http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6308811.html The guy is spot on and it needs to happen now. Give Yao the freaking ball and learn how to pass it please !!
Yes, thats excetly what he need to do in the rest of this season but its posted for times, hasnt it??
This is why we miss T-mac He was easily the best passer to Yao by a long way and then so was Rafer Alston
This is a GREAT article that says everything that's on (most) people's mind. I almost touched myself while reading. The Rockets should IMPOSE Yao onto other teams. I swear when I see Von or Brooks try to find Yao, sometimes I think they hope he turns it over, giving them an excuse to ignore him for the next 6 minutes and chuck the ball from 30 ft. YAO is the guy. I want him to have 25 shots, even at the cost of 8 turnovers. It's better than Ron Artest shooting from 30 feet with his eyes closed, legs tied, and leaning at a 90 degree angle.
Dude you can't blame Yao for some of the bad catches since some of the passes he gets are pretty pathetic and lazy
The team isn't committed to getting him the ball, plain and simple. It starts with Adelman and ends with Brooks. For a guy so inept at entry passes, I doubt that Brooks practices them at all.
People want to see him fail because he has proved them all WRONG! He gets the blame and when the basket is wide open for Von Wafer dunks and AB gets wide open shots he will never get the praise. I'm getting used to it by now. Maybe we all should. yao does the same thing for his team mates as Kobe and Lebron, he may not take the last shot.......but he can make freethrows unlike Lebron, so.....
Yao is nitpicked for a lot of things, but this should not be one of them. That said, I wish Yao would improve his hand strength and remember not to hold the ball down low. Both are reasons for Yao getting stripped so frequently. That IMO is Yao's biggest weakness. However, we're very lucky to have Yao on the team.
If you don't want to pass to Yao because of whatever reason, at least pass to Scola. You don't like the first choice, then go to the second choice. It's that simple. Yao + Scolandry should shoot minimum 40 shots a game. This rule should be written in stone for Rocket.
Yao had a ton of chances to lead during his 7 years in Houston. He's just not built for it. His lack of stamina and quickness is his Achilles’ heel.
its sad that Artest can't be a leader because he is such a loose cannon that you have to really lose respect for him sometimes and therefore he is some what of a joke and not taken seriously to a large portion of the NBA. Dream was not a vocal leader either and if someone else has to inspire guys to do their jobs thats just sad.
That being said, Yao has to lead by example just like The Dream did. Our best vocal leader is probably Mutombo.
Could'nt agree with you more. Yao is and should be our number 1 scoring option through out the game, especially late in the game. Seem like AB and Ron Ron rather take hard outside shots then look for Yao...... If Yao is not in the game then give it to Scola!!! Yao and Scola have our highest field goal percantage and need the damn ball more often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This has been an ongoing issue since Yao was drafted, and I've given up on hoping it will ever change. Nor am I willing to argue against Ron being resigned, since everyone (including Daryl Morey) seems to think it's a great idea, even though there's no alpha player that's capable of keeping him in line.
