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Ewing interviews!! Ewing: Yao 'should be the next dominant center'

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  1. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2003/0618/1570113.html

    HOUSTON -- Former New York Knick Patrick Ewing interviewed with the Houston Rockets on Wednesday for an assistant coaching job with his former coach Jeff Van Gundy.

    "If you asked me a couple of years ago if I wanted to be a coach, I would have said no,'' Ewing told Houston television station KRIV. "But when I was in Orlando one of the coaches down there kept pestering me about it -- why put all that knowledge on the shelf?''

    Van Gundy was hired last week as the new head coach of the Rockets.

    "He's an outstanding coach. He knows the X's and O's,'' Ewing said.

    Ewing is already a fan of Yao Ming, Houston's 7-foot-6 center from China.

    "He should be the next dominant center after Shaquille,'' Ewing said. "His upside is great.''
     
    #1 rockbox, Jun 18, 2003
  2. Shot caller

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    Ewing talks too much. He is going ot be an assistant to tutor Yao, he doesn't need to talk him up before meeting him.

    Not very profesional in my opinion.

    Is Paul Silas talking up Lebron?
    No, seriously. Is he? I don't know.
     
    #2 Shot caller, Jun 18, 2003
  3. GladiatoRowdy

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    I don't think he was talking him up so much as paying a compliment and trying to instill some confidence in the young man. If someone like Ewing who knows about big men says something to a young player, it has IMPACT.
     
    #3 GladiatoRowdy, Jun 18, 2003
  4. MONON

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    I think Ewing's sucking up to soothe over the ruffled feathers of Rocket fans so he can become an assistant coach!
     
    #4 MONON, Jun 18, 2003
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    well, i doubt that he is talking TOO much. it's just that he thinks that Yao will be the next dominate center & it's very possible. if you look at it, Yao's probably the best center not named Shaq. if you look around the league, it's Shaq and then everyone else.

    here's my ratings for the center position across the league.
    1. Shaq
    2. Yao
    3. Ben Wallace (if you count him as a center)
    4. Vlade Divac
    5. Brad Miller
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    I would have to include Cato as a top 15 center, heck maybe even top 10.

    Really, relatively speaking, after Shaq and Yao, who else is gonna be a good center, much less great?

    And if Duncan moves to the center position next year, Duncan would be my top center.
     
    #5 matrixReloaded, Jun 18, 2003
  6. PhiSlammaJamma

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    I think the mop boy just cringed. It's going to be a long season for that kid :)
     
    #6 PhiSlammaJamma, Jun 18, 2003
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    :D
     
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    Maybe it's my pro-Houston bias, but I cringe at the thought of seeing Patrick Ewing sitting on the Rockets bench.

    If anyone should be brought in to help Yao, it should be Kareem. Kareems finesse playing style is very suitable to and a much more realistic goal for where I'd like to see Yao's game in a few years. But that another thread...
     
    #8 ima_drummer2k, Jun 18, 2003
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    Ewing was also quoted as saying, "Water is wet, and fire is hot."
     
    #9 Band Geek Mobster, Jun 18, 2003
  10. TIburon

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    So I guess Jeff Van Gundy was sucking it up too...

    He was talking about the players we have here in Franchise, Cat and Yao plus Tayor, Cato and Norris..

    Yeah!!! Lets fire him!!!:rolleyes:

    I like Ewing coming in and helping Yao develop... We could do worse... He's a top 50 player and actually played against good centers...

    Nowaday its Tim Duncan and the rest of the league... Yeah, there's Shaq but he didn't do anything this season but get paid...
     
    #10 TIburon, Jun 18, 2003
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    5 years from now it could very well look like this

    1. yao
    2. curry
    3. darko
    4. pavel (that russian 7'5" giant)
     
    #11 lost_elephant, Jun 18, 2003
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    If a any former great center WANTS to come here and TEACH, then let him.

    It can only help.
     
    #12 DavidS, Jun 18, 2003
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    Yao's already got the finesse game. He needs Big Mo to bang him around and teach him how to lower his center of gravity and root out other players for boards. Mo could teach Yao to dominate......................just like he did Hakeem.
     
    #13 jopatmc, Jun 18, 2003
  14. lggarcia

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    wow.. they talk nice about the rockets.. they are sucking up and talking too much.. they don't talk or flatter the rockets and they hate the team... I thought there was a happy medium around here
     
    #14 lggarcia, Jun 18, 2003
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    Does this mean that every post season from now on, Yao Ming will guarantee that the Rockets will then championship next year?
     
    #15 FranchiseBlade, Jun 18, 2003
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    I have no issue with Yao guaranteeing things, but if he doesn't back it up like Ewing didn't...
     
    #16 DeAleck, Jun 19, 2003
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    A while back, I read an article that eluded to the fact that the whole Moses teaching Olajuwon was not what everyone made it out to be. I couldn't find that article, but I did find an article with this quote from Lyndon Rose, a former Uof H teammate.


    "At Fonde, the competition was better, but it wasn't like Hakeem was at a disadvantage," Rose said. "He could compete right away. He was ready. Hakeem gets a little offended when people say what Moses did for him. I mean he appreciates what Moses did -- a lot. But when Hakeem went to Fonde, he was ready."

    Here's the whole article:
    http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/sports/bk/bkn/preview/hakeem.html

    j
     
    #17 silent j, Jun 19, 2003
  18. arkoe

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    Come freaking on. You don't rag on a player, that's unprofessional. There's no harm in giving praise to a player.
     
    #18 arkoe, Jun 19, 2003
  19. Deckard

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    A great article. Thanks!
    Whatever happened to Eddie Sefko?


    I can't picture Ewing on the Rocket bench. That would be a difficult adjustment for me, anyway. We'll see what happens.
     
    #19 Deckard, Jun 19, 2003
  20. silent j

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    Last I heard, he was writing for the dallas Morning News.
    j
     
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