You are entitled to the rest of your opinion, but here you are objectively wrong. Fatigued? Maybe. Lazy? Never.
Yao Ming is what he is... a borderline superstar that needs a complimentary good player to do real damage. Its a guard's game. Even Shaq needs a really good SG to flourish. Anyone who thinks a slow big man can carry a team in today's NBA is dreaming.... 100 touches a game or not
aye i totally agree with yao is worth the $15 million contract in every single part, but its just because he is a chinese, simple. and ofc bigman costs alot recently. im telling you that when you have yao in the team, you cant win the champion. yao is only good when against certain matchup teams thats why. he is just a rich man version rik smitz if you watched game. he is extreamly slow and cant hold the damn ball(his off. reb is fine since he doesnt need to catch the ball but his def. reb just sux). his blocking skillz worse than bradly and hes not a good finisher either. imagining all the layups he missed convert to dunks...we were already in the final lol. sure he can kill any centers in the league at low post 1on1, but it means nothing, not every team would let their big man duel yao ming LOL. anyone who can shot mid-range or 3's can beat yao easily. he can be a good defender when against D.H, but he cant guard okur the ********a. front or doube him, we are ****ed. many people argue about yao is the most efficient offence player in this team. thats bull****, in some games yes, but look at his shooting%, nothing impressive right. remember that yao is a CENTER ffs, his shootin% supposed to be the highest in the team. and he needs good passes to score. kaman=9.5 million btw
I don't expect Yao to dunk the ball everytime. I know he isn't a power player, he's a finesse player in spite of his size. BUT there is NO EXCUSE for not going up strong with the game on the line, and a 7'6" center trying to take a charge is ridiculous. Punish people for coming into your house Yao! It's worth the foul.
I buy it and at the same time I don't. The problem is Yao goes up way too soft. He doesn't have to go house it everytime he's near the rim, but when he's going up he needs to bump defenders off him. I won't mind if he swing those elbows and pick up a hard offensive foul once in a while(just to set the tone to let defenders know what it's gonna be like all game) Last night was a prime example of going up soft. He gets the ball in prime position. Had he went up strong the refs would have given him that call, and probably would have still made that shot. Instead he goes up all cute and **** and gets whacked while going up, losing control of the ball. Yes we gonna have to live with the fact that he is what he is. He's not gonna dunk it, or even go for a strong layup. Maybe once or twice a game, but that's it.
This is Yao and Tmac in a nut shell. They want to win a championship, but their game remains the same. I've heard that Yao works before and after games to try and improve his game. I just don't see it reflected on the court.... What is he working on?
he is what he is, the best center in the game. You're either with us or against us! =) reminds me of fans getting angry with lebron for passing up last second shots to his teammates.
I'd always thought of Yao as a bigger version of Rik Smits... SImilar height and game with Yao being slightly better. I've been roasted for that comparison as well...
But i still cant understand why a 7"6 basketball player cant dunk. It does not have to be a tommahawk, windmill, honeydip.... All yao need to do is turnaround, jump 10cm off the ground, and put the ball in the rim with both hands. If i am 6"6, i would dunk at every opportunity i have... not to say 7"6.
Dream couldn't make 3 pointers and some centers did but that does not make Dream inferior to them. I would like to see Yao ALWAYS in the blocks(not high out setting screens). Master the HOOK and milk it. Shot at free throw line. Get a backup.
Yao is better than both Daughtery and Smits. Yao is more like Rik than Brad in terms of style. Those two guys were never dominating players. Yao is dominating, though inconsistently. Look at how Yao was playing before his injury last season and you know what I mean. Did Brad or Rik ever play like that?
What you dont understand is Yao is 7'6 but cant jump very fast or high. That is just not his genetic makeup. Players like Amare and Dwight Howard are 6'9 or 6'10 but can jump extremely high and quickly. So Yao trying to dunk everytime isnt going to help because at his peak jump he would still be probably a foot or more lower then Howard. Watch the games closely. A lot of times where Yao tries to dunk contested he gets blocked. You said above that if you were 6'6 you would try to dunk everytime. Would that be the case if you were 6'6 with a 20 inch vertical playing against guys who were 6'2 but had 40 inch verticals?
Also, everyone needs to relax. You are b****ing about Yao even though he just came off a great road trip where he destroyed Howard, and dominated in the Heat game. Then he comes back here, is playing great till he gets cut in the eye and loses his rhythm. It sucks we lost that game. Get over it. We are 10-6 with Battier only having played one game, Tmac limping along, Artest and Barry shooting bricks, and Yao being inconsistant.
Yao is big, slow, unathletic, skilled, great at the line, funny, intelligent, vulnerable to foot injuries, and relatively non aggressive. If he were aggressive and athletic, with a 36" vertical, he would be the greatest player to ever play the game. Right now he is "gassed" half way through the first quarter, and plays on fumes for the rest of the game.
You have to blame the office for not getting Yao some help. Yao may not play the whole game, but I guarantee his trying so hard to make up for the fact he has no solid reliever when he goes out of the game, is going to wear him out for sure! Just it being in your mind even though you are not expected to everything is a tiring burden. If he is expected to play close to 40 minutes a game it is unrealistic. TAKE HIM FOR THE SPECIAL BEING HE IS AND DEAL WITH HIS WEAKNESSES AS WELL AS HIS STRENGTHS FOR THE SAKE OF THE TEAM.
Rik Smits's career stats was similar as yao's, a little bit worse. and you are talking about dominating...rik smitz actually needed to face shaq, dream, patrik ewing, david robison, alozo moruning, deke etc day after day and made in all-star once. comparing with yao, Rik has a much better career in my opinion. at least hes been to the final as a star in the team. i mean if rik was a chinese guy, he would be in HOF. yes yao can beat D.H, but what else he got?
This is what I've been talking about but the conversation goes everywhere. I am not asking Yao to dunk everytime like Amare or Shaq. But hey, just try to dunk whenever you can, since it's high percentage. You are 7.6', just pull your arms high, jump a bit, and there is your dunk. Yao doesn't have to dunk everytime. Amare and D.H don't dunk all the time either. But he really needs to be yelled again to dunk, otherwise he would keep doing those layups. Don't make excuses he couldn't do it. He could. He doesn't need to sprint for 3 seconds before he could jump and go up strong. http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij80iwfOoKo
I sure wish their was someway we could get Olajuwon as an assistance coach to work with Yao. Yes I know it's never gonna happen.
