CBA offical said :"Yao will be back with China NT after the playoffs"

Maybe it started when sina reported JH's heart problem 2 weeks before any of your so trusted american media? sina.com has its problem, not as bad as you intend to believe though.

 

Oh well...you may be right bud...from the kind of response in this thread I guess a lot of people have become believers in Sina.com.

 

I read the discussion on sina board around this article. Majority of the Chinese readers actually don't want Yao to play in the Asian games. However, there are a few guys state the fact that with Yao, China can beat Korea easily, but not so easy wtihout him.

 

I think this is an announcement from China natiional team and sina reported it, like everybody here using AP reports. So it is should be quite accurate.

 

http://sports.sina.com.cn/s/2005-04-15/2222543473s.shtml


Sina reports again that CBA head official promises that Yao will show in a Tourny held in China in the summer. Just bull crap. Bull crap. Games like that is perfect chance to develop Yi Jianlian and Tang Zhengdong. Those things dont count, other than start power to bring in money. Rox management need to sit down talk with CBA.

 

Yeah, I am tired to see some A-hole bureaucrats in CBA trying to make a statement in the cost of Yao’s best interests. Personally I think it was just some official in CBA trying to prove that he is IN charge.

If I were yao, I would go UP and find the “main man” somewhere up the chain and settle things up there. I mean if I were the president of China, I would be like “ hey nobody gives a rats a** about these garbage games this summer, let yao rest for Olympics, and you, the CBA guy, you are fired” (with a Donald Trump chop).

 

Yao is a pawn,a piece on the board to them.China doesn't give a damn what this does to him or his development.Sure,he needs to be lifting,eating,resting,and playing hoop at Westside,but he can't and/or won't because YAO IS NOT FREE.I think it's important to have a since of nationalism and devotion to country,but he is being completely manipulated.It has started young and continues to this day.We,as Americans,sometimes forget how fortunate we are to be here.Take another look at those tanks.
My hope is that the Chinese govt. doesn't milk Yao for all he's worth, limiting not only his basketball upside,but also draining that happy soul that is so evident on and off the court.
I realize Yao is a pioneer, that he represents his country,and is laying the groundwork hopefully for the future.But the leash HAS to go.Yao is a human being,not some mascot or circus animal to be paraded around at the Chinese govt.'s leisure.

 

Defect Yao!!!!!

It couldn't be easier -- unless his parents work for the party.

 

Yes of course. China is SURELY trying to milking the life out of Yao and playing political games.

 

I'm not certain any of the rhetoric here is really anything other than angst and frustration. First, I'm sure the CBA officials will always say that Yao will return and play, because to say anything else would probably cost the CBA official his job. There is no reason for a CBA official to be a Chicken Little about their very best player, even if he makes the occasional noise about staying.

Second, this belief that Yao must train the way Michael Jordan did is not scientific, nor does it guarantee improvement. What's best for Michael may not be best for Yao. Heck, for all we know Yao could go into a funk if he couldn't go back to China and play for his national team and spend time with his girlfriend. After all, staying in the US and playing video games over the Internet isn't the same as some QT with the SO.

Finally, superior training methods don't always guarantee superiority. If one can stretch a comparison a bit, in this case chess and basketball.. in the 1970s the Russians were a chess powerhouse. They had the best chess players. They had the best training methods. Their country paid chess players to be chess professionals. In the US, chess players had to make their living their own way, and so American professionals would take on regular jobs, instead of being chess "journalists" as the Russians would be.

Let me note Bobby Fischer didn't go to Russia to live and hang out with the best and use their training methods to be the best. He didn't spend every waking day in Russia to train. And during a period when Russia was the best place to train, the early 1970s, Bobby Fischer was the most dominant chess player on the globe.

So, if Kasparov is right and chess is a sport, then no, it is not guaranteed that Yao will become a winner =only= by staying in the United States and training. The issue is whether Yao can find the path that is best for his needs and circumstances and overcome the obstacles to improving his play.

Understand, the challenge here is, will Yao be man enough to take charge of himself and his game and work to improve his game? And any of us who are in careers where you constantly are forced to learn new technique and improve what you know (most interesting technical jobs have this character) understand entirely this issue.

And everyone is different in this area. I wasn't a very good undergrad in college until I got a job and went to school at the same time. The additional work load forced me to organize my time and it improved my focus when I had time. That worked for me, it may not work for someone else in school.

Yao has to find 'it', he's not going to get 'it' by trying to be a 7' 6" copy of Michael Jordan. That's an essential mystery of life, finding your focus and going for it. But Yao needs to do exactly that and not let his life be pushed around like a flower in the breeze, bending this way and that just because a US fan says he should do this or a 3rd rate CBA official says he should do that.

I'm an optimist, I believe Yao will find his own way. But also don't be surprised if that way includes a CBA component and a US component.

David.

 

Yao definitely needs some "surgery" in Houston. A surgery that lasts all summer long. Screw the CBA. CNT training for about two weeks and the rest of the time getting bigger eating TexMex in Houston.