Yao Ming is the most OVERRATED PLAYER to touch a basketball in the N.B.A.

Ever been in a Turkish prison?

 

Yea if Yao Ming is overrated then Rockets would be talking lottery right now. Yao is the reason Rockets are able to hang in any game ...period!!

 

I understand the frustration with Yao, but he isn't going anywhere. If it took the organization this long to get rid of Eddie Griffen, then yao, steve, and Cat are definately not going anywhere. He's a Rocket now, so the best thing to do is root for him to grow into his hype.

 

Honestly speaking, I have no preference between Yao and Francis. I was just annoyed with all these trade Yao, trade back court, overrated yao, etc. thread after losing one game on the road to a very good team.

If you look at the stat calmly and rationally, both Francis and Yao had an equally poor game. FG% is about the same while Francis took a little more shots. You can say Yao's advantage in rebound offset Francis' in assist. The only difference really is Francis had more TOs; but that might have been caused in part by his teammates or giving the credit to Dallas' energy.

As to defence, you can give the edge to Yao as he is the only Rocket who won the match up in his position. However, Centre is probably the weakest position in Dallas' lineup.

You certainly cannot say the same for Mobley, who had a really bad game in both offence and defence.

All in all, as I said in other threads, it is ridiculous to start all these threads to bash Yao, Francis and our backcourt when Rocket is 5-2.

 

i agree... lets all be happy, that we are .500. We got a long season ahead of us, and this wasnt the game that made or breaked us for the playoffs.

 

this guy probably thinks boki was a better pick..........????

 

some #1 fan you are, have a little faith.

welcome to my list.

 

Reactionary, maybe, but I am starting to think that Yao is a bit overrated, especially by the national media. He hasn't shown anything this season to suggest he's going to be a dominant player. He was single covered tonight for the most part and against Orlando but was unable to do very much scoring wise.

I just have a sinking feeling that he's never going to get it together enough to take us anywhere.

 

quite frankly i don't give a rat's ass if yao never becomes the next wilt or the next shaq in terms of domination. if he can become the second coming of Rik Smits or even better, i'm satisfied. Add a player like that with what we have now, it doesn't look too shabby now does it?

 

Yao is just overrated on this board. Most people around the country don't really talk about how good he is. A few analysts really like him, some others don't.

Yao is awesome, good players have off nights, T Mac scored like 8 points a few games ago. The entire league is making him the number 1 target on defense, he'll need to adjust back. Yao Ming is smart and he will adjust.

I'm looking for a big game from him tomorrow.

 

Steve is most talent player in NBA.

But I rather watch soccer instead of this second tier rocket team.

 

Blah blah blah. Stop quoting all of these statistics idiot. Smits might be better than Yao or the other way around. Who cares.

I am not bashing Yao, however, looking at Yao's function on this team, he is nothing more at this point than a high level complementary player (ala Smits was to the Pacers) and is not dominating - he doesn't shoot that much, only is occassionally aggressive, is not quick to the ball, and a below par rebounder for someone 7-6, 300 pounds.

For example, in the fourth quarter when Finley made that one handed dunk, Yao was probably a few feet away from him and didn't even wave his hand at the ball to try to block it. Not that he could have blocked it, but Yao just stood there without moving his arms at all.

Also, how can Cato have more shot attempts than Yao tonight?

Yao hasn't even scored over 20 points a game yet this season which is function of many things. My point is right now Yao is a pretty good player, not great. Has some great nights but too many mediocre ones in betwen. Maybe he will be great one day but who knows.

 

You blame that play on Yao? He is a few feet away and guard his man. He should wave his arms when Finley is dunking? What for? It would look like an idiot.

 

Coming from the most overrated Rockets fan to touch a keyboard on the internet.

 

Whats the point in guarding your man when Finley is in mid air going for the dunk? Who was Yao guarding at the time - Bradley maybe? Is Finley going to pass to Bradley while Finley is in mid-air? At least Yao should make an attempt to block the shot, even a fake attempt.

Last year during a game that was shown on TNT or ESPN, Finley posterized Yao on one play with a ferocious dunk. Later in the game, Finley drove the lane going for a similar tomahawk jam. Yao was in Finley's path but just simply got out of the way.

The announcers said that even though Yao got dunked on the first time by Finley that Yao should never back away on the second dunk but should at least try to block it to perhaps give Finley something to think about next time he tries to jam in Yao's face. If there is no resistance, Finley will just think he has a free pass to the hoop every time.

 

Ok, that's it. Trade him. I've had enough.

 

Right, Yao was a few feet away right when Finly dunked. But he was on the other side of the paint when Finley caught the pass 5 feet from the basket. So, that play was undefendable.

 

You should ask wheres Finleys defender? The dude (maybe Mobley) was fronting Finley. Why the hell we need to front Finley? The pass was perfect and Finley was right in the money. Yao and others are in another side and probably 4 or 5 feet away. No way, he could block the shot. When he looked back, the dunk was nearly finished. Waving your hands 4 or 5 feet away at that time was just useless and stupid. Give the credit to mav's guards.

 

Does anyone here think Yao will learn to jump higher? Will his arms grow longer?

 

A guy that's not playing at his full potential in his second year?!?!?!

Holy Crap we need to get rid of him quick!!



BTW, Even if Yao never dominates the NBA, he'll still be a 15/8 type of guy. I'd take that any day over what we had before we drafted him.