Raymond has translated a couple of articles, one where Yao’s trainer Anthony Falsone says that Yao’s conditioning during Chinese National Team scrimmages is poor, as described in this first article. It will take some time, but everyone is satisfied with his progress so far.

In the second translated article (directly underneath the first one), despite Yao’s conditioning issues, he is expected to get some playing time in the FIBA Stankovich Continental Cup that starts July 17th. As Raymond points out, this contradicts an interview last week that Rockets’ assistant trainer Keith Garnett gave where he thought Yao would start playing at the end of the month in the FIBA Diamond Cup. So perhaps Yao and the Chinese team think waiting that long won’t give him enough time to gel with the team before the Olympics start next month.

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