How did uncertainties around Yao limit anyone's career? It's not like Scola, Budinger, Landry, AB all were sitting around thinking "I was gonna go work on my game, but since I don't how how healthy Yao is, I'm just gonna sit around and eat some watermelons and watch cartoons instead."
Here is what u missed in you defense of who will save the rockets, time. If you get lopez which aint happening,but for argument sake it does. Lopez is a really good player right now and will be for the next 7 yrs. Where will kobe nd la be in 3 -5 yrs? Thats my point and i have been saying it for awhile now. The rockets with yao are in the wrong window. The window right now is too good and crowded for the rockets to be a factor with a limited,going down the hill 2 yrs ago yao. They need to be in the window of the thunder and blazers not the lakers and boston right now. I dont need someone to save the rockets, but i do need someone i can count on. I've said it previously, i would take a marc gasol right now over yao? Why? He isnt restricted to one spot,good passer,rebounder, and has youth on his side. You have a better chance of attracting players to come play with a certainty vs hope and if.
I guess LBJ, Wade, Bosh is going to be really old at 31 years old.......... Not even Thunder/Blazers having anything to say about it. Once again, if you get rid of Yao, what is your plan? Get young? Get so young that we hope Wade, Bosh, LBJ are gone or do we get so young that all our new players should be age 19, so by the time Wade, Bosh, LBJ are 34+ years old, our 19 year old guys will be 27? I see you want to rebuild so tell me how Rockets are going to get Marc Gasol? Apparently to you Yao is trash, so no way we can get Marc Gasol for Yao. DM knows going into this season AB KM Shane Scola Yao (even limited at 24 minutes) is the best he is going to get, without losing starters. Trading for Marc Gasol can potentially mean we lose one of our starters + draft picks. Good Centers sure cost a lot. So what do you propose the Rockets should do and how to do it?
Yao definitely will never be the focal point of this team. Ever, So I guess yes, lets get ready to move past the Yao saga/ But I do think Morey will keep him around and find a another go-to guy. I like the idea of Yao playing like Z in Cleveland after Z got hurt. 13-8 and 2 blocks sounds good enough
Trade Yao to Sac for Cousins & filler. The Kings wouldn't do that, of course, but since their city has a 17% Asian population, they might be tempted. :grin:
If you're going to post this poll at least title it properly: Are You Ready to Move Past the Yao Saga into Mediocrity? Houston without Yao is a 45 win lottery team. Have fun with that for the next 10 years Houston.
By the end of this season, Yao will have returned to form and will probably even be a little bit better.
Most teams would die to win 45 games, that's definitely an above average team. If you can win 42 games without a star imagine how good you could be with a healthy superstar (melo/cp3 etc....).
how tha hell do you know that he is not going back to his old self, I don't get why everyone counting him out, let's just wait and see what he is capable to do this season and then go on from their.
Can someone please link for me the study that determined adults start to break down significantly at exactly 31 yrs of age? Thanks!
He's older, hasn't played a full season in 5 years, coming off possible career ending surgery. He will never average 20/10 again, stop fooling yourself and face the reality, Yao will never be the same.
Its not like they have been raising hell since yao have been here. I first round advancement in 8 yrs. The magic couldve kept mcgrady and made it back to the playoffs for sure. The sonics couldve kept allen and the blazers couldve kept rasheed,but they didnt. How long were they piss poor? Howard was drafted in 04 the same year they traded mcgrady. How mediocre have they been? What about seattle? They traded allen 3 yrs ago and they had 50 wins this past year with a 21 yr old mvp runner up. What about portland who cleaned their roster in 06 and has had back to back 50 wins less than 4 yrs. So, where you see mediocrity, i see hope and going forward. What the rockets have been in the yao-mcgrady era is ordinary,nothing special.
As long as Yao can play next year, his salary won't be below 10m. Do you think Rocket want to resign a 10m bench player? If Rockets has no intension to sign him next year, why limit his time this year? I believe Rockets still regard Yao as one of the key players, if not the go-to guy. By limiting his time, Rockets tries to build a balanced attacking, and they have enough talents to do so. In the meantime, Rockets will have advantage in negotiating next contract with Yao if he is just one of the guys. Centainly, Yao won't be happy for that if he feels healthy. So this maybe his last season with Rockets. I won't be surprise Knicks will have their trio next year: Yao, Stoudemire, Parker or Anthony
Again, the reality is that there's one year left on his contract in which we will see whether he's back or not. If he is, we have a legit chance at a run (which is why everyone says the Rox are the dark horses of the Western Conf). If he's not, we don't resign him or sign him for a lot less and build around someone else. But now is not the time to do that. Yao is an asset that is worth much more on our roster than to any other team, which means that the Rockets can't get anywhere near the value back that he can bring for us. With Yao, we have a chance of making noise *this year*. Without Yao, we've got no chance because we won't get anything worthwhile in return. Running a pro-basketball club as a business is a bit more nuanced than playing NBA Live on your XBox where you can swap players out for your favorite player without worrying about market value, cap space, short/long term budget constraints, etc.
As someone who can earn middle-class salary, I'd rather use my imagination on more attainable things, like how much better my life would if I get to sleep with supermodels every night.
I'm sic of it, if Yao was'nt chinese and didnt have the income revenue he does, the Rockets would have traded him along time ago.
The Kings would more then consider it. I actually love this idea. Cousins has superstar written all over him and if we can land someone like thompsom as well, were gioing to be ok.
