If you were the ones in the game, got constantly fouled and didnt complain to the refs about it, your own teammates would be b****ing you out for not defending yourself. The other Rockets want those calls just as much as Yao. I dont even get why anybody here would care if Yao complains or not. Change the channel or something... i mean seriously who cares??? I care about his performance on the court. Fault him for not hitting the shots he should be making or not not demanding the ball when he is shooting well. He can b**** at the refs all day long for all i care. Works fine for Timmy D as far as i can tell.
Yeah he should just STFU after all the hugging, grabbing, elbowing, pushing and shovelling at the back he got, and without even getting a single trip to the charity stripe !! How he's supposedly to play through it? Getting 2 quick tic-tac fouls, and then got benched for over 5 ~ 6 minutes, came back playing for another 3 to 4 minutes before getting another bad call, then benched and sat for another 5 ~ 6 minutes? How can that not affect him getting into his usual rhythm??
I think that Yao not getting the calls might be a case of how the refs tend to treat foreign players. Over the years, they've pretty much swallowed the whistles whenever they get fouled. I feel that Yao is not much different in this case. On the other hand, I don't think that Yao gets mistreated as badly as some other foreign players who come in to the league since he's had a fair share of games in which he attempted a lot of free throws. Yes, he gets banged around quite a bit, but that has been true about most every other center in the league over the years, right? That just goes with the territory. Centers are paid to wrestle it out with the bigs under the basket to try to provide an inside game for their teams. Yao should look at some film of NBA games played over at least the past 30 years or so, and take note of how rough play tends to be under the basket.
are you kidding me? Its called fronting, its a legal play, a physical one yes, but its still a legal play. Yao needs to learn to fend off his man better rather than running his mouth to the media. Oh btw I am a HUGE rockets fan, but that shield the fact that I am extremely disappointed with Yao's performance in the past few games.
He need to speak up. If it were Duncan or Dirk they would vent straight up to the press. The problem is Yao too nice or afraid to do or say anything thus bring no attention to the problem. This is what I hate about NBA: double standard and refs fixing games for mobs.
ahh, Yao My good man, just take a page out of Mutumbo's book and use those elbows and your big body to clear out.
Hold back you opinions until you know what kind of calls Yao is talking about. No matter how poorly he played recently, he deserves fair treatment by ref. As far as I remember, Duncan had a 5 point night of late, did that make him a victim of officiating? I am sick of this kind of talks like I am huge rox fan, but as poorly as he played, he should have shut up and worked through it. I don't see any signs of rox fan here.
The only wuss move yao can be accused of is not going ape **** on the refs and getting himself kicked out of a game. Its NBA not WWF! He can complain if he wants to and from the looks of it most people in this forum would agree that Yao is the recipient of a lot of bad calls on both ends of the floor. How exactly do you suggest Yao play through the bad calls if he is on the bench due to foul trouble?
first of all I believe this is America not china, but yes thats what i am saying, he just need to shut up and play, there is been a vocal leader in the locker room and then there is been a little b*$%h and crying to the chinese media for calls......
Don't involve U.S or China, this is not a polical forum. I ask you to hold back your opinions because you haven't known about what calls he was talking about, and wanted to rush to your conclusions. You call youself a rox fan, and when one of your star players was indeed got some unfair calls, you don't think he has right to complain. So when he was POW a week ago, he has the right to complain the call, and now he has to shut up. Is this America you are talking about. Give me a break.
I suppose you are the kind of person who gets screwed in the ass and just STFU and gets up next morning go to work. if you choose that way, go ahead. don't expect others to be a wussy as you. this is America, people stand up and protest when mistreated, not like in china.
excuse me if been a rocket fan would be blaming everyone else on the team rather than blame yao, u know the refs, media, rafer, Rick A., JVG, hell i blame keith jones for not keeping everyone on the team healthy. Look if your suppose to be a super star player (which he is on the way to) then act like one, show that you can carry the team, not just draw fans and commercial $$$.
More mixed signals from the board "Something needs to be done about all the BS calls on Yao" "Yao needs to MAN up, stop taking crap and be authoritative" "Aaah look at Yao whining like a b-tch. He needs to STFU and just play!"
Do you have any logic? Did Yao say Rox lost last few games because of refs? Did he blame his teammates or coach? Every player deserves a fair officiating. And with the real rule of NBA, stars are treated much better. Yao is a star, but he is, in my opinion, officiated unfairly for a long time. Can he blame? Games like spurs are very close, and a couple of calls in crunch time do matter a lot. If you don't understand it, all right I give up.
Last time I knew Fronting is to guard an opponent by playing between him and the ball, i.e. trying to prevent the player receiving the ball/pass from his team mates.....but that did not include hugging, grabbing, hand-checking, tripping, pushing the player to the ground or anything that are deemed violent. Maybe you should wait before my translated article is posted if you can't read/understand Chinese to see which were the occasions of fouls that Yao Ming felt he was wronged by the referees.
Look there is b#$%hing about a player, and holding him accountable, I don't see how other players like TMAC and (dare I say it) rafer, gets blamed while Yao gets passed over. I am sorry if i want to hold players accountable. Does he get his share of awful calls absolutely, but he needs to speak up DURING the game, not to just wait till after it and complain to the friendly media about it. MAN UP!! get a tech, throw a elbow or two, but from all these years I have been watching the NBA, complaining to the media never helps anything.
