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Yao trains for 3 hours daily in the morning at Toyoto center

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by fa7999, Sep 23, 2004.

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  1. fa7999

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    #1 fa7999, Sep 23, 2004
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    whoo hooooo gets me jittery! the season is nearing! :eek:
     
    #2 MrRolo, Sep 23, 2004
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    Does T-mac come to the training too?

    If so, he and Yao probably have already met!
     
    #3 bob718, Sep 23, 2004
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    I kind of doubt so for now.

    Mac just landed in town. The man has to get settled in....find a swanky apartment amongs the tons of pics available downtown and uptown. He has to get fimilar with the city, more specifically our massive, traffic clogged, road system that he never had to deal with in all his years in Orlando.

    Forget him doing workouts at Toyota Center for now. Hell, does he even know how to get to Toyota Center from anywhere in this city?

    I can imagine him now....searching through the maps like a kid looking for that guy in red stripes in a "Where's Waldo" book.

    Welcome to life in our city Mac. Good luck, your gonna need it come rush hour.
     
    #4 tigereye, Sep 23, 2004
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    Why does he have to find an apartment? Didnt someone post something about him buy a huge house in Houston?
     
    #5 houstoncart, Sep 23, 2004
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    Gees, I don’t know.

    House, apartment, spot under bridge, mudhole....all the same thing. It takes time to find these things.

    And even if he's already found it, he still has to move in and then furnish it. You don’t expect the man, with his bad back, to sleep on the floor, do you?

    And as all guys with wives or girlfriend/roommates know, this "furnishing" part is gonna take some time. His wife is probably indecisive right now, playing designer with all that dough at her dispense.

    Give him 2 weeks or so to "set up shop." Besides, he was working out like crazy in Orlando before his move to Houston. I'm probably sure part of it was in anticaption of these moments.
     
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    according to the report on channel 26....they have been doing intensive workouts at Rice Stadium for the last two days.

    they said that all the veterans are there....so maybe TMac is there already...but they didnt mention him explicitly....so maybe not.
     
    #7 Rockets2K, Sep 23, 2004
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    It's not like we signed the guy last week. He's signed months ago. And we have championship to win.
     
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    Yeah, he does says it's bigger than the one he has in orlando:eek:
     
    #9 Davidoff, Sep 23, 2004
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    Translated verbatim:

    Coming back to H-Town, there is no more strange feelings. Of course, it's been two years since I started living here. I remember an old cooking oil commercial: Happiness is eating the meal with your whole family.

    I found myself in a happiness whirl pool, it's because Olympics result was happy & lucky. (?yeah, that's what he said)
    Now I go to Toyota Centre to train for 3 hours every morning ( training camp hasn't started, daily training is optional). Then driving home for lunch, have a siesta or shopping or play Counter-Strike. The regular life, not flying here & there to play games. Sleeping on time, repeat the next day.

    Being away from the stressful game schedual to live a simple life.

    Life is a big piece of cake even with 3-hours daily training.

    My God, life is so relaxing.....
     
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    First off, the guy does have a life to live outside of basketball.

    Think of this as job relocation situations that some of us have to put up with in regular everyday life.

    Would you put your job first and leave your family behind immediately?

    Or would you prefer to spend as much time with your family as possible and then leave for the job at hand?

    Hopefully, I need not explain more…..
     
    #12 tigereye, Sep 23, 2004
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    Well he should enjoy it while he can. Cause it won't be long until he gets back to the grind. Four games in five nights. Yee-haw.
     
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    I think your blowing this way out of proportion.....chill out
     
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    I'm willing to bet T-Mac hears about the workouts, and works out with them the next time (tomorrow?) they practice.
     
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    I think both sides are blowing out of proportion. The fact is that these are OPTIONAL workouts. And how many starters are actually there. All I heard was Yao, Spoon, Boki, Padge and Lue. Should we be getting down on JJ, Mo, Howard or whoever isn't there either. If T-Mac is dealing with other stuff, whatever that may be, it's okay.

    And besides, I agree with Sane in that once T-Mac finds out that the Big Fella is there, he'll probably come down too.
     
    #16 m_cable, Sep 24, 2004
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    Fox News on Yao, enjoy! Note the improved english; unbelievable or what?
     
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