Again, you don't have any idea what you're talking about. Yao currently is playing in a system which only gives him 13 shots per game. Tell me if there is one single player in NBA history who scores 30 points consistently on 13 shot attempts.
The reason is because the rules in the NBA have changed since the dominant big men era of years past.
he needs to be dominating the more then, 13 shots for someone that shoots as well as he does, maybe it's not him, it's the coaches and the players around him
People are still comparing him to Rik Smits? What is this, 2003!? I like how the OP keep comparing him to Z and Smits but just ignore everyone who basically showed how Yao pwned both of them in every way, shape or form.
Yao is a good team player. He doesnt care about his stat. And his pt and rebound reduces because hist eammates paly better. I think personal stat is not the real value he plays on the Rox! I guess you worry about too much
I wouldn't say he's underachieving because I don't think he's as great as many here do. ...but for anyone that thinks of him as a superstar/franchise player he should be considered an underachiever. We still haven't been out of the first round.
As the SLOWEST and most UNATHLETIC player in the league, Yao has averaged 20+ and 9+ for like 3 or 4 seasons. I say he's an overachiever.
As far as Ilgauskas and Smits, you really need to look up stats and perform research before you make comments. Is Yao an underachiever? I would say that anyone that that is 7'6" and can make it through an NBA season is an overachiever. It is extremely rare for someone of that size to be mobile enough to do anything. How many 7'6" guys are in professional and amateur sports?
coming off surgery last year on foot. potentially career ending... it is like he hasn"t missed a beat. but still people find area to complain. how soon we forget that he could have been forced to retire crazy
You can't change your thread MULTIPLE times whenever someone shoots down your argument. Yao is an underachiever - - I meant he should have more pts and rebs. I meant he should have more fire. I meant can he lead us to a ring. I meant he doesn't seem like Kobe and Lebron I meant if he should be getting more stats I meant if Dream was here we would win it all I meant he needs to be dominating the more then. I meant maybe it's not him, it's the coaches and the players around him So we've gone from Yao is an underachiever with no fire and is a bad rebounder who will never win to "maybe it's not him, it's the coaches and the players around him!" And I actually replied to this thread! YIKES!! Wade, Lebron, Kobe, Pierce, Carmelo, Dirk, etc............. They HANDLE the ball. Yao does not. fini
yeah, yaos alwayz superb, efficient, look who did we have around him? sf3? im not saying sf3 sucks, but hes just not as great as lebrone or kobe, not even cp3 and williams. tmac? he never plays with heart.
People don't understand how talented Yao is. To be 7'5" and have his set of skills is a huge accomplishment. There has never been any player like him and I doubt there ever will be. He's no dominating force or second coming of shaq or anything, he is what he is I don't know why fans keep thinking he needs to dominate. He never will be the player you all want but he tries hard to be as good as he can be, unfortunately that isn't good enough. The taller you are the harder it is to do the things he is capable of doing and the harder it is to do the things people smaller than him can do. IMO He is an overachiever, no one will ever be that tall and as good as him.
achievement should not be defined by how many pt and how many rbs. your simplification of just looking at # to determine a player's contribution to his team clearly demonstrates how much you know the bball. yao has been underachieved from the point of taking his team deep into playoff. it's still debatable considering the bball is a team sport but at least you can debate on this. yao has dramatically changed other teams' defense schema. he has made rox offense much easier comparing rox with him on court to w/o him on court in this season. rox hasn't lost rebounding battle against most teams. if you look at all other rox players, none of them is a super rebound machine but why rox always won the rebound battle? you need to think not just look at each individual #. please watch each rox game or at least 80% of all rox games before making stupid comments.
