Yao on TV; that means phone calls advertisement Randy Brickley Weekend Guide Nov. 14, 2003 12:00 AM You'll get a double dose - and an entertaining one at that - of the Suns tonight and Saturday. First, Steph, Marion, Amare and the boys visit Houston. With this, you get Steve Francis and Yao Ming. Now, while our initial diagnosis of Yao's game was off - some crack invoking the name LaRue Martin, a miscue Ming maniacs point out even a year later - it wasn't sue-for-malpractice wrong. We're still not sold on him as a consistently dominant force. So when he goes for 25, 20 and 10 tonight, you saw it here first. __________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...Inside of three or four years, (Yao will) probably be history." "It also brings to mind an interesting question: How do you say LaRue Martin in Chinese?" "A master of almost no facet of the game, Yao makes Martin look like another historic basketball figure, Wilt Chamberlain. Manute Bol has a better chance of playing hockey than Yao does of having an All-Star career..." - Randy Brickley, Arizona Republic (randy.brickley@arizonarepublic.com), 11/15/02
The Rockets came into the game among the league's best defensive teams. Having 7-foot-6 center Yao Ming planted in the paint makes them formidable. He scored 21 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and clogged the middle defensively with help from forward Kelvin Cato. Bob Young The Arizona Republic Nov. 15, 2003 12:00 AM
