« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.  (Read 1748 times)

Offline WayOutWest

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7411
    • View Profile
Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« on: May 09, 2009, 08:26:48 PM »
Hair-line fracture in his foot, he's done for this year.  Too bad, the series was good from the first game.  I wonder how the Rockets and Lakers will react.  The Rockets are now extremely thin in the front court, they have no true center.
Logged
"History shouldn't be a mystery"
"Our story is real history"
"Not his story"

"My people's culture was strong, it was pure"
"And if not for that white greed"
"It would've endured"

"Laker hate causes blindness"

Offline ziggy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1990
    • Yahoo Instant Messenger - ziggythebeagle
    • View Profile
    • Email
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2009, 11:14:51 AM »
This is too bad.  He was playing well.  This is more of the same with Yao, his lower body just doesn't seem to be able to handle the pounding of playing in the NBA.
Logged
A third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.

AA Mil

Offline Reality

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8738
    • View Profile
    • Email
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2009, 11:35:39 AM »
I know that no NBA owner-management and/or coach will ever implement this, but would it be so unsound and unheard of to have had a player like Yao playing 50 games a regular season and thereby getting him all kinds of rest between games and saving it for the playoffs?

Same with GNob, many others.  Foot injuries are chronic in the NBA.  To me many times it's cumulative, even if one awkward fall does produce the eventual crack.
Red A was suggesting getting all involved (greedy shoe makers, billionaire owners, multimillionaire players, etc) by putting enough money into a study on foot injuries.  Ended up just being talk -no action.

Board Q.  Have any of you ever had a foot injury?
Me?  Yes.  Overdid it on concrete one day.  Hairline.  Recovered but missed playoffs.
Logged

Offline WayOutWest

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7411
    • View Profile
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2009, 08:22:37 PM »
Quote from: ziggy on May 10, 2009, 11:14:51 AM
This is too bad.  He was playing well.  This is more of the same with Yao, his lower body just doesn't seem to be able to handle the pounding of playing in the NBA.

They guy from day one was pegged for injury problems because of his size.  His non-stop playing for the NBA and China does not help. 
Logged
"History shouldn't be a mystery"
"Our story is real history"
"Not his story"

"My people's culture was strong, it was pure"
"And if not for that white greed"
"It would've endured"

"Laker hate causes blindness"

Offline Joe Vancil

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2208
    • ICQ Messenger - 236778608
    • MSN Messenger - joev5638@hotmail.com
    • AOL Instant Messenger - GenghisThePBear
    • Yahoo Instant Messenger - joev5638
    • View Profile
    • http://www.joev.com
    • Email
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2009, 09:19:20 AM »
I'll have to post pictures of my ankles.

Right ankle has been twisted in both directions so many times that it's truly hideous-looking.  And I've sat out of games before because of ankle trouble, but I don't COME OUT of games with twisted ankles.  It's easier to play on them...hence the reason my ankles look like they do.

Skander and Caleb can back me up on this one.
Logged
Joe

-----------
Support your right to keep and arm bears!
Club (baby) seals, not sandwiches!

Offline ziggy

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1990
    • Yahoo Instant Messenger - ziggythebeagle
    • View Profile
    • Email
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2009, 01:48:28 PM »
Quote from: Joe Vancil on May 11, 2009, 09:19:20 AM
I'll have to post pictures of my ankles.

Right ankle has been twisted in both directions so many times that it's truly hideous-looking.  And I've sat out of games before because of ankle trouble, but I don't COME OUT of games with twisted ankles.  It's easier to play on them...hence the reason my ankles look like they do.

Skander and Caleb can back me up on this one.


OOOOHHHH  Pictures of Joe's ankles, delicious, I cannot wait!!
Logged
A third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.

AA Mil

Offline WayOutWest

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7411
    • View Profile
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2009, 03:01:51 PM »
Quote from: ziggy on May 11, 2009, 01:48:28 PM
OOOOHHHH  Pictures of Joe's ankles, delicious, I cannot wait!!

Better his ankles than his face!  :P
Logged
"History shouldn't be a mystery"
"Our story is real history"
"Not his story"

"My people's culture was strong, it was pure"
"And if not for that white greed"
"It would've endured"

"Laker hate causes blindness"

Offline Reality

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8738
    • View Profile
    • Email
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2009, 06:05:29 PM »
Quote from: ziggy on May 11, 2009, 01:48:28 PM
OOOOHHHH  Pictures of Joe's ankles, delicious, I cannot wait!! 
If you start rooting for the Lakers and becoming offended by Carrie Prejeans photos* and marriage views, i will die.

*and liking Perez Hiltons.
Logged

Offline Reality

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8738
    • View Profile
    • Email
Re: Yao out for the rest of the playoffs.
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2009, 10:00:21 AM »
Rockets are now 4-0 lifetime vs the Lakers when Yao is out.

To counter, the Lakers are starting Bennett Salvatore so be on the lookout for a "Heart of a Champion" type performance.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »