Report: Yao Out For Season

Devastating news for Rockets and Adelman. I figured TMac might go down again at any second and now Yao is bitten once again by injury. Houston may never lift off with those two so terribly brittle. I need to change my vote on who is going to miss playoffs in West.
 
Whoa. And, just as a couple of people - like Brickie, I think - said early on, the West is wide open.

And the Adelman unlucky streak continues...

:(
 
Man horrible. Not only for the Rockets but for Yao himself. Looks like he may be going down the path of Bill Walton.
 
I have faith in my boys. The Knicks did it in '99, why can't we?

btw, What's the story with Justin Williams? He's available, right?
 
VF21 said:
Whoa. And, just as a couple of people - like Brickie, I think - said early on, the West is wide open.

And the Adelman unlucky streak continues...

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Unlucky streak? He over-plays his starters everywhere he goes. We all lived through it, under RA, youth rarely developed or developed very slowly and about 7 to 8 guys got in the game tops before garbage time. You would think Adelman would have learned his lesson by now...
 
NoBonus said:
Unlucky streak? He over-plays his starters everywhere he goes. We all lived through it, under RA, youth rarely developed or developed very slowly and about 7 to 8 guys got in the game tops before garbage time. You would think Adelman would have learned his lesson by now...
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Yeah, totally Rick's fault. He should have known playing Yao those extra 3 minutes a game vs. last year was going to cause that stress fracture.

I might add McGrady's injuries this year are probably a result of Adelman's "intense" practice regimen. Cmon Rick.
 
Man.. the most popular player in the world.. with the weight of a nation on his shoulders crumbles..

this is disappointing
 
NoBonus said:
Unlucky streak? He over-plays his starters everywhere he goes. We all lived through it, under RA, youth rarely developed or developed very slowly and about 7 to 8 guys got in the game tops before garbage time. You would think Adelman would have learned his lesson by now...
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Oh, no you didn't...

Well, I guess yes you did. And that straw man has the same validity with the Rockets it had with the Kings.

This is Yao's fourth major injury in the last two years. He missed 32 games last season with a fracture in his right leg and 21 games in late 2006 with a toe infection that required surgery. He missed four games in April 2006 after breaking his foot.
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The truth of the matter may well lie with Yao's physical make-up itself. He has had various problems throughout his life and it could easily be that he's just not engineered for the amount of stress being in the NBA places on his body.
 
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VF21 said:
Oh, no you didn't...

The truth of the matter may well lie with Yao's physical make-up itself. He has had various problems throughout his life and it could easily be that he's just not engineered for the amount of stress being in the NBA places on his body.
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I get it, Yao and TMAC are fragile dudes, just like Peja was for the Kings... the trick is not breaking them during the regular season.

I understand, RA did not injure these guys, however, short rotation = increased injuries; it is pure math.
 
Whatever.

The idea that Adelman overplays his players to their detriment and collapse is NOT supported anywhere. And I have to think that if there were any substance to that line of thought, it would have been seriously discussed.

And pure math has NOTHING to do with your theory. You're trying to prove a causal relationship that's built on nothing but conjecture. That's not how it works.
 
NoBonus said:
I get it, Yao and TMAC are fragile dudes, just like Peja was for the Kings... the trick is not breaking them during the regular season.

I understand, RA did not injure these guys, however, short rotation = increased injuries; it is pure math.
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When he was here I believe it was shown several times that while Adelman had a shorter rotation, it didn't lead to higher minutes for starters, it just meant more minutes for the first couple bench players.

Yao has been playing more minutes thisyear (not unexpectedly), but I don't see the parallels to the Kings anywhere.
 
NoBonus said:
I get it, Yao and TMAC are fragile dudes, just like Peja was for the Kings... the trick is not breaking them during the regular season.

I understand, RA did not injure these guys, however, short rotation = increased injuries; it is pure math.
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That was not particularly born out by stats for minutes played when Rick was here.

