that is kinda of cool. i thought it was an old issue until i recognized the new logo. Kind of freaking sweet to see a HOUSTON rocket representing H-town, this early, during the summer.
DUNK-A-THON! Wow! I can't wait until the season starts. Looks like Yao will be so much more aggressive!
Could someone please post the results of the third game here when it is finished... please! umm good to see ming dominating game 2, and also good to see Andrew Gaze playing well for us Australian's... i am also a Melbourne Tiger supporter, but dont mind them losing to a large national side. Go Tigers and Ming for game 3
Someone visited Melburn tigers 's website and it said the Tigers did not get 1 offensive rebound, but it didn't show a box score. Doubt ! Tiger's url?
This is from tiger's web site. Pretty interesting. Yao-ch! Tigers hit 'Great Wall' Yao Ming, 226 centimetres tall, leads the Chinese national team and the Asian basketball boom. For more than a week he is leading Andrew Gaze and the Melbourne Tigers on a magical mystery tour of China. On Wednesday night in Hong Kong, the Tigers ground to a halt when confronted on court by the "Great Tall of China" and lost 85-75 to the Chinese team, which is getting ready for its Olympic qualifying series. Tonight, in Jinjiang, Melbourne plays the second of four games, all of which will be seen by tens of millions on national television. Gaze, a 20-year veteran of international sport, is discovering just how big Yao, 22, has become in Asia after his stellar debut season in the American National Basketball Association. "You've got no idea, we're rock stars," Gaze said from Jinjiang yesterday. "There's hysteria like the Beatles - they're the Beatles, we're the support act. "We don't mind that because we're getting unbelievable exposure. "There was a sellout 11,000 crowd in Hong Kong and everywhere we go it's manic." The tour is part of the Tigers' ownership-sponsorship deal with Golden Star International that aims to push Australian's best-known basketball club into the enormous Asian market. Yao had 17 points in China's win, but it was his ability to push aside Tiger star Mark Bradtke (208 centimetres), the NBL's pre-eminent big man, that staggered Gaze. "He made 'Hogey' (Bradtke) look small," Gaze said. "No one does that." The one player who leapt higher than Yao was guard David Smith - although he is only 194 centimetres, the athletic Smith beat Yao to the tip in starting the second half. "Timing is everything," quipped Gaze. The captain said Bradtke and his teammates played well and were only four points behind at three-quarter-time, but suffered the fate of touring teams everywhere - questionable calls when the game was on the line . "The foul count was 8-0 in the last quarter," Gaze said.
In a interview, Yao was asked how to handle all the sexual temptation while play for NBA, will he be next Kobe?" Yao answered he run out of all the energy after pracitice and game, so he doesn't have to think about that. and he said the team Yao would help him on this matter! http://sports.sohu.com/44/56/news211955644.shtml damn, I want to be in team Yao to help gimme all the girls! I am sure Yao won't even got 1!
Someone with talent...could you go to http://yaoming.sports.sohu.com and translate what is flashing across the big red winged Yao?
could someone explain to me why Yao start to play scoccer instead? http://content.sina.com/news/81/90/4819004_1_b5gif.html
I bet the Chinese team used the twin tower strategy again in this game. As much as we need a real point guard, we definitely need another tower to play along with Yao.
team Yao would help him on this matter! That's so funnyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy if we have to understand ur way!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
In the third game between China NT and Molburn Tigers, China NT won 97 to 75, Yao got 19/6rb/4blocks, and Bateer got 29 and 11 rbs.
