What? You mean covering up the drive RIGHT UNDER THE FRICKEN BASKET ???? Sure, I can see your point....NOT ! DD
Nope, he is always getting cheap fouls trying to help out on the baseline. If his man is out of the paint, he HAS to cover him, unless the Rocks play a zone, and even then he can not just camp in the middle of the paint. Yao is talented, but his lack of motivation or playing with passion is maddening. The boy seems to be satisfied to just be out there competing...I want him to HATE to lose, he seems to be ok with it. Drives me bonkers. Sorry, if my post came off to strong, I just feel strongly that Yao is wasting a good portion of his talent. DD
Its official: Amare > Yao Its official: Amare > Yao! After the suns thrashed the hornets, im officially saying that amare is much much better than yao bar none. And please stop that its still less than ten games into the season bs. Amare has the drive. Simple. He has nash to give him the ball. And he has the confidence and belief in himself that whenever he is on the floor, he is one of the best if not the best player on the court. Yeah, he's just dunks, but at least he dunks unlike our 7'6 yao who just goes weak into the basket. I still believe that yao has the better upside and potential. He just plays in the wrong system, the wrong coach, the wrong teammates except tmac and maybe the wrong conference. He still has a long ways to go before he can match the output of amare every single night. Amare plays bigger than his height, and he has the intensity and the drive to excel. While yao, he plays smaller than his height and lacks the intensity and the drive to excel. He defers more to his teammates especially to jj. And now with tmac on board, it would be hard for him to be that dominant becoz he knows he has to share the ball to a much greater player.
Well hooray for Amare! Yao will be fine. I think he is hesitant to take more shots and play aggressively because everytime he contests a shot or tries to play straight up defense he gets called for a foul, a rather ticky-tack one at that. As for not taking more shots, he either dsoesn't get the ball or believes a teammate has a better look at the basket. I'll make no excuses for him, I think he is still trying to find his niche` on the team.. If this type of play continues on into the season than I will gladly jump onto the "Yao is soft" bandwagon. I just wish everyone who is bashing Yao and the rest of the team would just give it some time, as soon as they start winning (and they will) everyone will be up in arms, until then lets all just give it some time. Winning cures all.
A wrong title at a wrong time. Who gave you the power declaring "it's official"? Even if Amare is another Michael Jordan, and yao a shawn bradley, you don't want to try to be a new-continent-finder and make yourself a fool. Period.
Relief. I for one second there was a third year player of the year award just handed out to Amare over Yao.
Amare is avging 27.6 pts and 8.9 rebs now after his 38 tonight!!! Yao is only averaging 18.8 and 7.9 rebs Hakeems HIGHEST pt total was in 94 where he put up 27.8 and 10.8 rebs. It is scary to think that Amare stats are creeping up to Hakeems best year (pt wise at least)
When YAO gets 50pts a game, all those Amare-arse-kissers can crawl back to their caves. Jesus Christ, last time I checked, this is still a Rockets BBS. Not UTAH Jazzole. Not Phenix Sons.
Amare played 36.1 mins/game, Yao 31.8 mins/game. So their rebs/min is about the same. Amare did score more. The Suns run a lot and is a high scoring team. In football, the receivers in a run and shoot offense may have high number of receptions. But they are not necessarily the best receivers in the NFL. I would only comment who's better after they play head-to-head in January. Hopefully Amare will still play center and have the ball to match up against Yao 1-1 in that game.
Not going to defend Yao or make a case for Amare, but give the Rockets a running game like the Suns and an assists machine like Nash, and the Rockets would all score more points too. Props to Amare for delivering, but it's to be expected for the offense they run with the PG they have leading them.