Note that no Rockets player is in the top 30 players this year for minutes played per game.:rolleyes: And Yao is 18th for total minutes played.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/statistics?stat=nbaminutes&season=2008&seasontype=2

I just looked at 01-02. Webber was the highest King in MPG and was 19th in the league. And Brad was the King with the most total minutes for the season and was 36th in the league. Brutal Adelman...brutal.
 
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NoBonus said:
I get it, Yao and TMAC are fragile dudes, just like Peja was for the Kings... the trick is not breaking them during the regular season.

I understand, RA did not injure these guys, however, short rotation = increased injuries; it is pure math.
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Do a little research before you spew out garbage. Yao averages the most minutes on his team at 37 minutes per game. That is 31st in the NBA. The next closest Rockets in minutes are at 35 a game. That is hardly overuse.
 
Heuge said:
Do a little research before you spew out garbage. Yao averages the most minutes on his team at 37 minutes per game. That is 31st in the NBA. The next closest Rockets in minutes are at 35 a game. That is hardly overuse.
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Well... I think it might be overuse in Yao's case. Given that he is such a big guy, and since he so often plays for his national team as well, I would think it might be wise to play him 32-33 minutes per game.

That doesn't mean it's related to his injury. He's been injured the last two years as well with fewer minutes and under a different coach.
 
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I think I'm going to go fetal position in a corner for a while.
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Yeah, my condolances...totally sucks...BUT...if you look at it on the bright side...you'll get Yao back next year, PLUS a young stud in the lottery, too. You guys will be VERY stacked next season. Remember what happened when David Robinson went out with a season ending injury 10 years ago? Yup, SA got the #1 pick...enter Tim Duncan...SO...you never know, this may be a blessing in disguise...welcome to the life of every broken hearted Kings fan in the last 23 years...like myself.:D Hey, at least you have 94' & 95' to fall back on, right?
 
Circa_1985_Fan said:
Yeah, my condolances...totally sucks...BUT...if you look at it on the bright side...you'll get Yao back next year, PLUS a young stud in the lottery, too. You guys will be VERY stacked next season. Remember what happened when David Robinson went out with a season ending injury 10 years ago? Yup, SA got the #1 pick...enter Tim Duncan...SO...you never know, this may be a blessing in disguise...welcome to the life of every broken hearted Kings fan in the last 23 years...like myself.:D Hey, at least you have 94' & 95' to fall back on, right?
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The Rockets really need to get this done in the next few years, and they really needed this year to be a buiiding year -- get past the first round, get a deep playoff run, be ready for something more next year. Now everything is set back yet another year, and Yao and TMac remain as brittle as ever only one year older. That's not good.

I wouldn't ink in that lottery appearance just yet either. Tehy've got a tough schedule ahead, and so could very well eb the team that slips now. But they'd also built up a little cushion over Golden State and Denver, and have a coach who knows how to win shorthanded. Problem is that even if they do make it it would seem any chance for home court advanatge is gone, and likely any chance of advancing past Rnd 1 as well, which is what they needed. Another first round exit will not help. AndnOlympics, I doubt they will even be able to hold out hope/have the inspiration that maybe he can make it back if we just stay alive in the playoffs long enough. He'll probably take his time, make sure its right, so Rick will have to do a helluva sell job to convince what's left (and gee having Bonzi right now would be nice) that they have any sort of shot in the loaded West.
 
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I think the Rockets, without Yao Ming will be alright for the bulk of the regular season as they will be difficult to scout by other teams as they have a new look. However, when the playoffs roll around... look out Rockets.
 
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Tehy've got a tough schedule ahead, and so could very well eb the team that slips now.
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I actually thought their schedule was pretty easy for the rest of the year, lots of bad teams and home games.

Either way, they're not going to lose enough games to make a big difference in the draft position. The jump between making the playoffs and missing them in the West is somewhat big because of all the sucky playoff teams in the East, but they aren't going to happen upon some young stud just because of this injury.
 
this sucks for yao, because of how loyal he is to his country and national team. dude is probably crushed and thinks it's his fault.
 
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