[Dime] More of China blaming the Rockets for Yao's injury

waahhhh!!....give me 13 million dollars...I will play until my ankles and foot shatter..Yao dont need feet when he retires, cause he's gonna be sitting on his azz...He's already paid

 

no wonder the chinese sucks at basketball. their basketball logic is terrible.

 

More so than Rockets fans blaming injuries on his Chinese national team duties?

In the end, which is more taxing on his body?

1) 80+ games with the Rockets, 90+ if you have preseason and playoffs, playing 40+ minutes a night grinding it out in the low post against thugs.

2) 10-20 games with the national team, where the guards can't even pass him the ball, and he spends his time killing scrub centers.

 

I think this is more about Yao himself. If he said he couldn't play, Adelman wouldn't force him to play. Yao is too honest, too nice! He should learn from Shaq. Shaq always pretended to be injured in regular season and let his big body have sufficient rest when the playoffs start.

 

The NBA is Yao's career choice and he's paid very well for making that choice. I don't think CNT activities or the NBA are at fault. Yao made his choices and is living with the results of those choices. I don't want to say Yao's to blame, but Yao's to blame.

 

Not true. Yao hasn't been playing over 80 games, since 2003.

Yao Ming has averaged 59 games for the last 4 years. He played 57, 48, 55, 77 games from 2005-2009.

 

Exactly, I never bought the argument that his injuries were because he played in the summer. I don't remember any time where he got injured playing in the CBA and not being able to play in the regular season, it's always the other way around, gets injured playing in the NBA and can't play for the CNT.

 

Yao has only averaged more than 35 mpg one season in his career muchless average 40+ minutes. Last season he only averaged about 33 mpg. He averages less than 33 mpg for his CAREER.

Dwight Howard has averaged more mpg than Yao for most of his career.
Tim Duncan used to average 38-39 mpg per season. Last year he averaged the same mpg as Yao.
Shaq, in his prime was averaging 38-40 mpg. Shaq last year, in his career decline, averaged almost as many minutes as Yao (30 mpg).

 

Not sure what you're trying to say. Since the argument is WHY he can't stay healthy from 2005-2009 after starting off healthy.

My point is that every year Rockets fans blame the CNT for Yao's injuries. Yet in reality how the Rockets use Yao has a much bigger impact on his injury history.

 

When an athlete has surgery he/she needs 6 months of downtime in the off-season to fully recover. Training camp and playing tournaments doesn't help achieve that.

 

Okay. My fault for not using the correct numbers. But that doesn't change my central argument, which is that the Rockets play a MUCH, MUCH BIGGER role in Yao's injury history than the national team ever could.

Sure, it's certainly justifiable, given that the Rockets pay him the big bucks and allow him to become an international icon. Of course they should expect him to play hard. But that still doesn't take away the fact that grinding it out in the NBA over the course of the regular season is the main reason why his body can't hold up.

 

I am saying that you are wrong that Yao's being taxed by playing over 80 games a season. The chinese article was blaming Adelman in 2009.

Unless blaming his current injury problems on 2002 and 2003, it makes sense then.

Playing Yao 82 games, 7 years ago, caused Yao's broken foot , 2 months ago.

 

Playing in the NBA is his job. Who cares if it is taxing? Yao Ming isn't doing it for free, the Rocket organization is paying him roughly 20 million dollars a year to do it. It is his duty to play for the Rox because he is receiving more than ample compensation for it.

The CNT on the other hand has been requiring him to go every single year, during the time when Yao was supposed to get some rest and recover his damage. The worst part is that they still required him to go and play even after he just had surgery.

I think Stern and co. should really look at giving the teams the ability to prevent their players for playing for their teams every single year. These players are being paid and lot of money and the team's performance suffer when their bodies breakdown due to the added strain of playing for their home teams (i.e. Manu being another example).

 

All your numbers are wrong. If Yao cant play over 80 games from 2005-2009, because he played over games in 2003. Even if the Rockets played Yao 50 games in 2010-11, then Yao's body will still be overtaxed from 2003 and break his foot again.

It doesn't make sense.

 

It's not like Yao is in the top ten in minutes played last season, he was #67. There were lesser role players that averaged more minutes per game then him.

I'm not denying that the grueling schedule of the NBA factored into his feet getting injured, but I'd like to think if we are going to pay him franchise max money, then he can play the games and minutes like a franchise player should do. But alas, Yao seems to need one of those stickers that says Fragile: Handle With Care.

 

So the fact that he's 7'6 and 300 lbs. doesn't matter?

And your number 1 is off base. Yao is never healthy enough to play that many games.

 

Actually, the Chinese official wasn't blaming anyone. It's just a rebuttal of the American media saying Yao's Olympic experience caused his injuries. I don't see why you have to harp on the fact of whether Yao played 30 minutes or 40 or whatever year. When regardless of the exact numbers, the NBA season is much more taxing than the CNT.