I watched the game, and Yao was not impressive. He reminded me of Kareem late is his career. If China had anything resembling a break, Yao would not even cross half court. Some possesions he didn't make it to the offensive end for 5-10 seconds after everyone else. On defense, he looked very slow. Maybe he figured "This is Qatar. I don't have to play hard".
yao is just thinking " screw this, its too easy we're gonna win anyway so i will just save it for Houston"
He looked fine to me. Remember, China has the finals tomorrow against the Koreans. THat should be fun to watch. Quatar......why would u need to be impressive aganst this team?