Comments on: Dikembe to Yao: Stop taking charges and block more shots

By: lamoni

lamoni — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:19:02 +0000

about time Yao is 7’6 and yet he isnt even in the top 10 for REBOUNDING & BLOCKs? i think he is the most overated/overhyped Centers to ever play the game

he was a waist of a draft pick & he is always being voted as a starter in the ASG, due to his Royal like popularity in china( from where most his votes come from) he just sucks

Dikembe is the best shot blocker ever he nearly blocked 3x as much shots as Yao did, Dikembe once recorded 4.6 BPG HOW CRAZY IS THAT!

By: Tha Boddy

Tha Boddy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:19:10 +0000

Yao needs to listen to Dikembe hell Mutombo has to have at least 5 decades of basketball knowledge and that’s b4 he even entered the league

By: karizmatic

karizmatic — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:52:19 +0000

Dikembe is right. I also think that if Yao could step up his shot blocking he could really add to the toughness factor if the Rockets team and in his personal game. As it is everyone tries to dunk on Yao because they know he isn’t really looking for the shot block like he should. Not that 1.8 isn’t bad but you would think he could do better than that. He needs to be more aggressive on D in general in my opinion and blocking a shot is a more aggressive move than looking for a charge.

By: jjankechu

jjankechu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:30:38 +0000

I’m with deke on this one, but you can lay this shit at the feet of JVG + Ewing

http://hoopshype.com/columns/yao_hans.htm

By: Bron42 aka Haters drink my bath water

Bron42 aka Haters drink my bath water — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:47:02 +0000

yao only blocks 1.8 a game not cuz his minutes, but because all the other attempts he goes after are guys dunking all on his gumby blockhead shaped skull..the guy isn’t a defensive figure, hes like one of those ben wallace blowup dolls they cell to train against…just there to got to the rack on

By: wwill

wwill — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:22:42 +0000

This is some actually productive criticism. All that other crap about being soft or what not, is bull. This right here about blocking shots is legit. Dude is 7’6. Should be swatting more than 1.8/gm.

By: Doog

Doog — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:06:08 +0000

Notwithstanding the posturing, it seems to me that a case could be made that charges likely are more valuable than blocked shots. When Yao draws a charge, his team automatically gets the ball (contrast this with the league high defensive rebound rate of ~70% for Bosh) and a player on the opposing team is assigned a foul.

By: doc

doc — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:37:36 +0000

I dont see how this would cause a rift.Deke told the truth.Get your tall ass down there and man up.

By: fLaVa

fLaVa — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:45:45 +0000

i agree with Deke that Yao needs to block more shots but to be a better defensively its important to occationally try to take a charge, to give the offensive a little something different, something they’re not use to so i do think a mix of a little both taking charges and blocking shots in needed. But as big as Yao is.. he should attempt to block more shots than take charges

By: the cynic

the cynic — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:13:26 +0000

I wonder if the journalist could even understand the words coming out of Deke, he probably just came up with a bunch of ish