and quadruple doubles had blocked shots been an official NBA stat during their careers... Sportswriters and team statisticians often kept track of Chamberlain and Russell's blocked shots during a game for newspaper reporting purposes, but the league itself does not recognize these as official totals. They routinely would report that Wilt and Russell often blocked 10 to 12 shots per game.\n\nChamberlain holds the record for most consecutive games with a triple double...he recorded triple doubles in 9 consecutive games in 1968.\n\nWilt had a 58 point, 42 rebound game, along with a 78 point, 43 rebound game, making him the only player to ever have 40 or more totals in two different categories in the same game.
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Kobe DID play the 4th quarter in that 81 point game...He played 42 minutes in that game, coming back into the game early in the 4th quarter.\n\nKobe would have needed an additional 19 points in the remaining 6 minutes... possible, but unlikely.  Scoring 100 pts in a game means scoring about 2 pts per minute (in a 48 minute game).  Scoring 19 pts in 6 minutes would be just over 3 pts per minute, much tougher to do.\n\nIt was in Kobe's 62 pt game against Dallas on 12/20/05 that he only played 32 minutes, and didn't play in the 4th qtr.  So he would had to have put in a record 38 points in the 4th quarter in order to hit 100.\n\nAnd contrary to what a previous poster said, Wilt didn't just stand there towering over the other players in the NBA... the Knicks center was 6'11", barely two inches shorter than Wilt.  Most teams had 6'10 to 7' centers in those days. Russell himself was 6'10, Nate Thurmond was a 7 footer, etc...\n\nAnyone who thinks that the NBA consisted of a bunch of little guys in the 60s is flat out ignorant of basketball history.  There were no players under 6 ft tall in the 100 pt game, today, a number of NBA teams have players under 6' tall.  Heck, Mugsy Bogues was 5'3" and he had a long NBA career, as did Spud Webb at 5'6"... there were no guys in the league that size when Wilt played.  Nate Archibald, at 6'1" was nicknamed "Tiny"...\n\nAnd, as I've pointed out in other threads, Wilt never had the luxury of playing against high school kids in the NBA... now the top pick almost every year is a high school kid, and very few of them can play basketball.\n\nYou think Kwame Brown could guard Wilt Chamberlain???  LOL\n\nAgainst players like Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Yao Ming, Wilt would have average 60 or 70 points a game, not the 50 he averaged that year... Wilt was stronger than Shaquille O'Neal, a far better leaper, and was much more schooled in the fundmentals. \n\nAnd Wilt didn't dunk nearly as much as Shaq does today...Wilt's favorite shots were a turnaround bank shot and the finger-roll... heck, when Wilt came into the league, he had a better jump shot from 12 feet out that Jason Kidd ever did...\n\nAnyway, the answer is no, no one in the NBA today will ever score 100 points in a game..  David Robinson was once allowed to score 71 pts in the final game of the season (in order to win the scoring title over the less-popular Shaquille O'Neal), and said he couldn't imagine how Wilt could have done that, plus come up with another 29 points...  \nIt's called stamina... Wilt averaged 46 minutes a game over his entire career of 1,045 games... today, anyone who plays 40 minutes in one game is considered to be an ironman...
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No.. Its was a bad call by Jerry Buss, he panicked when they failed to win a championship 2 yrs in a row evn by acquiring Malone and Payton,thinking Shaq and Kobes 3peat might rot , he chose to make the lakers self destruct..Thus sendng shaq to the heat and rebuilding around kobe.. But putting a Brown experiment and a soft girl like Odom alongside Kobe will never do.\n\nThe result? lakers are now just another NBA team..
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Shaq is 34 years old and obviously he's not the dominant player he used to be. However, he still averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds in these 2006 playoffs including the Finals. He still commands double and triple teams. He still has the post up moves and the power dunks. He still runs down the court as fast as any other center in the league. I'd have him on my team whether he's 34 or 40. Bottom line, he's still Shaq and there will never be another player like him.
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Wallace is downright pathetic compared to Shaq.  And Wallace was 2nd team all NBA this year??? LOL, what a joke...\n\nEven tonight the announcers are saying that Wallace can't leave Shaq alone (to pick up other guys that are going to the basket)... well, why the hell can't he?  He's doing nothing in the way of guarding Shaq, he might was well try to guard SOMEBODY!!!\n\nShaq is a career 52.8% FT shooter...Wallace is a career...are you ready for this?.... 41.9% FT shooter... \nWallace even sucks at FT's more than Shaq does!!!\n\nThere is absolutely NOTHING on the court that Ben Wallace can do better than Shaq.  And O'Neal is simply ABUSING Wallace in this series.
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ha!\n\n if you mean knock out shaq's left knee cap then yes.
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i remember seeing a commercial with Shaq at a grocery store, but I dont remember specifics about it, sorry, but I think it was during the playoffs last season, not 100% sure though.
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well he is kind of better in shooting but shaq is getting more better then before he is shooting so shoots and in the first 1-2 games he only been makeing like 2-5 shoots but in 3-4 games he made about 12- 17 shoots so shaq would become better but he should get control of  fouls he does
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No, Shaq has always been a terrible free throw shooter
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I'm 100% sure that every NBA player can at least touch the rim...and I'm pretty sure that every player that at least 6'3'' can dunk. \n\nSo in other words, everyone from the 2-spot to the 5-spot can dunk. As for point guards, I'd say most of them could dunk. Even the little guys like Earl Boykins and Nate Robinson can dunk. I've seen Tony Parker dunk as well. The only player in my mind who's questionable is Steve Nash. Like I said, I'm sure he can at least grab rim, but I've never seen him dunk. No disrespect to white people though, but it's a fact: white people don't have as high as a vertical jump as black people. That's because black people have a high percentage of fast-twitch muscle fibers, allowing for a higher vertical jump. (I read that from somewhere)\n\nSo anyways, I think everyone in the NBA can dunk, but I'm not sure about Steve Nash.\n\nUPDATE:\nTo the person who said Iverson can't dunk: he can. I've seen him dunk several times. \n\nTo the person who said Earl Boykins (the 5'5'' Denver guard) can't dunk: he can. I read this in a magazine, and I've also seen video footage.\n\nAs for players' hands being big enough to palm the ball, I think anyone 6 feet tall and over has big enough hands to palm the ball. I'm about 5'11'' and I can easily palm the ball. Most of my friends who are about the same height as me are able to palm the ball as well. Even if the smaller guys like Nate Robinson (I think he's 5'7'') can dunk. If you saw this year's dunk contest, it took him a while to get his dunk down, but he did it.