Well to be honest, just because Kareem was a great player it does not automatically translate to him being a great coach ( ex. being Ewing ). I don't know which coach would be perfect but I would hope JVG can put aside his personal favors- in regards to choosing his assistent coaches. And in regards to "kicking Ewing" in the nuts for not being Kareem, or more importantly, not making Yao better, frankly I don't give two shyts about Ewing. All I'm saying is that for us to eventually win a championship Yao must be a great player. We all can agree about that, right?So if any little difference can help Yao make that next step then I'm all for it. If Ewing was to leave for some head coaching job RIGHT NOW would we see any difference in Yao's game? I don't think so. So if you can't personally impact Yao's game then what good are you for? Yes, I have heard the pro-Ewing detractors say that "how DO YOU know ewing is not helping Yao?" Again, it's just my own amateur opionion.
I wish I was in this board where I was taking my Statistics and Quantitative (or Qualitative?? I will never figure it out) Analysis course. It could be an automatic distinction. This is more than interesting. Thanks for the work and elaboration, Tango.
I wish there was a way to email this (along with a comparison of yaos stats against the competitions stats and a picture of him kissing the jackass's a$$), to Barkleys BIG BLIND A$$!!! I am so sick of listening to all the haters. Open your eyes man. It is plain to see. It's like E Brand saying asking if there was a better center in the west then... don't laugh... Chris freaking Kaman. Now I know you have to stand up for your teamates, but come on. Why your at it send it to Stephen Ars-hole Smith and attach a picture of a horses a$$ to it. Enough said.
Ehh, what's the point? They'll just wait till he has a bad game and start spouting off about how he isn't consistent/is soft/erratic/not this and not that etc...there's no reasoning with idiots like Stephen Smith :/ ..
Yao is finding himself and his game. He is rested, he is more aggressive. I wonder how much that toe was bothering him? We all knew it would take Yao a few years to establish an NBA game. He went from Asian leagues to the NBA, quite a huge jump in talent. I think he is finally figuring out what he can do and how to get it done. More power to ya YAO !!! It sure is wonderful to watch his evolution.
Thats what that fool wants. Be loud and controversial = get people to talk about you = become "famous." I can't stand the guy, but the best thing to make him go away is to not respond to anything he says. Then he'll just fade out eventually. I doubt it will happen, but I can always hope. Stuart
S.A.S. looked like such a wuss interviewing Kupcake during the telecast last night. After all his screaming about how Mitch blew the Shaq deal, Kupcake should have called his hand on it. Instead, he just blabbered about getting better in the offseason.
I think so too. According to his profile on nba.com, last time was on march 8, 2004, almost 2 years ago!
YAO's Play is the MOST CRITICAL to the Rocket Championship Run More so than T-mac's play more so than JVG's coach YAO *IS* the single most important Rocket Rocket River
SAS is fu****kin' r****ded looking, I swear. His head and face is mis-shaped, his haircuts should get him shot alone, and on top of that he's one fugly mother F'er. And I didn't even get to his brain and personality. I don't really know one person who doesn't wonder how he got that job- not that I even bother listening to this moron anymore. So if it weren't for all that above, he would be a average sportscaster.
As to the actual causative factor overall? Yes, it's true that experience is the greatest teacher, and Yao is obviosly an excellent student. Must be that damn coaching staff! But the biggest X factor overall, IMO, is that HEALED BIG TOE !!!!!
The assumtion seems to be that YAO only gets one coach to work with him. That's rediculous. Obviously PE brings very unique qualities to the game and to coaching YAO or JVG would not have him. PE has allot to share about "muscling in" "working for rebounds" and defending against other big men, all key areas to the way this offese/defense is designed and allowing Yao to get more shots closer to the basket and more O/D rebounds. Exactly what the doctor ordered for BIG TOE. If you watch Yao's technique on the rebounding board, it is clear that he is learning the "art" of tipping the ball to him self or swating it out to a Rocket instead of just "out there". I will mark this up to coaching from Euwing in part. Not TT. ( I mean in a relative sense, not exclusively. Allot of posters have a black/white all/nothing view, which is not realistic.)
Let's get an update on these graphs. Or better yet, this needs to be a permanent feature on the site. It would pretty cool to be able to look at these kinds of trends for everyone. Probably infeasible to implement time-wise, etc, but it would be cool nonetheless.
To have an asian player, be able to do hoops... How about that?? Shaquille O'Neal, eat your heart out!
Yao just joined Shawn Marion, KG, and Elton Brand as the only 4 players in the league averaging more than 20/10.
Darkhorse: I'm out all week in California for business. I'll update them when I get back to Houston over the weekend unless I can get my wife to email them to me and not being worked to death to actually have time to mess with it . xcomputerman: Hind-sight is 20/20. In fairness Yao wasn't putting up these numbers prior to the All-Star break so people are going to call him on it. We knew he had the potential. Others don't or didn't share in that view of his potential.
