I love Rocket because of YaoMing...I love to see Rocket to win the champtionship because it is YaoMing's team. YaoMing is not a selfish player, his fans are not, either. Rocket's success is Yao's success, Yao's success is Rocket's success! These two goals don't have conflict as long as those guards pass the balls!!!! (That's why I like SF now but not that CAT!) If there is no YaoMing in rocket, why should I care about a team 3000 miles away? Yao-ONLY fan is also rocket fans! There is only very few (two percent?) Yao-only fans cares only Yao's stat but not Rocket's stat!!!! STOP IT, Yao-only-fan haters!!!!
I think the hate tends to be directed not at fans who like the Rockets because Yao is on the team, but rather at fans whose solution to every loss or problem is "PASS BALL TO YAO!!" If only it were that simple. Maybe someday it will be.
I doubt it. We expect improvement, not dominance. Even if he does a 18 and 10, the team could barely miss the playoffs. Francis is a good player and Cat is fine but the rest of the team are scrubs and lifetime bench players. If you examine the Rockets of today, their poor drafting has started to kick in - Jason Collier, Eddie Griffin, and Bostjian Nachbar has produced 0. The fact they had to fill the Francis obligation last year and traded away their #1 next season, this team could be headed for playoff mediocrity for awhile, unless you expect Yao to be better than Shaq, Garnett, or Duncan within the next 3 years. Doubtful.
The guy was right! His real/official name is Mu Tiezhu. He was 2.28m, 174kgs. It's all public information. As a matter of fact, there was a Yao special a few weeks back, where Mu was interviewed, and his height & weight was mentioned as well. The most infamous thing about Mu was his HUGE appetize & bad tempo. In one of the international game (again a Europe team), he got matter after being hacked by the other center (~6'7"), he chased that guy around the court, the refs went after him. The funnest part was he carried the bball with one hand when going after the guy.
I hated the dude since the beginning. I didn't think he was that good until mid season. And that identity sh*t, it was funny! I'm a fan of his now but the last time I check, I'm not Asian oh so confuse
I would find it difficult to hate anyone who plays for The Rockets BUT........I have to admit that way before he came to Houston, way back when I saw what a sissy Wang Zhi Zhi was when he played for the Mavs, I thought maybe he should stay gone. I had never actually seen him play. But Yao is a freak unlike any other Asian baller. Bit my toungue. It's on the floor.
hooooooooooooooooooooho The pic is coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool Thank you!Both Yao and ollies
So you're saying that "Yao Attitude = Some Yao Fans' Attitude" and that leads you to be a Yao hater? Hm... there seems to be a lack of the distinguish between the fans and the player himself. Maybe Stevie/Cat shoulda care less about their stats and put more focus on the team instead. Why do you think the backcourt duo have been referred to as "1-on-1 fast guns"? Hehe...
Good question. However, apparently in Stevie's mind there's a problem of him giving up his scoring, something that seem to be troubling the new head coach. When you don't shoot the ball as accurate as the other guy and you still want to take the most shots, that pretty much contradicts with the idea of TEAM basketball. And when you have two players for the past 4 seasons with the attitude of "me-going-first" or "it's-my-turn-now" in offense, do you call that selfish? Damn, my name is Stevie or my name is Cat, just stand aside and watch me going 1-on-1 to kick some ass. Or maybe you would prefer something, like, Damn, my name is Stevie, I have been the scoring leader for this team for the past 4 years and no one is going to take the stat away from me, even though my shooting generally is not as accurate. TEAM basketball, huh? It's such attitude that killed the Rockets (ie, no playoff) for the past 4 years. If such self-center doesn't change, next year Rockets will go back to the lottery table. Hey, guess why Van Gundy is telling Stevie and Cat? Make extra passes, more executions, take less perimeter shots, go to low post more.
Quote: Originally posted by Apollo Creed I'm also a Yao-Only fan hater. Not because of the racial identity thing, but because Yao only fans would rather Yao put up big stats rather than have a Rockets win. They care about a player instead of the team. And in my eyes, there is no player/coach/anyone who is bigger than the team. Actually, there seems to be a lack of reading comprehension on your part, djunior. Apollo never said anything about Yao. He was talking about people on this board who care more about Yao's performance than the performance of the team.
Hehe, I'm sorta a Bradley-Fan-Only. I like the Mavs. I still remember Mavs was a pretty junk team before they acquired Dirk Nowitzki. Back then, Michael Finley was their scoring leader. But he later gave up his stats to Dirk. And as Michael backcourts with the other unselfish guard Steve Nash, and with their offense going thru Dirk, the Mavs become a playoff team each every season. Like Jeff Van Gundy has said to the Rockets, the guards in particular, that "Accept scoring less and win, or scoring more and loose." Michael Finley is a good model for Stevie to observe.
This is the kind of remark that makes SF look clueless and this team a laughingstock. What's the difference? None if you look at the boxscore. Light years if you know anything about basketball or are even familiar with the history of this city. When Lew Alcindor was the best basketball player in the world we conceded nothing. When Jordan was at his peak this city never feared him. When Moses won his first MVP he couldn't hit a 12' shot, and didn't need to. Dream says it's simple, but Jordanair-heads still need the chalkboard. It's a big man's game. All the ESPN hops in the universe mean nothing when a big man shuts down the game. I really wish Ewing could be in his prime again for 20 mins. so he could put Steve on his ass over and over and over again. I would have said Moses or Dream there, but they're not employees and I really think they'd be more likely to cause serious injury. In the Shaq era, which we're still in, Timmy's got got some nice hardware to reflect upon while remembering he's a PF. The entire Eastern Conference is a joke, and adding 10 Stevies to it wouldn't change squat. Steve Francis is a great player and he has a huge say in the outcome of games. But the real business gets decided before he even gets an invitation to the ball. If Yao, (who's humbleness Moses wants to take a chain to) averages 24 points we have a top-tier team. If Steve averages 28 as a point guard with Yao on the court we're screwed. Magic said (while playing with a still all-pro but aged Jabbar) that if he were playing with Sampson he might never have to shoot again and the leauge could Fed-Ex him the rings. Olajuwon's right, the game is simple. Jordan's greatness has reared a generation of basketball morons. The only cool thing about it is Shaq's idiocies. The Lakers need to overnight a million to Moses and ask him to chat with Shaq to wake him up - because the NBA's still his world, but Timmy puts up HOF mettle and hardware. And there's this kid in Houston from another continent, still clueless really, that wants to play. Moses speaks a foreign language I don't think a Philly street- balla can understand, but he's the one dude that needs to be in Shaq's ear. Yao's got this really neurotic-obssessive guy who weirds out when a guy crosses his legs, who's a ba* as* mutha.. that is going to try to explain to Yao that when he invited Shaq to dinner before Shaq Yao I, Shaq thought he was going to be eaten. Steve Francis makes purists puke but I see his greatness. Yao's not alien because he's Chinese, but because he is a purist playing in a country that's rough and ready and loose with the rules. Steve's the best player on this team now but I think no one outside of Houston will think that next month. And I'm not Chinese, and I'm not black, but I am from Houston and wish E could come to your homes and take you down Hayes' street. He wouldn't hurt you, but he'd probably shut you up.
