I know everyone's first instinct will be to laugh at the irony, as Shaq couldn't shoot an uncontested 15 feet set-shot without causing a visually visceral pain to everyone who watched him do so. However, the truth is that this makes far more sense than Danny Green taking shooting tips from someone whose stroke is second nature. Haven't you ever heard that those that can't do teach? Diesel might make for the lousiest student in league history, but - considering the amount of expert advice he's collected over the years - he's got more than enough knowledge to be a shooter tutor. Now granted, "leave it" isn't the most enlightening of lesson, but it's advice that been sourced by a bigger crowd than that of someone who came out of the womb with their elbow gracefully tucked and their shot automatically rotating more reliably than the earth around the sun. If Wikipedia has taught me anything it's that more opinions always equal the most accuracy, so the strong night of one of the most accomplished clutch shooters in Finals' history almost has to be a direct result of Shaq's second, third, fourth, or fifth-hand suggestion...
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