Yao must learn to keep that ball against his body when he picks up his dribble and not extended out where it can be taken away. His arms should make a 180 degree line through the ball, like this -o- not parrallel and just on one side of the ball like this: =o Big difference. the first way has more power and you can use your body to hold the ball and protect it as well. the second way results in turnovers.
To be honest, I really don't like the crowd. When i watch from here in Australia the home crowd is typically much more docile then say the Palace. We don't have someone like Jack Nicholson but most of the crowd seems pretty tame. If i was there (which i would love to be) I would be destroying the other team
Can somebody post a video replay of those 2 no-calls on Yao? I thought at least one of them should have been a foul but it's nice to have evidence
I usually don't say this, or even think it, but it's games like this one that makes me wonder if some of the refs are on the take. Those last two fouls on Yao that weren't called were just rediculous. And the foul called on the other end... WTF?? Nothing close to the hammering Yao got. I swear to god, I don't know why I don't have an ulcer. We were robbed.
2 minutes remaining, 2 back to back possesion with definitive moves from Yao down low with slap across Yao's arm and no call! It was supposibly a win game.
Well I neglected to add the possibility of rigging to the size factor and race factor simply because Yao is consistently officiated with an obvious bias against him no matter the game. So if rigging was the actual case, then that would have to mean that every game is being rigged against the Yao and the Rockets. Honestly, we have gone over this so many times is ridiculous. I have stopped even mentioning it the past couple years because we pretty much expect it. I don't know all the reasons why but it's plainly obvious to anyone who follows basketball and knows the rules that the treatment of Yao is in no way normal. The rules clearly state that you put 2 hands on an offensive player at any time during the game and it should be an automatic foul. And what happens to Yao throughout EVERY game is a complete mockery of the rules. I still cannot tell with certainty what the motive is, but the result and effect is obvious game in and game out. And I'd bet a lot of zero's that whatever it is has to be mandated from the top.
The NBA has screwed Yao and the Rockets forever. We know the refs are not 100% clean. STRAIGHTEN IT UP MF DAVID STERN OR SAY GOODBYE TO MY MONEY
Would you mind taking the color out of your huge signature, and/or making it a little less huge? Also, what was your previous name? Thanks.
No argument from me. I'm pretty numb to what they do to Yao. It gets to me sometimes right after a frustrating loss. I honestly wonder what the hell the refs are doing and why they are doing it. Those non-calls were completely obvious to an 8 year old, much less people being paid to officiate the games in the NBA. Racial bias? Refs on the take? I'd prefer to believe they are simply incompetent, but if they are, why are they still working the games? This has gotten absurd.
I'd say Rockets git mudered by Yao--the 4th quarter cancer. I don't care how many points Yao got, it's more 'dominant' that this guy made 2 TO in a row at critical point of the whole game. This guy is a crap against any elite team in the league--maybe except Spurs. I'd offer Yao a new nickname--4th quarter cancer!
Two ****ING hands in his back....is a foul....that was the most horrendously officiated game, especially on Yao I have ever seen. I am HIGHLY dissappointed in Adelman for not getting pissed off at the Refs and YELLING about the 2 hands in the back EACH time on offense. He was fouled you idiot ! DD
I was thinking the same exact thing when RA didn't get a tech......it was still a close game and he probably didn't want to give up freethrows.....but in the big picture of it all, getting tossed at that point and then talking about it in postgame probably would have done some good.. well actually on second thought it wouldn't have......whatever the league's intentions are with their deliberate treatment of Yao, it's unlikely much of anything will make a difference at this point......I am curious to see what the Chinese media has to say after this game though.....waiting on our boy Pruyen now....
