Considering your earlier posts encouraging Yao to fight in order to boost his 'elite' status, i'll pardon your idiotic remark about Islam. Yao responded the best way he could've responded - by letting his game do the talking.
I was referring about the image of Islam to the typical non-Muslim. But this dwells into politics. Nothing idiotic about that statement, btw.
Seriously, whoever complains that Yao doesn't fight is an idiot. He makes more money from his endorsement deals than his Rockets paychecks. Do you honestly believe that he would jeopardize his million dollars endorsement deals by trashing his good guy image in the commercial world? Think.
Okay, if you're going to bring technicalities about this, I can't respect a guy who can't stand up for himself. I can't stand watching Yao get hacked every night and not at the very least do what Jordan does and star at them, shove them, say something...anything. And I know exactly why Yao acts the way he does. He acts the way he does not because he is some sort of Christian or other religious theme who channels his inner-rage...if it were something like that I'd respect him. No, I whole-heartedly believe he doesn't fight because he's kind of scared and that he comes from a culture that discourages fighting for yourself. I know this because I am around people ( i.e. friends, family members, community, etc. ) like this every day. There is nothing to admire about Yao's passiveness if it exists through fear and not because of some inner-restraint. I'm not exactly calling him soft; I'm just saying he's not entirely tough. But he's getting there. Every man needs to deal directly with confrontation at least once in his life to understand courage and generate a level of self-respect. Yao, like a lot of Chinese people I've known, run away from this.
There's a fine line between a good guy and a nice guy who lets people stomp on him. This isn't the Carmelo situation where Rafer and, say, Earl Waston get into a tussle and Yao sneaks behind Watson, smacks him upside the head, and runs in reverse. Yao reminds me of my dad. We have this neighbor who's a complete a_hole to my dad and my dad just let's it happen. People have to fight his fights to put that a_hole neighbor back in place. And yes, my dad is a good guy.
i will rate this thread a 1. I would hate to see him fight. Yao needs to be Yao. I love the shove by tmac tho, I think the shove was necessary, you have to stand up for your teamates. But we cant afford the suspensions was it a ten game suspension for the carmelo punch? No thanks
So if Yao got pushed, and he pushed back or slapped some guy in the face, McDonalds, Nike, and everyone else would pull out? Please. You're acting like he raped a white chick in Colorado. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
That's confusing. So you'd be okay if T-Mac defended his teammate and risked a suspension, but not okay if Yao or anyone else defended themselves and risk a suspension...?
I apologized if I am confused here. So you just want to see him pushing, shoving and slapping back? I thought you said you want him to get into a fight.
Getting into a fist fight on the court isn't just thuggish behavior, it's also stupid. It'll cost him money and a suspension at least. Maybe even cost the team a playoff series. I like the way he responds to being roughed up. I don't know why you think Yao getting into a fight does any good for anything. Were you a bully in grade school or something? Just kiddin' on that last part
Mac is smart enough not to throw a punch, a push gets you nothing more than a tech. He knows that. You know he was just standin up for his teammate and his postseason.
Dream fought all the time, Otis Thorpe, Clyde, Max, all the great ones get it on. Even Dr. J. and Bird fought once. The culture thing is killing me with Yao.
I was honestly kinda hoping Yao would get up and just throw Collison to the ground... Even if it led to an ejection. For one, we probably still would have won, and for another, I didn't really care about winning. But I would bet anything (as sad as it may be) that that woulda really helped Yao's image. It was still great to see Mac show some leadership. Reminded me of the days when Stevie would stand up for his boys...
I seriously doubt it would have been 15 games for Yao. He'd have to sneak behind someone and slap 'em upside the head to get something like 15. Also, Yao being the one in self-defense, he might get only 5 games.
