Usually his fade away is pretty good. But I got to admit, those jump hooks have been absolutely money lately. And going to the basket and drawing fouls wouldn't be a bad idea either. I like what I'm hearing. Now for him to do it on the court.
(On veteran players) “Every player I’ve coached has fallen into one of two categories as they got older. Either they don’t understand why their role is changing - in some ways it’s good so they don’t lose confidence. Or two, they are acutely aware of their own feelings to the point where it is not that important to them. That mental edge is hard to keep. You don’t want to put all the preparation in, or you don’t want to travel as much. I think most athletes lose it mentally before physically.” Doesn't it seem obvious now which veteran player(s) JVG was talking about?
Rockets.com has definitely ramped up their content since this summer. They've done player profiles, interviews with the new FA aquisitions, did a decent job with the training camp coverage, started providing a readable game preview feature, and apparently now have a weekly team report (two weeks is a row now). Still can't match the BBS (and realistically never will) but at least it's not the joke it was the past couple of years.
Yao in the low post is a scoring monster. I was absolutely baffled by his 8 straight missed shots in the last game. In fact, I am baffled everytime he misses a shot. I think he was either physically drained (no break in the 4th) or mentally damaged (the fight). Either way, he needs to fight over it. It was pretty disappointing. His jump hooks are extremely high percentage shots. When he turns around and hooks it, it looks like his hand was about to touch the rim. No way he misses many shots from that close to the rim.
If they keep putting out stuff like this on a regular basis I may bookmark the page. But they've got to keep it up for a while.
JVG got all in the Rockets @$$. 2 hours of film and didnt even finish the NOK game in those 2 hrs. Questioned effort. There will be more effort tonight. Probably more Bowen too.
I was most interested in this quote: It shows that the incident was a factor in Yao's play and he wasn't able to truly focus on the game after it.
Not this again. I don't read that out of his quote at all. He's just saying in a broad sense that when incidents happen on the court, you just have to move on. Not necessarily that he didn't/couldn't move on the other night.
Ridiculous, in the heat of the moment while shooting his fadeaway jumper, Yao is thinking "Gee, I hope I didn't hurt Des's feelings". Sh*t, I missed!!! Just doesn't happen, he was tired.
I emailed rockets.com at fanear@rocketball.com thanking them for doing things with the website. I think they've done more articles and special features so far this year than they ever have for any entire year.
Thanks. We are trying. We have a long way to go but we will get there. We had a little lull with the team on the road so much but we should be churning out articles now that they are back. Some fun things are coming soon as well.
