Blazer exec: Yao will be greatest center in history of NBA

Wow, did someone actually use the fact that Steve Nash penetrated a lot as an example of the Chinese guards being bad? I guess they're about as good defensively as the Rockets guards...

 

This has to be the most fragmented thread ever. What was the central whine?

 

AcBrave you must be hooked on ebonics.

 

alot of posters here r off the mark....
Yao will be a greatest center in history of NBA
not about the weak ass NT or steve nash's hair and etc....

 

I know that one thing is for sure...

And that is that Yao (and other international players) will change
the NBA game as we know it (for the better).

I mean, where is it written that NBA centers aren't supposed to shoot
3pts, or shoot 90% from FT line, or do cross-overs. Sure, post
play will still be a part of their game, but why at the expense of
the other skills?

Arvydas Sabonis ented the NBA too late for us to see his skills.

Now we get to see Yao grow his skills from the start.

 

Alot of people have doubts about Ming. Look at Ichiro, Ishii and Nomo...alot of excitement about them coming into MLB. Scouts weren wrong about them. And what are the chances of scouts being wrong about Ming. Ming is Gonna ROCK some boats in the next few years.

 

Yao will become one of the best is not the best for a few reasons

1st he is here by his own words to become the best

2nd he is not here for the money

3rd all he needs right now is training room work and that is pure dedication and Yao has that and more


as for as the jorden verse the other picks didnt we take rodney mcray over jorden ...not sure but I know we had the chance to get him too

but it goes to show you teams draft for needs not just the best out there

 

No they drafted Rodney over Clyde,and it was a huge mistake.All of us at our draft get together were stunned.The knock on Clyde when he came into the league was,"he doesn't have a jumpshot"...sound familiar these days?Well.Petrie took care of that....and with all those other skills,the rest is history.Where would we have been after that year recordwise if we had taken Clyde?It probably would have affected our draft position the next.
We took Dream over MJ.I have no regrets,except Clyde should have been a Rocket.There was a deal being brokered where we would have ended up w/both MJ and Dream,but it obviously didn't happen.

 

LOL, MJ and Olajuwon wouldn't even need a coach or 3 more players.

But you can't judge these things. Who knows if MJ would be as good as he became if he had to share the spotlight with Dream? Who knows if Dream would've become as good a player if HE had to share it?

Who knows if Jordan would ever learn to win, and if Hakeem would ever learn to pass?


You just never know.


Imagine Jordan (94) and Olajuwon (94) on the same team? Even an All Star team wouldn't be able to beat that.

 

Bowie was a monster in college. He had injury problems which certainly changed his game, but he was clearly a super talented big man. Your statement is ridiculous. Even with all his injury problems, Bowie was better than Ryan Leaf and a lot of other high draft picks.

Oh and BTW, Bowie also played for the Lakers.

And it would have been Joe B Hall that commented on Bowie, not Eddie Sutton.

 

maybe i'm easily amused, but this is one of the damn funniest things i've read here in a while -- or maybe i just haven't been spending much time here lately.

returning to lurking mode...

 

Sane, not many people would admit that. It's not politically correct
to bash your own players. Some people would take your words and say,
"What?! Hakeem not know how to pass!? No way, He was the best
passer in NBA HISTORY! He's da'man! How dare you say that about
Hakeem. He won Houston two championships! You are the devil
for saying that!"

Know what I mean? Heh heh...I agree with your comments
about Akeem (not Hakeem).

Akeem didn't know how to pass when he first came in. He was just
such a gifted athlete, that he was able to overcome his other
short comings (a lot of them!). It would drive me crazy to see
the likes of David Robinson, Barkley, Jordan, Magic and the
best, Larry Bird continually daze and confuse Akeem with their
passing skills ONLY. A old book, called, "The Essence of the Game
is Deception" described the skills needed to "make the good pass."
Akeem could NOT use those skills because he wasn't Americanized.
He didn't know those "little tricks" or "flashy passing" that a lot
of NBA players knew about.

He just battled you straight up. Some would say that is a greater
feat, than using "tricks." But, it also caused Akeem to struggle
after the 1987 season when every one just triple teamed him.
He didn't know how to "deceive" his opponents for the open pass.
He would just shoot at will. It wasn't until he found his religion
that taught him that "sharing" was a good thing. Although, he never
was the passer that he could have been if he'd been taught
earlier. But, he did learn some decent passing skills.

As for Jordan...
It was Isaiah Thomas that taught Jordan how to win. He could
never beat the Pistons in the playoffs, until one year they
figured it out. It took the "Bad Boys" to push Jordan to the limit!