I think he is just trying to say every bigman in the league can have embarrassing moment like that, no matter how great he is
Oh ok. thats why i think people who are making a big deal out of nates block on yao are just plain retarted. i dont care if yao gets blocked now and then. as long he gives my team 27 points 11 boards 2 blocks a game, i'm happy.
Amazing block, but it is a fluke. It has great news value, but Yao is Yao, an all star, and Robinson is still a scrub, it is useless for somebody trying to rip off Yao by that way, Yao needn't to feel disgraceful at all.
The Youtube comments are killing me "yao you p***y" "shut the hell up with the "blatant foul". He caught his eye AFTER the block.. theres no justifying what nate just did to that 7'6 walking vagina." "that just shows you that yao isn't as good as they say he is." "Yao ****ing sucks, if he wasnt a freak of nature, he'd be a rice picker too." "go back to china, b****" "dude is like ****in 5'6. yoa ming is so sorry and so overrated."
Absolutely.... But you know what hurt Yao more then anything, was the way he clutched his head as if he was hurt afterwards. If he has just laughed it off at that moment it would have taken away from it as a highlight. It would have been Yao just clearly being silly - a "whoops". As if, oh man, the fly got my shot - good for him....but it didn't bother me one bit - how can a fly bug me?
How the hell do you laugh off a poke in the eye? Fool, if I poked you in the eye you would be on the ground kicking your legs and crying like a little biatch.
So you can just beat the hell out of someone if he does not have the ball and it's not a foul. Amazing.
I totally agree with this, and I'm telling you some people, including some refs just do not want to admit that Yao is better than any white or black centers in NBA now. it just hurts them too much, so they want to take any chance to laugh at Yao whenever there is an opportunity.
Nice read from "Blogging pro basketball with Jonathan Feigen" http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2006/11/yao_bashing.html « Everybody gets a turn? | Main November 21, 2006 Yao bashing In my son's school this morning, a teacher decided it would be a good educational experience for the class to watch ESPN and SportsCenter. I'm not sure what he thought would be gained by this, but you can probably already guess where this is going. The class got to see dozens of views of Nate Robinson blocking Yao Ming's shot Monday in New York. I can understand ESPN's love of a remarkable highlight. Robinson is a sensational athlete and the block was pretty phenomenal, even if he could not do it without swinging through the ball and bopping Yao in the face, a fact largely ignored. It was a rare sight, making it newsworthy in a small way. But before long, my son's buddies, knowing him to be a Rockets nut, were all over him, mocking Yao Ming. You can fill in the blanks of the 15-year-old idea of taunting, sort of a more sophisticated version of a typical cable pregame show. There were the well-considered comments along the lines of 'He stinks.' This is not to debate the abilities of Yao Ming, which by now are pretty clear to anyone willing to watch. Rather, Jeff Van Gundy said on Monday that 'Rocket hate" is in vogue and the bulk of that hate seems to be directed at Yao Ming. While Yao certainly also has his supporters, even devoted fans or those that see enough to appreciate what he has accomplished and he player he has become, others prefer to cut him down to size. While I never understood the enjoyment some seem to derive from hating, focusing it on Yao seems to make even less sense. He's a good guy, humble, hard working, pretty funny. He is what fans and media say they value. Yet, since he's been here he seems to inspire derision with only the terminology changing. Van Gundy said last week that he believes the denigration of Yao among the media is from the "experts" that said he would be a bust and don't have the guts or integrity to say now that they were wrong. No doubt there is something to that, but it seems more than that. Wilt Chamberlain's theory -- nobody loves Goliath -- likely plays heavily into this. No matter what Yao does some will say it is solely because he is 7 1/2 feet tall, others will say because he is so tall, he should do more. Maybe there is some bit of racism or xenophobia in all of it. But no matter what he has become, he has been criticized for what the detractors say he is not. The leading scorer among centers this season and last, most admit he is good, but often add that they believe he should be better. If he's good, he's not great. If he's great, he's not dominant. If he's dominant, he's not a champion. Yao would seem a pretty non-controversial figure. Yet, when you tower over the crowd, you wear a target. For whatever reason, there are many that cannot resist taking shots at a target that large. It just doesn't seem that enjoyable to me. Posted by Jonathan Feigen at November 21, 2006 08:37 PM
Have you guys ever taken care of little kids or been asked by little kids to play basketball with you? And you play just to joke around with them, but then they start climbing on you or hitting you and yes even get poked in the face? Well whenever you say "hey that's a foul" (in a joking way, of course) they always yell out "no it's not! you're bigger than us!" Well this reminds me of that situation.
