The good news: Yao Ming is doing well after surgery. The terrible? He's "vowing" not to play next season, despite some time-tabled glimmer of hope that he might. To flip it further, the Facts of Life "take 'em both and then you have": Yao's confident that this extended recovery will allow him to come back for 2010-11 at full strength.
For the Rockets, this hardly comes as a surprise. Nor should it really affect their strategy all that much. They knew that their team would be small for much of the year, and their fabled win streak of 2007-08 had a Yao-less phase. They tried Yao, Ron-Ron and T-Mac, and are now down all three: Yao, for reasons previously mentioned; T-Mac because of his uncertain, post-microfracture recovery; and Artest, well, he's gone. What they do have, though, is undersized beasts Luis Scola and Carl Landry; speedster PG Aaron Brooks; do-it-all forward Battier and new face Ariza; and Rick Adelman masterminding the whole thing.
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