It starts with the AA hire Keith Jones, and the "I got my medical degree at night online" Can't On. That is, he can't be on. He's always off. Ugh.
Yao has had foot sugery before...not this offseason but in the past. that's what the poster you responded to was alluding to.
If I was a player, I'd get a second opinion on every single diagnosis that came from within the organization, no matter how minor the issue.
But the surgery was for a different injury on the same foot right? He never had surgery to fix that stress fracture on his foot that he sustained on the Lakers. Isn't surgery supposed to just fix your injury, not prevent any further ones? If you get injured again then you need surgery again.
Find somewhere where it said Yao was definitely going to have surgery before this article. Your opinions are obviously subverting your reading skills.
my understanding is that it's the same type of injury on the same foot...right? and yes, the surgery then was designed to heal the problem then....but the problem has returned.
he was weighing options....that's what was said before...it listed surgery as one of them. there were countless articles that said he could rest to see if it rehabilitated the problem... or get surgery. now, my opinion before this even began is that this man is too fragile to build a team around and commit that much money to. which sucks for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that he's intensely likeable and easy to root for.
I will say an extra prayer for Yao at night and every Sunday at Mass. Yao deserves a break(no pun intended), he needs our support and love more than ever!
Clearly the board is split on what this really means. Is he done, is it positive, negative, rebuild or not? At this point I'm just going to be concerned with next year regarding Yao. If the surgery is a success then it can be only positive for NEXT YEAR. For now I will choose to look at it this way until given news otherwise. I for one am hoping he comes back healthy with enough time to get into game shape and hopefully produce in the playoffs.
Indeed, since I'm a little more concerned about Yao being able to play again at the same level, not getting voted to play in the All Star game. Wish Yao all the best. I just hope that if there is a problem with the doctors, they get it figured out. I don't know if they missed something the first time they looked at Yao's foot, I don't know if they did the wrong tests, if they didn't do enough tests, if the medical stuff is too far beyond my comprehension. All I know is that it doesn't add up. It doesn't add up that you can look at somebody's foot one month and think it can heal in a boot (not a cast, a boot), and then a couple months later, you look at the same foot and think the injury could be so bad that it could end a season or a career. Something seems wrong with that. Like I said, wish Yao all the best and hope that, in this case, he follows Tracy's example and starts seeking out many medical opinions, if not for the good of the Rockets, for his own good.
No, it could still be career ending. Hell, it's surgery, he could die under the knife, and it will be life ending! Listen, from that single article, I take away the positives, that being he could very well be back mid season and at full strength come playoffs. If that's not something to look forward to, I don't know what is.
Lets sign gortat and trade for chris bosh and hopefully extend his contract and when the 2nd part of the season comes we will be ready for another run.
There's no split if you're thinking logically about this. You do not throw maximum contract extensions at brittle players. That means that both Tracy and Yao should have no place in our long term plans. Consequently, that means you focus on the 2010 free agent class in order to expedite your rebuilding, and if that's your plan (and it should be) then you save as much of your cap as possible, which means you don't re-sign Ron, and you take a pass on older veterans, unless they are a franchise level player still in their prime.
Clearly, everyone on this board assigns way too much certainty to medical science. House flatlines the dude every week before he heals him. The original diagnosis, the first surgery, letting it heal were the best choices in the opinion of the treating physician but there are never any guarantees with the human body. At this point, he probably won't heal naturally, so you do the surgery you think will cure it, and hope it heals, the faster the better, Yao may play by mid-season, he may play next year, or into a new contract period or never. Ya don't know, ya can't say. *personal note* I'll be having my 4th sinus surgery tomorrow. I just hope it ends well.
I really wish we could just Roger Clemens Yao for the rest of his career. Let him play in China every summer and then let him sit out the first month or two of the season. As long as he is trying to play 12 months out of the year he will continue to be injured. Some non 7'6 guys like Ginobli can't hold up when playing year round so it's almost unrealistic to think that Yao can.
If Yao comes back this year fresh and healthy then we have a chance at the title but no Yao means we will be a 6-8 seed and maybe get through the 1st round at best, so this is great news and brings life back into the upcoming season.
