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| pryuen |
 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:40 am |
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So obvious that Yao Ming was bitterly disappointed about the loss tonight, about his team, about the coach..........
Quote: http://rockets.basketball.titan24.com/09-02-10/174499.html
Special Correspondent Xu Xiaoqi of Titan Sports reports from Milwaukee
February 10 (Beijing Local Time) Houston Rockets was thrashed 124 to 112 to the Milwaukee Bucks on the road. Right after the game, Yao Ming received the following interview from the reporter in the locker room. It was plain obvious to feel that Yao Ming was bitterly disappointed by the result of the game. He was speaking with a very low voice throughout the reporter’s interview.
Reporter: Can you talk to us about how this team performed in this game?
Yao Ming (impatiently): What do you want me to say?
Reporter: Talk something about the team’s defense?
Yao Ming: There’s not much to appraise. I don’t know what we were doing. And I don’t know what I was doing.
Reporter: In offense, was it due to that your shot releases today were different from what you used to, or the defense of each position was different?
Yao Ming: Did I play tonight? Did I defend or attack tonight? Seemed like I had not done both.
Reporter: Prior to this game (in the pre-game press conference), Milwaukee Bucks’ head coach said they must try to push you out of the 3-second zone. It seemed they were successful in doing so tonight.
Yao Ming: Every team, every coach will say the same thing every night. But I have played in this league for 6 years already. Why I had played in this way for tonight alone? Definitely there must be other reasons. It is not just that simple. You think that he instructed his players not to let me receive/catch the ball, and hence I will forget how to play basketball?
Reporter: So you think given the current situation and condition of this team, you guys can overcome this (and get into the playoff)?
Yao Ming: Then do you believe tomorrow will just be another new day?
Reporter: I believe so, but I also believe that history sometimes repeats itself. So what do you think?
Yao Ming: Then I will also attempt to believe so (that tomorrow will be another new day).
Reporter: Do you believe that this whole thing will change?
Yao Ming: (hesitated and halted) Yes, everything will have to change. This is not the beginning of the season. And it is not that we have only played 20 games. We have played for more than 50 games now. And we are still got trapped in this kind of situation. Everybody is still saying we have ample of time to correct these problems. So from the very first game of the season, to the 10th game, and now to the 50th some game, and we are still saying so: we need to make changes, we need to make changes. I thought we should have already resolved these problems in the preseason training camp.
Reporter: So for (the recent) 12 away games, 3 wins 9 losses. Tthe team was doing pretty well on road trips at the start of the season. But now it seemed that the team played much better at home than playing on the road. What’s really the matter?
Yao Ming: (Halted) I can’t find the reason. We never encountered such situation before. |
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| pryuen |
| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:51 am |
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So the interview was not just to Titan Sports..........
Jonathan Feigen was there too.
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http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2009/02/rockets_latest_flop_changes_th.html
"Now is not early in the season," Yao Ming said. "It's not 20 games into the season. Now it's 50 games into the season. We're still stuck in here and talk about we still have time to fix it, from first game of the season and 10 games in the season and 50 games into the season. We still talk about we need to fix it."
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| bayern |
| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:39 pm |
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| As usual, all talk but no action. That's what Yao does the best it seems. |
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| pryuen |
| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:13 pm |
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bayern wrote: As usual, all talk but no action. That's what Yao does the best it seems.
Well AT LEAST he CARES.
He wanted his team to win..... but without his other team mates all working one mind one soul together , and with a laissez faire head coach giving a free hand to the players, and lost control of some of those big shot and egocentric so-called superstars of the team, what can he do??
Upon their return from Milwaukee, Yao Ming was still upset and sad about the humiliation in Milwaukee, putting on a solemn and gloomy face, avoiding questions from the media, right after the team practice.
And look at McGrady. He was all-smiling from ear-to-ear, not giving a damn hoot to the defeat, and what is weird most was that while all other Rockets were wearing normal Rockets training jersey/shorts, he wore a very colorful jersey and put on his Orlando Magic shorts.
Maybe he still dreams and thinks of his glorious I-am-the-NBA-scoring-champion days of Orlando Magic.
Yeah, that is our US$21M man....and our captain of this Houston Rockets team. 
