Yao Ming is back

Posted by bumeral

July 19, 2008

Yao Ming is back. The great hope china for the basketball tournament in Beijing 2008 is already recovered from his broken foot and has played his first game after five months of inactivity. At its debut in the Stankovic Borislaw tournament, held every year in China in honor of the legendary chairman of the IFF, played twelve minutes and had time to eleven points, four rebounds and catch get three caps. His selection beat Serbia 96-72.

The big question that remains is revealing in that state on a giant Chinese to reach the Olympic event and, therefore, can play minutes in the early games. This is of great importance for the Spanish fans, because China is in the same group as Spain. Also the ‘Dream Team’ U.S., with Kobe Bryant at the helm, will be in this’ group of death ‘.

The selector Chinese, Lithuanian Jonas Kazkauskas, said after the game against Serbia that “statistics are good for Yao and did not err in defence. What else can we ask?”

After recovering his star pivot, Chinese fans breathe more relaxed because he hurt in February when technicians were feared the worst, as the center of the Houston Rockets had already suffered similar injuries in his foot. In the coming days, Yao and his selection playing another two games against Russia and Angola that will be crucial to see what we can see player in the Olympics. AIT and theirs must be outstanding.

The Chinese pivot Yao Ming was contudente in describing the group that has fallen on luck to China for the next Olympic tournament, and was assured that “the worst imaginable” by the presence of selections very powerful, but indicated that the objectives of Chinese “should remain the same.” “This is the worst group who could have imagined,” noted, blunt, the pivot of the Houston Rockets, who did not hesitate to influence the “great potential” of all the rival group of China, which is framed alongside Spain , USA, Greece, Germany and Angola.

Yao, who makes few dates reappeared after being paragraph five months of the courts by an injury to his left foot, admitted that they will have to contend with Angolans and Germans for a place in the quarterfinals, Chinese main objective today. “Our goal must remain the same, despite the difficulty of the group,” said Yao, who said that Africans “are not as competitive as others,” and stressed that they do not go with options to win matches in that group , Something that it is able to Germany. “Germany is strong, but I am not afraid, Yi Jianlian has greatly improved after playing one season in the NBA and is able to limit to Nowitzki, and I can handle Chris Kaman,” said the player for 25 years, aware that winning those two games could put the Chinese at junctions quarter finals.

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