I just want him to get a ring, even with another team if need be. He deserves it... Come back strong Yao!!!
Yao's being missed game by game, rox has been abused inside by other teams. it's painful to watch rox games nowaday although i kept watching. yao's being missed too much. we need to find a way to get a center of yao caliber or one close to him to bring this team back to the winning track. look around, i don't see any available. i notice alot fans proposed some names but they are not good enough for this team since the team is built around yao. you have to have a center of yao caliber to fully benefit from this roster. it's clear to me rebuilding this team is must.
I think it became obvious in the very game where he went down. In Washington, the Rockets looked tiny next to their front line after Yao went down. It's been the biggest problem of the season. I wonder if things would be different if the Rockets could have landed Tyson Chandler in the offseason.
maybe they would be slightly better, but it appears to me that the resolve and never give up attitude has finally dissolved. really, how many seasons can you keep being that scrappy feel good team until you realize that you are just outmatched. It has regressed into a team of individuals trying to attain offensive statistics without respect for defensive integrity.
Or if they had pulled that Amare trade last trade deadline. Imo he would of sign easily if we had offered him the full max.
i doubt chandler is one from whom other rox players can benefit. do you really think chandler will demand double team?
We wouldn't be a championship contender but Chandler is probably the defensive player of the year up to this point. Our defense would be MUCH better and solidified a position of desperate need. We would probably be battling New Orleans, Denver and Portland for the 6th seed.
To be truthful, and IMHO, it's been a problem a lot longer than this season's WAS game. From my vantage, the Rocket's have been banking on health for a long time with no Plan B that I can see. (Then again, I don't consider asset collection culminating in 3 assets for 1 star a very dependable strategy). Rockets management appears to be banking on health and an assumption that the current roster is really close to competitive to the WC elites. With an admitted prejudice, I just don't see this either as a safe bet. Chandler would have been nice. But...is he a continuation of a long string of players the Rockets have collected that shine on defense or offense but not both? If you're only paying someone $3M, it might not matter. But if the price tag exceeds $10M/year, maybe skills on both sides of the ball should be required?
That's the problem right there. The teams biggest weakness is a lack of interior defense and we still have people thinking of ways to score more points. Battier is having a turn back the clock year defensively and it goes to waste because we have no shot blocker. We will be the Golden State Warriors until we can find our anchor in the middle.
His contract cannot be traded if he has announced retirement. Remember that. I believe he has agreed to play along with the Rockets staff to allow them to move his contract. The media stance being that "Yao plans on playing next season."
Talk about hitting the nail on the head. The Rockets have been pursuing a flawed strategy and there is apparently no Plan B. TMac had a history of back problems in Orlando; this was well known. As to Yao, the history of "giants" in the NBA was one of chronic foot and leg problems, which is the result of a genetic syndrome. Also well known. Then, when things began to fall apart, Les stubbornly staid on course, and here we are.
The rockets always have a plan B. The rockets name was almost mentioned in every trade rumor, that is a plan to improve the team. But it is easy to say to done to get a star, every team wants to have a star. Without a star your team is just mediocre, that is current rockets.
If Plan B is to get a super star from another team, that is like another flawed strategy, needle in a haystack. Most superstars have been drafted. What Denver is doing is more the exception than the rule. When superstar contracts expire it becomes a bidding war plus the preference of the player, fat chance.
my point is we need to rebuild this team. many fans here proposed trading yao to get a decent center. the stretagy is not going to work since the team needs a great center with the current roster. let yao's contract expire and get under the cap as much as we can. hope in offseason, we can have money to grab a big name.
