I remember that year well... the game vs the knicks where instead of passing the ball he attacked the double and even the triple teams that were coming at him... and they were talking about Yao dominting even with the double and tripe coverage... Yao wont lead the team until Tracie mclady is gone... its a sign of repspect to your elders... and to Yao Tmac is one of his elders like Stevie Francais is too him....
If I remember correctly, he then went and dominated Shaq the next game. What happened to that Yao? All we have now is a 7'6" roll of Charmin.
Yao is timid and not very smart, in term of basketball IQ. That's why Yao won't be much better than. What a big waste!
Glad you pointed this out. That moment in Yao's career was his pinnacle. He didn't get the media attention he does now but he was clearly "the man". I was shocked when players and media started calling it McGrady's team until eventually I just accepted it forgetting about what Yao had become.
WHY you guys are all complaining about Yao Ming hesitating for 3 to 4 seconds to wait for double or triple team to find his open team mates instead of doing things on his own? Read this. This is what his coach asked him......find the open team mates with the open look to score. Unfortunately, his team mates all became brick-layers and clanked the rim !!
I am really amazed that people keep saying Yao cannot be the leader because Yao is "soft", while they keep TMAC as the leader because of what, his toughness? Either both can be the leader or neigher can, but there is no way that TMAC can lead the team while Yao cannot. People always say how many wins we got with TMac alone. That has nothing to do with the leadership. The leadership is like stopping TMAc's bricking on an off night. The leadership is like kicking lazy asses to keep up the defense. Stuff like "It is my team. It is on me" is no leadership; it is pure crap.
At present, it seems no one can shoulder the team. I remember that time when it was the start of this season, we had many guys can take playtime. I suggest that RA give some chance to Books. Harris(Dallas) set the example for him.
who knows? if we can find some good shooters, we may find yao avg 7 ass a game and start win the games
you really think YAO doesn't want to ATTACK?based on the fact that Rick Adelman has said in public that he is still "experimenting" with different rotations, I found it more reasonable to believe it's a COACH'S DECISION. RA wants to see who can play better with YAO and T-mac rather than seeing YAO in his OLD JVG YAOZER mode.
well, sorry to miss that post. Again, a swing man can certainly win game without a good big man with some scrubs because he creates for himself, you see Kobe win 40+ game for the lakers every season after shaq is gone, however, it's more difficult and demanding to lead scrubs when you are a big man because 1).the scrubs can't get the ball to you well 2).the scrubs can't hit the shot you created for them. In the losses we were without T-mac has anyone stepped out? While we are without YAO, we had Deke and J.Ho who were incredible at the time. Again. even in his prime, YAO will not be able to be the beast and kill everyone else in this league like he did before, as long as the Coach keeps preaching his stupid high post offense and his teamates bricking open shots.
Yup, I really think Yao doesn't want to attack. If he wanted to attack, he'd catch the ball and go at his man! Simple as that.
