Sounds like a legitimate debate to me. Injuries have to largely due with how you personally train and in recover from them.
Ok... that's a vague, unsubstantiated statement, but whatever. You think Yao's injuries are due to his laziness, and not his size?
Considering the mountain of evidence we've had in the past about Yao's tireless work ethic, I would say so.
Considering the amount of injuries he has had in his career it would be ignorant to ignore the possibly of work habits.
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=5039870&postcount=8 I don't think any of those injuries where do to lack of work habits.
It would only be ignorant to ignore the "possibly of work habits" if there wasn't the mountain of evidence that supports his propensity for hard work. Look, boy. If you're going to hate on Yao, at least do it the right way by focusing on his lack of speed or injury-prone nature. Coming in here and talking about Yao not working hard is about as asinine as it gets, when you've got countless coaches, journalists, and ex-players, who praise Yao for his work ethic.
Not only that, but I want to see evidence for this correlation between "hard-work" and likelihood of injury. I suspect this to be a circular reasoning type of things.
I was not the one who first proposed the question of his work habits, I was simply commenting on someone who had. I'm not hating on him, but you have to come to a realization that these injuries aren't "flukes", and as a player he needs to change what his routine is and do the best to prevent these injuries from happening.
And who is that? You can keep on dreaming but the reality is there isn't one out there available even remotely close to giving the Rockets a championship.
First of all, what is the basis for the idea that there is some kind of inverse correlation between hard work and chance of injury? As far as I know, no one in the league is more than one bad landing away from being Grant Hill. Secondly, what you just stated has more to do with the specifics of his workouts than his actual work ethic. We all know that Yao works hard. If you want to make a claim that he isn't working out in the right way, then you've been misrepresenting your argument all along.
Sure, if his work habit were in question. But since he's joined the Rockets, there have been countless news reports, as well as quotes from coaches (JVG and Adelman), teammates and trainers, about Yao's ceaseless dedication to his training and rehab regimen whenever he gets injured. If there's one thing that seems unquestionable about Yao, it's his work ethic. So saying Yao isn't as hard working as Lebron James is incomprehensible; saying that Yao is more injury prone because of this is even more so. (MD_in_Training's post said the exact same thing as mine but I'll post anyway.)
Ok when Chuck crashed into Yao's knee and broke it. That wasn't a fluke? Training all day everyday with different routines couldn't have prevented that.
Now you're talking work routine (the specifics of his training) and not work ethic (how hard he trains and how dedicated he is to the regimen). The James/Yao comparison was about the latter, not the former. And if you believe there is a training regimen that could prevent his broken knee or fractured foot, well we'll just have to agree to disagree.
... What does this even mean? I don't know a single player on Earth, for whom there is no room for improvement.
