At the 7:42 mark, you can hear a whispered f bomb as the camera man tries to switch from Yao to Battier.
Battier said that the home team does get uplift from the crowd, but the visiting team can effectively block out the crowd.
Furthermore, that means that the road team does end up playing "worse" because the home team is playing harder (due to the crowd's energy). So while the road team may block out the crowd itself, they're still subject to the end result.
lol thats wierd we both watched it at the same time.. i had to wait all day till right now to watch it too. pretty damn funny that cameraman.. not sure if he was tired or pissed off that he couldn't understand what yao was saying HAHAH still not as funny as boozers "OH SH*T" during chucks free throw
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Did Yao predicting a sweep? I don't know if the report was laying a trap for him in that question, but I wish he had answered differently, you don't want give the other team any unnecessary ammunation to fire up...
No, he said, "We aren't trying to steal one, we are trying to win every game" Meaning he didn't like the term "stealing a game"
Seriously! sounds like he's just trying to get someone from the team to fill in the blanks. Oh, and gafillions of us appreciate these posts!