Pruyen I know you get flamed on here alot but really you are a vital part of Clutchfans. I look forward to all of your articles and I truly thank you. For anyone who enjoys bashing Pruyen please consider this man takes out hours of his life to post translations for all of us. If you don't like his posts ignore them and let the rest of us enjoy them.
What is the big deal? Yao is not a saint, he has all the emotions just like the rest of us. If he is a little bit of jealous of TMAC because everyone praises TMAC it is only natural, as long as he puts team first who cares.
look this team will NEVER win a championship if yao is not playing at his best. no way no how. it doesn't matter if tmac becomes the orlando tmac. houston won't win a championship if yao is not playing at his best. but we can def. EASILY make it to the playoffs without yao. tmac can carry any team during the reg. season. HOWEVER, if tmac is out, i can GUARANTEE you we wouldn't sniff the playoffs and will await for the lottery the next season. steve francis or mike james or a rejuvenated bonzi wells (which are A LOT OF IFS) playing their best TOGETHER obviously can put this team in the playoffs. but that's expecting they all to play their best for 82 games.
Who has forgotten? Someone tries to give credit to Yao and that means T-Mac is forgotten? Please. Quite being so paranoid. BTW, Nobody ever mentions how Yao kept the team afloat when Tracy was finding himself in November and the early part of December. I think that should be recognized because if he hadn't stepped up T-Mac's 23-12 wouldn't have meant anything. Like you said, "how soon yall forget." The point is they both stepped up during different parts of the season and giving credit to one doesn't take from the other's accomplishments.
exactly. this is what i'm trying to say. i don't mean to turn it into yao v. tmac. like he said, the past 7 champions have had a dominant big man. yao is one. we need him to win anything. but again, i'm just talking about making the playoffs, tmac is good enough. he's that good of a player. i would say this team would struggle MIGHTILY without tmac moreso than with yao. that's all. but again, if we don't have yao dominating every big man in the playoffs, we'll be 1-and-out all over again.
it can mean like that. but then he mentioned game 1 of the playoffs to exemplify his "unstable" point, which is not the injury. if yao really feels this way, i think he and tmac need to have a talk b4 the season starts. imagine wade saying shaq is "unstable" since he's always lazy and plays when he wants to. though yao may not mean it in a bad way, u know how players can take, esp. players like tracy who can take things in a pessimistic way.
yea he thing i like about this interview is the FIRE, CONFIDENCE, ATTITUDE. if yao put those intangibles onto the court, that feeling of "no one can stop me and if u try, i'll just smack yo ass of the court", he's gonna be ridiculous next yr.
The interview is authentic. But I think the writer have added some words (which should be bracketed) to try to express Yao's words/thoughts more clearly. Btw, CD is on his way back to Houston not attending Yao's wedding. And Larry Smith - the BIGGIE (dont call me racist, I even type "BIGGIE" in brown and try to avoid black) is in China too.
so you're all for saying the truth all in public like that? what if tracy said yao is soft and always get blocked by the wackiest players? what if tracy said JVG is the most stubborn players, which yao also hinted to? what if our best players said our teammates are pathetic? can't shoot?.... again, u know how the american media is. anything u want to say to another player, keep it "IN HOUSE". things like this can really explode by ESPN or some crap american media. we don't want anything controversy b/t our two stars. they're the two unselfish stars.
When was this interview? Is it after the Tmac's blog in Sina? I feel this is like Yao's response to Tmac's blog, in which Tmac claimed his is the best player in the team and he can score 50 points every game if he wants to. BTW, I don't think Tmac's blog in Sina is false, although maybe there is some 'lost in translation'. I feel bad for this! Maybe somewhat this is related to SF3's comeback. Before they never talked something like this. Maybe there is a misunderstanding between Yao and Tmac. They are both superstars. I hope they can solve it soon.
an "average" tmac on the floor still is a presence. he may play bad, but the defense still focuses on him. look at the 2nd game he came back from the injury v. new jersery. we lost barely by a few pts to indy the night b4 and tmac sucked. vs new jersey, tmac sucked shooting and we won by a ton. w/ houston, tmac's impact goes beyond stats.
I think this is more related to FGD. We all know that FGD can come out some good strategys, but their effects won't last long because he is lack of change. This is the reason why we lost in playoff twice with 2:0 start. Similarly, after Yao was injury last year, FGD used Mutomubo and howward replacement, and that worked very well at the beginnig. In fact, after other teams figured out how to deal with that, we lost a lot. Do you remember how bad we lost to Raptors and Spurs and how many games we lost in straight before Yao came back?
As a finesse player Yao Ming can't ever become this monster, but can still become one of the greatest centers of all time.
I believe it's difficult to translate those Chinese words. 1. Jealous -- See the other thread 2. Unstable -- means not always 100% (back problem, shooting accuracy, etc.) Only my 2c.
Pryuen, here is my imput after reading the sentence. I do think the "unstable" is a little bit off. That being said, I respect all your translations. *********** Compared to Tracy who is more "streaky", I feel I can be a steady cornerstone in this Rockets team. I can keep the team up for 45 mins, but the last 3 is up to Tracy (to finish). I think that is about right. ***********
