Re: The Eight Foot Two Schlub
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His biggest skill is that he's HUGE. From a purely athletic standpoint he's probably no more athletic than I was in College, just look at his FT %.
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Of all skills required in all major sports, it is quite possible that "ability to shoot free throws" is the one least correlated with overall talent for the sport. It is BY FAR the most important skill that you can be awful at and still be a great player. (save for speciality jobs: like pitcher's hitting ability or kick returners tackling ability)
If you took all high school varsity, college, and NBA players and sorted them by free throw ability, the data would not look like a random distribution by bball level, but it would be close, particular if you looked at the 25th to 75th percentile.
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