ClutchFans Game Thread: Sixers @ Rockets 12/4/2004

If the sixers go up against amare's suns, it would not even be closed. The score would be 120 - 70. Im not kidding and amare would destroy the sixers frontcourt with 40 points and 15 boards. In this game, yao went up against players 6-8 inches shorter than him and still he needed tmac to save his ass. Im a big rocket fan as you guys but im just spoiled by the greatness of hakeem. Everybody knows that even before the game even started, the rockets have always a 60% chance of winning the game. I just hate to see some guys compare a bumbling yao to the dream. And nobody will stop me from bashing yao and tmac. Im more than just a rocket fan. I am a basketball fan. And i know that a 7'6 player with the talents and skills of yao should not only make 17 and 8. I know it and everydbody knows it. The rockets will never make the play offs if yao continues to play like this. We lost a lot when we traded for tmac. We didnt only lose three imortant components to the team, but we lose heart. We lose yao's best friend. And it made him a sissy, a soft as a tissue 7'6" center who plays like a 6'5" small forward and is the second coming of a benoit benjamin and is only half the player rik smits is. Damn that was good. Now dig that.

 

Can anyone introduce a magic board for this guy?

 

Yao got most of those 20 on the FT line. Thats the only place where Yao can score.

 

http://www.bleachermob.com/madness/madnbamagic.html

 

You are just plain stupid. Yao's leg was broken long before he played in NBA, so he cannot jump high. With healthy legs, his vertical was about 37 inch. What level did dream play after he got injured?

 

Yao never...NEVER had a 37" verticle leap.....

Come on now...yao has never been a leaper, and never will be...he needs to use what he has to his advantage.

His height.

Right now he plays small, sort of like a tall man who has bad posture because he is stooping to make himself smaller.

Yao needs to hold his head high and play big....


DD

 

His leg was broken, when and how did that happen?

 

Maybe it wasn't 37", but I think it's highly probable that he had a substantially higher vertical leap before he got that broken leg.

Sigh... right now I would trade in 3" of his height for whatever his vertical leap was before he broke his leg...

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=241105020

108:98 Suns
Amare: 9/19 29pts 10rebs

 

In the book "Yao: a life in two worlds", he said when his legs were healthy, he could look down at the rim when he dunked.
Do the math kid.

 

This rumor came out of his biography, in that somebody posted that there was a quote where Yao did a dunk where his eyes was looking down on the rim. Although when I read it through, I didn't find such a passage. There was a few parts where Yao said he jumped really high and had his head up at the rim level, but it sounded like they were isolated incidents.

On the flip side, the way that Yao explained it, he did lose some jumping ability and explosiveness when he hurt his foot a couple of times. So even if this 37" vertical thing is too far-fetched to be real, Yao still would have been a much better dunker if he didn't hurt himself. Added explosiveness being the biggest key.

 

I looked all over that book and I didn't find any specific quote that definitively said that. There were some quotes that seemed to come close, but regardless of that Yao definitely said that he jumped really high on occasions, but never said that he could do it on a regular basis.

 

Dig this- name another player over 7'4" who was a 20/10 player. Muresan? Bol? Nevitt? Bradley? Stick THAT in your craw. Half the player Rik Smits is? Yeah, right.

Umm, and your post wasn't that good. When we make the playoffs again with Yao this year, you'd better come on the board ready to swallow some major crow, 'cause it's gonna happen. If YOU or others want to compare Hakeem to Yao, that's your problem cause no one compares to the Dream.

Dig?

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=241105020.

They lost to the Suns by 10 points.

Noone does this on the BBS. Noone washes balls, objective fans who don't overreact like you are able to root for players while acknowledging their skills and faults. Something you seem to lack.

Yao's best friend on the team is Boki. Were you any sort of real Rox fan who read their press releases or articles or even bothered reading any of the posst on this board, you would realize that. Only a person who bases his opinions of the Rox on what he hears Nationwide (ie, Francis is close to Yao) would not know this.

Rik Smits career stats after 3 seasons

12.7ppg/5.7rpg -- Half of that is 6.3ppg/2.9rpg


Yao's career stats during 3rd season

15.7ppg/8.5 rpg


Conclusion: You are an absolute idiot, who isn't a real Rox fan. You probably have another moniker on this site, and you register as a different user so you can continously bash a player and pray for his demise so that it will prove you and your other nicknames correct (even though in doing so, the Rox suffer). Please tell us why we hate the Jazz so much, and name the specific play that got them past us the last time we met in the playoffs. I'm waiting.

 

HAHAHA. OWNED.....Great Reply hotballa...

 

I came across that he said he was looking down on the rim when he dunked. Don't know how you read the book.

 

came back from the game.

the game was boring, but it was exciting cause it was my first game at tC. I was thinking to myself, why the hell are we in the third quarter with 50 points?

I was wondering why the hell Boki was in his Eastern European gear. Same with JJ.

Anyhoo, that last couple of seconds was scary, because The Rockets couldnt get the rebound. It's a good thing the refs swallowed the whistle.


there was a bunch of empty seats in the good seats.

 

And when i read the book, all of the comments about Yao jumping really high, were about isolated incidents. Yao never said that he could do stuff like looking down at the rim on any kind of regular basis. In fact, a direct quote from the book seems to be the order here. Because from what I remember, Yao was kind of vague in his wording about exactly how high he jumped.

 

somebody tell vincejas to shut his mouth!! I'm sick and tire of all this u 7'6 and play like it. Why do u think back of all the 7'6 player in the nba and compare them with Yao. Let see Shawn Bradley 7'6 and does her ever average 18 and 8 rebound a game. No!! So the next time you said 7'6 and play like it than tell it to Shawn.

 

The only reason we won this game is because the Sixers are that bad.