Yao out for the season

noone · Post #1 » by **noone** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:55 pm

Yao is out for the season with a stress fracture.

I think the playoff race just got much easier.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 71212.html

Don_eMOCION#31 · Post #2 » by **Don_eMOCION#31** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:56 pm

already mentioned in the actual game-thread (sonics)... but yeah, this should make the race easier

JRMelo15 · Post #3 » by **JRMelo15** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:56 pm

Well that eliminates Houston from playoff contention, I'm guessing its a battle between Nuggets and Warriors for 7th

denvers_finest · Post #4 » by **denvers_finest** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:02 pm

Well, the Rockets did go 20-12 w/o Yao last year, so its not a guarentee that they fall off, but it certainly doesn't hurt our chances.

Nuggetsfanduh98 · Post #5 » by **Nuggetsfanduh98** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:14 pm

This Helps our chances immensly...

Shady08 · Post #6 » by **Shady08** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:55 pm

I saw it scroll at the bottom of ESPN earlier, and couldn't believe it!

noone · Post #7 » by **noone** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:01 pm

denvers_finest wrote:Well, the Rockets did go 20-12 w/o Yao last year, so its not a guarentee that they fall off, but it certainly doesn't hurt our chances.

Now they're in a much tougher conference, so I don't see them doing as well as they did last season.

denvers_finest · Post #8 » by **denvers_finest** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:06 pm

noone wrote:Now they're in a much tougher conference, so I don't see them doing as well as they did last season.

True, though they are also a much deeper team than they were last season.

Just saying its not a guarentee that they miss the playoffs, it does make it more likely though.

24K_Gold · Post #9 » by **24K_Gold** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:18 pm

wow,this is proof of how disappointed we are in our team that we now somewhat celebrate the injury of conference foe!oh well,there's no crying in basketball.

now if we could only get a broken foot out of deron willams then i'd be straight!and I ain't even playin!!!

oh yea,I do feel bad for yao all bs aside.

Post #10 » by **corona** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:13 am

houston played well in yao's absence last year.

still gotta get 50+ wins to get that 8th seed.

:blank:

risktaker91 · Post #11 » by **risktaker91** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:14 am

Get out the Salami and Cheese Mama, and print off the playoff tickets, Denver's in!

Searching4BrianWilliams · Post #12 » by **Searching4BrianWilliams** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:48 am

risktaker91 wrote:Get out the Salami and Cheese Mama, and print off the playoff tickets, Denver's in!

GK might owe Yao for another season with the Nuggets.
"Caah ah write a check?"

pickaxe · Post #13 » by **pickaxe** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:57 am

It's kind of like the All-Star game in that you got so many players (teams in this case) competing for a spot, you don't want to celebrate another player's injury but a "roster spot" just opened up.

MELO4MVP · Post #14 » by **MELO4MVP** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:21 am

Our schedule is so brutal, Idk guys. Hopefully we can do that 7 game win streak that every other team does.

DNIsLeGiT · Post #15 » by **DNIsLeGiT** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:57 pm

Sad to hear that, hopefully he'll have a speedy recovery.

noone · Post #16 » by **noone** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:45 pm

MELO4MVP wrote:Our schedule is so brutal, Idk guys. Hopefully we can do that 7 game win streak that every other team does.

Houston has a cake schedule the rest of the way. They could either drop or stay the same.

GS has a pretty easy next 5 games. And then after that it gets much tougher.

The Jazz have a pretty tough schedule especially finishing the season off. I wouldn't be surprised to see them lose 5 or even 6 of their last 6.

The Nuggets have a tough 5 game stretch coming up and then a little later a tough 4 game. And then possibly the most crucial stretch of 3 games against GS (away), Utah (away), and then Houston (home) before they finish the season off against Memphis.