Rockets would be in the playoffs with Yao Ming healthy

RocketsPimp · Apr 6, 2011

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And if my aunt had balls she's be my uncle.

Yao's injury troubles are not 2011 news. They are 2005 news. We assembled our basketball franchise around a highly likable, internationally popular marketing force who is also highly injury prone.

The tagline of this era of Rocketball should have been "IF." Our highlight was an admittedly thrilling seven-game series against the Lakers. We went all-in for that.

But I get precisely zero satisfaction from overachieving, yet only d***ing around the 6-10th best record in the West every year. It's great that the guys do their best, scrap and Chuck Hayes themsleves into a better position than the ought to have every year. But at some point, its really crass. Fans have spent their sports loyalty - and role players have spent their careers (battier, hayes, etc) - with a franchise that never could look itself in the mirror. The myth of "If Yao Was Healthy" was sold year after year to an increasingly disinterested fanbase.

No disrecptect to Scola, Lowry, Hayes, Patterson, etc. But the team's endless peddling of this "with a healthy yao" bullcrap is soooo tiresome.
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Even Yao's own people agree with CBF.

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As I've pointed out dozen's of other times, Yao has played more than 57 games ONCE since 2005. Unless Yao wants to take a vet minimum contract for 1-2 years, it's time to move on. I have no interest in seeing this team hamstrung by even a mid-level, multi-year deal for Yao. Let some other team deal with that inevitable headache.

magnetik · Apr 6, 2011

blackistan · Apr 6, 2011

Really?? I didn't know that

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