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| WONTONnPHO |
| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:33 pm |
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I hope Tmac wasn't smiling like that because he was happy with his defensive performance  |
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| pryuen |
| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:06 am |
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WONTONnPHO wrote: I hope Tmac wasn't smiling like that because he was happy with his defensive performance
Well, the guy is just close to pathetically shameless. 
Right after the humiliation and massacre at Milwaukee, he as usual blah-blah-blah to the press/media, dissing and bashing his own team.
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On Defense
“We can sit here and pretty much talk about what we talked about a couple days ago after the game — defense. We don’t know how to play. We don’t execute defensively. We’re just right now a team that doesn’t know how to play defense. The first quarter, second quarter, third quarter — they got whatever they wanted. You’re not going to win that way."
On Offense
“The offense is not fluid. There’s too much one-on-one, no ball movement. We’re just a team that doesn’t have an identity. We don’t know who we are. We’ve been talking about this for so long.”
On defense, he got blown by so many times by the penetrating Bucks guards, and let the players he guarded: Keith Bogans scored 13 points and Charlie Bell scored 21 points over him........... and yet he still had the guts to talk about execution of defensive assignment.
And one of the major reasons for Big Yao in early foul troubles was really due to poor exterior/perimeter defense that he was time and time again exposed to the penetrating guards/forwards down in the low post as the last frontier of defense.
And in offense, McGrady always had to have the ball in his hands; his shot selections were lousy; and very often was against the rhythm and flow of the team; time and time again, he just wild-shot those ill-advised contested jumpers and 3-pointers without winding up the shot clock, resulting in long rebounds and fast breaks from the Bucks.
And he still has guts to talk about ball movement, fluid offense, and too many one-on-one offense??
This team now sux with all its players in mind guessing each other; they played uncohesively, without chemistry, without intensity and urgency, and without trust of each other.
It is time for a change. |
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| nig1 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:29 am |
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| when there is no leadership at the top, the team is in turmoil. Yao cannot lead this team. Trade Tmac in the offseason, and bring in someone willing to be a leader. Yao is a good follower, a leader, he is not. |
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| pryuen |
| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:55 am |
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nig1 wrote: when there is no leadership at the top, the team is in turmoil. Yao cannot lead this team. Trade Tmac in the offseason, and bring in someone willing to be a leader. Yao is a good follower, a leader, he is not.
Did you follow that stretch of games of Yao Ming leading the rest of the Rockets during the absence of Tracy McGrady and Ron Artest, winning 6 out of 7 games, playing fluid motion offense and tight defense? The only game they lost during that stretch was to LA Lakers but fighting gallantly to the last minute and "kobed" by a Kobe Bryant's dagger less than 30 seconds from the end.
WHAT happened after Tracy McGrady came back?? |
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| nig1 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:45 am |
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| did u follow the stretch of games when Tmac led the Rox to a 12 game winning streak during Yao's absence last yr? Playing fluid motion offense and tight defense. Leading for 6 or 7 games doesn't mean crap. It's when s#it hits the fan that a leader leads and keeps the team together. Even Rafer and Battier say there's no leaders. Yao can't take the reigns of this team. He ain't a vocal, in your face leader period. Tmac has a leash on Yao an Yao's afraid to piss him off. |
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| tharock220 |
| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:24 am |
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pryuen wrote: nig1 wrote: when there is no leadership at the top, the team is in turmoil. Yao cannot lead this team. Trade Tmac in the offseason, and bring in someone willing to be a leader. Yao is a good follower, a leader, he is not.
WHAT happened after Tracy McGrady came back??
Tracy McGrady lead the Rockets to 10 straight victories in Yao's absence, something you like to pretend didn't happen. Oh wait, that's right, the NBA season is 82 games long. Short stretches of good play are irrelevent unless they lead to something, and none of the Rockets' stretches of good play have turned into anything
The sad thing is Yao could never ascend to a level above Tracy McGrady. No he had to wait for T-Mac to get progressively worse before and be damn near 30 before he could take over. So congratulations Pry, Yao has finally surpassed the broken down T-Mac and is currently leading his team to what would be a 48 win season. Yeah, he's gonna make Rockets fans forget about Hakeem real quick. |
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