5 Words the Rockets need to learn: GET THE BALL TO YAO!

Five words for any 5 Rockets on the floor offensively...


The ball goes in hoop.



Five words for any 5 Rockets on the floor defensively...



Steal, Block, and stop Mavs.

 

If you saw the game last night, it was actually the role players not making shots in the perimeter. When Yao got the ball inside, they LITERALLY swarmed Yao so he had to pass out.

 

I feel is whole teams lack energy and hungry and unlucky.
think about this. if Tmac layup that two in and make that two free shots what is our situation? I 'm not blame Tmac I just said it is unlucky and the refs are really ruin the game.

I pretty sure we will win tommrow. So don't worry.

Go Rox ride the Mavs

 

You can't blame it all on the guards. They get the ball to T-Mac just fine. You can't tell me that they don't pass to Yao simply because they don't want to.

 

wow, i hope that's not true otherwise that's some pure bullsh!t by the refs. i'd like an explanation as to why dirk is allowed to throw himself in the land at anytime create all the contact and never get called for an offensive foul.

 

"Guard the three point shooters"

 

Sorry, but am I the ONLY one who noticed this crap in this idiotic post?!

Dude, whoever the hell you are, you have JUST become the president of the YOF club

WOW! Thanks for clarifying what you "really" give a sh** about! As if the BBS needed another blind YOF...

Way to establish credibility.

Good luck on the board dude, you are going to need it!

 

For some odd reason everytime i hear people say "pass the ball to yao more" I keep remembering our 6-11 record when Yao was the focus of the offense

I think Yao needs to take more jumpers/hooks as soon as he gets the ball to catch his defender off gaurd, instead of using a move to get closer and potentially causing turnover or offensive foul. I'm not saying I want that to be his primary FGA but I'd wish him to mix up a few quick shots in with his regular in-motion drives toward the basket.

If t-mac can shoot whenever he wants because of his special ability to shoot over people then Yao should be doing it too.

 

Win Game Four, Go Rockets!

 

chron: Rockets not finding man in the middle

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/3162402

Rockets not finding man in the middle
Yao becoming 90 inches of invisible man
By MICHAEL MURPHY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

He is a mismatch waiting to happen, but against the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference opening-round series, it hasn't quite worked out that way for Yao Ming.


So far the only mismatch being discussed is about the number of shots Yao has been attempting vs. how many he should be getting.

Against the relative Munchkins the Mavericks trotted out Saturday, Yao got only seven shots, making six ?a prominent reason the Rockets again wilted down the stretch in a 97-93 loss that squared the series at 2-2.

"Yao showed in Game 2 that he was unstoppable (hitting 13 of 14 field-goal attempts)," said backup center Dikembe Mutombo. "You're asking me (why Yao doesn't get the ball more), but I'm asking the same question. It's hard to answer."

It shouldn't be.


Seldom-used weapon
Yao has hit at least 64 percent of his shots in three of the Rockets' four playoff games. And in the fourth quarter Saturday, Yao made his only two field-goal attempts and both of his foul shots while scoring a team-high six points.

"In this game we just didn't give him the ball, and I don't know why," Mutombo said. "I was sitting there, asking myself the same question, especially at the end when he came back into the game (with 3:38 to play and the Rockets leading 88-82), why we just didn't go through Yao and try to see what comes up from there. We didn't."

To get a proper handle on the situation, consider that in the first four games of the series Tracy McGrady has missed more shots (48) than Yao has attempted (40). And backup guard Mike James has almost as many attempts ?35 ?as Yao.

Heading into Monday's Game 5, the Rockets feel they have to figure out a way to get their All-Star center more looks at the basket, especially when he is shooting over 72 percent.

McGrady, who is 47 of 95 in the series, is one of those who thinks that way.


It's not that easy
Yao should be an easy target, enjoying a height advantage ranging between seven inches (when guarded by the 6-11 Erick Dampier) to nine inches (when 6-9 Alan Henderson is in the game). But McGrady said that getting the ball to Yao isn't as easy as it looks.

"We tried to search Yao out," said McGrady, who had 36 points on 13-of-26 shooting Saturday. "But it's been difficult to search him out when he has a smaller guy on him because it's kind of easy to move their feet and front Yao. Sometimes they bring an extra guy over so it's hard to get the ball into him.

"Somehow, some way we have to search him out more and get the guy the ball. He has to take more than seven or eight shots because if he doesn't, regardless of what I do, we're not going to win the game."

Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy has a pretty good idea why Yao's shots are so limited. According to Van Gundy, before counting Yao's shot attempts, one should try counting the number of personal fouls he is accumulating.


Fouls part of the problem
The 7-6 center had five fouls Saturday, which limited him to 25 minutes. He fouled out in only 20 minutes in Game 1, a 98-86 Houston victory.

"Foul trouble is the biggest problem," Van Gundy said. "But they (the Mavericks) defend the post well."

Yao agreed.

"First of all, I need to stay out of foul trouble," said Yao when asked what needs to be done to get him more shots. "That way I get more minutes on the court."

Starting guard David Wesley put the onus more on Yao's teammates to keep their big man out of foul trouble against the Mavs.

"We're letting everybody drive to the basket, which gets him in foul trouble," Wesley said. "And we have to search for him more. If he can stay out of foul trouble and stay on the floor, then hopefully he'll get more shots."

After the game, Mutombo pulled up the knot on his tie, sat back in his chair and mulled Saturday's loss.

"The game is over," he said. "Sometimes when you lose you try to realize a few things you could have done. And that (not getting Yao the ball) was a big mistake on our part."

michael.murphy@chron.com

 

I was really mad when Barry, James and Sura(last game) down the strech forced the issues without even looking for the big fellow. This is non-sense.

 

Some people may hate to hear this. But to me, Wesley and Barry always look for Yao, I can't say that about James and Sura. It is not that Yao has to take so many shots, it is the inside-out game we are supposed to play.

 

Seems to me, there is a syncrinization problem.

Yao gets open and I'm looking at him going "why isn't he getting the ball" and before I complete the thought, and before the guards get him the ball, he's lost position and is being fronted and/or doubled.

Yao isn't the best at getting position, but sometimes he does and the guards just aren't ready to dump it to him. He can't hold off his defender forever...

 

Well usually Barry is always looking for Yao but for some reason today he started to force some shots and they just were not falling. Barry, James, Wesley, and basically everyone on the team needs to realize that if Yao is having a good game then it makes it that much easier for them on the offensive end of the floor. Especially when the Mavs are forced to double him.

 

I love Deke. I hope no one will label him a YOF.

 

I'm new to the board, and am wondering what "YOF" stands for...

 

Yap, it's sad that the two players who don't look for Yao are our point guards.

Maybe that's why DW brought the ball up court from time to time... I think JVG don't really trust neither of the point guards that much.

 

Yao isn't invisible to anyone but the refs.

 

That was a problem....also, Yao's turnovers don't help much.

 

That picture says it all. If yao got half the respect that Dirk gets this series would be over or the Rockets would be up 3-1.

By the way "YOF" stands for "Yao Only Fan".