No . he is soft. he made too many looss balls when he turned around. have you seen this happened to Oneal or duncan(at least not quite often) before?
Yao was a clown all-along. Its easy to make him score and easier to stop him when needed. This has been the strategy of all the teams who are willing to do some dirty work. Yao is soft. Trade him for Garnett.
Yao is not soft. But he is not dominate like many expected in this series either. He is a very very good center in this particular weak center era, but he is not an all-timer.
He's not soft from a physical standpoint, that's not what anyone is referring to. I am sorry, I would love to make excuses for our superstars, but they're two of the softest star players in the league; mentally speaking, that is. They lack any semblance of leadership. They're immensely talented but they're just not leaders. They're no different from Dirk or KG or a bunch of other superstar talents in the league who suffer from the same shortcomings. They have to prove themselves for that 'rep' to go away. They've had more than enough chances thus far to prove their metal, they haven't as of yet. The good news is that this series isn't over yet, and they still can reach deep inside and show us something special, inspire us for a change. There are no more excuses: we still have the homecourt. They lose again this year and you might as well start writing their obituaries in Houston (McGrady more so than Yao, simply because he's been around longer).
i wish he would dunk. he missed that easy layup and boozer got that rebound. it kinda pissed me off...i still love yao though
I dont think Yao is soft. Yao is mentally tough. But he doesnt play a physical game. So when defender plays physical on him, he looks bad. Yao should learn how to draw fouls better when defender plays physical on him.
Yao is not soft....Tmac is soft...he folds under pressure......not Yao....Yao is tough.....but the issue with Yao is he is too nice. If he would wheel once a game with his elbows out high...and crack somebody in the side of their head, they would give him a LOT more space. Yao is NOT soft....just too danged nice. DD
Agreed - but how do you get the referees to call contact. Okur should have fouled out in the 3rd Q the first 2 games. You cannot call Yao soft- he is getting beaten like a rented mule under there. Very little contact is called.
Haha, softness is the same as nice. Anyway, I think it has more to do with his physical limitation. He just has not recovered from his injury and he has never been fast anyway. Rox needs a third scoring option. Think about how Brandon Roy would do for this team. JVG is too good a coach for this team. If an average coach coached Rox last year, Rox definitely would do worse and grabbed Brandon Roy.
Not at all ! The way I see it is that Yao is still competing out there and playing hard, which is not the soft thing to do, he is not shying away from contact or from taking the big shot. Soft is getting your shot blocked and then jogging back down as the other team scores. Soft is letting Matt Harpring abuse you with a series of back cuts and baseline seals. Soft is backing away from a physical challenge. Yao is not backing away, he may not be mean enough, but he is certainly willing to stick his nose in there. Tmac - now that guy is softer than Jon Koncak. DD
If he did what you are proposing he would foul out and that is exactly what has plagued Yao throughout his career is his foul problems. Sheesh what a double standard.
If you want to know why Yao isn't dunking all you have to realize is that the defense of the Jazz and every other NBA team focuses on pushing Yao away from the basket and denying him position. They now front him with one player and have another player behind him. How you gonna dunk????!!
So please explain to me in game 4, why Yao did not dunk that ball when he grabbed the offensive rebound and was just 1 inch away from the rim? in stead, he tried to lay up, but failed, and then Boozer got the defensive rebound. Please don't tell me they were frontint/behind him. He's one inch away from the rim, damn it!
Yao is what he is. He is a slow-footed center who can't take advantage of single coverage and can't get deep position against some teams. Hakeem and McGrady would have torn the Jazz apart, so badly that they would double Hakeem. That would open up the game for everybody, and the roleplayers would go on a 3pt shooting spree.
DD is on the point, I would like see Yao get dirty, Shaq uses his fat elbow to clear the paint while he dominating, Yao need to do the same, and he should learn how to use his ass more... Shaq is quick, Yao is slow, to act like Shaq, Yao must use his body to clear the way, OKUR who?, show the your elbow and ass
use elbow to clear the paint? did you see he got at least two offensive fouls for elbowing his defenders ? By the way, Shaq does not use his elbow to dominate the paint, he uses his speed though he's huge.
tmac has sucked and he will be blamed ENTIRELY if we lose. and but yao's been doubled/tripled? like what 4-5 times a game? yao IS soft. how the hell u gonna be stripped, blocked, and can't even get a damn rebound. my goodness. the whole team IS SOFT. tmac deserves the most blame b/c he talked a bunch of crap and played like a little punk, but yao is just frustrating to watch in this series.
He got 2 offensive fouls by ducking his shoulder to clear some space, not the same as getting your elbows up high and spinning around and konking your opponent in the ear hole ! One is a semi-aggressive move the other says you have come to war ! DD
Last night, Refs set the tone for the game. They called every ****ing fouls on rockets, while let Jassaholes murdering rockets. I am not saying we can blame the loss on the refs. But refs really did a nice ****ing job last night
