There you have it right out of the horses's mouth - VG is the one still driving the plays and offense through the guards and not Yao. Yao might as well have been watching from the upper deck in the late 4th and OT vs, toronto. Stoopid...
Do you claim Yao Ming is a liar? Let's get real. Yao is a team player, but some fans aren't 'TEAM' fans.
Nap! Actually, I think the guy is quite honest, and down to earrthly humble. I just question people here put too much weight into a published post. What did he suppose to say in public? You don't put down your teamates in public in any sports. --daoshi
How many people publicly b**** about their teamates in pro sports? Yao is too much a "good" guy to do that, but that doesn't mean he likes what he sees. After all, the guy made some comments indicating his unhappyness towards the guards last season in his interview. --daoshi
Did you watch the game against the Sixers!? Yao got the ball in his hands every possession for about the first 5 or 6 times down the court and chose to kick it out every time. Obviously he feels more comfortable giving Steve and Cat the first chance to see if they are going to "hot" for the night as he has respect for the players that have been the "stars" on the team well before he got on the team. I disagree with him and feel that he should be taking the shot and he should be more selfish, but he obviously does feel that this is Steve's team and even defends his isos saying they are designed plays called by JVG. For all of you that say he is just saying this because thats what he "has to say" ... GET REAL! ... I'm sure there are tons of posts on that site that he could just choose to ignore if it would not be appropriate to respond to. If he felt the way you all feel about SF than he would have just left it alone and not said anything. It's not like he was in front of a camera with someone asking him a question about Steve. He too the initiative to go out there and defend his teammates. It's nice to know that Yao has respect for the players that have proved themselves in the league and on this team (although I wish he would be more selfish), but I just wish all the YOF could follow his lead and have SOME respect for the rest of the Rockets best players.
I think some people WANT there to be problems between Steve and Yao, because that would mean Steve probably gets shipped out...
if you watched the game you would know that he kicked it out each and every one of those times because he was double teamed. that the RIGHT thing to do!!
Yes he did get double teamed and after he got double teamed, passing was the right thing to do. The point is that if he was looking to score he would make a move as soon as he got the pass before the double team came. Post players don't score by catching the ball and waiting for the double team. Yao was catching, waiting for the double team to come, then kicking it out every time. He was totally looking to pass and not looking to shoot because he was trying to get others involved early. That's not a bad thing .. I'm just trying do dismiss this myth that the Rockets are "freezing out Yao" early in the game.
no doubt that the rockets were not freezing out yao early in the game. they waited until the second quarter to do that. yao played the charles barkley game: get the ball, wait for the coming double team, pass to the open teammate for an open shot. it's smart bball. why we don't give him the ball every time down court is beyond my comprehension...
Remind me of the old Bulls days when they always went to Cartwright in the first few minutes, then never again. I'm not comparing Yao to Bill 'Elbow' Cartwright, but it's a very similar situation. I guess it's the communist influence by Yao, he had his share of the touches, so it's time for everyone else --daoshi
No disagreement there ... It is smart baskeball, and I wish they would do it more. The ball movement at the beginning of the Sixers game was the best I had seen from the Rockets since the good ole days with Olajuwon. If the Rockets could have just hit a few of the open shots they got from it they might have realized it was working before they went away from it. I think Yao is more into passing it and getting others involved rather than he himself shooting it, much to the dismay of many fans here. For people to say that the Rox don't try to get him involved early is absurd. And to say Yao is just being diplomatic with his comments on his bbs is just plain dumb.
This statement sounds very political and very little should be drawn from it on either side of the on going Yao vs Francis debate.
The thing that you and daoshi are forgetting is that Yao didn't have to post anything at all. He could have let the thread go on, and not say anything. But he didn't. Yao stepped in and said what he said without even being put on the spot. It might be just diplomacy if he was put on the spot in an interview and had to answer the question, but that isn't the case here. Yao volunteered this information. Why would Yao volunteer something that wasn't how things really are and just some diplomatic doublespeak? As is, I don't think Yao Ming is going to volunteer something unless he wants to say it, and it's how he feels. To say people shouldn't put too much weight into what a person who's actually involved in the situation voluntarily offers is ludicrous. We should put plenty of weight into what he says in a situation like this.
