Advice to T-mac

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZwZX8oyIY_daZ-HF7mUtAgZZxrw


Adelman hopes to put the lessons learned to good use right away. The Spurs play in Houston on Tuesday night.

"It's tough but that's our challenge," he said. "We have to learn how to beat a good team and get more people involved."

 

what you dont get is , 47 in Utah and tonight come in pair, you cant just ask for 1 of them but not the other. shooting is what shooters do. Tmac didnt lose this game for us --- though he did have some ill-advised shots, the bench did.

 

Agree. I guess only Ray Allen is a pure shooter in this league. T-mac should play smarter considering he's in this league so long. 2/14 in the second half definitely lose the game.

 

At this point he either has the wrong mentality, thinks he is better than he is, or feels he had to lead by scoring. There is no excuse for his shot selection tonight. Yao without a doubt should have had at least 8 more attempts. I blame McGrady, I blame Adelman, I blame Yao... Fix it.

 

For now, this is what the Rockets offense has become: Get Tracy McGrady shots, lots of shots, and hope he stays hot long enough to carry them.

This is not the idea. For now, the notion of making it easier on him has been shelved, with the Rockets offense too often bogging down and needing him to search shots.

Some of that will change quickly. Figure Yao Ming to start getting more and more touches. He must attack double teams before they trap him, and he will. The Rockets will find him more.

But as McGrady went for 35 on 12 of 31 shoots (but 10 of 11 on the line) to remain the NBA's top scorer, it is clear that the Rockets offense is still not there, rarely moving bodies and the ball quickly and easily enough for there to be enough good shots to go around.

"We have to get a better flow offensively for sure," Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. "I don't think we've had a good flow offensively, other than Tracy having that monster game (in Utah). We're just kind of finding our way offensively. We've been fairly consistent defensively, but offensively, we have a long way to go. We haven't found a balance to our team, yet. That's going to take time."

i think we're just riding tmac b/c no one else has the grip on the offense yet. so to weather the storm and win games at the same time, we're hoping tmac can carry us. 3-1 so far is good. hopefully yao and the rest can catch up soon and we will have more balance.

 

yea, sure he took 31 shots, but he did went to the line 11 times, so he was being aggressive, that's always good. I don't think he went to the line nearly as much last season. we have the best chance of winning when t-mac's being aggressive and driving and not settling. I like what i see from him so far, not settling nearly as much as before.

 

Tracy can get his shot anytime he wants....and they can't double team him. On the other hands, Yao needs to be doubled team. I think Tmac should know that when his shots ain't falling..there are 2 things to do...drive to the hoop or let Yao have the ball. If he insist on shooting until he nail them...he's just going to hurt the team.

 

I thought 12 out of 30 with 11 FT attempts is pretty respectable. I thought it was Bonzi's 1 for 7 and James' 1 for 6 as well as our inability to defend Terry cost us the game tonight

 

I trust McGrady with his shots. I'd rather have him take the ill advised shots than anyone else. He has the physical advantage by being a 6-8 G so he can rise over everyone.

I expect Bonzi and James to stay overtime at the gym after the Spurs game practicing shooting.

 

TMAC is better under Adelman's system than last season!!!
when TMAC or YAO get hold, they pass the ball to the outside,the problem is the others gotta score when they are wideopen.

 

well, I kinda sick of this.
Coach A has yet to successfully utilize our Star players strength now he starts talking about getting more people involved --- WHO? Brooks?Francis? Its exactly like JVG keeps mentioning "ENERGY!!ENERGY!"
You all know how that ended up with.

 

Is there seriously a thread advising TMac, he has been playing like a HOSS this entire freaking season. Give the guy a break, he has been driving, shooting a high FT%, and playing just about the best ball I have seen him play in years.

TMac keep doing what you are doing... He is allowed to settle for a jumper once in a while.

 

Yao Ming will never publicly criticize his coach, or yell out at his team in frustration. There are both good and bad points about this.

It looks like it's T-Mac's team right now. There no longer are 2 super-stars on this team, there is no 2 #1 guys. It's just T-Mac as the bonafide #1 guy, and the role players.

Last year, we've criticized JVG for enforcing his half-court offense on the team, and not being creative enough, but give JVG credit for one thing: At least he utilized BOTH his super-stars.

Adelman is not doing this right now. He's completely destroyed Yao's game, and Yao's just become a role player now. Yeah, T-Mac has more freedom, and can now jack up 30 shots per game, but these changes better come with significant success in the Play-offs. Or else it's all for nothing.

I don't normally do this but I looked at their schedule this month, and the Rockets will barely be above .500 I predict. And this is good because maybe it will force Adelman to make some changes, if he's as flexible and adapative as we all hope he is...Otherwise he's just a JVG in different clothes.

 

i also feel sad that yao become a role player under RA.
Fire RA,Sign Rudi-T,Win the championship.YAO for MVP in regrula season, Tmc for MVP in final.

 

Wait a minute. So a lot of you guys are saying that its RA's system that made Yao play bad?

I don't get it. Why do you not entertain another possibility that it is Yao who hasn't figure RA's system out? that once Yao figures out how to operate in RA's system, he will show again the unstoppable self he was last season pre-injury?

So when Yao got the ball in low paint plenty of times during the Dallas game but made more turnovers than buckets, you blame it on RA's system?

So when Yao became reluctant to shoot the ball today, you blame it on RA's system instead of Yao not figuring it out or simply suffering from a lack of confidence as a result of the Dallas' game?

Some of you are Chinese fans and I can see how eagerly you want to support Yao, but that doesn't warrant all the homerism, this "as long as Yao is #1 and getting his points we don't care whether the Rockets are winning" attitude, all this bashing of RA, who has led the Rockets to a 3-1 start and who has barely had time to institute his system yet.

Please, don't bend things through the prism of your homerism and at least have some patience before you start playing the blame game.

 

I'm glad that he is obviously focused, judging from his FT%. That was always the most frustrating thing to me about his game. Followed closely by his 3P%. It never looks like that bad of a shot with the elevation he gets but his percentage looks ehh for a top 5 wing player. Either shoot a high % on your FT when you get fouled going to the basket or shoot a higher clip from three if youre avoiding contact inside. Pick one!

 

It's not homerism. It's fact. The way it's going, Adelman is completely destroying Yao's main game, and forcing him to be a high post Center ala Brad Miller.

Why don't you open your eyes, and see this fact? Many of the posters here are not Yao only fans, but they say the same thing. It is not just Chinese fans that are saying this.

Adelman has not adapted his system to the talents of this team. Rather, he is enforcing his Sacramento offense upon this team, and his system is one where the Center plays a minor role.

Yao Ming is the #1 center. He has a dominant low post game. But Yao's game is not being highlighted by this system. This is entirely on Adelman. Why do you blame Yao for this?

 

Last season he spent 99% of the time in low post. last game he spent 50%,at best. Its also RA's responsibility to realise his players strength and weakness --- Yao's the best down low. Enough said.

yea....WHEN?

I dont know if hes reluctant or what, but he certainly didnt get a free pass to shoot the ball whenever he wanted. stop dreaming he has the consistency on Mid-range Js