Are you KIDDING me?! This is in context of the NONCALL on yao. Yao goes up and slams down a lob from barry (very nice pass by barry btw), and from my viewpoint, gets blantantly HACKED by webber. Any other center/forward in the low post gets the call for a foul. And any other center in the leage can work to establish position in the post without getting called for the offensive. That play just broke my remote. I want reimbursement from the refs.
He can't do it by himself... he's probably tired of trying to carry this team. Right now, we live and die with him.
I have nothing against him, but ESPN's Tom Tolbert must be shiiitiest mouthpiece in the sports broadcasting business. So unreasonably negative and prejaudiced.
If we lose this game, it will be mainly due to the fact that we went away from Yao on the 3rd possession of the game. Yao had it going on Miller. You could see it in the first 2 possessions. We should have milked him for all he was worth right there. Instead, we come down, and post TMac up and send Yao to the weak side. It gave Miller the opportunity to get some jumpers going and get his confidence up and we forgot about Yao for a few minutes. If we would have stayed with Yao right at the beginning, he would probably have kept hitting over Miller, and he would have forced them to double him down low and freed TMac and our perimeter players up a whole lot more. Another thing that might have happened would have been Miller getting in some foul trouble and not being able to get his game going. Now we are gonna have to work our ____ off just to get this game tied. And Yao is not really involved because he doesn't match well with Miller or Webber on the perimeter. We are playing this game on the Kings' terms instead of ours. Why in the world did we go away from him early?
We went to Yao like 5 times in the first 7-8 possessions. He made the first two shots, then missed 2 freebies, and missed 2 shots. How could we have gone to him more?
Theres a game thread??????? Im sure this has been hashed and rehashed, but its just ridiculous the time of calls that Yao gets. Maybe im just being a completely bias rockets fan but sometimes it seems like the refs make it a point to find, and call, any questionable foul that they can see. Also, my frustration with this game boiled too long and it spilled over into making a new thread.
Padgett should definitely start against these nonathletic, jumping shooting PFs in the league such as Webber.
