Matt Guokas:Keep Patrick Ewing away from Yao Ming

its not patricks fault if yao is not aggresive and often plays uninspired. i think ewing is doing a good job of teaching but yao has just not converted his game yet. guokas doesnt know ish.

 

any evidence of that?
I cannot tell that Ewing is doing ANYTHING at all

Rocket River
sitting on the bench . . .

 

you can tell what he is doing when you see cato or mo play. yao will come along too...

 

Ewing might be doing a great job or he might just have the best front row seat for all of the games. How are any of us suppose to know?

 

When I see Patrick Ewing sitting there he looks a very lithargic person, one lacking in sleep. If he is thinking of moving into a Head Coaching Position, how can he be dedicated to the needs of the Rockets and particularly Yao Ming? The things that are lacking in Yao Mings Game are difficult to teach and need to be demonstrated. I cant think of anyone better than Moses Malone as a Teacher for Yao Ming.

 

I'd rather have Kareem.

 

We're judging people by how they look on the bench?

How about putting your Malone crusade on the back burner for awhile. Malone "taught" Olajuwon by hammering him at Fonde...Malone turns 49 in March. If you still want to judge people superficially, Malone's speech level would require an interpreter for Colin Pine to interpret to Yao.

 

Everybody knows Ewing's best move is his jump shot. His post move is suspect. At the time Ewing played, lots of people in the Knicks organization complained that Ewing never went to the big man's camp to improve his low post plays. I don't know if it is true or not.

As I said before, aggressiveness has two sides, mental and techniques. Duncan is really good at techniques, so on the court, he has so many moves that he does not need to be super aggressive.

 

By the way, I would like to see Yao to have more post moves just like a Duncan. He is not the type of player like Shaq. If he eventually can reach Duncan's level, he has to learn many moves.
Ewing is not the perfect teacher for that. He himself does not have much moves.

 

Kareem smoke too many "DOOBIES", He's just too stone to be a mentor. Hakeem wil be a great teacher for Yao , but that's another issue.

 

yep, he also gets my vote. He's frame and style of play is nearer
to Yao then any other center. As new studies say, work and use
your strenghts and stop working on your weaknesses.

sky hook all the wayyyyyyyyyy

 

like i said... someone w/ a proven track record would've been better. john thompson or... carroll dawson.

edit: but a lot of the blame still rests on yao's shoulders.

 

I think he's thinking about Treasures.

 

Kareem is a LEGEnD of the OLD school league. Its not gonna get it done here in the NEW era of the GAME. Todays game is more physical than anything else.

 

I assume the following has been posted in some other Yao-or-Ewing thread, but I was shocked to read the following quotation from Patrick:

"Oh, I'm ready. Hey, I see Terry Porter doing a fantastic job (with the Milwaukee Bucks) and he only had one year experience (as an assistant coach). This is my second, so the sky's the limit."
-- Rockets assistant coach Patrick Ewing, in the Jan. 9 Newark Star-Ledger, on his interest in head coaching in the NBA. Ewing is in his second year as an assistant, after one year on Doug Collins' bench with the Wizards

 

Thompson? Are you kidding me? Just because he sounds very intellectual doesnt mean that he is. The guy belongs on the sidelines with a mic clipped on his shirt. Which is where he is. FREAKEN Thompson is AWESOME at BS-ing.

Besides, the freaken guy is biased towards international & Asian players. The last time I Checked Yao is Asian, right? Guys like Thompson, Greg Anthony and many more have been dogging Yao since day one. THEY STILL ARE! They look at the box scores and analyze from there on. FORGET Thompson, I'd rather have Bill Lam-Beer Red daWG style!

 

I don't think you can dawg Thompson. I hate the guy myself. But Mutombo, Mourning, Harrington, and Ewing were all projects. Almost all of them were thin in college and developed into agressive, strong, players when they left school. Thompson can get it done.

I saw a lot of improvement in Yao at the game. His moves were not this quick a year ago. It's sinking in. He's still soft. But that is something Yao has to improve. The only thing I would like to see is that he gets his hands up. when he tries to block he often sticks his hands at the ball a-la Karl Malone instead of up in the air to distract the shooter.

 

Matt Guokas is an idiot. Why don't you ask Yao himself how much Patrick has helped him out? I think he'd have a better idea than some old coaching retread who's probably seen us play only once or twice.

 

First of all, a jump shot is not a move. Second, his bread and butter move was his fadeaway.....which was very much a post move. Ewing was always fantastic at getting good position on the blocks, and backing his man down, and hitting that fadeaway.

He had other post moves as well, and even a decent baby hook. Ewing played more in the post than anywhere. Sure, he had a nice midrange game as well, but that's a compliment not a detriment.