Do you think Yao deserves to be in the hall of fame based on basketball merits?

Congrats to Yao...very well deserved.

 

You forgot that Yao was constantly injured, his number could be better. You thank Deke is a better a player than Yao?

 

Deke for me is a super specialist - a speciliast that can make some buckets

Yao is a more versatile player with height advantage

He wasn't the best rebounder but a good rebounder, a great rim protector and very good on Offense, great FT shooter

You tell me who is better, but no doubt on some teams with enough Offense Deke would be far better fit.

 

Absolutely agree! His selection was clearly based on the totality of his career in the sport of basketball. Many here who weren't around during his college days and first few years in the NBA just don't realize how incredibly famous he was, and what a coup it was for the Rockets to land him. When Sampson's draft was followed by Hakeem's? The media declared the Houston Rockets to be the dynasty of the future NBA. When we trounced the defending champion LA Lakers in the WC Finals and then took Bird's incredible Celtic team of that year to 6 games in the Finals, our place as "the future NBA dynasty" seemed assured, certainly in the sports media. We're so used to the media crapping on the Rockets, and often Houston, that universal positive coverage seems like a fantasy that could have never occurred, yet it did.

 

Yes because its the basketball hall of fame, and not the NBA Hall of Fame.

 

i just cant get your point.

so yao didnt achieve enough in the nba, and his accomplishments outside of the nba was "next to nothing". but you also said overall he's hof-er worthy.

so what do you think they voted him in for?

 

his point = jealousy

ask him who he would induct in the hall of fame instead of yao who was a rocket

 

i went back and looked up mourning's #'s (didnt do others). his best scoring yr was 23.2 per game, and best rebounding yr was 11 per game. yao's best yr. in scoring was 25 and reb was 10.8. and you cant tell me yao received less attention by opponents' defense and had less impact on his team's defense than mourning.

 

So, people like a clean cut person. Great point. Water is wet. Any more epiphanies?

I don't know exactly how much Iverson had growing up, but I'm standing by my statement that Yao didn't have more than the bottom 25th percentile of the US population, purchasing power parity or otherwise.

 

contributions to bball? exactly what are they? can you specify? since he didnt achieve much on the courts, what are those contributions?

and what does "being an ambassador" mean? that he being drafted by an nba team as a foreigner/chinese? and that's why he's in the hall?

also, can i take your "it might be best for you to not respond to my posts on this matter when i'm asking someone else about it" thing as you "dont have nothing to add" now? lol.

 

Wait, you asked what they did. I posted what they did and now you say most people would know what they did? Why'd you ask the damn question then? Ewing was a dominant collegian and so was Mourning.

No, it's not true. Winning titles, being player of the year, winning rebounding championships, playing like an all-star for a decade, and being the best defensive player in the league multiple years matters. You're taking yearly averages of players that played a hell of a lot longer than Yao. Are you going to post their career totals now and compare those? Of course you're not. How about we take the best 8 seasons of each player then?

I think Yao should be in the Hall of Fame but comparing his stats to these three and it's not quite the slam dunk you're making it out to be.

So this is your woulda coulda shoulda argument? Please.

This is nonsense. By this logic any league any where which is part of the world's bball regardless of its level of play merits consideration for the Hall of Fame.

 

Just stop. You asked a question with a poll, then people voted, just look at the poll.

 

Who cares? Just stop. Yao is in already.

 

[QtUOTE=DudeWah;10400019]Most of the basketball world who has been discussing it cares.

Why are you offended?[/QUOTE]

You are a hater, just stop here.