咏叹调：姚,你的名字是塔夫(中英双语).doc

咏叹调：姚，你的名字是塔夫！ You want tough? Look 7 1/2 feet up. You want tough?This is tough. Its not about shouts or slams, poses or chest bumps. Tough is many things, but real toughness, not the kind that looks good at the end of Sports Center, cannot be found in a highlight. Its about something deeper. Its about who you are as a person and an athlete. Yao Ming said his team was soft after the loss in Philadelphia and many did not understand what he meant because they dont know what it is to be tough. Yao does. Yao has been accused of being soft. You might as well call him short. Tough is wanting the ball with the game on the line. Tough is wanting free throws when everyone is missing them. Tough is competing, not just when it is convenient, but when things go badly and it is hard to keep coming back for more. Tough is facing the scrutiny and harsh judgments and a standard impossible to reach, then never shying away from any challenge. Its about moving yourself and your life across the planet to take on anything and everything the worlds best basketball league can throw at you. Its about taking all that the most powerful big men the NBA have as they physically try to beat you and defeat it. You want to stop Yao, you do it with quickness. Strength doesnt do it, because of toughness. Yao will compete with every bit of heart he can muster. Thats what toughness is. Its not about dunking or laying it in, no matter how tall a person is. Would you prefer Stromile Swift because thats a guy who can really slam? Yao did not learn the game as a performance, a reason to bend rims. There are times when he makes a move quickly enough to be in a position to dunk and does not. But thats because his instincts and training are to be in control. On other occasions — which by the way are much more common occurrences — he is under control and in position to gather his momentum to slam and does, as when he drove past Rasheed Wallace and threw it down on Antonio McDyess, two pretty tough individuals