Yi has the physical than yao doesnt have to be a great player in the league. The question now is where is his minds? Does he think more about winning or the million dollars contract?
Oh sure he does. That's why he got owned by Renaldo Balkman and the Knicks last night on NBA TV Summer league. The Knicks had a bunch of midgets on the court like Nate Robinson, they should have pounded them in the post. Come on Pryuen! tell them to rebound! Oh I thought that WangZhi doing the Darius Miles thing was awesome! http://www.nba.com/summerleague2007/games/20070710/NYKCHN/recap.html New York 88, Team China 65 LAS VEGAS, July 10 -- The New York Knicks got away with an easy 88-65 win over Team China in the nightcap of games Tuesday night in the NBA Summer League. Sixth overall pick of the Milwaukee Bucks, Yi Jianlian struggled once again in the defeat. Yi came into the contest shooting just 20 percent (5-25 FG) in the last two summer league games and his troubles continued. Yi did not hit a field goal the entire game, missing all six of his shots in 24 minutes of action. Yi finished with three points, all from the free throw line, while committing nine fouls in limited time. Demetris Nichols led the Knicks with 14 points (4-7 FG) in just 16 minutes of action, while guard Nate Robinson hit for 11 points (3-9 FG, 4-5 FT) and dished out four assists in 15 minutes of play. “I just want to get better,” Robinson said on why he wanted to play in the league. “It is better than sitting at home on the couch and working out by myself.” Team China held a 21-20 lead after the first quarter, but went on a 12-0 run to open the second quarter and they never looked back. The Knicks led by as many as 25 points late in the fourth quarter. The Knicks were able to dominate inside, outscoring Team China 38-10 in the paint and having a 33-23 rebound advantage. NOTES: Knicks’ players Malik Rose and Quentin Richardson were in the stands. After a made three-pointer by Wang Zhizhi in the first quarter, he gave two pounds to his head with both fists in the direction of former teammate Richardson. It was much to the delight of Richardson, who was laughing hysterically afterwards.
I went to the China vs. Celtics game tonight. China got pwnd by NBDL scrubs it was not even funny. At one point the score was like 25-50. Yi got totally outplayed and outmuscled by baby shaq, lol. And Rondo was snatching rebounds away from some tall 6-9, 6-8 Chinese forward, it was laughable. Only Wang Zhizhi held his own offensively, but dude did not rebound nor play defense. It was really embarassing.
Team China plays like a piece of shhiitt! Simply horrible. I mean most of the summer league players will not be able to become NBA players when the regular season begins, and these scrubs just have couple days chemistry, they never play together. And yet Team China can't even beat them, pathetic.
I watched the game too. Team China includes almost all the best players in China except Yao, but they were dominated by a bunch of NBDL scrubs, yes, was DOMINATED! And Yi played like crap, it's a shame for Bucks to draft him.
http://www.nba.com/summerleague2007/games/20070711/BOSCHN/recap.html Boston 80, China 52 Las Vegas, July 11 -- The Boston Celtics cruised to an easy 80-52 victory over Team China Basketball at Cox Pavilion Tuesday night. Team China trailed by just four at 21-17 after the first period. However, Boston outscored Team China 22-8 in the second quarter and never looked back. After the Celtics scored the first six points of the second half they never lead by less than 20 points throughout. Celtics forward Leon Powe registered a game-high 23 points and 12 rebounds in 29 minutes. Powe shot 77% from the floor (7-9 FG). “I was upset with my performance in the last game,” Powe said. “I wanted to come out tonight and focus a little more on the defensive end, it seemed to work out.” Boston’s second round selection (#35 overall) Glen Davis also recorded a double-double. Davis finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds in 22 minutes. Meanwhile, Wang ZhiZhi led the way for the Team China. ZhiZhi netted a team-high 18 points and six rebounds in 31 minutes. In five Summer League games, ZhiZhi averaged 17.4 points and 5.4 rebounds in 28.4 minutes. Yi Jianlian, the 2007 first round pick (#6 overall) of the Milwaukee Bucks, once again struggled to find his rhythm. Yi ended the evening with seven points on just one of five shooting from the field, grabbed five rebounds and collected eight fouls in 22 minutes. During the Summer League, Yi averaged 12.4 points and 4.4 rebounds in 28.0 minutes. Team China concludes the 2007 NBA Summer League with a record of 1-4 while Boston is currently 2-1 with two games remaining. Who the hell is Leon Powe?
