It's kinda sad...

Great read but its really funny how the OP speaks about what makes Yao more of a man and his username is Manhore

 

i don't think you watched hakeem long enough my friend. he wasn't "soft". the way he went at shaq, drob (the yr he won the MVP), ewing...

 

Dream>>>>>>Yao it's not even close. at age 45 olajuwon was schooling yao in those workouts.

 

LOL typical ***. divert the critics and bash mcgrady to propup there idol yao. btw, who said yao is soft?. anyone who think yao is soft is exteremly unintelligent individual.. the man was playing with a streess fracture . he played with a ingrown toe nail.... the list goes on


And why is tracy soft?.... he played on one knee and shoulder. most people wouldnt have been able to run or walk with tracy's injury. for crying out loud he needed to have surgery the next day after we were eliminated?. you seriousely need to have a good look at you'reself.

 

did you see dream against Shaq after the championship years? Be honest with it guys....he looked TIMID!

I love him and I love Yao but the "hard" argument is weak when Kobe and Pierce are the only guys you could come up with that have won titles.

Better basketball player Shaq or Bill Russell?

Who is harder......Shaq or Bill Russell?

I didn't see any of you calling him soft on the thread he was dunking on evryone the other day.....I didn't see you call Shaq soft when he manhandled him the last two years..... I think its alot of you guys passive aggressive way of saying Yao is weak because he's not Shaq.

Once again KJ abused Dream.
Dream didn't win nothing until his dog OT stepped up and after that there was Amigo and more......Yao is not going to bull guys over, but the guys that do bull you over....wished they could things Yao can.....would you admit that at least?

I'm not saying that you shouldn't say bad things about Yaos game, I concede he I would like to see him get more powerful but he has so much that guys with that power wished they could have in the final minutes.

Would Shaq bust his ass to play for the USA after major surgeries... I doubt it......he's no Shaq and you don't have to be to win rings.

 

I also praised yao, does that make me a yao fan boy to?. i dont take anyones side. i love both yao and tracy equally.

 

LOL. anyone with half a brain can see you're a yao fan boy. dont even go there.

 

So what was the blowup doll comments about?

 

1st off, no one can ever put Yao in the same sentence as Shaq or Dream when we talk about court presence and physicality. Dream took scrubs to the finals and Shaq made guys change positions. I do agree that Yao has played Shaq pretty well since entering the league, but we also see diaw and harriington take hi out the game. Yao is soft, but that doesn't mean this team can't win with him. Whenever you don't get guys off you, you're going to have that label. The move desmond mason pulled on yao would never happen to dream,shaq,moses, or even kareem. Once guys see they can take ur lunch money, they'll keep taking it. That's why Robinson will always be known as soft, but he's a hof and 2 time champ, but no one will ever forget the way smaller players challenged his manhood early in his career. No one will forgot the doubt he had guarding Dream in 95 as a mvp and didn't want to guard dream. Dream also told Kenny that he was going to come out and put his shoulder in Robinson's chest to set the tone. He didn't care if he got a charge or not, but he was going to send the message of what kind of series it was going to be. That's toughness. If Yao ever comes out and set the tone from a physical standpoint, then the "soft" label wouldn't even be thought of.

Someone keep bringing up kj dunking on dream, but getting dunked on has nothing to do with be hard or soft. Zo,Deke, and Dream all have been dunked on a few times. Shotblockers get dunked on. There are some great atheletes playing in the nba. Those guy challenged the paint and had a presence all the time whether it was shot blocking, rebounding or just intimidation. I can't say it any simplier than what I've said about yao. The spurs won with a softee like big dave, the rox can win with a softee like yao. They just have to get guys to make up for his defecient areas.Getting Artest does a lot in that weakness.

 

those guys always blame Yao in any case.just ignore them.

 

Yeah, I see your point about Yao the humanitarian, but its not like he MLK or Malcolm X. I mean those guys were assassinated because they spoke out about the government and their human rights violations, but I don't see Yao saying anything about china's support for sudan and the genocide in Darfur. He's kind like all the other high paid athletes who are more worried about being like as opposed to standing for something.

 

Hey manhore, so how does bringing up McGrady and his softness help your "Yao's not soft!" argument? Oh yeah, it doesn't. They're both soft, so what's your point?

 

This is a very ignorant post and you are not making sense at all. The guy has just said that he believed Yao will contribute to the society after he retires. How in the world did MLK and Malcolm X suddenly appear in this topic? Are you saying that a person cannot contribute to his society if he does not disagree with his government's policy and speak up against it? Or that a person cannot be considered a contributor to his society if he doesn't get assassinated? Is that what you are trying to say?

 

You sir, plz stop being stupid.

 

Ya, keep telling youself that.

 

Whenever theres a Yao thread or a post related to Yao you know Leebigzs gonna come out of his hole and start spilling all sorts of "Yao is soft" crap.