I don't know about your reaction. But US media continues to snub Yao Ming like this. What has he done wrong to deserve this type of snubbing ? What does this dumb reporter mean "Even 7-foot-6 Yao Ming (87 percent) shoots his free throws better than James" ? Of course, Yao Ming is shooting free throws MUCH MUCH BETTER than LBJ. And WHY this dumb reporter is leaving Yao Ming's name out of his so called "list of league's superstars and possible MVP candidates" ? Yao Ming was there in the pack before his injury.
i think you are going nuclear over nothing. he mentioned yao along with those top notch players. the 'even' part was just to emphasize that yao is a big man who shoots a great percentage. the whole point of the article is to bash james.
Because the US Media is mean to all communists, just like Mark Cuban. umm, by my read, he IS including Yao Ming in his list of superstars and MVP candidates. That meaning can cross two sentences dude, especially when they are adjacent sentences.
Cause most big centers are historically lousy FT shooters....but I agree that he is being mentioned as a superstar/MVP candidate in the sentence.
Chill Out. Most NBA centers dont have good free throw percentage. How many times have we heard media make fun of Shaqs free throws??? Oh hell they even made a movie scene making fun of shaqs free throws with Shaq in it. Its nothing specifically towards Yao Ming, it just because he is a center and shoots amazing free throws for his position while LBJ should be shooting better free throw percentage than Yao imo. I dont see anything wrong with the article or negative towards Yao Ming.
umm...i think you may have misread this... it sounds like he did put yao ming in the category of mvp candidates which is why it in that particular paragraph. And to say "even yao ming" means the image is that most big men don't shoot free throws well..even dream didn't shoot in the 80+%.....so even yao ming (who is a big man) shoots better, is in the same notation as the other mvp candidates...
Relax Pruyen, you are reading too much into the article. I did not find anything offensive in the article. Yao is not in many people's radar right now due to injury. Anyhow, it's only one man's opinion, don't throw a blanket statement that US media is picking on Yao, which is totally untrue.
No need to read too much into it. It's more a jab at James, rather than Yao. I believe that "Even" is more about the big men in general, who historically weren't great at the FT line. As for MVP candidate, EVEN Steve Nash, you won't have him on everyone's list, nothing special if one reporter didn't consider Yao. Besides, there is no need to title it as "how mean US media is". If you are outraged by this, you might feel it's tough to read anything not super positive to Rockets. Cheers.
maybe,,,but the word "even" also acts to connect the two sentence such that Yao Ming is included in his list of superstars and MVP candidates.
I guess it could be interpreted either ways, because of the punctuations. If he puts some corraletions between the 2 sentences, or just seperate them with a comma, it would avoid any misunderstanding. Well, English is not my mother tongue. Either way, I don't think it's a big deal.
Calm down. Yao has missed 21 games, btw. That's already 1/4 of the season, so if they don't include him among the MVP candidates, that's why.
Yeah because he's seven foot six and a Center, which is why that is explicitly noted Here is a list of the lifetime FT% of players 7-5 and over: Muresan .644 Bradley .716 Bol .561 Nevitt .589 Here is the FT% of some HOF-caliber centers: Chamberlain .511 Olajuwon .712 Robinson .736 Ewing .746 Shaq .528 Abdul Jabbar .721 None of these %'s are particularly high. Some of them are OK (low 70's is my benchmark for "OK" FT shooting). Many are downright awful. Which is what makes Yao's 80+ unusually good for his size.
He's basically saying, if a center outshoots you from the line, it's embarrassing. Kind of like, "You got beat up by a girl". Centers are historically bad free throw shooters.
Yeah i don't see anything wrong with the article. I was hoping for some dude saying Yao ming is officially a giant.
Pryuen, Do you scour the Internet looking for anything that does not refer to Yao Ming as God and go post it here and whine about it like a little girl ... Dude, I feel sad for you. It seems like you are living a life that is dictated base on what other people think or say about you.
"EVEN" if Pruyen is not on Team Yao or on their payroll, he stills defend and protect Yao as if he was one of them.
