Hmm, I saw a video of yao pushing some guy in international games to the ground. I think the guy just dunked on Yao, and then got all excited and got in his face, and Yao pushed him away (more like sent him flying) to the ground. The guy just got up and walked away and refs didnt' even call anything. I would LOVE for Yao to get up after being hit in his head, and step towards mason and push him away to the ground (send him flyin' a bit). This will not be that bad because the penalty would be less then it would be for a punch, or maybe even no penalty who knows. But I believe in "never let them see you sweat". It's so true in real life, they'll bury you. I think Yao needs to man up just a little bit and stop patting guys on the back that just punched him in the head and walked over to our bench and taunted Howard and your coach. Start pushing guys around a little bit man. I also DO think he will get meaner. Usually people that grow up being clowned their whole lives have that ONE moment, when they snap. Then they start being really angry and feel like they almost have to take it out on other people for being treated so bad their whole lives to make up for it. Someone said something about Nowintsky becoming mean, this might have been what happened.
If Mason was just looking for a headline, then he should do that to Shaq, the most dominant player in NBA. But you and I know that Mason will never dare to do it, because if he did, he knows he would be flattened to the floor, and thats Shaqs reputation. Yao Ming has the reputation of being soft, and other teams will use this against him until that day when he learns to either throw a punch or a dunk!
Yes Yao, punch or push Mason back. Start a fight, get suspended for a couple of games with TMac already out. Hell if we're lucky, it escalates to the Ron Artest situation and we lose you for more than just a couple of games. So what if we lose the games, at least you got your revenge. Amazing to me how after last year's fiasco in Detroit, there are any NBA fans who want their own players to escalate those kinds of situations. You're a moron.
Yes of course. Yao is the coolie of the Rockets. Lets dress him in rags and a rice picker hat and call him Ah-Ming and have him pull JVG around in a rickshaw. For those who don't know "Coolie" was a term given by the Colonial Brits to native Indian, Malay and Chinese workers. Its also referred to lower class not very bright laborers. Like calling someone a "Cotton Picker" in the South.
Sometimes the comments on this board are not fair. I am not a YOF...I am a pretty old guy who has been following the Rockets since Malone took them to the playoffs and lost. A lot of folks have stated in the past that Yao will never be great...he'll never average 20-10-2 blocks/game. Well, he's doing it now (albeit very early in the season) and his game looks better than ever. Still, a lot of folks are blaming him for the loss to NO/OKC and questioning his value still. It's a team game, guys. They doubled and tripled him late in the game, causing more difficult shots and fadeaways. He missed too many...but he took them. This is better than before, when he wouldn't take the go-to shots unless they were slam dunks. He played more minutes, put up great numbers, and on a team where he was clearly not the primary option, but the only option. This was a team loss. Outside shooting (except maybe for Andeson) was abysmal. Team "on the ball" defense was poor. Stro has not shown up. Alston has not been penetrating as effectively as we need. Without McGrady, this is a 1-man team with role players. It is going to be tough to win in this league until TMac returns. With McGrady and Yao, the dynamic is very different and the results should be dramatically different. With all due respect to everyone on the team, I doubt whether the outcome would be different if TMac was playing and Yao was injured.
You're correct about Yao not being tired. I read his post match-up interview over at Yaomania and he said he wasn't really exhausted and he just couldn't make any shots. I aslo agree with him be distracted, its a fact that Yao tends to dwell on the current situation in his head for far too long, therefore losing his concentration. Even JVG tried to give Yao some advice about blocking things out mentally while focusing on the game.
Yao did the right thing this time, but Yao is not going to fight with someone next time if the same thing happened. Yao is from Shanghai...
Putting up good numbers does not define a player but to be able to score at crunch time and eventually win the game makes you. Malone, Barkley, put up good numbers, but they never win a championship...and they are never considered as great. Toward the end of the game, YaoMing was single covered, but he avoided body contact and went for several jump shots and fade aways, obviously he lost focus after that ugly incident and missed most of the shots. The issue here is not "to punch or not to punch" , but "YaoMing cracks under pressure" , being one of the highest paid player in the league.. it is just so dissapointing...
Give me a break. Yao is young. It was one game. He'll develop that killer instinct we all want him to have.
Yao was phenomenal in the 4th quarter last year. Yao "cracking under pressure" is just a ridiculous statement. He missed some shots late in one game, big deal. That happened to all the greats and more than a few times
Well, maybe you should check reality. If in your eyes, only MJ is great, then I can assure you that Yao will never be MJ, maybe you should seek your satisfaction somewhere else. No matter you like Barkley or Malone, but they are not great, just they didn't win a ring? Reggie and Stockton, and so many other great players (in common fans' and experts' eyes, but certainly not you), are just bunch of scrubs, because they didn't win a ring. What made you so sure that Yao cracked under pressure? 16 minutes straight, he just couldn't handle it. That's reality, call him wuss all you want, he could only resort to jump shots when he's gassed. He did block shots, made shots, and got rebound after the fight. What made you so sure that he was so slow in reaction, that after the fight, a good few minutes, he still fought hard, and all of a sudden, when he realized how dangerous it was, and he got scared slowly but surely, and then started to avoid contact. You should write some fictions, instead of posting on a bbs. It's just ridiculous how the sentiment of bbs could be just after one loss. Talking about "loyal fans", what a joke.
...I am sure you are a YOF...I don't blame you.....(being scared is an acceptable excuse?!....hahaaaa....)
That's just great, got labelled after two games. I can see your great contribution to this board. If you blame me, I would actually feel better, coz then i am sure we are different. Talking about acceptable excuse, I don't get it what you wanted to say. it's either my ability to express or your ability to comprehend or think. Whatever. Let's stop here. You can be tough all you want to.
Its funny that you say that b/c he was putting up good numbers last year while producing in the 4th and saved out butts more then I could think, but now that he's putting up great number like we all have expected to him get(21/10/2), you resort back to say he cracked under pressure? It sounds likes you're knit-picking a bit here don't you think? Every star player falls short when trying to win the game late. In fact I've seen two player already this year in Kobe and Wade who didn't respond too well in the 4th qtr and lost the game for their team. Its uncharicteristic of Yao who has the highest fg% to miss 8 shots in a row and I don't think that will happen too often. You know what the best thing that could be said about this game? Yao said he wasn't really exhausted in the 4th and that he would still keep on shooting despite all of the misses, which of course all star player does. I think Yao learned a lot from this game and will be better for him in the long run.
Why don't you stop acting like a little kid and fast forward to 2005. The whole YOF thing got used, abused, and thrown out a while ago.
