It happened a lot in the 4th quarter when Yao was tired or not motived or shut down by a scrub. It is as bad as it can be because Rockets have lost so many 4th quarters. It is ridiculous. Yao has to improve his stamina drastically.......I suggest him to look for some medicine or drugs..
wow,it's some funny. yao domanate the court,but gasol still steal a win from his head.what's a shame!
meh. last time i checked. Spain has 40million people China has 1.3billion. That's 32.5 times as many as Spain So for China to be 'ahead' they'd need 30x as many golds??? [important note: on a per capita basis, Australia leads the Olympic games ]
I know Yao is still recovering from his injury but......you just could not play worse than Wang Zhizhi.
Yao is still recovering, does not have his wind and hold all the negative crap until Dec. or late January.
Yao defends, runs to the other end, fights for a position, comes out to make a screen, fights for position, makes screen, 24 seconds almost there, some random guy chucks it up, swish. Yao goes back to defend... The ball just couldn't get to Yao. The guards couldn't make a decision. Lack of athleticism, and a natural loss of stamina when you have only one person capable of handling the ball (Liu Wei) and one in the middle (Yao). The Chinese national team is the Houston Rockets with its loopholes magnified by ten.
yao has rarely been a 4th quarter player and he gets fatigue, esp. playing 30 minutes coming off an injury. he gets fatigued playing in the NBA going into the 4th.
Yao -- at his best and most productive self -- is a 30-32 minutes per game kind of player. I agree that it's not enough time on the court for your best player (Shaq and even Dream never had minutes/fatigue issues in their prime, Yao does). He's in as best a shape as he will ever get. If anything, it's all downhill from here in terms of his endurance/durability. I suspect the Rockets' brass will do their utmost to lessen/ease up on his workout routine to attempt and prevent further leg/foot injuries, and rightfully so. Yao's endurance/fatigue issues are a given, it's part of his 7'6" frame and not due to a lack of conditioning or persistent fatigue (that, too, is part of him being 7'6"). He's still an athletic marvel to be able to do what he does at his size, which is unprecedented in the history of sports (a Bill Walton moment, but I think it may actually be true). Let's just hope he stays healthy and is able to give us the most productive 30-32 minutes he can muster. Unfortunately, as I've already stated in the past, I think Yao's lower-body injuries will continue to pile on in one way or another. Part of it is just his huge frame/high center of gravity, which makes him do everything awkwardly (especially falling down, I have a feeling that's how a lot of his injuries will continue to happen). Anyways, just my two pennies...
Disagree, in 05-06 and 06-07, his best and most productive/efficient seasons (25.6 PER, 26.5 PER, would have been good for 8th and 3rd in the league had he played enough games to qualify), he played 34 mpg. He was a 30-32 mpg player in his early career... and I think we'd rather not go back to the days when the media routinely bashed Yao for being an overrated soft Chinese stiff.
I think 34 minutes should be the max Yao should play in a game during the start of the season. No more near 40 minutes in a game. I would like it for the Rockets to implement some of the Spurs' strategy of managing Tim Duncan's minutes. As the 2nd half of the season begins, and in preparation for the playoffs, the Rockets should increase Yao's minutes just like the Spurs do with Duncan. They should also watch how hard Yao goes in practice. No more making him run laps because he's in the same free-throw shooting group as Chuck Hayes.
A couple of thoughts: 1. I am not a doctor, but I think Yao at least has a decent chance of staying healthy. I believe his injuries, which have been bone related mostl, are similary to that of Zydrunas Ilguaskas, who is not quite the same size but I think had even more of an injury history. Once they put all that metal support (screws) in Z's foot, he's been pretty durable well into his 30s with his Terminator foot. I think bone can actually heal and become stronger than they were, particularly with metal screws. 2. Still, I don't think it's a bad idea to rest Yao more if you can afford to do it. The Spurs do it with their top 3 players each playing less than 35 minutes. The key, though, is to have enough depth, which I think the Rockets should have this season. With Artest and hopefully improved play from Scola and Landry, it's less of an issue to rest Yao or Tracy without putting too much burden on the other one to carry the offense.
What yhe guy is saying is to get maximum effort and productivity, 30-32 mins is best. It kinda makes sense especially with the injuries of late. Those lower minute totals probably would extend his career.
His highest efficiency/most effective/most dominant seasons where when he played 34 mpg, not the 30-32 of his early career, when he was a "soft underachiever."
I wouldn't get too fixed on a number because Adelman will probably play it by ear. It's probably going to fall somewhere between what leebigez and you are suggesting in the 32-34 range.
Do you also consider that majority of the Chinese in the rural area might not even know what competitive sports really is? Life to those folks means get up early in the morning to go to the farm and return home at sunset to rest for next day's work. Can the same be said for Spain? If not, how could you use the total population to make your point?
Yao Ming playing at 60% of his top level and now is limping! He should pull out of the competition before he ruins his professional career. China is going nowhere with or without a damaged Yao Ming!! Playing while only 60% recovered is not going to bring glory to his country- no way!!!
I might be pointing out the obvious here -- or at least what should be quite obvious to you -- but are you insinuating that Yao in his first couple of seasons in the league is just as capable/talented/durable as the Yao of now (assuming he's healthy and playing, of course)? If someone more versed in statistical breakdowns can 'chart' Yao's productivity/efficiency throughout the game (with minutes played being the independent variable at play) then may be we can have a better idea. But judging purely by what I've seen from Yao in his prime, I would say those last 4-6 minutes are where the most drastic drop-off happens. Either way, a minute or two more are within the realm of possibility, I think a healthy, well-conditioned Yao would be able to handle them.
So how many people are in chineese rural areas to be able cance out the 32 5 advge china has in population?. they cant all live in rural areas.
