Do you want to see Yao Ming as a Rocket next year ?

Yea, lets just pray for Dwight and ignore the most obvious low risk high reward move that is right in front of us.

Seems like the BBS is living in dreamland, Dwight won't come to Houston when he can go to Miami/LA.

 

Yao = LOSER

Um, what's the "high reward" again? Yao Ming has only scored about 5 more baskets than I have in the NBA in the last two years. Why not pay me or my wheelchair-bound grandmother 1/10th of Yao's salary for similar production?

 

Because neither you nor your grandma is a top 10 Center when healthy.
Why would they pay you 1/10th of Yao's current contract when the Vet's Min is around 1/10th of Yao's current contract?

Kapish child?

 

Bill Russell is a top-10 center when under the age of 30. Why not sign him for the league minimum, develop a time travel machine, and get an early 1960s version of him? All upside, right? Low-risk, potentially high reward.

I'm not the son of Kapish. I'm the son of Ramish. So I'm a Ramish child.

Ohhhh, did you mean "capiche"? Guess you don't speak Italian. I suppose you're a "barrista" at Starbucks.

 

At first, Yao for the vet minimum seemed like a no-brainer, but I'm not so sure now.

Yao is unique due to his size, skillset and limitations, but that uniqueness makes it hard to integrate him easily into an offense. It's especially difficult as the team this season has gone so far away from the half-court sets that Yao is familiar with.

Can he be effective coming off the bench for five, ten minute stretches, and can his teammates switch gears to take advantage of Yao's talents?

OTOH if you place Yao in the starting lineup, you're basically taking the same gamble on Yao's health that the Rockets lost on for two straight seasons.

Defensively, I can only see positives in having Yao, but offensively it could be pretty chaotic.

 

No, no, and no

It's Time...to move on

 

If you applied yourself you could be such a less r****d.

 

Durvasa summed up my feelings. He's a needy player with limited stamina. I've said before his impact defensively is more important,but his mobility on both ends really hurts the squad.

 

Yao 'll get a lot more than the vet min. He'll get the MLE or equivalent and if the Rockets wont give it to him several teams will.

Remember Brad Miller makes around 5 million or so a year and we signed him to a 3 year contract. 2 years guaranteed the 3rd partly. Miller hardly plays, is terrible when he does and is injury prone and old and brings in zero revenue to the Rockets.

For the vet min, every team in the NBA and every basketball team in the Euro-League would take Yao in a sec.

Yao should probably move on though. He's been in Houston a long time. Grant Hill had to leave Orlando for the bad luck to end

 

At this point, I believe Dwight coming to Houston is more of a possibility than Yao ever playing healthy again. Let him go get injured on some other team.

 

Team Yao will probably get Yao a 8 mill a year contract somewhere and I doubt the Rockets will go above the MLE or around 5-6 million so this debate is pointless.

Yao will likely play in the NBA next season but not here. It's actually likely he'll be healthy if the Rockets medical staff is really as incompetent as many here believe.

I can easily see Yao playing 70 games averaging at least 15 ppg/8 rpg/1.5 bpg mostly like better stats

I can also see Rockets fans hating on Yao for being so healthy once he goes to a team renown for their medical staff like a Phx

 

I hope this plays out just to piss off the "special" bunch on this board.

I was a part of the we should tank crew and I am all for moving past the Yao era, the problem is the Rockets are obviously not and are still looking to compete, the ultimate low risk high reward move would be signing Yao to the vet's min (which is what this thread is about).

If you are lucky you get a top 10 Center in the league playing for you, if you are not then waive him.

I guess people are just frustrated, Rockets fans gone from watching top 10 players of all time to top 10 players in the league to top 10 floppers in the NBA.

 

Everyone wants Yao back for the vet min. Those that say they don't are just hating or goofing around. NBA players making 1 million can sit on the bench all 82 games and no one would care. That's money rookies make and not even the high draft picks like John Wall who makes over 5 million.

Having Yao on the team makes Les money which allows him to spend money on other players instead of cost cut and salary dumps.

 

If yao went somewhere else and put up the numbers alluded to, I would be happy for him. He deserves a chance to continue his career if he chooses. People in orlando arent pissed at grant hill because he's a great guy and the same for Yao. If yao does put up those numbers somewhere else, that means alot of touches,slowing up of the game, and probably a team going nowhere like the rockets once were.

 

At first, I thought Yao would definitely be worth the risk, but now I'm not so sure. If we have Adelmen, then Yao can be effective as a facilitator and shooter...but I don't know about any other coach. I don't think we can afford to have him play the same way he's been playing.

 

best post in the thread

 

That doesn't make much sense.

Tell me why is it harder to incorporate Yao more than incorporate Hill or Thabeet ?

Not to mention both makes more than Yao based on OP's assumption.

Rockets used to build around Yao, it takes time to incorporate him into the shcema. But now I don't think that's the case anymore, and the 1st option will be Martin.

Adding the fact RA seems to be gone, the system seems to be gone, I don't see why fitting the system suddenly becomes a bigger issue than other bigs.

In the end, if Yao doesn't fit, he'll always have better trade value than Hill with that small contract.

 

If team struggles with Hill/Thabeet, they sit or their role on the floor is reduced. No coach is going to go out of his way to incorporate them in a major role if its not helping the team.

With Yao, team will bend over backwards to make him a focal point. Its a waste of time when in all likelihood he won't finish the season.

 

If we had some sort of clear plan or direction I would veto the idea.

But this team? As we presently stand? The idea of dismissing a Yao comeback is borderline incomprehensible to me.

The philosophy here is pretty simple: low-risk contract, ditch any build-around-him or depend-on-him strategies like we've used in the past, work him in a reserve role and basically see what happens.

Given our present state and lack of any clear alternative, I see no harm in at least trying.

 

For sure! And for the record his "grandmama" does a sick behind-the-back wheelchair dunk.