This jerk also wrote this for Slate back in May. "Look, Yao won't be a complete bust. On the big-man scale he still comes up north of Gheorghe Muresan. I also like him better than the player he's inevitably compared to, Shawn Bradley, if only because Yao is a better athlete and younger than the Mormon Mosquito when he came to the NBA. But he'll never approach Rik Smits' achievements, such as they were. He'll get some points and blocks simply by virtue of being longer than anyone else, but I must ask the essential question: Is that what you want of a top draft choice?" http://slate.msn.com/id/2066122/
He does make a good point on how ESPN is overcompensating for calling him a bust earlier in the year. Seems like when Yao is envolved people just loose all sense of objectivity. He went from fiasco to fantastic in a matter of weeks...so whats to say they won't jump right back off the bandwagon if he struggles in the second half of the season. But then again the same can be said of some of the rockets bbs posters. "Yao" and "moderation" have become oxymorons. He's good...but lets save the hyperbole for when he truly deserves it. That way..just in case he struggles it won't be too hard to pull that foot out of your mouth.
