Yao Ming: It is Too Tiring To Fight A One-Man Battle

Yao is just finding out how hard it is to carry a team alone.

In a sense, he's seeing what happens without sufficient help and coaching.

He's just getting a smal taste of what guys like PP and KG,Tmac and AI dealt with for years.

He probably won't demand a trade, but if you start seeing small quotes about the coaching come out of his mouth, be sure assistant coach gundy is out.

 

All this is is Yao trying to find that delicate balance every superstar learns through the course of their careers - how and when to score your points necessary for your team to win, and how to make your teammates better around you.

It's just another step in Yao's development that will only make him better (as scary as that is to the rest of the league).

 

How do you make stand still jumpshooters better?

 

Yao needs to forget about trying to make his teammates better right now. He needs to score. He's trying to be Bill Russell when deep down we all know he's Wilt Chamberlain.

 

Um ever since Mcgrady went down, Yao is averaging 33 pts, 11.4 rbs, 2.6 ast, 3.6 blk. And this isn't even counting the Wizards game that T-mac left early when Yao went off for 38/11/2/6.

 

u r right, he should not care the team, just himself. No way, he is not that man.

 

You didn't watch the past several Rox games, did you? If you did, you would know that it wasn't Yao's fault that Rox lost those games. Well, maybe you wouldn't know no matter what ... go figure

 

I have read the Chinese version. I just don't feel comfortable with the tone and the style of the article. It just doesn't look like a genuine interview. Yao is unique in his capability of good sense of humor, clear thinking and smart wording, so when I read a interview of Yao, I always expect something original or interesting, and Yao never failed me. However, this article just doesn't give me the sense that it is Yao that is talking. The interview probably happened, and most part of the interview is probably true, but I suspect the reporter Wang Meng still made things up here and there, put his own words, or opinions copied from the Web into Yao's mouth.

Don't be mistake, this is not a post to criticize pryuen's selection. pryuen has made great contribution to this board and as a Chinese I know how hard it be, how much commitment you have to make to do the translation. And, I find pryuen's translation improves the quality of the original article. When I read the original report, I feel like reading a fiction; when I read pryuen's translation, I feel like reading a journalist report, which is intersting.

Just be cautious with articles by Wang Meng, who has a history of made things up, and likes to add fictional stuff into journalism.

 

I doubt durvasa implied that. What he said was he believes, right or wrong, that Yao is better suited as a powerful offensive player than a potent defensive player.

 

I strongly echo your sentiment. As to Wang Meng and his style of reporting, I think the jury is still out and it may still be early for me to make a final verdict.

 

The best way he can help the team right now is to be as dominant an offensive player as he can be. Yao isn't going to raise the level of play of the rest of the teammates enough to match what he can do on his own.

Maybe I just have a bad taste in my mouth after the last game. He was way to passive in the closing minutes, hell the closing quarter. 17 points in the third, and he's only 2/2 from the field in the fourth (and early in the fourth, at that). That's just not right. I don't want him trying to make Rafer and Luther "better" when we need him to be scoring the ball.

 

You deserve trades by sucking, not playing well.

 

Yao already a great defense power. He might never be a great blocker. He does change many shots in the middle right now. when the other centers tried him one on one, he often owned them. When the guard drove in, they hesitated. I think Yao is great in half court defense, but not good at defending run-and-gun game.

 

It's been that way during Yao's entire time on the CHinese National team. I think he's used to it.

 

I am sure 100/40/8 will win us a LOT games. So let's hope for that.

 

Read the whole post first next time before you b**** about someone else's b****ing.

 

He scored a lot in the last five games but we still lost 4 of them. Yao is right. Either he has to further elevate his game to make his teammates better or we need Tmac back as soon as possible.

 

Given this reporter's last article, how reliable is this one?

 

At least that guy knew something about the show before we knew it, right? So it's not totally baseless. From chron, it seems that Yao wasn't sure if he'd go to the show until he felt good about his lower back or waist.

And this is a direct interview, so I highly doubt he made that all up.

 

take a chill pill. v.gundier's posts are tongue in cheek.