1. the baseline hakeem like pump fake was not the move that made miller and o'neal bump knees... 2. the other collins big boy is not on the rockets. 3. the article didnt tell me anything new.
I like this part: "but nobody that size has legs like Yao Ming Yao Ming. That's his name now. Game so nice had to say it twice."
I like this part: <b> This was another tipoff, the way the Rockets were with Yao, around Yao, that they saw, and knew it so quickly. They thought he'd have to adjust to them, or founder. No. They have to adjust to him, in order to win, to stay with him, or else to die, figuratively. </b>
Two months ago YM was a goat, and now he's a God. Why can't people just let this guy be himself. Raven
From the article: "When Artest finished with Yao, Yao was on the floor, crumpled, his face covered by one large hand. And then, suddenly, he was up, stoic. More importantly, his mother, at the game, was equally stoic as this happened. What did this tell you? That Yao gets his stoicism honest. It is no act. Physical play will never crack him. Oh, it will be tried again and again. There is nothing else to do. The Rockets later got Yao an imperial bodyguard for that kind of dirty work . Yao Ming's Asiatic mind also helped him here. That's my guess. Physical discomfort was not so foreign that it broke him down. His ignoring of it was, indeed, his way of saying, 'Bring it on.' " Is Wiley suggesting an addition for the Rockets . Anywoo, that was my favorite part of the article.
The same issue of ESPN Magazine has another article about Yao. It is a <A HREF="http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/021227.html"> confession by Bill Simmons </A> <P> <I>....<P> After the Rockets drafted Yao Ming last summer, I wrote that he'd get dunked on more than a cup of coffee at Krispy Kreme. I called him a "disaster waiting to happen," even throwing in the portentous phrase "Mark my words." Attention centers: It's called a jump shot. The lesson, as always? I'm an idiot. Forget about Yao's emergence as the most polished rookie big man since Brad Daugherty, or that he offers the first worthy challenge to Shaq since Hakeem was still The Dream. If you're a basketball fan, you love Yao Ming. He's a godsend, the best Chinese import since General Tso. And I thought he'd stink. I may as well have predicted that Vin Baker would be the missing piece of the puzzle in Boston or the Blazers would be a team you could be proud to bring home to Mom. Like many hoops junkies, I now stalk SportsCenter every night for a Yao fix. Exceptionally well schooled and mobile, he affects the game at both ends like nobody since Bill Walton. His turnaround jumper -- a borderline work of art -- might be the most unblockable move since Kareem's skyhook. And when was the last time you saw a 7-footer start fastbreaks with 50-foot jai alai passes, or find open teammates with backdoor looks? In the Me-Me-Me NBA, that stuff isn't supposed to happen. .... </I>
Yao is everywhere!!! http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/52113.htm http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?level_3_id=106&page=6117437 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/27/1040511178462.html http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-2/10409733128660.xml
yao expressed no disappointment that the heavily Asian and closer to home Bay Area team didn't draft him. Instead, he got Houston, in a Texas culture that, as big and wide as it is, is foreign even to most Americans. Don't understand this point. What is the Texas culture?
Just a myth,really. People think that Texans are all rich,that we all have oil wells in the back yard,or that we are all cowboys and ride horses .. blah blah
The Texas culture is kind of stereotype that is half fact and half myth. It's similar to talking about the new york city culture as being foreign to the rest of the U.S. To some extent it is, but in many aspects it's similar to any other major metropolitan area.
Texas culture: everything has to be big. I think Ming fits it really well. BTW, if you can describe a culture in one sentence, you are overgeneralizing it, or stereotyping it. But that's the topic for another thread.
the increase in media attention figures. . . the NY media's first real glimpse of the Dynasty. imagine what it will be like when we actually go to NY.
