I said one of the biggest, not the biggest. All those are also big what ifs? but when people look back at Yao in a few years, they're going to see a guy that towered over everybody, had post skills, a mid-range game, could shoot free throws, and played great D, whose career ended way too soon because of injuries. If he could have stayed heathly, how good could he have been?
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I said one of the biggest, not the biggest. All those are also big what ifs? but when people look back at Yao in a few years, they're going to see a guy that towered over everybody, had post skills, a mid-range game, could shoot free throws, and played great D, whose career ended way too soon because of injuries. If he could have stayed heathly, how good could he have been?
Yea, besides the fact that he's said if he injuries his ankle again, he's done. You take him saying that out and it's way too soon.[/B]It's too soon to conclude that his career is over. -
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You make great points, it's hard to even argue against them so I won't. I just think Tmac and Yao, especially Yao with his frame were not ordinary players. There was one point in Tmac's career they did not seem to have him on the right track of recovery.Tmac's back was treated back when Charlie Ward was on the team, which was back in 04 and he never had another back problem, and guess what... that wasnt the Rockets medical staff who did that, it was some guy
they call the witch doctor somewhere in Texas. Before then all of those guys were clueless, and he fixed McGrady in one treatment.
The entire team was decimated with injury back in I think it was 06... go back and see. They were pulling in D leaguers and crap just to fill out the roster. That summer almost the entire starting 5 had to have surgery, Rafer, Shane, Yao, Mac, etc.... and it wasnt because they were old
Yao sprained his ankle one night in a game and they made him get back in there, and bam, broken foot. They've completely mishandled this guy over the years and its one of those teams injured to the point that they looked cursed for a long time.
As far as now though, i don't think they could have done much different for Yao. He did go to China for some type of treatment along with what he did here in the states, they were very cautious with him and in the end he suffered another injury. Which is why i don't think they could have done much for him, the loaded nba schedule and on top of that doing everything for Team China and one time rushing back just to play for his national team didn't do him any favors. Those guys(medical staff) may have been terrible then but the guys with nagging injuries (Lowry with his back spasms, already all the guys who have sprained ankles) have been handled with care at least. They are being extra cautious with Brooks it seems.Comment
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Thank China for his injuries they ran him into the ground on their National team, and had him playing in qualifiers etc in the NBAs offseason.Originally posted by Edmund BurkeAll that is needed for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.Comment
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You make great points, it's hard to even argue against them so I won't. I just think Tmac and Yao, especially Yao with his frame were not ordinary players. There was one point in Tmac's career they did not seem to have him on the right track of recovery.
As far as now though, i don't think they could have done much different for Yao. He did go to China for some type of treatment along with what he did here in the states, they were very cautious with him and in the end he suffered another injury. Which is why i don't think they could have done much for him, the loaded nba schedule and on top of that doing everything for Team China and one time rushing back just to play for his national team didn't do him any favors. Those guys(medical staff) may have been terrible then but the guys with nagging injuries (Lowry with his back spasms, already all the guys who have sprained ankles) have been handled with care at least. They are being extra cautious with Brooks it seems.
I do think Yao was overworked and you know you saw this coming years ago, even after injury he'd still go home and play for the CNT.
I still dont think he was completely handled right, after the last time, they didnt even get a backup center, then they got mutombo late, and didnt play him until late season and when he came in his career was ended in injury
I hear all the great stories and see recoveries with team doctors in other places like PHX who brought Grant Hill from the dead (no one was worse than him) as someone alluded to the docs in DET... then I look at HOU doctors and theyre always busy giving you this guy is out for this length of time or that guy is out for this long.... you never hear those guys with those kinds of stories.
Brooks has been out forever, before that it was Lowry...anytime someone is injured there its well you know he wont be back for awhile... Dirk nearly breaks his ankle every year and the dude is back like nothing happened.
I just dont see that in HOU. At what point are the docs insufficient. Something aint right that much you can see because its always something, and im not talking about Yao.Comment
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I must admit Houston has been hit very hard by the injury bug over the years, more so then any other team. So eventually one will have to start looking at the training staff and medical team.Comment
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I think we need to see either Oden or Yao go to Phoenix just to test out the "Phoenix doctors" theory.
They were great for Nash's career, as well as Shaq and Grant Hill, so if they can fix up those guys to some extent then wow.Originally posted by bradtxmaleI like 6 inches. Its not too thin and not too thick. You get the support your body needs.
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Yao i think should have been done after his 1st stress fracture because that has to b an extreamly painful injury. now that he had another one it is going to hurt him even more down the road now. As to if he will come back........ I hate to say it but i dnt see him coming back after this one.... srry Houston.Comment
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I knew the Rockets' medical staff sucked way back in Hakeem's prime, when around 96 or 97 he suddenly started having trouble with his stamina and it turned out it was because an anti-inflammatory those dumb quacks were giving him caused anemia as a side-effect. The Rockets have been consistently injury prone ever since.
I still maintain that the reason McGrady did what he did and ran to that one doctor for the microfracture surgery was because he knew how full of crap the Rockets' doctors are. They couldn't cure his back but then that "unorthodox specialist" did, and then they were telling him that his knee injury was all in his mind? I wouldn't have believed them either.Comment
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You could kind of see this thing coming. Big men are generally more injury prone, and the fact that he had to play basketball nearly year round just worsened the situation. Hopefully, he gets a couple of years of playing in on a team w/ a good staff. I don't know if it would change anything.Comment
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Yao was my favorite center since 00'-03' Shaq. I felt he was going to dominate the league the same way after Shaq got old and slow. Yao had everything except speed. His offensive arsenal was unstoppable. And he was a 90% capable free throw shooter.
Why oh why have we lost such a talent? At 7'7 he could potentially put up Wilt like numbers.
He didn't even jump so why were his bones so weak? Not enough Vitamin D and Calcium.
Sigh, this is a massive loss, much bigger than any other..Comment

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