Yi Playing Well Over In China
Jul 30, 2009 Nets Overseas, Yi
The guys over at Netsdaily.com have done a great job following Yi’s games over in China as he replaces Yao on the Chinese National Team. Two games in, Yi has really been impressing. Both games, warm-ups for the FIBA Asia Tournament, were against a group of all-stars from the Australia’s National Basketball League. In game 1 Yi dropped 30 on the All-Stars but only had 3 rebounds. In game 2, the scoring went down a bit, but the rebounds went up a ton. Yi dropped 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in Team China’s 1 point win. He is not only grabbing boards (which is something he wasn’t doing at all last year), but Yi apparently is being very aggresive attacking the basket.
Now with the rumors of a Big Baby for Yi deal simmering down, it is looking like we will be keeping him. If that is the case, it is good to see him playing well. Especially with him coming off an injury that really hurt his development last year. I know he isn’t playing against the greatest competition right now (In my opinion it would have been a bigger story if he didn’t play well), but he is under a lot of pressure to perform with Yao not playing next year at all. Maybe realizing that he is going to be the most recognizable Chinese-born player playing in the NBA was the kick in the butt that he needed to get everything to click?
Tags: Nets Players Overseas
Reader Poll: Do You Want To See Forums?
Jul 30, 2009 Reader Polls
Sorry about all of these site-related posts so far today, but I wanted to get the readers’ opinion on this one (mainly because you are the guys who will be using the forums if they are implemented). I have a forum all locked-and-loaded, all I need to do is make it public right now. Before I do that, I want to see if the readers want a forum, because if not, it will look empty and stupid. Anyway vote away!
If you want to vote for something not in the list, leave it in the comments. Thanks guys!
A Small But Important Change To The Site
Jul 30, 2009 Updates
I love the theme that I am using for this site, but the biggest problem has been linking to other sites. Whenever I would put a link in one of my posts, you couldn’t really tell, because the hyperlink color was practically the same as my regular font.
Well today I decided to fix that. From now on, any link in my posts will be bold. So if you see bold, it is fair game and you should probably give it a click because I only link to real good stuff.
I made a post about this because I want to get your opinions. Does it look/work better this way? Should I change it back? Let me know in the comments.