[Fox Sports] Charlie Rosen analysis on Rox loss to Mavs

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Rosen is such an ass for making an assessment in the 4th game of the season. His vitriol seems subdued without JVG around.

 

"yao needs many more touches in the paint" - that's the only thing i like to hear and he said it loud and clear. yeah.

 

It's amazing how different this guy sounds with JVG out of there..wow..I thought writers were supposed to be professional and objective but I guess not.

Nevertheless, I agree with what he wrote. Even he is saying what we are saying: Give Yao the damn Ball and stop forcing him to play like Brad Miller, RICK ADELMAN!!

 

Actually his analysis is just for 1 game and for the most part was pretty, pretty accurate. I do agree to predict the Rockets future based on this game is premature and a best n intelligent guess. But to say the Rockets may be the 3rd best team in Texas is not a stretch and until we prove otherwise will probablly be the consensus opinion of most reporters.

 

LOL ... notice how Mike James' name only appears in the F-game section in Rosen's analysis ...

... which pretty much agrees with Clutch's game summary on CF.net front page:

the McGrady-James two-man team failed!

 

Good write-up by Rosen, but the Rockets are a work in progress and haven't established their identity yet. The loss doesn't bother me much. Because their team has been intact 3-4 years, the Mavs had a big advantage in crunch time and it showed.

 

Yup, anytime James attempt more shots than a red hot Yao (9/12), there is a problem.

 

We lost so any criticism by Rosen is warranted. I don't have to tell you that the SW conference is loaded with good teams and watch out for the NOH, they always play the Rox tough. I know Adelman and the Rox are not going to be complacent but they have a long way to go and a lot to prove to show they are better than the Spurs, Mavs and NOH.

I think SF3 is in the Rox future somewhere down the road, the schedule is pretty tough in Nov. and if the Rox are only marginally over .500 going into December, I think a change at the point to SF will likely be a move the Rox have to consider. I just hope Steve is preparing and not laying down right now.

 

Good article. I know the truth may hurt some's feelings, but its the truth nonetheless..

 

He's exaggerating the defensive issues with our PGs (Alston and James), in my view. He already made up his mind a while a go that they "don't play a lick of defense." A lot of those shots by Terry came in transition or off broken defensive plays which weren't directly the fault of the PGs. The play where Barea beat Alston on the back cut, there wasn't any help defense. Not all Alston's fault.

Still, overall, good insight.

 

It is only one game, give RA at least until Jan to adjust and make changes. No one expected rockets to go 82-0 correct?

 

Considering previous articles from this guy about the Rockets, that was pretty even-handed...

He must have had a really big axe to grind with JVG.

 

It's a fair assessment of ONE game. No one expected us to go undefeated. We are adjusting to a new offense still and clearly that is an issue for the team at this point. We could have won if we shot a bit better, but outside of Dirk, their team was on fire from the perimeter.

Our defense wasn't spectacular, but it would have taken a first team defensive player to slow Terry last night. Most of his shots were contested, he was just hot and made them anyway. Likewise I don't think Terry did anything special defending Mike James, James was just off. The down side of Mike James has always been that he keeps shooting as if he is on fire even when he is ice cold, which is why he makes a great scoring option off the bench and is less ideal as a starter.

Losing to the team with the best regular season record in the NBA last year on their home court is hardly worthy of panic mode. Hopefully we can rebound with a win tonight, but even if we don't there are plenty of games left in the season to work out the kinks.

 

I didn't have a problem with Mike's shots, actually. He needs to be smarter with his passes in crunch time. He's also been missing quite a few layups. He's so good getting to the basket on those baseline drives, but he has to convert.

 

He pointed out the most glaring problem with the new offense - Yao shoot way less than Tmac.

 

If James is open you can pretty much bet he will shoot for better or worse. It wasn't really that Mike's shots were "bad", most of them were relatively open looks that he missed. It's just that after you have missed 5 of your last 6 you might want to make an extra effort to get the ball to Yao or someone else as your first option. When you are shooting worse than Rafer that is a problem

I certainly expect James to be a huge part of our success this year though and I expect him to have more good games than bad.

 

Constructive criticism is a big favor. Thank you, Charlie. Now, about your writing ...

 

I'm afraid he's right, particularly on this.

MJ is class A ballhog.

One thing I remember, everytime, MJ drives to the basket, all the 5 mavericks run to him knowing that there's no way he's going to pass the ball. WOW. Bigtime ballhog.