Chicago’s Jay Williams and Houston’s Yao Ming today were named the Eastern and Western Conference got milk? Rookies of the Month, respectively, for games played for the month of December.
LOL. I need to see that... See...Yao was like Rookie of the Week 3 times in a row. Amare had the last one...but Yao is the overal Rookie of the Month!
I remember a few years ago Francis and Brand sharing ROY, kind of reminiscant, Houston and Chicago having good rookies.
now way j-will should be rookie of the year. not with that ugly fg, and ft%. sorry, just sorry. might as well just hack-a-will!
jwill actually had a good month. I think he had at least 2 double double games and he played in the Eastern conference.
well jwill isn't anywhere close to yao or amare but someone has to be selected from the east. i wonder what wagner's numbers were though?
lol............AND I remember all these people saying get Jay Williams!! They were all saying Yao Ming sucks! Yep...look at Jay Williams now...no one even knew Amare Stoudamire back then...the only people they knew were Yao Ming and Jay Williams. And they all said we should get Jay Williams. How stupid! ANYWAYS...what about Dajuan Wagner and Caron Butler? Amare must have been close...but Yao won.
Yao and J-Will aren't actually "sharing" the honors, as in tied. The NBA choses Rookie of the Month for both the East and Western conference, regardless of how the two compare. Yao was the TOP rookie however, in my opinion. J-Will's FG% is horrible.
There's not much competition in the East. CB4 and Wagner are both scoring more than Williams, but their field goal% is horrible
Jay is shooting less than 40% from the floor and 58% from the FT line. That's just terrible for a guard.
I don't know what everyone else thought of Amare, but I was pretty high on him before the draft. I had heard he was very physical and had an NBA body. At the time, I was expecting the Rockets to get around the 5 or 6 area in the draft, which would be a good spot to pick Amare. Butler started getting hot then, making me question who to get. Later, when we got the no.1, I had wondered if we could do a trade for a player and maybe a 5-10 pick so that we could get Amare. I was thinking of Amare, EG, ???(I guess Rice.), Cat, and Steve. That would have been a freakishly athletic team. But then I saw Yao play and forgot all of that.
An excerpt from nba.com: "Yao, selected by the Rockets with the first overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft, led all rookies in points (17.1 per game), rebounds (10.3) and blocks (2.73). He compiled eight double-doubles (points-rebounds) in 15 games as the Rockets recorded an 8-7 record." And some people were trying to argue that Amare deserves it more. Drinking too much is not good for your health.
I think that people just figured that we missed out on very young and promising player. By missed out I mean that we just weren't at the spot to get him. I would take Yao Ming 1,000 times out of a 1,000. But I was hoping that Stoudemire would slip to the 15th pick where the Rockets could pick him. I take nothing from Boki, because with enough minutes he'll be very promising and contribute greatly to the team. Amare is showing that physical tools aren't the only things that make you successful in the NBA, you gotta have heart and a tireless work ethic. The Phoenix fans are showing their support for their rookie like we are for Ming. However, for those Suns' fans who say that Stoudemire is better than Ming is just plain ridiculous. As for another co-rookie of the year thing, I don't see it happening, unless some of the other rookies put together some great runs. AS it is now Yao Ming stands head and shoulders above the rest of the pack right now (no pun intended).
