im alot happier with this years rockets than the last 3 years. but we are not plyign consitent basketball. its almost liek we get a good feel and then they get bored on the floor playing good. has any one else noticed this? we play good for a while then we just stop playing almost. also we get good looks in the overtime and arent making them. if we can stay consitent then we are prolly the 5th best in the west.
the only player that is starting to play consitent is yao he is starting to pick up and know his role. if everyone on this team new there role we would be more consitent
We arent consistent because: 1. We dont have consistent players. Every once in awhile, everyone will be in sync and we'll beat a great team. Most nights, we'll play well for stretches and then do stupid things for about 5-8 minutes - especially in the 4th quarter. 2. We have no real go-to-guy who can break down the opponent during crunch time (ala Kobe - but then who does). Steve is close but will get doubled. Yao is too green to expect him to win games by himself. 3. Rudy panics down the stretch and keeps Moochie Norris in (a mistake waiting to happen).
i have been a fan since 91. im not a yao only fan i just like him alot and i know he has the potential to turn this team around. there fore him and francis are my favorite players. but i like the whole team and since i liked basketball i have always liked the rockets. and i know there history . so dont judge me wrong
Speaking of Kobe, he just single-handedly beat the Mav with 21 pts in the 4th. Maybe instead of letting the Lakers going after our Yao after four years. Why don't we trade Franchise for Kobe when Shaq is no longer effective? Kobe probably will like this idea because he probably can end up getting the most rings in the NBA history!
I'm quite tempted to say that we have too many forwards who aren't given enough continuous playing time. But more than that I think, and I could be very well wrong, is that there isn't one or two players on the Rockets' roster who want the ball in there hands when the game is on the line. Those who do get to hold the ball a lot just do that, hold it without enough resolve to stuff it in the basket. Yao Ming is rookie, I know, and many will say he's got a lot of years and NBA minutes' worth of experience to learn. But damn, if no one in the Rockets is hungry enough or eager to dunk the ball in the basket, I say the Rockets just go to Yao exclusively and let him work his magic. Much like the Rockets relying heavily on Hakeem when H. Olajuwon was the go-to-guy of the Rockets, the Rockets now should use the height and skill of Yao to produce points.
We're a young team with no real leader on the court. Plus, we have no go to guy in crunch time that we can depend on. We're kind of like the Blazers.
Minus the thug life. But I think you're analysis is a really good one. Will Yao develop into that go to guy? Maybe...we'll have to see. This is a team still struggling to develop an identity.
Actually, we seem pretty consistent so far as far as shooting -- we've been consistently shooting poorly. I read in another thread that the Rockets are #12 in shooting percentage, but since shooting is a lost art these days in the whole league for the most part (especially the mid-range jump shot) that doesn't mean much. Maybe I'm not paying close attention, but I see our MAIN problem as being able to hit open jumpers. That and mental errors at critical times. But mostly just not being able to make shots they should make. We need at least ONE shooter who is like money in the bank night in and night out -- the way Jermaine O'Neal appeared in tonight's game in New Orleans. Right now other teams are inviting us to beat them with jump shots and they're right on so far, 'cause we can't hit 'em.
i agree yao needs the ball in the clutch. and they need to get the defenses attention with steve driving to the basket with a pass off to yao. likes huh?
Moochie had a good tonight. The only thing I didn't like was the foul on Mashburn. Really the ref should not have called the foul. Moochie reached around Mash and knocked the ball loose out of bonds. If he gets that steal this board would be going crasy about Moochie's steal. Blame the lose on a bad shooting night.
why aren't we consistent? can be easily changed to why isn't YAO consistent? damn, if only he can hit those shots..... and shoot around 55-60%, we would have won this game without OT!!!! well, it is the whole team that are not consistent.... Yao is not the only one who is consistent..... u play as a team, u lose as a team.... define consistent.... does consistent=same production every game? its quite impossible to produce the same game every night... not many ppl can do so... even Jordan have his bad game once in a while during his Bull's year.... does that call inconsistent? if only Yao can produce the same stats against Spurs.... but like I say, its impossible to do so every night..... one thing about this team.... SHOOTING.... I have no chance of watching the games... but from what I read, we are missing opened shot.... and that's sucks..... hopefully our shots will come back.... till then, this so call not consistent team will still be like that..... hm... maybe its time to give some shooter in our bench a try.... Boki? just wondering....is he that good a shooter everyone say he is when Houston draft him.....
I would hope that nobody would want to be CONSITENT. I mean, I don't know what it is, but it sounds bad.
Clutch is more about psychology build on past success. I am not sure Steve will be a clutch player maybe he will. But it seems that he has not had much success under pressure. If you have seen the NCAA tournament game when Steve was on the Maryland team and played against St. Johns, he was not that clutch. On the other hand, Yao Ming could be a clutch player. He was very clutch in the CBA championship game. Of course the level of play in CBA is well below that of NBA games. Still, clutch is about deliver under pressure no matter what level of games you are in. Once you have that psycho, more likely you will keep it. The putback that sent the game to the OT is an indication of that. On a side note, I wonder why Chicago picked J. Williams. The guy chokes under pressure. Do you want that kind of player to be your PG in a playoff game?
Well, who the hell else were they gonna pick? Every one of their positions was filled with a guy who could be a star in this league except for SG. Obviously, they didn't feel like Butler was their man as many teams did, so they got Jay Williams who is still a very talented guy. Who should they have taken? Gooden is the only guy I can think of who would have been a better choice, but they already had a young up and coming tweener in Chandler. Dunleavy hasn't had an impact, Stoudamire is a High Schooler and they already had 2 on their team, and everybody else doesn't deserve to be a #2 pick. Made sense to me. Who should they have picked? I've read similar posts from some members in China who acted as if the Bulls passed on Ming or something and I just didnt know what to say to those guys. I am curious as to who you think they should have taken. By the way, a put back dunk??? That isn't exactly my idea of an awesome clutch play. Kelvin Cato can do that. As for Francis, the guy hasn't played basketball his whole life, he didn't even play on his high school team. You point to him not getting it done in the tournament, well I think about the fact that he was an inexperienced kid coming out of a JuCo program who led an NCAA team into the tourny during his first and only year of College ball. That seems like he has some kind of talent, heart, or desire.
Well, why pick? trade the pick to Cleveland for Miller. After all, Cleveland only got Miles in the trade afterwards. SF is good and might get clutch. But his past experience has not built the foundation for his clutch performance yet, and he has not played in playoffs. He is 25 now, in his 3rd year in the league. you can't say he is very young. Right now, he turns the ball over a lot. I hope he can cut down his turnovers and start to play a half-court game to fit the strength of the team.
