Yao should be playing this way: First 8 minutes of 1st quarter Last 8 minutes of 2nd quarter First 8 minutes of 3rd quarter Last 10 minutes of 4th quarter
This guy has to look like Kevin Garnett (right now) or worse when he is running for him not to play. He's too tough to dodge this game, he knows how big these games are. Rest and surgeries are in the off-season not the playoffs. Ray Allen described in perfectly about being tired and you get a whole off-season to rest on that. Yao is going to play if you ask me, I don't see how he can't. He has to seriously hurt himself if he's not going to play.
Feigen, in his article, just stated that the injury isnt considered serious. I suppose that is enough to make me sleep a little better.
he DIDNT want to come out himself...that's the only reason he stayed in, he refused to sit and get looked at..
A bruise on your shin is easy to feel and know you'll be ok, a twisted ankle isn't always so easy to diagnose based on feel, that's why he's hesitant, i dont think he knows anymore than we do, he has to wait for the tests..
Don't bother trying to understand that piece of "news", my friend. The last sentence is the same: Yao said they have to determine the situation after a running test tomorrow morning At the beginning, it said (the injury) "looks" severe, and it "might" cost Yao the next game, but "details come after the running test". In between, it said Yao was serious limping in the 4th quarter, have to be helped into the tunnel and limped all the way to the locker room. Plus, things changed a little bit before Yao finally come out at the conference, originally they said after shower Yao would go to gym for some exercise, and meet the media in the locker room; but soon after they noted that Yao would attend the conference, then comes what we saw on TV Also some citation from Yao on the conference nothing too valuable, just keep fingers crossed
Even it's not serious, I doubt if Yao could play any better in the remaining games. It's too hard to play through combination of knee and ankle sores.
Let me say this ONE MORE TIME. YAO DID NOT WANT TO COME OUT. he didnt even let Jones take a look at it during their timeout. He wanted to stay in. At the time it didnt seem that severe and Yao shrugged it off. Adelman can't just sit him anytime Yao's got something hurting, if that was the case he would have kept him out in game one and we would have lost..
http://sports.sohu.com/20090509/n263862629.shtml ZhangYi of sohu.com reported in the above article that Yao doesn't look good in the locker room. He grimaced when he soaked his legs into the ice water and he shout out load when he sit down after the bath. But I disagree with a part ZhangYi reported, where Yao answered a question about the history of his left ankle. ZhangYi wrote in the article that Yao replied that he was playing with that injured ankle whole season but I believe Yao was saying that he had hurt that ankle before (a straight answer to the original question since he was asked if that ankle was hurt/sprained before) then follow up saying that he had played with that ankle for whole season but has not had any problem with it.
Thanks for the efforts, my friend, But that is really nothing valuable, most of the quotes we've seen from TV Just add some inside stuff that the plan on where Yao will meet journalists changed a little bit. The writer did lots of "reasoning", "observing" and "guessing" Yao limped and helped to the locker room->the plan changed->Yao limped to the conference, then they conclude that "30 minutes and counting it still did not release, boy that must be severe..." Not the best source for information
According to Jason Friedman, Yao will have precautionary CT scans tomorrow. Link: http://twitter.com/rocketsjcf
I kind of agree with you here. I think part of Yao's hesitation was wondering if he had enough time to shake off the pain by Sunday's game. Now I wish we could have a 2-day break like round one.
