He is screwing up our rotations. Look at last season...we managed to complete one season without our "star player" and we were even in contention of making it to the playoffs. In my opinion with the comeback of Yao to our lineup was actually overrated and the attitude of "his still injured" is the same attitude we had with T-Mac and we all know how that turned out.
A guy like Martin is a stud when the offense is on the go. He plays his best ball when there is continues movement on/off the ball and the same with Scola. With Yao that dosent happen because we have to slow down the offense which pretty much renders martin and Scola to a crawl so we can post Yao. He wstagnates the offense. The solution is to move him to the high post and use him as a passing decoy. You just cant run a offense through him and be successfull anymore.
Well Adelman is trying to by limiting him, but les will want no part of it. Yao=Les's personal cash cow in the fastest growing economy on the planet.
If Yao ain't healthy by Feb/March, then yeah it's time to move on. but I'm not ready to quit on Yao just yet.
With Yao - we may struggle to fit him in and hopes he gets healthy. without him, we have no chance of getting far in the playoffs.
We just need to find ways to incorporate Yao into the offense that do not involve posting him up. I'd like to see more pick and roll with him and Martin or him and the PG. Maybe he can get open 15-18 ft shots that we know he can hit.
^ the last thing we want right now is for Yao to roll to the basket and get contact in the paint. He is the most effective in the post where he can pretty much score on anyone. The thread title should really be "Yao better without an injured foot"
If Yao slows the rockets down. The rockets and their opponents should have got less than 100 pts. Was that the case?
That's what I've been calling for. If he's not ready to REALLY start a game and play the minutes, he needs to be coming off the bench.
