rick adelmans offense would be perfect with this rockets team!

You need bigs who can pass from the high post. We only have one in Nene, a 25mpg player who's unlikely to play more than 60 games or so.

D'Antoni's a better fit with this group.

 

he would have led us to the lottery multiple times like he did with the timberwolves. no thanks.

 

Too late he retired and we are rolling with dantoni

 

Not sure if ur serious or just being sarcastic ....

 

Other poster says we need bigs who can pass out of the high post, and you say Dwight Howard would be perfect for that????????? What?????

 

We actually made the 2nd round playoffs with him here ( that's with a injury plagued roster)

 

My next thread will be on how Phil Jackson will make this great again..
Maybe even get coach k to finally move to the NBA and be his assistant

 

it's almost forgotten how elegantly yao played the post, moving from the low block to the high post, not just with his offensive moves but passing the ball. he was a magician. Vlade was also a great passer, better thespian. Would demo play this role in the fuhrer's offense?


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When Rick was hired, I thought Yao would be an MVP - he was such a good passer before JVG. But Rick didn't play him in the high post much. Rick said why once. I think it was because Yao was too slow.

There's always a lot of Yao nostalgia on here, probably people too young to have witnessed the championships. Unfortunately, Yao was just too flawed to be a big time player on a champion, because:

1) too slow on defense- I don't know if prime Yao would get much time today. Couldn't guard the pick n roll and couldn't guard stretch big men
2) Fronting took him completely out of the offense. Big numbers in the regular season, because teams don't game plan much then

 

I think perhaps you're not remembering correctly. His first season or two here Adelman played Yao in the high post quite extensively. But then he realized that it wasn't as effective and a generally useless tactic for someone who scored as easily as Yao.

So then he want back to having Yao bang down low. I think Adelman had him close to MVP level at that point.

Of course then Rick started that whole "let me play Yao all 12 mins of the first quarter" bs which I'm pretty sure helped accelerate Yao's demise.

 

Coach Sleepy's offense would be perfect for retirement.

 

Adelman only had Yao for two seasons.

The fronting started Year One, and Rudy pulled him out to PnR position to combat that, since Yao was having trouble learning to seal on ball swings, which are usually the #1 way to beat fronting It was what I called a fake PNR, because Francis was not instructed to drive, and Yao didn't roll. Instead, Rudy put MoT at opposite elbow for a pass from Francis and Yao would walk his man down the lane while MoTs man was frozen from helping. Then entry to Yao came from MoT

It was JVG who got the most out of him in the low post by improving his footwork and positioning against fronting. And all while having the worst PFs in Rockets history to match with Yao. Adelman was later able to tweak Yao's dominant low post game with more high post action because Scola had to be guarded

 

Great explanation. I remember Yao having a lot of issues with opponents fronting him.

 

You guys thinking that Yao was stopped by fronting him were remembering his early-to-mid evolution. Towards the end, right before the injury... he was one of the most dominant offensive presences in the league including Shaq. He was unstoppable on the low-block. Then he got injured and it was pretty much over.

 

Yea I used to HATE when guys like Carlos Boozer would front Yao and totally disrupt his game. Adelman came here put a stop to that crap. I wish Adelman stayed here longer because he was a genius basketball coach. Too bad Morey couldn't keep his own ego out the way

 

Yep.

Yao was being mentioned as an MVP candidate.

 

Maybe....I'm just saying he was never running the show ala Webber the way I envisioned. When he first came in under Rudy, he showed he was really impressive at passing, and I never felt that was fully utilized later in his career. And I do recall Adelman specifically addressing why he didn't do that with Yao, and I'm pretty sure it was something to do with how slow Yao was.

 

I agree but whats the point of discussing it? We hired a new guy.....