Nitro GH said:
But you see, Yao can drop 25 without going to the hole. He can shoot it from 15-20ft away. He should not put up 25/10 against him, but im saying it has been done against SHAQ, and will again.
You stole a lil of my thunder there Nitro, but that's the same point I was going to make. And I agree about the 25, 15-17 sounds a bit more down to earth. As far as Stoudamire smashing on Yao, Armare is a much younger, athletic athlete than Shaq so I wouldn't compare the two match-ups at all. That was different. This is now.
Shaq isn't going to come out to guard him for two reasons. 1) He's not in that good a shape and 2) He's not going to risk the younger more agile body of Ming getting around him for a dunk. Cuz just like the J-Will on Payton play a few years ago(I mentioned above), no matter what the box score says, that dunk will be the play people will be talking about and remembering.
I still say Ming get's a block or two anyway.
...and that Shaq tries to punk him.
Hopefully Ming is still too foreign to know better and stares Shaq right back down. Hell, Hedo did it.