Great win tody against the Portland Trailblazers! Yao was really dominant tonight on the offensive end! as was T-Mac but thats not as much as a suprise. The highlight of the game tonight was Yao's behind the back dribble to a fast break dunk! he finished with 29 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks (showed that Ha Seung-Ji fella!) at one point in the game we were leading by 25 points!, back to T-Mac he had 26 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists, Clarence Weatherspoon had 5 rebounds, Wesley had a poor shooting night but finished with 8 points and 7 assists, Mutombo had 3 blocks and Torraye Braggs had 3 Rebounds in only 2 minutes, not too bad...
McGrady had 26 not 24, and Clarence had a season high 12 points against Miami, so tonight was not his high as a Rocket or even this season alone. Just thought I'd clear those up.
Wow, almost all my predictions were wrong lol. I expected another mediocre game from Yao and expected very even scoring throughout the entire rotation. HAHA!!! Shows you what I know! If someone can get a hold of the video of Yao behind the back, could you please post it on the rockets video thread? Thanks
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Sniper:</div><div class="quote_post">McGrady had 26 not 24, and Clarence had a season high 12 points against Miami, so tonight was not his high as a Rocket or even this season alone. Just thought I'd clear those up.</div> Whatever are you talking about... I don't know why I thought Clarence had his first 10 point game as a Rocket..must of heard it from somewhere else, and the 26 point thing was either a typo or just misread it...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting dakeem1:</div><div class="quote_post"> If someone can get a hold of the video of Yao behind the back, could you please post it on the rockets video thread? Thanks</div> Already there mate good to see another Aussie on here (even though you were here before me)
Ha is the absolute worst player I've ever seen in an NBA game.. lol He couldn't score in an empty gym..
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting yaofan:</div><div class="quote_post">Yao's haft court behind back drible and dunk as #2 of TOP 10 sports center tonite, should be #1 my opinion for 7'6". The VC's dunk kinda boring, but viewed #1 as they always do. EDIT:just found this video link,not sure where it goes,so i will just put it here. yaobehindtheback</div> God damn it! I missed this game and one of the most exciting dunk of Yao! Thank Lord you put it up here! YAO:" I was still wondering if I could ever make it to NBA when I was at an age of Ha, 19." <font color="red"><font size="-2">Welcome to the forum, but please use the 'edit' function next time. Thanks.</font></font>
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">johnny33 JustBBall Member Fav. Player: Yao Ming Fav. Team: Rockets Join Date: Jun 2004 Ha is the absolute worst player I've ever seen in an NBA game.. lol He couldn't score in an empty gym.. </div> YAO:" I was still wondering if I could ever make it to NBA when I was at an age of Ha, 19."
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Dan Le:</div><div class="quote_post">Whatever are you talking about... I don't know why I thought Clarence had his first 10 point game as a Rocket..must of heard it from somewhere else, and the 26 point thing was either a typo or just misread it...</div> Ah, where bouts in Oz are you from Dan? By the way is that your real name because my name's Dan too. YOU"RE MY CLONE!!!! lol
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting johnny33:</div><div class="quote_post">Ha is the absolute worst player I've ever seen in an NBA game.. lol He couldn't score in an empty gym..</div> hey man.. that's not a good thing to say, if you watched yesterday's game you'll see he grabbed a few rebounds and not afraid to guard Yao, even if he didn't score a point but i can see he's improving
I got to see the game today on one of the Western regional sports channels, but it was a pain to hear the commentary. It was the Blazers' commentators and they had a whole bunch of wrong facts. When Yao was at the line, one guy said: "Yao's shooting 77% on the season." Other guy:"Yeah, he's improved a lot. When he first came into the league he was shooting 62%!". I mean come on...Yao's getting a career low shooting free throws. There was also when one guy mentioned the Yao quote about Ha at 19. And the other guy said: "Yeah. Yao's right. Ha is in the NBA while Yao was horrible at 19." Once again, Yao was actually starting for China in the 2000 Olympics and averaging 11 points. I might be wrong on this, but I don't think Ha even gets to play on the Korean team. Anyways, there's my rant, and now on to the game. Yao was pure dominating in the first quarter, cleaning up the offensive glass and even pulling off that behind the back dribble like all of you mentioned. It was simply a joy to watch. We're now building up a whole head of steam and I doubt any team would want to face us in the first round of the playoffs.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting whatever:</div><div class="quote_post">hey man.. that's not a good thing to say, if you watched yesterday's game you'll see he grabbed a few rebounds and not afraid to guard Yao, even if he didn't score a point but i can see he's improving</div> 0-6 from the field.. 1 was blocked, a couple had a chance to go in, and the rest bricked BADLY off the glass.. yes he grabbed a few boards but he's friggin 7'3" what do you expect?? not afraid to guard Yao is not = not afraid to foul Yao regardless, he's good for 6 fouls a game so it's not a total loss for Portland.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Trip:</div><div class="quote_post">I got to see the game today on one of the Western regional sports channels, but it was a pain to hear the commentary. It was the Blazers' commentators and they had a whole bunch of wrong facts. When Yao was at the line, one guy said: "Yao's shooting 77% on the season." Other guy:"Yeah, he's improved a lot. When he first came into the league he was shooting 62%!". I mean come on...Yao's getting a career low shooting free throws. There was also when one guy mentioned the Yao quote about Ha at 19. And the other guy said: "Yeah. Yao's right. Ha is in the NBA while Yao was horrible at 19." Once again, Yao was actually starting for China in the 2000 Olympics and averaging 11 points. I might be wrong on this, but I don't think Ha even gets to play on the Korean team.</div> LOL.. people put too much weight into what Yao said about Ha. Especially those stupid Portland announcers on FSN. Do you really think Yao would straight up say that Ha sucks? Obviously the guy is bigger and stronger than when Yao last faced him, but the guy's 19 - he's obviously is gonna get bigger. His size doesn't change the fact that Ha doesn't have any range outside 2 feet from the hoop (if even )
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting LiQz:</div><div class="quote_post">Any1 have a link on Yao's play? The one posted doesn't seem to work.</div> try this one then:http://rapidshare.de/files/1073146/YaoMing...0_HL01.wmv.htmlversion 2
LOL yaofan! I didn't watch the game so thanks for putting the play up there. I didn't think Yao would be able to dribble two feet without fumbling the ball. Anyways, great game since Houston completely crushed Portland. In addition to that, both McGrady and Yao had great games so I really have to commend them for that. Plus Weatherspoon came up with a pretty big night. Hopefully, he can keep up this trend. From this game, they should be really confident so maybe it can carry over to the next game and the guys can keep up the same mentality.
I was seeing that on SportsCenter this morning. That was some pretty funny stuff and he finished it off with a nice dunk. I for one was impressed. It seems as if this year Yao is kind of getting out of his shell and looking more impressive. A very solid big man learning from the best in Patrick Ewing.
