http://www.zaobao.com/special/newspapers/2006/11/eastday061111a.html This aweful article has been translated into Chinese by some popular Chinese media.However, it seems that the translater really respect Michael Ventre's opinion. the title is:"An American basketball professional said that Yao wouldn't be a great player forever because of his personality"
Sorry there are some mistakes in the former post. a better translation is "......Yao has no chance to be a great player"
Wish the guy had included his email address in the article so we could send him some of Yao highlight clips this year because he obviously doesn't watch the games...wait until he sees Yao's latest line after the dork wrote this article!
you could say the same about our own hakeem. if this guy wants to equate being a dominant force with successful play-off appearances, i guess hakkem didn't to crap except in '86, '94, '95. utter garbage.
"Yao is a nice guy and a gifted performer, but he doesn’t seem to have the fire in his gut that transforms a player with great talent and potential into a great player." This is not true, he does not understand Yao and Chinese completely.
well, it is a bit different, hakeem was a known commodity, and he got to the final four in college ball 3 seasons. and should have won one 86 the team went to the finals, that was his second season. yao hasn't sniffed the finals yet...
That is some BS there. If they want outward displays of fire, they can look at Garnett, the perennial playoff flop. Outward displays of "fire in his gut" didn't help him. Hakeem and Duncan are prime examples of not having to dancing around and yelling out loud to win a championship. Hakeem was actually more "fire in the gut" when he didn't win the playoffs in his younger years.
I know it may not be popular but he does have some points. I think he is saying that Yao does not have the mindset to dominate opponents....and so far, he doesn't. Yao does not have that killer instinct, BUT...he is a great team player..... JVG has talked a lot about how Yao and Tmac neither of them have that fiery MUST win competiveness, and that the team needs others to step up their intensity to bring Yao and Tmac up as well. Sura did it 2 years ago....and the team is still looking for that person this year. I did not necessarily agree with all the points of the article, but I see what he is saying. DD
DD - I have to call you on this one. That is a load of crap. #1 when has JVG called out Yao or Tmac on not having the "fire"? Give us quotes. I bet we won't find any that can be taken in the context of this discussion. People confuse competitiveness with having a cocky attitude. If you can't tell the difference then you are blind.
You guys, it's gonna be ok. I've spoken to Ventre the other day and he said that he forgot to mention at the bottom of the article that this piece was a satirical writing. No one in their right state of mind would ever write an article as stupid as this (Sir Charles, you're an exception).
From this guy to Charles Barkley, the Yao haters are abundant. Frankly I think that alot of these criticisms have a tinge of racism in it. Yao is having one hell of a start to this season. This writer for MSNBC and everyone else with the audacity to write such garbage will be disproven soon enough.
Wait, You don't recall JVG saying his teams intensity is lacking and that his team does not always compete, and that they need someone like Sura to set the tempo? I don't want to go looking for quotes, believe me or not...I don't care...I know what I have read and seen. Yao is amazing, BUT....he is inconsistent in his energy. Yao has not shown the propensity to domninate and use his height day in and day out....he is getting better...A LOT better...but he could still go further still by intimidating opponents. Last nights Knick game was a good example of him doing that...now let's see how he plays against Miami on Sunday. DD
the quote from jvg was something along the lines of yao letting defenses off of the hook by not punishing single coverage repeatedly. yao admitted to it, as well. jvg has told yao to attack single coverage every single time, even if it is 5, 6, 7 or 8 times consecutively. in that sense, yao has not consistently shown the mental makeup to dominate. what that assclown writer is talking about, i have no idea. sunday's matchup against shaq will be a huge test. huge because shaq is a shell of his former self now. huge because yao has the utmost respect for shaq. huge because, once again, the world will be watching. at some point, the student has to snatch the torch away. this should be the time. lay a royal beatdown on shaq. we all, as rox fans, know yao can do it. but i wonder if yao actually will do it. the world, imo, has yet to see what yao ming is capable of. i don't think rox fans have seen what yao ming is capable of. last year's run (>allstar break) was amazing. still, imo, he was letting single coverage slide. against the NYK, he did not. either way, i'm enjoying the hell out of the process.
What are you talking about? Did you mean you met the write and he told you it was a satirical writing?
