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Sighting of Yao Ming & the Rockets in Team Practice (Dec 17)

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Photos of Big Yao at team practice on December 17 in preparation for competing with Dwight Howard of Orlando Magic.....

#1 pryuen, Dec 17, 2007

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Steve Novak showed up in the team practice as well after recall from D League.

And TMAC got special previlege to rest for most of the team practice/scrimmage due to a sore ankle. He practiced a few free throws with his slippers on before he left the team practice early.

#2 pryuen, Dec 17, 2007
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Maybe I am missing something
but
is this a typical practice

a bunch of talking
Running Laps
and
stand still shooting?

Rocket River
-- Maybe these are not the good shoots of the total practice

#3 Rocket River, Dec 17, 2007
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Novak looks pretty buff to me now..

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kingkow said:

Novak looks pretty buff to me now..
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hmm. his calf? other than that he's still pretty skinny for an nba player.

#5 pli777, Dec 17, 2007
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Rocket River said:

Maybe I am missing something
but
is this a typical practice

a bunch of talking
Running Laps
and
stand still shooting?

Rocket River
-- Maybe these are not the good shoots of the total practice
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Well at least that lazissez-faire laid-back Rick Idleman was there too !!

#6 pryuen, Dec 17, 2007
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Tracy couldn't lace up some playing shoes? How's he expect to get the right feel at the line with slippers?

.....looks like a punch in/punch out day.

#7 TECH, Dec 17, 2007

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read the background in the mike james picture it has

Attitude and Demeanor

Belief
Intensity
Concentration
Discipline
Poise under preasure

Then it has

Culture and Environment

Hardest working
Best Conditioned
Most unselfish
Great team spirit and unity
play to win

It has something above all that to. But its interesting to see they have that up cause I don't think they read it to often as they aren't displaying many of those traits shown.

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hope yao is up for the challenge. hes done very well vs d.howard in the past

#9 m0lson, Dec 17, 2007
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Who is Yao talking to? He is iso'd.

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TheGM said:

Who is Yao talking to? He is iso'd.
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nice

#11 beyao, Dec 17, 2007
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Looks like TMAC was prepared for practice with his choice of footwear. You cant practice to hard in flip flops can you?

#12 francisfan4l1f3, Dec 17, 2007
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francisfan4l1f3 said:

Looks like TMAC was prepared for practice with his choice of footwear. You cant practice to hard in flip flops can you?
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WTH... You can't seriously run around with that. Guess all he's gonna do is practice FTs and jump shooting...

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TAI CHI?

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devin23 said:

WTH... You can't seriously run around with that. Guess all he's gonna do is practice FTs and jump shooting...
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Just heard on the mews he didnt practice cause his "sore knee", that would explain the sandals. At least hes shooting free throws?

#15 francisfan4l1f3, Dec 17, 2007
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Geeze! At least put on some shoes T-mac to the Big Mac.

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he obviously wasnt cleared for practice before

he can put on shoes any time he wants, got heaps of pairs at the training centre.

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Why do you call this a "Sighting"? Sighting means you saw a player undersomewhat unexpected circumstances. For example, if I saw Hakeem Olajuwan at the local burger joint, that's a Hakeem sighting.

As for these pics:

First, you didn't see them, some reporter took picture and you saw pictures.

Next, they players went to practice, they were at work. There is nothing ususal or unexpected about this.

It's like somebody saw a picture of me in my office on my firm's webside and declared it a sighting of me at the office.

#18 Carl Herrera, Dec 17, 2007

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I also like how it's Yao Ming & The Rockets as if it would be surprising to see them practice together. But if Yao is being iso-ed...?

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Carl Herrera said:

Why do you call this a "Sighting"? Sighting means you saw a player undersomewhat unexpected circumstances. For example, if I saw Hakeem Olajuwan at the local burger joint, that's a Hakeem sighting.

As for these pics:

First, you didn't see them, some reporter took picture and you saw pictures.

Next, they players went to practice, they were at work. There is nothing ususal or unexpected about this.

It's like somebody saw a picture of me in my office on my firm's webside and declared it a sighting of me at the office.
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You are correct, but you forgot to say, "Thank you for posting these, pryuen!"

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