Yao was the focal point of the Blazer defense. Without Yao, Scola would've had a harder time trying to get his points.
No, I said most people are, but sure people dont like this word. Do a vote in China, in Agrentina, what do you expect the result, how do you explain the difference, the fact is, change the skin color/nationality change your vote.
I rarely vote in any of these polls in the GARM, because I just felt anyone can have his/her own opinion, and there shouldn't be a standard answer. So I didn't vote, and I feel it's totally ok to vote for anyone, from Deke's spiritual impact, to Wafer's energy from the bench, or AB's weathering the storm in his first playoff series as a starter. Because those are personal opinions, and you can always "justify" it with something to backup. But it's really disgusting when some people here try to label fans giving Yao props as Yao Only Fans. If you want to talk about tangibles, be my guest, let's talk about minutes, points, rebounds, blocks, assists, fouls, turnovers, shooting percentages, efficiencies, and opponents' outputs. If you want to talk about intangibles, be my guest as well, let's talk about opponent game plan, their strategy adjustment, defensive attraction, plus/minus etc etc, whatever you feel necessary. If you can't win your argument with tangible and/or intangible discussion/debate, you are still free to vote whoever you want to, just because you feel like it. However, if you can't win your argument by debating, then resort to name calling or labeling, that's serious trolling. I've noticed it for quite some time, that some posters on this board have serious problems with those stars, people with attentions following them. Even like Kobe or LeBron, when those posters talk about them, it was all negative, how they can't do this or that, how they are bad people. TMac and Yao got most of the negativity here. What's up with that? All the love for role players, that's cool, but to claim role players are more important than star players, that's just twisted minds. Watch out, after Scola gets a big contract, some of the so-called Scola fans will turn against him. Why? Some kind of inferiority complex, never get any attention in life, so always hate on people under spotlights?
Um I never said you hate Yao or Scola, don't put words in my mouth, will ya? Calling other people's opinion stupid while insisting you are entitled to your opinion is another gem. I don't see how more hypocritical you can get. Seriously, judoka, D&D fits you a lot better,
I asked you a question not put words in your mouth. How am i saying it is stupid if you favor one player over another? I said it was stupid to say people hate certain players, to say that people are racist, and to say that players should leave over an online MVP poll. Whose putting words in other peoples' mouth?
Not to mean to single you out, but your post just immediately came after mine. What are you afraid of discussing statistical stuff? It's a lot more fun than throwing labels around.
I think you go a little too far. Actually, I believe some Tmac fans are chinese people. I visited Tmac's website several times, and found many posts are in chinese. I am not from china, but I voted for Yao. I said it before, Yao is not only a great player, but a great person. He is the most unselfish player in this league. He sacrificed his own stats for the team win. I think, this vote actually represents what the SACRIFICE means!
No it's not stupid to say certain people hate a player, due to one reason (be it race-based) or another. To deny it is delusional. But I just think GARM is not the place for such discussion/debate, so I'll stop it right here.
I've noticed a lot of Yao's supporters on this board have been saying that he should leave the team. But I think they will find that fans are the same everywhere, and Yao will end up getting similar treatment on his new team. Houston fans are not that unusual. As for who is the MVP of the series, I think the players will all agree on who that was, and that's good enough for me.
If there was an option for Steve Blake, I would vote for him all day. My God, he sucks so bad. Portland needs to do something about their PG situation. I really don't think any Rocket player stood out to be voted as MVP of the series. Everyone played their part and played hard. They all did what they were supposed to do. No one really exceeded far and beyond what their role asked them to.
If this is a who is your favorite player of Rockets poll, I would probably vote for Shane, but when talking about the MVP of Rockets 1st round playoff series, I would pick Ming considering the chances he created for the whole team and contributions he made at both end of the court during these 6 games. Let's draw our attention and energy back on whatever we Rockets fans can provide to support this team walk farther in playoffs. This Rockets team, whom miracle happens upon.
In a way MVP voting is like to choose "the least of the evils" if no one stood out. One thing though is that expectation shouldn't be a factor. It's really easy to dismiss a player's performance if his expectation is set arbitrarily high.
Actually, If any Blazer helped us win it would be either Travis Outlaw or Greg Oden. Blake did his job pretty well and he's pretty good at shooting 3's, Aaron Brooks torched him in the 1st 2 games though. Outlaw however, did nothing but shoot contested jump shots and that's about it, he pretty much just wasted possession after possession with his jump shots Oden did nothing but foul players and get our players to the line not to mention half of his fouls weren't even on-ball contact just dumb tangling fouls with Yao.
Surprise surprise, people dont vote for Yao and all of a sudden they don't "love" him as one person puts it. Then others attack other people for not voting for this person or voting for that person. Everyone will think the MVP of the series is someone else because everybody has different criteria. Some of you people really need to grow up.
I agree that Blake played solidly, albeit a few brain farts. But for that air ball 3 in game 3, they wouldn't even be in that situation, if it wasn't for Blake's consecutive 3s. Without outlaw's 3 in game 5, after a Yao Ming block, there wouldn't be a game 6. Oden took out Deke! With Deke, it would be a lot easier. Besides, without Oden, Yao's shots wouldn't be limited to single digits in game 2 & 3. So, it was a collective win for the Rockets, and collective loss for the Blazers.
