Yao done for season

idajazz · Post #1 » by **idajazz** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:21 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3265631

That sucks for the rockets

The Sheik · Post #2 » by **The Sheik** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:36 pm

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

DWillBooz467 · Post #3 » by **DWillBooz467** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:47 pm

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

Post #4 » by **jazzfan1971** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:06 pm

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

Ming Kong! · Post #5 » by **Ming Kong!** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:46 pm

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.

Malone Strong · Post #6 » by **Malone Strong** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:08 pm

Sucks for Rockets. I wont cry over it tho.

gonnadunkonU · Post #7 » by **gonnadunkonU** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:10 pm

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.

Denizfeital · Post #8 » by **Denizfeital** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:17 pm

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,

kebutah · Post #9 » by **kebutah** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:37 pm

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

Ming Kong! · Post #10 » by **Ming Kong!** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:50 pm

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.

Post #11 » by **FJS** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:02 pm

This is a pity, probably we

Malone Strong · Post #12 » by **Malone Strong** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:05 pm

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...

The Sheik · Post #13 » by **The Sheik** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:09 pm

[quote="Ming Kong!"][/quote]

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.

Duiz · Post #14 » by **Duiz** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:31 pm

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.

Jazzfan Bayamon · Post #15 » by **Jazzfan Bayamon** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:44 pm

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.

stevebozell · Post #16 » by **stevebozell** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:18 pm

this sucks for my fantasy team.

Pai Gow · Post #17 » by **Pai Gow** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:26 pm

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.

Neon Black · Post #18 » by **Neon Black** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:35 pm

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...

spud · Post #19 » by **spud** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:35 pm

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

stevebozell · Post #20 » by **stevebozell** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:05 am

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.