Um no. Sina's stats aren't accurate because they are a tabloid site. Their stats say nothing about Chinese reporters.
Some sports commentators in China ain't very professional either. A couple of years ago I watched a few matches of US Open in China. I couldn't believe the lack of insights and colorful commenting by the commentators. All you heard were the monotone statements like "this ball is out of bound", "this ball is into the net", "1st serve bad, 2nd serve now", etc. I didn't watch any other sports coverage during my visit, but these tennis commentators were downright horrible.
Yao is bar far the best passer in the game. I watched the whole game. Actually, had Yao's teamates made those easy layup or dunks or open 3-pt, Yao would have got more than 10 assists easily. Yao's back! By the way, don't trust the stat sheet posted in SINA.com.
dude where the heck is everyone at this game? i dont mind yao playing because its helping him rehab (they arent having him play major mins right now) but seriously i would think there would be more than 5-6 people there. heck i had more people show up at my city league games as a kid.
Horrible in the sense that they are boring, due to the fact that they really really don't understand tennis (it hasn't quite caught on yet). Also horrible in the sense that they aren't very educated (educated people in China don't become TV sports commentators). However, they are not horrible in the sense that they misrepresent facts/lie about stats/make up numbers. In fact, given their lack of insight, I'd rather that they are boring and monotoneous instead of BS.
Obviously, not surprised by the outcome here. Japan has some interest in basketball as a team sport (after baseball, soccer and maybe volleyball on an international level), but due to umm lack of overall height I don't really see the team or sport ever excelling to the level that China is at. There was one Japanese NBA player last year (the first and only so far to be on an NBA roster until he was cut partly into the season). You can guess which position he played, and no, it wasn't the 4 or the 5.
I have to agree here. Sports commentary is so horrible there, if you guys think Magic Johnson is bad...... On the good side, they really do care about how news casters look so most of the female ones look very good, and are all seem to be replaced on a consistent basis when they get old.
Really? I thought the opposite would be true, they probably all went to a good literary program in one of the major colleges wanting to be reporters, got placed after college as sports commentator but sucks at sports commentary because they don't know how to speak well and lack the insight to the sport.
The Philippines Basketball Association is by far the most messed up and corrupt public sports group in the world. Okay, maybe that's a little extreme - but they really don't have their act together. Also, none of the Philippines professional leagues (PBA, MBA, NBL - yes, that's right they have 3 pro leagues) will stop their season to allow their stars to be called up to the national team. And yes - the leagues (well, the PBA at least) plays all-year-round. (there might be couple week breaks between 'conferences' - but that's it). *conferences: we'd call them 'seasons' here in the us. my favorite thing is that the rules change between conferences - one of them is for players 6'7" and under with imports, one is Filipinos only, one allows imports, but only of filipino ancestry.
when is the next game gonna be? How far along will the tournament be when yao has to leave to come back to h town? thx,
There are 4 games in 4 days left in the tournament. I suspect Yao will continue getting 20 minutes per game for the next two matches. After that he's got some charity appearances, but will be coming back to Houston in late September. Which gives him about a week or two before training camp starts.
My friend, let me tell you that I've watched enough game commentary to know that is not the case. How many games have you watched in which they are stomped and do not know what to say, therefore have to repeat, "this, this" or something like that for like 10 seconds? Happens in every soccer and basketball game broadcasted in the country. While you might attribute this to lack of preparation, consider the following. In one irrelevant soccer match involving two irrelevant teams (if they are Chinese soccer teams, they are automatically irrelevant) in the irrelevant (then called) Premier A League, the home team I believe was Beijing GuoAn, can't remember who the visitors were. Beijing was playing awfully. As a result, during half time, the BTV commentators were saying that they need to rectify this problem. Namely, they need to turn the other team's advantage, "You1 Shi4" into "Ruo4 Shi4." Ruo4 Shi4? What the hell is that? Might as well call it "Jin4 Shi4," as in short sighted. My damn 4 month old can do better than that. He doesn't make an ass out of himself when he opens his mouth.
Once again, book smart doesn't mean intelligence. Seeing what some of my cousins have to go through in China to get into college (involves a lot of books), they are like robots so when it comes to coming up with sports commentary, they do a bad job. I've heard so many stories of college students completing their classes yet are unable to come up with an idea to do a thesis on and can't graduate. If they college graduates can't come up with a idea to do something they majored 4 + years in, how do you expect them to do commentary?
I think you aren't giving enough credit to the Chinese education system, however rigid it may be. However, back to the main point. While you don't expect a college grad, any college grad, whether in China or US to instantly apply their knowledge to work, you do have certain expectations. In the example I mentioned, you aren't expecting the guy to give insightful analysis of the soccer game (which btw, given his job, should not be hard to do). You are asking him to talk normally, the same thing he supposedly has done in college and all of his life. Kinda makes you wonder. Now, how many college grads do you know that can't tell the difference between "Rou4 Shi4" and "Lue4 Shi4?" There's also the fact that it's not the first time I saw them do things like that on TV. Since practise makes perfect, you'd think that they'd eventually improve over time. Not the case. So you really can't blame their lack of experience any more as supposed to more fundamental problems, such as that they just aren't good at speaking formal Chinese, due to their lack of education.
