Thats frustrating as hell.If he just took his time, went up with two hands, I dont see how anyone can stop him from scoring without committing a foul. Instead he throws up little flip shots just to get one up on the rim. I really wish he would just go up with two hands and try to draw the foul.
I may be wrong but I think it's the stereotypical thing to say about an Asian basketball player. Plus he gets dunked on and not trashing talking during games AND being injury-prone 3 of the past 4 years. But I agree, he is not soft, very few NBA centers are.
"Every time a defender player is on the ground, even if he just wants to sit down and have a rest, it's my offensive foul. That's unfair." - Yao Ming
he was shocked and depressed, because rafer is the commander in chief of every piece of muscle around yao's skeleton. rafer takes more control of yao's body even than his brain does.
it didn't work though, sometimes the seemingly elastic guys are even more stubborn than JVG-like guys.
Yao ,it is all your fault!!! Yao should stand out, and speak out !Let Lowry start! I know you are respect Rafer as a older teammates, but Don't be threatend by a rookie Brooks
I found it interesting that half of the board doesn't even get what I was saying, but whatever. For those who have to categorize a thread, I rather have you mark this as start lowry instead of a Trade Yao thread. For the record, I am one of the few who think the Rafer trade might work as I have seen how Lowry played in Memphis, quick, know how to pass the rock, not so good outside the 3 line, but attack the basket w/o fear, and more importantly very good at getting to free throw line. I see he has the potential to be the next D-Will and the pick and roll between him and Yao could be our next deadly weapon. I like what Morey (or management) has brought to Houston. The person I wanted to single out is our coach. From every talk or interview Morey had, you know this man traded Lowry to be the starter. Yet he was very polite to say that it'd be ultimately a coach decision. However our coach abused the trust. And for the record, I wanted AB to start after the trade because I think he deserved a chance. In the ideal world, I would give him 10 games, then another 10 for Lowery and then whatever left will be given to the better one to prepare the play off games. Now everyone knows AB is a failure at PG and our coach is still insisting he's the one, for whatever reason. I am sure Morey won't be too happy either. If I were the GM, I need to be prepared for the off season. I need to know if I should still be looking for another PG, even though I got my dream PG already... And I don't blame AB either, he is what he is, someone just not capable of doing things, like being a starting NBA PG. It's our coach's job to send him to bench when there is clearly a better alternative. Same applies to Ron. For me, our coach doesn't have the same interests Rockets have, definitely not what Yao has. And it's not just Lowry vs. Brooks, I mean can you remember how many ways we can get Yao the rock in the JVG era? Now listen to our coach, if Yao is fronted, we should look for a different option. So that's it, if our playoff component sends a scrub to front Yao, we'll just shut down our best weapon ourselves? For fxxking 70+ games into season, you still can't figure it out? Seriously? Is this because you don't know how or is it because you don't want to? From what I see things happening, it's either Adelman leave after this season or Yao leave Houston after 2010. I'd like to see the guy who works harder win so I am calling Yao out to stand up once otherwise it's too late.
If you have a real brain, which I doubt, you should know that, for someone massive like Yao, it takes much longer to gather himself to elevate and dunk the ball (hence greatly increases the chance of being blocked) than try to lay the ball in. Yes it takes longer just in milliseconds, but it does make a whole world of difference in a NBA game which is being played in lightning speed. But for someone like you who obviously has never played organized sports or even touched a basketball before, I can understand you are not able to grasp it.
Aww the normal Yao apologists. Say anything that's deemed to be negative about Yao and you'll suffer personal attacks. When does Yao ever elevate? Watch some highlights, he has gone up strong before after he gathered himself.
dunk is a higher percentage shot than a layup. if yao dunks it they are more likely to call the foul than a layup. if yao is fouled putting up a layup it is much less likely to go in than dunking. and 1 > 2 FTs
A dunk costs much more energy and creats more erase in joints than a layup does, but it still only generates 2 pts which is exactly the same we can get from a layup. Those players who are fixated to show their athletisms by making slam dunks are gonna have shorter careers than those who barely dunk. Most of the NBA players have abilities to make dunks, even some street ballers can also dunk the rim heavily. but some professional nba players just refuse to Dunk in order to play as long as possible and earn as much money as possible.
Of course he has gone up strong to dunk before. What's your point? I said the other times, Yao felt the possibility of a block coming so he tried to beat the shot blocker by laying the ball in instead of taking the extra milliseconds to gather himself and dunk it. Is it easy enough for you to understand now? I stated a observation that you obviously have never played organized sports or even touched a basketball before. and the observation is based on what you said in your former posts. Now calling someone a name like apologist is much more a personal attack IMO. But I don't give a flying rat ass to it because, unlike you, I do not have a low self-esteem issue.
Yao will NEVER be DREAM.......he should leave.......we take him for granted......let him go to a team that has never had a legitimate big man of his ability.
I stated a observation that you obviously have never played organized sports or even touched a basketball before. and the observation is based on what you said in your former posts. Now calling someone a name like apologist is much more a personal attack IMO. But I don't give a flying rat ass to it because, unlike you, I do not have a low self-esteem issue. That "millisecond" doesn't effect crap. He is most likely going to get fouled if someone tries to contest his dunk because he's the one that's being the aggressor and usually those are the ones that gets the calls instead of someone who flings up something weak. lol "possibility of a block" what a stupid reason. "Oh I'm 7'6 and that Nate Robinson is going to block me" "FLINGGGGGG!!" Of course you cared. You cared when I ranked Yao below Amare and now you care when I said Yao should dunk when he's right next to the rim. Here's my observation. You're the one that has some self esteem issues because you can't handle your idol/hero being talked about that way.
