http://yaoming.newclub.sohu.com/thr...lock=false&unarchive=false&tstart=0&trange=15 I wonder if someone can translate it. Very interesting, nothing to do with basktetball. But I think it says a lot about the Kid, his character!!! Basically, in the post, he compared home to comforter in a very poetic way. What is worth noting is that he started the post himself.
I know someone will post it. If you read it carefully, he sounds very weak emotionally. I do not think he will be a tough player forever. He just does not have it.
I got that feeling too. I bet Shaq or Francis wont never ever ever came up with that comparison. Not even Ray Allen.
i think he was trying to express his depression. i do think he got a lot of pressure. I think he is just not that type (aggressive ) of player.
I know someone will make a comment. If you read it carefully, the poster has no faith in him & is only too happy to bash Yao Ming. To say Yao will not be a tough player forever is the most r****ded comment ever.
Well, it sounds like SOMEBODY knows what the post says........so............ I've always thought that Yao was somewhat homesick. How can your mind and body be in the game, when your heart is in China? It's kind of like moving to a new town as a child. New school, peers, etc. Only the whole culture, peers, everything, is totally different. It has to be a concern in his state of mind.
Past is the best predictor of the future. If after a players-only meeting, he can only get 12-6 against a Cleveland team, you have to be disappointed in him. Good players always react strongly in a situation like this, especially after a players-only meeting. The way he reacts to things does not show that he has, or has very little inner strength to rebound. To add it up, he can't even get much FT shots in these games. But to be fair, maybe we should be happy with 17-10.
It was too poetic for me to even attemp to ... Mercy, this is embrassing. First off, I am no expert in both languages ... I didnt want chat about basketball when I got home, let's chat anout something else. What do Chinese describe hometown as? Mother is most often used. I today want to use another way to describe it. These days I have been watching a TV drama series called "pink girl" (???, what's about, what a name). I believe many people have watched it (I havent). First I only wanted it to kill some time in the trip, but more and more I felt attracted to it. First, the story is attractive. What's more important however is that the drama backgrounds my hometown--Shanghai. When I saw those familiar buildings, familiar alleys, I had tearing feeling. Still hometown is better, today I want to compare hometown to comforter. Dont laugh, neither do you suspect you read it wrong. Yes, comforter it is. Comforter give you comfortable condition. Yet when you fall into dream, you dont even know it exists. Only everyday morning, when you are about to leave it, you then will have this tiny bit sentiment that you want to leave it. Along with time moving(during the day), you go out working, study, when you feel tired you then wnat to go back to sleep. I am now just this boy that has left the comforter for long time. When I saw scenes in that TV drama, I would remember the moment I left comforter, just wanted to hold tight the comforter, just a litter bit more, a little bit more. So I said: Hometown is my comforter, only when you were in dream, you dont feel the comfortness it provides. Does anybody argue if I call him Yaofucious or Yao-zi.
Me, bash Yao? Check my record, please. Can I just be objectvie? I dont want bash him, no. You read it, you interpret it, dont be judgemental, no.
Great post. It's a good sign that Yao will be dominant for years to come. Though he'll probably need to leave houston for that since it's just a bad fit for him. Selfish players, and the city itself is not a very good basketball city, nor has very good fans as evidenced by the poor attendance.
No edit button.... Correction: you then will have this tiny bit sentiment that you DONT want to leave it.
Bad timing YAO!!!!!! You are not supposed to say this 'soft' thing when people critisize you being too soft!!! I understand that you wanna keep it real, keep yourself real. But people want you to transform yourself to a tougher man, a monster! You always say you wanna be treated like a common person. But you are NOT a common person, in any sense. 7'5 tall, making millions of dollars per year, on national TV.... If you wanna success, wanna conquer the NBA, wanna bring respect to your country's basketball, start accepting the reality, hide your emotion and weakness and take care of your public image, while of couse, working harder and harder to improve yourself. You are living a special life. So forget about being nobody. Say what you are supposed to say! There are players saying whatever in their mind and being themselves in the NBA. Barkeley was one of them. But he was the freaking MVP. Rodman said whatever he wantedto say. But that was when he got 15+ rebounds per game. Now Rasheed said something, what happened? everybody thinks he's stupid. Why? Coz he isn't that good a player yet like Barkely and Rodman. Now some suggestions which may not seem proper: 1) start to believe yourself, believe that you can be a tough man, a tough player. 2) quit the damn BBS. at least don't whine about anything at the BBS. what do you expect to get back from the whining? hundreds of posts saying "We miss you too, Yao?" 3) Buy another house for your parents at NY, Chicago, LA or SF. It's time to live alone. Anyway...whatever happens, we'll always support you and be your fans.
I wish I could post on his website in Chinese. I want to say: Yao, just play the dame basketball, and STOP BEING CUTE!!! When Wang Zhizhi first came to the states there was also a lot media attention on him. Then Done Nelson told him: "No baskets, no pictures!". Meaning in the NBA nobody gives a dame about you if you can't play. I never wanted to believe Yao was weak because I thought my eyes might be misleading me. But after seeing his sisi comments one after another I now tend to believe this guy is really soft inside. It's time for him to realize that the only way to get love is by playing like a man. To play like a man he has to live like man. He needs to stop living with his parent, shut his mouth and get on his game!
So I take it Yao said something to make him sound weak? Seems like he’s really just sick of basketball. I just pray he doesn’t go the same path as Eddie went. Not that I think he’ll become a thug, but just plain losing passion for playing the game. I don’t like it when I read comments from him about not liking pressure on him or not liking attention on him. It’s something I don’t mind that much hearing from role players, but when a team is building around you it’s not very encouraging.
What's wrong with admitting that home is a comfort zone for him. Even if he "goes off" in NBA and averages 30/15 to everyone's desires, he won't call Houston his real home.
Hehe, guess what, that's what is happening at his fan site. Not say he is whining there. People posting there, lot of them, are pretty upset when someone pop up comments like "yao play tough". It's a basically kiss-his-arse board, plagued with hundereds of posts saying "We miss you too, Yao?" Well, just tired of sohu use yao to get hits. 3) Buy another house for your parents at NY, Chicago, LA or SF. It's time to live alone. Not a bad idea at all. But again, does he need to scrafice, does he need to change who he is. He is still the same guy we know a year ago. If he had comment like that after that break-out game against Laker, what do we say about him?
