NBA Shootaround Crew comments on Rocks/Mavs series today

I remember a Chinese posters posted a profound stroy here not long ago. The morale of the story is

If there is no first 5 hot dogs, there is no 6th hotdog.

Tmac has to play the best is the frist 3 quarters to give us a chance in the 4th.

 

I think that the season why Yao usually sets picks for tracy and other guys in rox is because JVG asks him to do that. IMO, The picks Yao did really gave tracy and his teammates lots of opportunity of open shot. Maybe, Yao just needs to do that for tracy. On the other hand, that is one of the reason why yao usually can not grab more rebounds. He lost the good position to grab rebound after he did picks for his teammate and returned to the paint.

 

Hell yeah I wish I could tell Yao to just have a F!@# YOU STUPID REF attitude and I'm going to dunk on you Amare style mindset That's my opinion lol..not that crazy and radical but just I wish he could be confident and from the beginning of the game set the tone and show how he's gonna play..and that he's the best player on the court offensively and defensively. And if a stupid foul is called..don't complain just shake your head and get back down the court. F THE STUPID REFS jk

 

Yao lose rebounding positions because he sets picks. Now that's funny.

Ok, Deke never sets any picks, so he could always grab the boards.

 

Sorry guys, very awful spelling.
season = reason

 

This is just my opinion. And its just one of the reason yao did bad job for rebounds.

 

lol how about we trade mutombo for shaq and bob sura and mike james and moochie norris for mike james and patrick ewing for stan van gundy

"Be like Suns" OH GOD

Seriously Yao treatment is ridiculous. It went on for the entire season and I still felt it..I remmeber last game I said whatever I'm used to it..but wow it's not going to change..but if we can add some athleticism and toughness..like Antonio Davis? or Tyson Chandler or Donyell Marshall (who isn't that athletic..) and like an athletic guard like a Larry Hughes..it would help.

I love basketball..but yeah it's sad..and I wish we could like boycott lol..but whatever NBA's making money they don't care about fans only how to make them give up money

 

So how do we improve it. Let Yao stand under the basket? Yao and preimeter players need to be on the same page. Just watch how Deke does it.

 

I really don't like STEVE. a. S. HE IS SUCh JERK!

 

I think you are partially right. Yao has his own problem in rebounding, but setting picks and defending rolls aren't exactly helping. Shaq does a lot less. But our guards are not as energized or as young as the ones in Miami, so Yao has to help. But I believe there has to be some middle ground to reach, not just scarifice one aspect to complement another. Look at the Suns game, where Yao had 22 boards by staying in the paint and waiting for Amare.

 

Exactly, thats what i wanna say.

 

Greg Anthony is the only one worth listening to on that show.

Steven Smith is an offensive idiot. Tim Legler is just an idiot.

Five days ago, the Rockets were going to the WCF and the Mavericks were soft and done. Now, the Mavericks are resilient, tough, and once again darkhorse title contenders.

It's nonsense either way. Play the games. Maybe in a week, they'll be backtracking like idiots again.

 

Great post. If the Rockets win game 5 all of them will start to backtrack once again like they did after games 1 and 2.

 

Tigermission1, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Ming does make some silly fouls, but, overall, the calls on him are ridiculous. And the non-calls on the players that are mugging him are just as absurd. I am surprised the Rockets have not made a public issue of this during the playoffs. I have seen more phantom calls in the playoffs than I have during the whole season. It is crazy. I thought in the playoffs, the NBA allowed a more physical game.

 

Not anymore. That has *got* to be clear from the playoffs so far. The NBA is changing directions to go back to a scoring league for sure. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

 

Teams rarely let the other teams star player beat them in important situations, it happens but more often than not they force the star player to pass it to someone else.

Think Horry, Cassell, Paxson, Kerr..etc..etc..etc...

Tmac has passed it to Yao but Yao has fumbled far too many...he has to get better for this team to progress.

They are playing Yao pretty much straight up, he has to take advantage...and if they zone him, he needs to punish them on the glass.

He is a 7'6" walking enigma. If he ever gets it, the team will roll until then...they will be a dow jones team...up and down.

DD

 

I think it is a bad thing. I want guys playing balls to the wall defense. I was watching the wizards game yesterday, and that game was just boring as hell. There was a foul on every single possession. No flow, no great shots, just fouls. When it's a winner take all situation, you have to let the guys play tough D in my book. It would also discourage lame-ass flopping.

 

He scores 18 points a game playing less than 30 minutes a game. If he played 35 minutes a game, he's easily 20+... and if he plays as much as other superstars do, he's a MVP candidate.

The bottom line is that Yao has rarely been ineffective when he hasn't had to contend with foul trouble. Granted, a lot of his fouls are of the "learning curve" variety... where he simply is late at getting over, or does a horrible job of avoiding contact when he can... but then again, a lot of his fouls are utter BS that only he gets called for because he's 7'6, and NBA refs have never seen a man of his size play so actively before.

So, I guess him "getting it" is the refs calling 2 less BS calls on him a game.