<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Yao Ming returned after a four-month layoff from a foot injury, revitalizing China in an 82-73 loss to Dirk Nowitzki and Germany on Friday in a warmup game leading to the world championships. Yao scored 11 points but was no match for Nowitzki, who gave the Houston Rockets center a playful slap on the chest at the start. Nowitzki finished with 27 points, including 18 in the final quarter, and 12 rebounds. The German star of the Dallas Mavericks scored nearly at will against Yao and almost every other Chinese player.</div> source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/bask...a.ap/index.html Anyone have any more info on the game? The article doesn't say how much floor time Yao got. I would assume they're slowly working him in.
22 minutes and apparently the guards were doing a bad job of feeding him in the post. 3/6 from the field. 5/6 from the FT line.
Dirk was contained in the first half by Yi but totally demolished him in the second half. Chen Jianghua was definetly good. Most of all i am just happy to finally see that Yao Ming out on the court and looking alright and basically being ok again.
I heard from Clutchfans that Yi totally dominated Nowitzki in the first half, played Dirk straight up, forced Nowitzki into missed shots, a few of them airballs. He also dunked a facial on Nowitzki and grabbed like 7 boards... By the second half, the Chinese team switched defenders, so Dirk was able to find his shot, and when Yi guarded him then, Nowitzki already had a hot hand, and with his height and his beautiful high arcing shot, there's no stopping him...
Yi dominated Nowizki in first half because the germans were tryin to iso nowizki and yi but in second half the team helped nowitzki score by giving him picks and stuff and when yi entered again in second half the damage was already done.
