Just as the title says, since Yao came to the Rockets he has been a financial boost, a marketing God, and a respectable person, but at some point you have to face the facts and see whats really in front of you. Yes he's carried us to multiple 50 win seasons and helped us boost into the second round. When healthy he is a top 10 player in the league, but the likely hood of him ever returning to that status are near none. For the past 5 years we've been hoping that Yao could maintain his health and contribute and he has consistently gone down every time. Morey is recognized as a statistical genius so surely he recognizes the 0/5 which indicates Yao's health in the past 5 years. Now we are going to limit him to 24 MPG this season in hopes that he will be fully available for the 2011-2012 season, he will be 31 years old at that time and as everyone knows the body begins to digress greatly at this point. My point is I as a fan have had enough of waiting for Yao to be ready, we need to face the fact that Yao will never be a focal point of this team anymore. At best he can be a 15-20 minute guy off the bench. After his contract is up I surely hope we don't overpay him as he no longer has the ability to be anything but a role-player. This team needs to get a new face of the franchise, someone besides Yao Ming. By letting Yao play 24MPG this season what does that show us if anything? So in a year we can try to let him play full minutes and go down again? I surely hope not. Let the flaming begin!
Nope, we have him under contract this year, I am hopeful that the doctors got it right and that Yao will play a strong year and many more to come. DD
Yes but we are stuck with him and IF HEALTHY he is a difference maker so lets hope he comes back strong in his 24 minutes and the team is left no choice but to expand his minutes in the playoffs.
Still to this day he is and has been a dark cloud over this team. Love the guy but he has unintentionally been holding this team down. Now, adding more size to the team like Damp or Fes would completely nullify our Yao problem. Meaning we won't have to worry so much about him going down seeing as we will have legitimate back-up with size.
GTFO this board with that kind of talk. You CANNOT replace a Yao, the man evenhandedly kept this team relevant in the T-mac drama saga. Teams PREPARE their whole game around Yao, and damnit Yao doesnt rely on athleticism. His game will be just fine and you sir suck.
I voted no, with faith that Daryl Morey's maneuvering will end up netting us another dominant center for that time on the horizon when Yao can't be there for us. Yao should definitely retire a Rocket, though.
And we made the playoffs right? and contended for a title right? Yao does more than just get injured...who cares if he is out for a whole season last year, this year is the only one that matters...teams are already game planning for how to handle Yao.
I am ready to move on if we have manage his minutes for a prolonged period of time. I really don't think limiting his minutes is going to put less pressure on his foot. His foot is either going to break or it's not. I would like to start off yao slowing at the beginning of the season, then finish the season with 30-35 minutes a game. But, I do not want to see him play 24 minutes for the whole season, we are simply not going to win that way.
We could win with him playing 24 mins a game. We still have Miller, Hayes and Hill to back him up now. Yao could net 12-15 pts in 24 mins. We could still win alot.
not really the right timing for asking a question like this So i will this question after this season
I'm sorry, which saga? The one where he got an infected toenail which was mistreated or when he suffered a bad-luck, freakish injury due to his own teamate falling on his leg? His only legitimate injury was the last one, which was arguably caused/aggravated by a Kobe cheapshot when he went down in the 2nd round of the playoffs, and he is ahead of schedule by the standards of everyone who matters (sorry, you don't count). Start this whine when he takes games off like McGrady or when he starts having recurring injuries in the same place, caused by the same thing!
we should start the transition by getting the new franchise corner besides Yao unfortunately, this new cornerstone comes once a decade via draft
Just one game. Just one ****ing game. We haven't played one ****ing game and already with this....... [image]No facepalm picture deserves the embarrassment to be put in this horrific thread, so please imagine Clutch kicking the OP in the balls. [image]
