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I always thought he was extremely overrated. He would have taken them somewhere if he was any good, and he never did.
jalen rose doesn't believe yao deserves to be in the HOF but other than that, throughout his career yao was always pegged as one of the leagues best player (when healthy) with multiple all nba selections etc. is he any better than today's big men?
what say you?
I always thought he was extremely overrated. He would have taken them somewhere if he was any good, and he never did.
I don't think he deserves to get in on his NBA career
A billion Yao fans can't be wrong.
They could be Wong
Jeff Van Gundy as coach
Foot injuries.
I was trying to think of something funny, and I completely whiffed on that one.
Sure they can, in the same way that millions of people who voted for Kobe to be an all-star in 2016 are wrong.
If all-star voting is the metric, then yeah he's overrated. He's not the greatest player of his era. But he was a top 3 center for a while.
That was kind of the point I was making.
He was always hurt. His last healthy year was 08-09. Yao stays healthy that series against the Lakers, then it would have been a free ride to a ring. But he didnt so it wasnt.
It was exhausting just watching him labor up and down the court on those little legs
Yep. Didn't help that he played summer ball too every year
I'm one who thinks Yao is overrated, but the guy had tree trunks for legs..
He was a bit overrated. He definitely cost them in the 2006-2007 playoffs against Utah. Couldn't get a rebound to save to his life in Game 7. That team was usually better with Dikembe on the floor.
He was awfully ing good when he was healthy, though. Being a hall of famer requires a combination of productivity and longevity. Yao certainly had the former.
Yeah, short tree trunks
Though he was soft, Yao was as skilled as some of the best bigs to ever touch a basketball. It's a shame China ruined him by making him play ball year round.
I'd take the Nuggets or Magic over that Rockets team.
Ming is not over-rated. Nobody was saying he should be in the HOF. On a better team he might have ringed.
Yao in the HoF is a lock. Purely because of his impact on east Asia.
Yes but he deserves HOF
To me, a re ed argument (that might work). Players should be judged on what they do on the court. But they put all these lame announcers and execs and women's players and college coaches into the HOF that I could honestly care less who's in it, anyhow.
I have this rule that if a player has gone to at least 6 all-star games they should be a lock for the HOF. Yao went to 8 ASGs granted some of you will scream that he was voted in but he was a top 3 center during that time period and after Shaq left the West there was no better center in the Western Conference.
Folks forget the Magic were WITHOUT Jameer Nelson in the Finals & that was the year he was an All-Star. The series could easily have been 3-1 in the Magic's favor as the Lakers need OT to win Gm 2/4.
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