Could Yao Ming make the All-Defensive Team this year?

they don't really care for positions. last yr, they had dwight at 2nd team with prince and battier at forwards.

hell i remember one year they had SIX guys on all-nba defense 1st team.

yao hasn't dominated defensively consistently throughout the year and hasn't shut down anyone on a national stage consistently for him to show that. i rarely hear commentators/analysts rave about yao's D.

we know his value and he's a good anchor for us.

 

he might. we don't know. chances are low though.

 

I will agree with your comparison of Mark Eaton. Fortunately for Eaton he played in a league where Centers were mostly back to the basket, there was no three point line when he came into the league and he rarely had to come out of the post. You are right Eaton did have many of the same limitations as Yao Ming.

Eaton never had to guard players that would pull him out of the post. Bill Lambeir or Jack Sikma might have pulled him away from the post some but most the centers were low post players.

Yao Ming would have been just as good or better than Eaton IMO defensively. Eaton was a superior shot blocker but Yao is better in every other way. I'm also not sure that Yao would not have blocked 3 or 4 shots a game with all the extra post play back then.

 

my point was neither prince or battier was a PF. both were SF. so they don't care for positions that much.

they could put yao and dwight on 1st team if they wanted. just like in 05-06, they had SIX guys on all-nba 1st team.

yao is one of the reasons for our improved defense, not the main reason. the denver game was one of our best defensive games in a while and yao played only 26 minutes. artest getting healthier, shane getting healthier, lowry implemented, and practicing more is allowing us to get back that defensive intensity this team has known for the past 4-5 years.

 

Are you saying that Yao is a better defender than Howard?

 

What is your point...Dwight Howard is a center.

 

if you think he'll make it, that's great. hopefully he will.

there's no national talk about yao's defense so i don't think he'll make it. that's all.

at least we can agree that howard will win DPOY, which i don't agree with but o well.

 

I dont think scola can grab so much rebs without yao~

 

Not with Dwight Howard leaps and bounds ahead of #2 in BOTH rebounding and blocking.

Probably 2nd team since Tim Duncan's been listed as PF with Oberto being the C for the Spurs.

 

Come on, let's get real. Yao is not even above average in that department.

Yao's height provides him both advantage & disadvantage at the same time. On the good side, his height can disrupt many shots, and limit the penetration; but on the other side, his slow movement makes him an easy target for other team to attack the ring, and draw a easy foul from him since he is usually late to get to the position; the fatal part of his game is when he has to face a player who can shoot from 15ft out, that's why the Rockets have such a hard time dealing with the Jazz.