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That sucks for the rockets

honestly its not that big of a deal. They will still be fine with Scola and Landry.

Man can the Rocket's ever go a season injury free? I think they're cursed.

Rockets fail to make the playoffs now, most likely. Great news for GS and Denver.

The Sheik wrote:honestly its not that big of a deal. They will still be fine with Scola and Landry.

LOL, are you kidding me? They aren't half the team vs the elite without Yao.

Check out Yao's games missed per season:

First two seasons: no games missed
Third season: 2 games missed
Fourth: 25 games missed
Last season: 34 games missed
This season: 27 games missed

Honestly, the guy's body is not designed to play such a physical game for 82 games.

Anyways, sorry to hear this Rocket fans, I wish Yao a speedy recovery, and hopefully this can stop reoccurring.

Sucks for Rockets. I wont cry over it tho.

Sucks for Rox fans. They start out the season slow, then go on a 12 game winning streak and work themselves back into the playoff race only to have their best player go down with a season ending injury. I highly doubt the Rockets can stay in the top 8 out west with yao being out.

I was visiting the Rockets board and they said two things that must be true.

1 - Mcgrady is cursed.

2 - Mcgrady might fall to win a playoff series once more (actually, they even might fall to get there in the first place).

I hate when a player get injuried, no matter which team he belongs.

Regards,

Isn't this the second stress type fraccture hea has had in his feet?

gonnadunkonU wrote:Sucks for Rox fans. They start out the season slow, then go on a 12 game winning streak and work themselves back into the playoff race only to have their best player go down with a season ending injury. I highly doubt the Rockets can stay in the top 8 out west with yao being out.

Nah, if they weren't a shoe in with Yao, there is no way they remain ahead of Denver who's just 3 games behind them, unless Camby gets hurt, which is not highly unlikely.

This is a pity, probably we

kebutah wrote:Isn't this the second stress type fraccture hea has had in his feet?

I thought this was his second, as well. Maybe the other injury was different.]

All I know is that the stress fracture injury can be hard for big men to come back from. It was the beginning of the end for William Walton...

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I think you underestimate their frontcourt depth, of course its impossible to replace Yao, but they have shown before that they can be successful without Yao. Plus they can run a little more now. Scola and Landry have been really good this year, Hayes is a good defensive player and rebounder, Dieke is serviceable.

I think they can still make the playoffs, they may however be the first crippled team in the West.

I have T-Mac but I <3 Yao and the Rockets team in general... man so sad to hear it was Yao and not T-Mac... not really that I wish anyone such an unfortunate outcome.

I actually feel bad for the Rockets. Note that I've been rooting against them all season long, and will continue to do so (obvious reasons), but this is just horrible. Like someone said, when they are FINALLY clicking, and looking awsome good, the lose their key stone player. Like Barkley (I think) said about them, they were playing that way because they were finally Yao's team, not T-Mac's team so this is a HUGE loss. I want the Rox to lose, but not like this.

this sucks for my fantasy team.

Its hard for me to feel sorry for Rocket fans considering all the garbage their fans said during our playoff series. I feel bad for Yao and the Rocket Management and that's about it.

On the Jake and Jim show they were discusing how the Rockets just caught the Jazz in the standings, and then they played a quote by Boozer, in which he "summoned the basketball Gods", saying that hopefully they'll "do their part on the other end"...

Then suddenly, Yao Ming gets injured. Remind me not to get on C-Booze's bad side...

Anybody know what this does for his status for the Beijing Olympics? If he can't play this will hurt the host nation bigtime.

spud wrote:Anybody know what this does for his status for the Beijing Olympics? If he can't play this will hurt the host nation bigtime.

Well Im not much of a communist fan, so Im not too worried about that.