this kid is dominating in china. he is doing his thing over there no doubt about it. but all it takes is just one bad game for the fans to turn on him again. i still have hope on this kid and really think he is going to have a productive season.

This is cool – he seemingly corrected his rebound problem from the last game – LOL – micromanage.

just watched the game in China.

Yi keeps on attacking in low post; the Aus have to use tough foul to stop him for many many times…

Very aggressive defense as well.

20 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocks.

Besides, China’s PG really sucks, no one really passed any good ball to Yi and he has to fight for the balls all on his own.

Well done again.

nice again

I am going to have Chinese for lunch today in honor of Yi.

Well done,Yi.But it seems that the whole team gave a bad play.

Glad to see the increase in boards. I have high hopes for this guy. Has all the tools to succeed just needs the confidence to put them all together and dominate.

he will be very good once he gets his footwork completely figured out. Good for yi…go nets!

don’t forget he added another 4 blocks this game

ha no he won’t. He’s not just going to become a good rebounder. He shot 38% from the field as a 7 footer. C’mon.

If we trade him now, I will be so pissed.

This(and the time just before injury) are a glimpse of his potential, so harness it dammit! Find a way!

where is that guy complaining about yi’s 3 rebounds last game? this game is in your honor says yi.

Just curious, are they only playing this one team the whole time? I’d like to see him play against other competition too. Very good stats so far nonetheless. If he even brings 1/2 of this intensity and determination next season I will be happy.

yi is as good a rebounder krstic is and nenad is being paid $5M a yr…krstic was also the nets’ starting center a few years ago.

“Chris2 Says:
July 30th, 2009 at 10:27 am

I am going to have Chinese for lunch today in honor of Yi."

Here here! He’s doing well so far.

Good job Yi. Keep it up

If he brings this kind of aggressiveness and confidence come November, he should post some fantastic numbers. Lets hope for the best

Yi is gonna have a better season than last season

Good point, except that I would say Yi is an even better rebounder. If you look at career stats, they have about the same, but Yi averages far less minutes.

To be fair to Krstic, let’s not forget he was on Nets teams with Jason Kidd. Our big guys were instructed to only box out, not secure the rebound. They wanted to let Kidd get all the rebounds so he would have a shot at a triple double every night. If you watch old games you can see they clearly dont attempt to simply grab the rebound unless Kidd is not in the picture.

@TheMann

I don’t think that’s entirely true. The big men we had just weren’t very good rebounders. Krstic still doesn’t rebound very well in OKC, Uncle Cliffy was a legendarily awful rebounder, and Collins is who he is. K-Mart averaged nearly 10 boards a game a few years, and he definitely wasn’t clearing out for Kidd. You play to your personnel, and the big men the team had during the Kidd era weren’t good rebounders.

Anyway, that’s just a long way of saying that Yi is a better rebounder than Krstic ever was.

@ TheMann

I also disagree. Nenad didn’t have good rebounding numbers because he wasn’t a good rebounder. Kidd had good rebounding numbers because he’s a good rebounder. Never would I ever hear any coach or organization telling its players to not go after a rebound just so a person cap fluff his stats. And btw, Yi is a better rebounder than Nenad. Nenad had a better mid-range jumper and post moves (which were not that great), while Yi is more athletic, a better 3-point shooter, and a better rebounder. Defensively, neither has yet to impress.

I believe there is some merit in the bigs boxing out in order for kidd to grab boards. The running game was established quickly whenever kidd could come up with a defensive board. He’d grab it and immediately take off to the other end with the ball or throw an outlet pass to a streaking player. He definitely was not doing it to pad stats though.

Kidd has been a great rebounder his entire career, not just with the Nets.

Glad Yi is doing well…is he going to be a Net next year?

Maybe Yao Ming going down was a blessing for Yi and the Nets. Yi is the main man now on that Chinese National team and those Chinese “officials” take their roundball seriously. He has to produce like a star and so far so good. I don’t no any other NBA player who has this kind of pressure on him during the off season.

@ Mike

Although I like the idea of being the leader of the Chinease team, I hope that Yi’s time, effort, and attention do not drift from the Nets. Being the leader of your country is a great honor and will definately add to his self-confidence (look at what happened to LeBron, Howard, Wade, etc. this past summer). Then again, I’m afraid that the Chinease are going to work Yi too hard for their own interests, leaving Yi tired for the regular season.

International basketball has shown to have both positive effects and negative effects for players in the NBA. LeBron, Wade, Howard, Kobe have all gained more confidence from their international experiences. Yet again, Manu Ginobli’s season was ruined when he tried leading his Argentina squad in the Olympics. And although it might be a case of being injury prone, it is definately possible that Yao’s injuries might have been caused by the amount of time he had to play international and in the NBA.

Time will tell how Yi responds to being the new leader of the Chinease team.

the picture of Yi is certainly brightening. Is there a starter on this year’s squad who isn’t pretty good? if these guys can play as a unit, and to their strengths, things could go pretty well. That’s easier said than done of course. Either way I’m sure looking forward to watching.

Harris, Alston
Lee, CDR
TWill, Hayes
Yi, Boone????
Lopez Battie

I always wondered why they never put Boone at the 4, because I don’t care what the coaching staff says, or the beat reporters, he’s a 4. And what if Boone puts up 8 and 7 in 25 mins like he did two years ago. I’d take that.

