He will gain his NBA experience and physical strength under Rockets uniform. Then move on. Just like Shaq did to Orlando. I think several teams will structure their salaries and lineups to fit Yao's style and make hard runs on him. Think Warriors: Yao/Dampier/Dunleavy/Richardson Think Clippers: Yao/Brand/Maggette/Jaric Think Denver: Yao/Nene/Carmelo/A. Miller These are all young teams and have a core of talents. Yao's tenure at Houston is too bruising so far. With so many bad contracts, Houstn is not in a position to improve soon. Their two-centers, three-guards lineup is the proof of how deep the team is in trouble. You may win some games with this lineup, but you never dream a championship with something like this. The release of EG had put nails on the coffin. There won't be any improvement on the forward positions in the near future. Then WHY Yao still stay here? The best option for Houston, IMHO, is to trade Yao now, when he is has high value to the franchise. Mark Cuban will be very excited to hear about Houston's proposals.
We were all newbies once -- some of us more than once. There are new posters out there with insight and acumen. Then, of course, I agree you with you on some thread starters I will not mention.
I have NBALP for two years and I watched almost every Rockets game. All those guard-oriented offense and center-initiated offense are just craps if you don't have efficient forwards, which Rockets don't have. The question is not about if Houston want to trade Yao or not, it is about if Yao want to stay or not, if the team is in the same situation after two more years. However, without draft picks, without a deep roster, without cap space, it will be very hard for GM to do anything significant. The Orlando franchise once proudly owned Shaq and Penny (Yao and Franchise), but where are they now?
I think there should be a newbie forum tournament. The lone winner gets access to the remainder of the board.
At least I am not the ones who applauded for giving big contracts to Cato, Mo, Moochie and trading for EG.
Someone will correct me if Im mistaken, but wasnt that before the current CBA? the way I understand it....the current CBA makes a difference in a team's ability to hold on to franchise level talent.. Like I answerd you in your other thread that basically said the same damn thing.... Yao is not leaving...get used to it.
The Rockets will trade Yao only when hell freezes over. The only way Yao will play for another team, is if he himself chooses to go elsewhere. He was asked by Chinese reporters last year if he had ever contemplated playing for another team in the future. His reply was that he was happy in Houston and it never entered his mind to play for another team.
Think S.S. Minnow: Gilligan/Skipper/Ginger/Mary Ann Yao's going nowhere. By the time he's up for renewal, he's going to be so tied to the Rockets' brand, he won't want to leave. And the team is going to do whatever it takes to make him an offer he can't refuse.
By chance will you be applauding in 2006 as Cuban pays: Finley - $17m Dirk - $15m Jamison - $15m Abdul-Wahad - $7.8m Fortson - $7m whatever it takes to re-sign both Walker and Nash in 2005 Shaq was able to leave because his contract was on the old Collective Bargaining Agreement. The new agreement means that no team can offer Yao more money than Houston. Your entire premise is to bogus for further comment. Half the players you think will be on Denver, GSW, etc don' even have contract through 2006.
For Yao to stay, the Rockets need to win, period. Not hanging around 500 or eliminating in the first round of playoff. Everybody want to win, the houston franchise, JVG, Yao, SF........ Everybody also want to enhance his chance to win. Yao is a career winner and he is the only one with a lifeboat to escape the winness situation. If the Rockets can find a way to be a consistent winner, Yao will stay. If the Rockets stay to be like this, he will leave.
2 questions: 1. Yao has a career? What, those 5 years in the highly-competitive Chinese Basketball Association count? And 2.) Are you Yao Ming?
I am just talking about the fact. The Rockets organization is in disarray now. They know they have to win soon, to fill the seats and to resign Yao. But they did screw up badly in the past drafts and free agent signings. Sigh, if EG and Nachbar are worth the high picks, everything will be fine. On the other hand, if a eleven-year journeyman becomes the lockroom mentor, the team is really leaderless, right?
I am not Yao Ming. But in a business world, people jump ships all the time. The Rockets better fix its ship soon.
It's true the Rockets organization has really dropped the ball in the rebuilding period. That's why there are 3 shooting guards and 2 centers in the starting lineup.
