See? I just dont agree with this. The Rockets can beat the Lakers IF THEY ARE COACHED WELL. It always seems like the Rockets are doing great but then when an adjustment needs to be made Adelman will refuse to make a change. How can you win like that?
DD I posted Yaos cure for his woosy playing style....Just drop him off in one of the wards lets say the 4th Ward and let him get a taste of some street ball for about two weeks. He needs Ron's attitude...We can then bring him back and maybe he will finally have a set of balls and get a freakin rebound !!
This game reminds me the Utah game. Toyota center cheered whenever Lakers had dunks and Kobe scored . So this doesn't count as a home game. No wonder Ron got pissed
Well, when LAKERs tried to double team YAO, other ROXs should find themselves the open positions rather than stand still. I just cannot believe that in the most of the night guys on the floor just did nothing but watching YAO got double teamed and lost the fXcking ball.
Everyone sucked, but I think the coach sucked big time today. He let Ron do whatever he wanted, and let AB do whatever he wanted, and let Wafer do whatever he wanted. Both Yao and Scola were perfect 6-6 to start with, how many more shots did they get for the rest 30 minutes? 3 shots each. You can call Yao soft all you want to, how he didn't seal off Pau, how he has butterfinger, etc etc, what about Scola? Was he soft too? Why can't we get him more shots? Yao and Scola are system guys, they play within system and game plan, they are not free-lancing type of players. As a coach, you should know to draw up plays for them, and ASK your PG to stick with it at least a few times in a quarter. Has anyone ever see Yao or Scola hijack a game offensively, even if they are "feeling it"? Good or bad, you can always argue, but as a coach, you have to play with the strength of your players, not sitting there hoping he has C-Web.
I hate watching us build up such big leads, just to let them melt away. We are a terrible 4th quarter team. What has happened.
We only lost one game by several points against the best team in the league. No biggie. We shot 5-28 from three pt line. That's not going to happen again. If we made just 2 or 3 more three pointers we probably win the game.
any1 thinks kobe provoked artest on purpose? it turned the game from Houston vs LA into Artest vs Kobe. And Artest had no chance to play Kobe 1 on 1.
1. Lack of talent 2. Lack of conditioning 3. Horrible coaching 4. Ego 5. Woosy center Thats about it in a nut shell
You're kidding me right?? Kobe murdered Ron Artest?? Kobe can't do a damm thing against Ron Artest. The only reason he scored on Artest is that one time when Artest gambled and dive for the ball in which he shouldn't have done and Kobe nailed a 3. And most other times, it's pick and roll, it's not one on one defense. With pick n roll, Kobe or anybody is hard to guard for anyone...so that don't mean a thing if Kobe make shots with pick n roll. But when it's one on one, Kobe can't do a damm thing against Ron Artest. Did you see Artest strip the ball when he try to shoot and it's one on one defense right?? Yea' that's what i am talking about..Kobe can't do shyt when it's one on one. So at the end Kobe got the bragging right because he nailed those shots when Artest isn't guarding him or because it was pick n roll. And Kobe was like..yea i am da man...**** that...he can't do shyt when it's one on one defense with Artest guarding him..seriously!!
Gotta come up with better excuses after seeing yao being stripped from the ball on every rebound. Scola playing as bad as you say ended with 9 rebounds in 32 mins, Yao in 36 couldnt get 8
I dont care what anyone says. Criticize Tmac all you want but there's a reason why he was always focal point of the offense in the last minutes of the 4th quarter. There are reasons why teams double team him. Yes he's out for the season but he's still in our team till. I hope he turns up healthy come next year and Morey and does not pull on the trade plug yet. Great players do great things in pressure situations on a CONSISTENT basis. Not all the time but most of the time. We DO NOT have that. Hell even Brooks and Wafer is more clutch than Artest and Yao and that isn't a compliment towards our guys. Honestly, this is a growing issue that can cause nightmares for the rox in the postseason. This type of play can eliminate them in the first round of the playoffs. We need develop Brooks and Wafer as closing options because honestly they have more potential to finish the game than our center. When has a center truly been clutch in the last decade??? Today's game does not benefit the center position like it did to Hakeem in the 90's. I love Yao but in this entire season when has he shown he can lead a team down the stretch in the last 5 minutes of the 4th Quarter? WHEN?? Yes as fans we tend to exagerate an entire incident but when you see an unresolved issue, you call it out. Our 4th quarter meltdowns have been disqustingly consistent but it only became a MAJOR MAJOR issue after the Chicago game. Do we want another Chicago game to show we dont have a closer? No. Adelman you have to think of new strategies. I mean cmon!! They didn't have Odom and Bynum! That Laker team we played tonight was a scrub team plus Kobe. Talk about how horrible we are.