If Yi is currently the leader of the Chinese National Team, hopefully he will also become one of the leaders of the Nets team – and be a vocal one – like Yao with the Rockets. I am wishing him well to do well in these international games and also hoping that this experience will trancend with the Nets.

That Richard Jefferson trade is going to look pretty good if Yi has a great season next year. Rod and Kiki have made some great trades so far. Hopefully LFRANK can have the offense run through Lopez, Yi, and Harris. With CDR and hopefully C-Lee improving we are going to as CDR says “surprise the world”.

Yi’s CBA averages 25 points and 8 rebounds= 14 points and 6 rebounds in the NBA!

i wonder what will happen on the message boards when yi plays a bad game one of these days…

even 10pppg/5rpg/1bpg with a high fg% and low TOs for 20 mins is good since yi is already an asset bec of his link to the enormous chinese market…he just needs to not hurt the team and that’s a good start…but of course, we expect him to get better each year.

If Yi has a bad game of course we will just trade him for Big Baby.

YES! I AM A CELTICS FAN…PLEASE TRADE YI FOR BIG BABY!

if yi gets in his groove, rebounds and starts averaging 16 and 10 or something like that, that’ll be grand. He’s only 20 years old and hopefully this year he can persuade minds to start playing like the prospect we want him 2 be.

big baby is soooo overrated…forget it. Its too early to get rid of Yi…this is his year and we all know it.

Yi haas to try to win most improved player…i wouldnt be surprised if he is voted in the allstar game this year with yao out. If yi can average at least 14 points per…then i think thats really respectable.

Yi has a lot to motivate him this year…he is the face of china in the nba this year….he is going to havea bigger role with the nets….he might make it into the allstar game…and this could be his last shot with the nets…

i think he’ll do well

Yi has talent and skills for his size that are rare. There is a big difference between the NBA and Australia. The question is how best to utilize his talent. If he is stronger than the opposition he immediately gains a confidence and aggressiveness which allows his skills to come to life. He hasn’t shown that in the NBA cuz he is rarely stronger than his opposition. The best and fastest way to gain a strength advantage is by playing a generally weaker position. Training will help but my guess is not as much. I’ve always said Yi at the 3. It even rhymes.

@libigman; I can just about hear Marv say… Lee to Yi athe the three, for 3… Yes! and it counts…

Let’s not get crazy folks, this level of play is not even like playing the Washington Wizards or Charlotte Bobcats, both non-playoff teams. But if confidence is what YI needs, this solid play might just fill his need. I thought at the end of last season, his problems were at least partly in his head. But he needs to get a lot stronger and a lot more aggressive to play against even middle of the road quality power forwards in the NBA. YI has this year to prove that he is a starter in this league, and not just a 20 minute a game 7 foot tall novelty act, flinging up three point shots.

Yi is doing real well now against lesser competition. It’s ok because this will boost his confidence, something that was crushed while he played as a net. He actually did better when he was a buck. He is raw, that’s we all know. He is a big man with talent(athleticism)but also in need of a lot of coaching. His being lost in New Jersey has a lot to do with Frank’s handling and the abusive bashing of some of our fans.

The NBL is roughly the equal of the D-League. How can I say that? I use Julius Hodge as my control. Two years ago, Hodge played the first half of the season in Australia, the second half in the D-League. His stats were nearly identical across the board.

So Yi is getting his points against a team the equivalent of a summer league team, since the D-League all-stars play in the NBA summer league. Of course, he is doing it in bigger arenas with a lot more fans and a LOT more pressure.

All that aside, last year, a well known Australian blogger, John Rillie criticized Yao for being lazy and passive in these games. I can’t imagine him making that criticism now…havent seen his make the comparison yet. His aggressiveness and his desire to lead is what separates his performance this year from last, not the stats.

If Yi produces at any reasonable level, he will start the All-Star game.

i have a good feeling that Yi will be voted as an All Star this season – or else, I’ll eat vaseline, hehee

yi playing 3? interesting….think it can work? would the nets even consider it?

Very good highlights in just posted CBA China Game Highlights.

http://74.125.93.132/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://v.cbachina.163.com/cbatag/090730%25D6%25D0%25B0%25C4%25C8%25C8%25C9%25ED%25C8%25FC/&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhiWvoQdwJcU0qarLpZp0O5tEdLCoQ

Yi is often referred to in machine translations at “uar”. A couple of spectacular blocks.

Call me crazy but darn it I think something gets lost in the translation from Chinese to English. Read very closely, I think I could be on to something.

Love those translations. Really wacky. Creates quite of vision:

“Uar tough basket at the end of looting since the storm hit from the vote 2 hours”

One notable thing is that Yi did not play like this last summer in the Olympics or tune-ups prior. So even if Australia represents a sub-par team, Yi is showing HUGE improvement over what he showed last year. What it translates into for the Nets is TBD…hopefully Frank and the coaching staff are willing to implement some things for Yi this season to give him a chance to shine…

@PhilNYC
Actually I dont really know if its so much improvement from the Olympics. The problem at the Olympics was that Yi NEVER got the ball. If you watched the games whenever China played, they exclusively gave the ball to Yao Ming or the PGs would hold it and shoot. Yi was in for nothing but to get rebounds. He was not given shots, almost every shot he took was from a rebound not a pass. I dont know if they have the games online but if they do, take a look for yourself, you’ll see they give the ball to Yao and it’s almost like Yi doesnt even exist. So at the Olympics we never really even got to see what he could do, there was no opportunity for him.

Trade Yi for BBD plz! KG will be a good tutor to Yi!