I am really embarrassed by performance of the China National Team. No excuses, even without Yao Ming, how can a national team lost to some nba scrubs' teams? This is plain embarrassment. Problems with the CNT are: (1) Rebounds - All the big men are allergic to rebounds. Wang Zhizhi and Mo Ke spend more time in the perimeter than in the post. Yi? The games showed that Yi need to concentrate on improving his games more than worrying which city he gonna start his nba career. (2) Turnovers - This has been the main problem of CNT for decades now. Not even a well known european coach can solve this problem. Once pressed, the whole team panicked and turn the ball over. Horrible! (3) Defense - No one play defense in CBA thus none of the CNT players know how to play defense and all they know is to foul. Personally, I think is time to overhaul the whole CBA if China really wanna win a medal in basketball in the next century. Beijing 2008? No chance for medal even with Yao in the lineups. Yao simply cant cover all the poor plays by his sorry a$$ teammates!
Yi's performance in the Summer League was horrible, wonder if Bucks still wanted him or couldn't wait for an offer to trade him asap.
Bucks Head Coach Larry Krystkowaik was interviewed during the game by the announcers, he was very high on Yi and blamed his performance on having teammates who sucked.
Yi sucked badly in the summer league. but so did Oden and Durant. I'll hold my judgement till real NBA season starts.
i think that trademark move by Richardson is just dumb. but it's nice to see WZZ having some fun out there with his former teammates. obviously he got along with former NBA teammates very well, contrary to the report in the Chinese media that he had a hard time fitting in due to a lack of people skills in the NBA.
I am not surprised. I haven't been following Chinese basketball for like 4- 5 years. But I remember years ago, any good NBDL players could dominate CBA. Some no-name American players came to CBA and scored 30-40 points every night like nothing. WZZ was a scrub in NBA. He hasn't been playing a whole lot of basketball in years, but when he came back to CBA, he was still the best player. That is why I say all along that you have to the best in CBA to even have chance to survive in NBA. Guess I am still right. And Yi is NOT the best player in China, he has a long way to go to even catch WZZ. He should know better about himself and stop being a puppet to his agents. They are ruining him.
gees, if these players can beat all these summer league teams, wouldn't most of them deserve a spot on a nba team? i thought everyone knew most of these players weren't going to make it in the league. at most they are college level players. you guys are acting like it's a surprise. only a few on the team are at summer league level. besides, this is like what, their 5th game in 6 days. and i heard they do 2 practices a day still. and then the real game at evening. anybody would be tired as hell. although, i think they should have taken this more serious. a lot of them didn't look like they actually cared. but i guess it's practice after all. aren't most of them 17, 19, 20? that's what i heard from the commentaries. and for the whole yi thing. i'm from wisconsin and a bucks fan and i'm chinese. i don't really care if he ends up here or not. it's a business, if he wants to make more money in big market, that's fine with me. it's not like if the bucks trade him, they aren't getting anything back. most likely bucks will get something better in return. the truth is the bucks are trying to make tons of money off yi. i don't see why yi can't go to another team and try to make more money. if there is no rule in nba that forbids player demand trade, i don't see why not. if they change the rule next year, then fine. but for now, i don't have a problem at all. as for his skills, he is going to be fine in the nba. no team is going to focus or double team him in the league. the last few games i saw, they were fouling him a lot and doubled him inside. he plays better in an uptempo team anyways. he is got the skills and there is no denying that.
do they have dim sun up there? what about bubble tea? are there fusian places? what do they serve? General Mitchell's chicken?
Leon Powe is a NACC player, and he was not even picked by any team in the draft. Celtics invited him to play in the summer league to see what he could do.
Actually Leon Powe was drafted in the second round by the Celtics last year. I had him pegged asa mu sleeper pick. He's not a bad player. I think he mostly dropped in the draft because he's had reconstructive knee surgeries on both knees and he's slightly under-sized. The guy can score and pull down rebounds just not a defender. He's definately a NBA player.
