NBA officials never make a mistake! Every call on Yao has been a good call - especially his foul on Gasol a few nights ago.
Um, if a 10 year old boy was guarding me, I'm establish deep post position and get a chippy every time even if he was pushing with two hands.... I think my FG% would be just fine. Unfortunately, Yao can't establish deep post position very often.
That's a very rational comparison I guess. A 6'10 tall NBA power forward who is a bit skinny admittedly but is still tremendously strong to a 10 year old boy. Oh don't forget how strong hayes is in guarding boozer and the likes even though he gives up height advantage, nono, nevermind that. Unless your are 11 year old yourself that's a pretty funny comparison in my book.
wtf is that? customer complains - "man your product is terrible." customer service rep (i mean you) - "shut up! this is as good as it gets. otherwise get your arse out here!" man i manage 8 people in real life. if you're one of 'em, i'd probably fire you. pay attention here. no one is asking a perfect or near-perfect officiating on yao. all people ask for is to be REASONABLY fair. but in reality it's usually not even close. did you notice how mad worrell and bullard were during the game tonight? or you didn't watch? and this is not just about yao and his stats. this is more about our team. poor officiating on yao puts our team in a big disadvantage night in and night out. which part of this do you not understand?
Yeah let's see how well KG guards a SF/SG. That's what this matchup was. A center vs a very mobile PF. Yao is not a PF and he shouldn't be guarding PFs. . Boozer only dominated Yao because Yao can't keep up with their quickness on the perimeter. I'm sure a all star like KG can knock down wide open jumpers all day. Some day the rockets won't have to do gay position matchups for Yao.
Hey Raymond, that's a great posterization picture of Yao laying an egg on Kevin Garnett's head! Please ask John to post that on the front page of Yao Ming Mania.com! I find it hilarious when Kevin Garnett tried to duck and run away right after this posterization dunk from Yao! SHAME on KG! Take it like a man and stop running away! YOU GOT DUNKED ON and EVERYONE saw it! Can't hide it! Hahaha.
I understand everything perfectly and once again the refs had nothing to do with Yao going 2-11 shooting fade aways in the first half. I am just saying this is as reasonable officiating as it can be. We didn't lose the game cus of the refs. KG just dominated Yao in the last 5 mins of the game. Why would you even bring up the team's broadcasters... LOL It's not like they are homers or anything I don't blame them for being homers tho. Thats what they needed to do to get their pay checks.
That was a response to another poster who claimed being pushed by two hands by a 10 year old would affect one FG%. I seriously doubt it.
all y'all dumb f*** are pissing me off for questioning Yao on this team. ridiculous how people react after one game. look at it way, do all y'all girlfriends call you a softc*** if you don't ram them like the way they want??? grow the f*** up man!!! it's shame being fans like y'all. i wonder what's really wrong with Houston, on wait... their fans are dumb f***s that's why!!! the bottom line - grow up and support the team in every way you can. stop b****ing about your star players.
KG made three straight 1st team All-Defensive teams as a SF in Minnesota, before he was converted to a PF, when they signed Sprewell and moved Szserbiak to SF. KG can guard SGs (ask T-Mac who has defended him better than any other player in the league), SFs (probably guards Lebron better than anyone else), PFs, centers and even gives PGs trouble. as for matchups, Yao would have looked even worse guarding Pierce or Posey instead of KG. there are really no excuses for Yao this time. just try harder and play smarter next time, i guess.
let me get a bit more details for you. true, yao had a terrible shooting night last night. but ever thought about why he took so many fadeaways? sometimes when a defender puts 2 hands on you and the refs aren't calling the fouls, and there's not much time on the shot clock left, you take whatever shot you can manage at the time. make sense? and how can you say the officiating is "as reasonable as it gets"? you're either not a rockets fans or were out of your mind to say that. i dare you to find worse officiating in all major sports than the nba (and better yet, or yao). if you watch all the rockets games or the majority of them, you'd know what a gentleman worrell is. he rarely gets mad like last night. calling him and matt "homers" is easy and lowly. all real fans are homers of their teams and players. you just don't sound like one. and kg "just dominated Yao in the last 5 mins of the game"? yeah he got hot in nailing those jumpers, but read the chronicle today, adelman seemed to have a different opinion on his defense on yao in the last few minutes of the game. i agree and i take adelman's words much more seriously than, say, yours. but never mind, adelman is probably a "homer" too, eh?
no excuses men, Yao WAS NOT being abused right there nor KG was getting away with murder, i´ve seen all from Duncan to KG to get over those type of "fouls" and still get the bucket. Let me remind you that the guy "being pushed" and "forced" to take those jumpers is 7-6 and has a body weight of 310 lbs. / 140,6 kg. (as listed on NBA.COM) while the guy that was "pushing him" is 90 lbs. lighter, that means that Yao is almost 1/3 "bigger" on body mass than KG so I expect (and we all should) Yao can handle those touches in the future.
I am sure KG can bench press over 200 lbs. so that is going to be more than 1/3 of YAO's weight being pushed in the back.
man i never seek excuses for yao or any other player. i said it last night yao had a terrible shooting game and his shooting % is dropping lately. i'd hold judgment for now until he's fully recovered from the flu he's been fighting. but 2 hands on yao or anyone IS a foul by any bball book. in my reckoning they call about 30% of that on yao, which is grossly wrong. kg fouled yao a few times (one was a shooting foul) when he defended yao in the last few minutes of the game. i think that is what adelman was referring to. but since he won the game for the c's, no one is talking about it except we "homers".
Let me get this straight. YOFs are saying Yao can't stop KG from scoring because of matchup problems. Then tell me, shouldn't Yao be able to score on KG because of his height and power? Obviously that wasn't the case last night. YOF's are pulling excuses everywhere they can find.
Why are you even on the bbs?? You obviously do not like any of our players, so you must not like the Rockets?? Come on, who is your real NBA team?
yao played ~6 1/2 minutes in the 4th quarter and took 3 shots, one of which was that meaningless last second put-back, one of which he got fouled by kg but didn't get a call. so your point? a pretty sick yao against a full steam kg with much better support - and kg "dominated" yao? give me a break. heck, even if yao did get dominated by kg this time, so what? kg is a pretty good measure stick for any player. there's no shame in that. this is why this thread is so lame, especially on a rockets board.
