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Yao: China's team needs to get smarter
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-30 10:31

Yao Ming believes his teammates on the Chinese national team need to get stronger and smarter in order to compete for a medal at the 2008 Olympics, though he wouldn't go so far as to endorse the solution offered by Del Harris.

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Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, left, talks to his translator Colin Pine during an appearance at the NBA store to promote his newly published autobiography 'Yao: A life in two worlds', Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004 in New York. [AP]
Harris, who coached China to an eighth-place finish at the Athens Olympics, said the Chinese basketball federation needs to allow its best players to compete in the European Leagues over the next four years to prepare for the level of competition they'll face in the Olympics.

The matter is a touchy subject in China, with the national federation eager to improve the country's standing in international basketball but not wanting to dilute the quality of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Given a chance Tuesday to agree or disagree with Harris, Yao took a diplomatic stance.

"The CBA is thinking of ways to deal with that so that everyone is happy," the 7-foot-6 center said during an interview to promote his autobiography: "Yao: A Life in Two Worlds."

"The thing we need to change the most right now is a lot of players play too casually. It's a bad habit," Yao said. "It was something you could see a lot of times. Next to scoring as the highest statistic on a player's line would be turnovers, not rebounds or assists."

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Yao Ming, basketball player and new author, poses during an interview in a New York hotel, September 29, 2004. His new autobiography is on shelves now, and talks about his life before and after coming to the U.S. to play in the NBA. [Reuters]
China matched its best Olympic finish by coming in eighth at the Athens Games, the highlight a one-point victory over the defending world champions from Serbia-Montenegro in the final game of the opening round -- a win that Harris called the most rewarding of his 45-year coaching career.

Yao said that victory meant even more to him than carrying his country's flag in the opening ceremony of the Athens Games because it was an honor he had earned rather than had bestowed upon him.

China won 63 medals in Athens, finishing third behind the United States and Russia, and plans an even stronger showing at the 2008 Olympics. Harris has not said whether he would be interested in coaching the Chinese team again.

"He gave us a very clear goal every day," said Yao, 24, whose book describes his childhood in Shanghai, his teenage years with the Shanghai Sharks' junior team, the difficulties in gaining his release prior to the 2003 draft and his experiences during his first two seasons in the NBA.

Among the highlights:

-- When he first turned professional at 13, his coach put the Sharks' junior team through four practices a day -- the first beginning at 6 a.m. and the last ending at 8:30 p.m.

-- He lost 60 percent of the hearing in his left ear when doctors gave him the wrong medicine at age 7 for a problem with one of his kidneys.

-- The red friendship bracelet he wears on his left wrist is a keepsake given to him by the only girlfriend he has ever had, 6-foot-3 forward Ye Li of the Chinese national women's team. Ye rejected his advances for six months before he earned their first date by giving her a collection of Olympic pins he collected at the 2000 Games in Sydney.

-- His relationship with Chinese center Wang Zhizhi is not close, though Yao hopes Wang -- who angered the Chinese federation by refusing to return to China to prepare for the 2002 World Championships -- will be allowed back on the national team by 2008.



 
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