Let's Have Sign Saying "Referee Discriminates Chinese" Next Home Game!

I third the motion.

 

After almost 7 years I'd try anything to get this nonsense corrected. It's a real joke.

 

who here knows how to write Chinese/Mandarin/Cantonese?

as you all may remember, i happened across a seat behind the Rockets bench about a month ago. getting the seat provided me an opportunity to make signs exclusively for the players as well as anyone else within sight.

i'd like to write, in Chinese, something along the lines of the following:

"The Referees/Umpires are discriminating against/being unfair towards Yao Ming"

can one of you Chinese Clutchfans respond with a JPEG picture of how i'd write that in Chinese? i'll put it on a poster for Yao the next time i go to a game.

 

Don't play the race card. That makes the pro-Yao side easy to dismiss as biased extremists. People don't like to talk about race in America. Remember that statistical study a while back that provided evidence suggesting that white refs favored white players over blacks? People like Barkley were calling it stupid even though it was speaking out in favor of black players, and was IIRC a sound study.

No, don't make posters with accusations of racism. Like somebody else said, those are likely to be confiscated anyway. Make posters calling out the flopping and thuggish post defense. You have the NBA's own rules on your side.

I posted those rules on this forum about a year ago, and got a nice response. Read them if you haven't, they're quite shocking compared to what we see Yao endure every game:

It's ridiculous to me that a guy like Yao gets so many offensive fouls called on him for ticky-tack contact, yet defending players are allowed to lock his arms, hold him from freely moving out of the paint (for BS 3-second calls), and shove him from behind. You're not allowed to dislodge a post up player, the ONLY legal post defense is positioning your legs and applying a forearm in the back to maintain defensive position. That's natural, and common sense. Can you imagine "pushing a post player out of the paint" yourself, in a real pick up game? You just might get punched in the face if you tried that in real life. But not in the NBA.

The refs are clearly not referencing the rulebook when they officiate Yao or other skilled post players. "Yao is hard to officiate because he's so big" is a BS excuse that doesn't make sense if you actually think about it. The rules are right there for everyone to read. And they wonder why skillful post play is a dying art in the NBA. Some fans here have said that Yao's game looks "boring," but do they know WHY? What I see in games is that Yao has to rush in order to beat the defense, so he has to rely on short, simple, "boring" moves (turnaround jumper, short jump hook). We know Yao is capable of more. The NBA has done a lot to open things up for skillful perimeter players to perform their acrobatic tricks, but post play is uglier and more thuggish than ever. Open up the paint so we can see post up artists spinning and shaking once again.

With some other recent threads about the refs ignoring official rules, people should be talking about this. Spread the word on this forum and others to shame the NBA with its disregard for its own rules. The refs need to call things both ways, for Yao's sake as well as for the sake of the game.

 

I don't think play race card is a good idea here however just be curious:

how did other 7'6'' get officiated in this league like Bradley?

 

That's why you do it in Chinese, man.

I kid. Your point about racism being only negative is very true.

 

Sorry.. i meant "mention of race", not "racism".. that would be obvious.

 

It is NOT about referees. This is NBA. NBA is more of a commercial show than a b-ball sports. Most games are called in pre-designed way. Refs called in Rox' favor some time in the 4th Q to let Rox to catch up. But when Okur fouled out, I knew Yao would out too. That's NBA pattern.

NBA is alway on the super star's side to sell itself. That's why LBJ is allowed to 4-step layup (sometime more). D.Wade gets whistle when defender is several inches away.

Yao is always the target because he has NEVER tried to be a super star in NBA way. He does not pursue personal statics. He does not show off. He is supposed to be a super star when he came into this league. He fails. So he gets punished by the organization.

 

I support the thread creator's suggestion asking Clutch to correct the title of this thread.

Chinese = 1.3 billion
Yao and Ji = only 2 Chinese as NBA players

Refs discriminate Chinese? That's incorrect and impossible.
Race card? Most undesirable and think again for the consequences. Don't give anything so solid for Mr. Stern to reject our demand for reviewing the officiating on Yao.

I don't think we should use an incorrect cause from the beginning to protect the interest of Rox players.

 

I agree ( Did I say that ? ) but I just think they have something against Yao and not Chinese Players !!!!! JVG said it along time ago !!!!!

 

Yea i am Chinese...i do tend to think that the refs have a particular interest or SPECIAL interest in officiating Yao. What i mean by that is that, they pay ESPECIALLY close attention to Yao whatever he does on the court....i don't know wheather it's due to his height or what...but when i look at other players like Shaq, i do not think he's officiating differently. For example, when Yao is in the lane for 3 secs, they call it so quick as if they anticipate the counting already...this is what i mean by paying close attention to Yao because they don't do the same for other players. And other players like Shaq...i remember stay in the lane for a pretty long time without being called for 3 secs.

Did you see Yao move in the paint and quickly have to move out afterward?? Isn't it kind of odd behavior?? Do you ever see Shaq does that??? Well i think Shaq can stay there much longer because the refs don't really pay close attention to him sometimes.

And a lot of times Yao got hack on the arms and refs don't see it. Because Yao is so tall ...usually players all they can do is hacked his arms or elbows and Yao ended up taking bad shots and the 3 blind mice failed to see it. NBA officials are probably worst in any major professional sports when it comes to making accurate call. When they see someone fall, it's usually it's the guy that cause him to fall and the refs always tend to call in favor of him rather than look at the fool who is flopping. David Stern ought to change the rules and punish those cowards that flop. The problem is the refs are so stupid they can't tell if they're flop or real...that's how stupid they are. Soccer refs are probably the most accurate refs in the entire world..they can tell who is flopping.

 

Right... so because Yao is one of the only Chinese guys in the NBA, it can't be racism? So I guess you couldn't tell if the mistreatment that Jackie Robinson went thru was due to racism when he was the only black baseball player back then?
I'm not saying its nearly as bad, but this country has always been about accepting one group then moving on to the next to discriminate against, and so on. It happened with the Irish, the Italians, Jews, Blacks, and now Asians. I honestly think there is a conspiracy against Yao, not purely because of his race, but the fact that he represents communist China, which everyone and their daughter is taught to hate these days.

 

the signs should make a reference to the murdering of chinese when building the railroads here. not a china man's chance.

 

woooooo....man..you are genius..i like that...

 

My thought would be next time a foul is called on Yao and it is awful like we have been seeing in the past games, all of the rockets should on the ensuing defensive play should all flop and fall to the ground wether they are touched or not. Make a mockery of it, it will be on sports center im sure!!!!! exploit it...imagine all 5 fall to the ground......what would the refs do?

or we get our home crowd rowdies into it, to perform some kinda wave and fall motion!

 

that is a good idea....but what is the possibility that we can see this on our court?? how many fans are willing and active to do this? i doubt it....

 

we weren't able to tell because bradley is nowhere near yao's level. bradley was mostly there for defensive purposes. he didn't have to deal with floppers.

 

man...u r awesome...i m so up for it...make it red...