How good would Yao Ming be at 6'10?

[bfrombleacher]

He had great touch and was strong as an ox.

If he's legit 6'10 in shoes. Maybe. But who knows how fast/slow he would have been then.

Even if he was "only" 7'1 or 7'0, I'm sure he'd have been good. Roy Hibbert doesn't have the touch or the range Yao has. He'd be a lesser Duncan maybe.

Maybe if he were 7'3 or so it'd have been more 'optimal'.

This guy can face up and post up. Those were all skill.

[moiso]

Does he maintain the same disproportionately short arms?  If so, he would be a 6'10 guy with the reach of a 6'4 guy.

[crimson_stallion]

i ddoubt he'd have made an NBA rotation. The guy barely averaged 9 rebounds and 2 blocks despite being at least 3-5 inches taller than anybody else on the court.  That's garbage.  Josh Smith has averaged those numbers for his career at 6'8" and people still argue his worth.

Other similarly tall guys like Shawn Bradley were shot blocking machines, averaging around 3 blocks a game. If Yao was 6'10"  I imagine he'd average something like 1 block, 7 rebounds and 15 points a night at the absolute most.

Likewise his offensive game really wasnt anything that special - good, but not elite.  Usually just came down to him shooting straight over a guy who is 5" shorter.

He still has some skill so he would still have been a solid player in the China league im sure, but I doubt any NBA Scout would have ever looked twice.

you dont think he'd crack an NBA rotation but at the most youd think he'd average 15 and 7?  People on this board would have been doing back flips if JuJuan Johnson would have averaged 11 points and 5 rebounds a game, but Yao at his best would put up 15 and 7 and not crack a rotation?

you should take a peak at the average numbers a rotation PF/C puts up on a nightly basis.

Check my later post above.  I checked his numbers and ammended my prediction to 18 points, 8 rebounds, 0.8 blocks and estimated that he'd be a very good starter and just below All-Star level.

Aside from height Yao was never an impressive physical specimen.  He wasn't incredibly muscular, nor incredibly lean.  Even if he were 6'10" it's unlikely he would have been the most athletic big out there - I'm thinking he'd be something like Kevin Love from a physical point of view.

[lightspeed5]

he would probably be discriminated against like jeremy lin was.

[BigAlTheFuture]

Nazr Mohammed

You can't be serious...

Yao was one of the most offensively skilled big man of his time with above average passing skills. Comparing him to Nazr... please. A 6'10 Yao Ming would be a legit starter in the league. Not a benchwarmer.

[bfrombleacher]

Does he maintain the same disproportionately short arms?  If so, he would be a 6'10 guy with the reach of a 6'4 guy.

Extremely tall guys seem to have proportionately shorter arms.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=261350

Prevents them from looking like gorillas. I guess.

[syfy9]

Has there ever been a non-successful 6'10 player that was as good in the post as Yao Ming?