Shaquille O’Neal (NBA 1992-2011) When you have a strategy based around sending you to the free throw line for your poor shooting percentage, then you belong on a list like this. The “Hack a Shaq” was an effective tactic to counteract O’Neal’s post dominance in his prime. His game was played with his back to the basket and unleashing that power in the paint, not finessing in shots from the perimeter. While O’Neal has always been a poor free throw shooter who teetered around 50 percent for most of his career, he has always had a good sense of humor about it and even had the occasional “hot streak.” Shaq never had great shooting rhythm, and looked like he was almost trying to balance it more in his hand and just didn’t ever have the shooting touch. 52.7 % Career FT, 4.9-9.3 FTA per game, 5,935-11,252 career FT

Is one of the following events more likely than the

other or are they equally likely?

Shaq shooting 7 free throws and making exactly five

of them or

Chauncey shooting 9 free throws and missing 2 or 3

of them

Justify your answer.