Yao: "I think that's my worst game in my three years."

Yao's averaging something like 16 shots a game this year, overall, but he's been averaging decidedly less since Tmac's come back from his injury. 11 shots a game is NOT enough for the most dominant low post scorer in the game. We still see a significant amount of chucking from Tmac every game, without trying to play inside out at all. Fortunately, he's been hitting and we've been barely beating eastern conference scrubs as a result.

That being said, I think Yao's recent suckiness is due to a combination of factors - 1st, Yao just looks dead tired. 2nd, Rick Adelman seems to have Yao posting up less and screwing around in the high post for whatever reason. 3rd, Yao doesn't seem to give a crap when scrubs or rookies embarass him.

I have a problem with the 2nd and 3rd reason - I hope to God that RA isn't trying to make Yao into some Brad Miller/Vlade clone (again! after it failed earlier in the season). Those two centers sucked. Plain and simple. They couldn't bang down low so they had to mask their deficiencies by being jump-shooting fairies. If RA is trying to make Yao pull the same crap then he should be canned ASAP. I don't ever wanna see Yao clunk another mid-range jumper again.

As for the 3rd reason - when Yao lets himself get embarassed like he did for the last 3 games with no repercussion to the opponents, he's a big softie. Plain and simple. And he should be benched when he's playing soft.

 

Heh ... all these meaningless numbers Mr. AB is throwing at us.

If you had bothered to watch the game, you would have realized that Yao might not have managed to score more than 4 points last night without T-Mac's help. He really looked like he had a few screws loose -- just dogging it on both ends of the court, couldn't hang on to a pass to save his life, biting on pump fakes and getting owned on defense....

 

I agree

 

You have to feature Yao in-order fro him to be a factor he hasn't been involved in the last 3 games playing with Tracy and You may be right with tracy contribution to Yao's little points but the reason is because Tracy is dominating the ball and we are playing the same way when we lost 6 or 7 games in a row. The two players don't help each other and they don't have any chemistry and if we make it to the playoffs we won't last too long playing this way.

 

I realized this Mr. AB is a YOF and his ways to support Yao is attacking Tmac.

 

I just hate people taking things for granted

He apologized, so what do you want?

 

Rick doesn't have any control over the team only when Tracy doesn't play.Seems like he can only convey his philosophy to this team when tracy doesn't play, other than that he doesn't have the guts to coach tracy or tracy just isn't coachable. They played inside out when tracy was injured but now we are back to the same crappy style that gave us six L's in a row.

 

Why do you YOFs have to attack TMac in every post even when he played great? I read all the posts above you and no one is really blaming Yao that badly. but anyways die hard Rockets fans will blame both TMac and Yao if they had a bad game, they are the superstars after all but to blame TMac everytime for something like this is ridiculous[/QUOTE]

EXACTLY, I would blame Yao HARD as a die-hard yao's fan. He definitely needs to think about dealing with fronting and defensing 4 on the other end. otherwise he has to be benched next time facing Jeffeson.

 

that's because after 1st quarter, Wolves leaves entire paint for Jefferson, while we have everyone who grabbed rebounds in the paint.

Watch the backetball and then comment, I think I should put u to my ignore list

 

If you go back and watch the Minnesotta game again they were completly loading up on Yao when he didn't have the ball and when he did get rarely did he not get doubled immediately....Again, this opened the game up for Landry and Scola and luckly both of them had pretty decent games.....Shane was left wide open all night on the weakside too, but forwhatever reason his teammates weren't really looking for him.

Basically Yao's only real shot to score was on offensive rebounds and drives and dishes by other players.

He was bad on the boards tonight and below average on defense, but you can't fault him for only getting up 11 shots, The defense was simply swarming him even before he could even get the ball.....I'm glad we're finally making teams pay for this.

I remember when we played Minnesotta last year we had problems because Garnett wouldn't guard anyone. He just shut down the paint. Minnesotta basically went with that stratgey again except this time they just put the extra defender on Yao.

 

People or I should say "fans" forgets what Yao did to attract double team and defense for the postion for others to grab rebounds.

Well, people are like that, that's why battier is always undervalued.

 

EXACTLY, I would blame Yao HARD as a die-hard yao's fan. He definitely needs to think about dealing with fronting and defensing 4 on the other end. otherwise he has to be benched next time facing Jeffeson.[/QUOTE]

if you do that, you are no difference with YOFS.

I agree with that T-MAC had great games recently.

 

It's like a disease. So many of these posters suffer from some chronic form of scapegoatitis -- it doesn't matter that the Rockets are on an 8-game road winning streak and have won what, 12 out of their last 14 games? Doesn't matter that McGrady was the only reason why the Rockets had a chance to even win the game, and doesn't matter that Yao played like pigeon poop. Gotta find a way to scapegoat McGrady. It's like some kind of obsessive-compulsive psychological disorder. It's particularly bad with the YOFs.

Maybe it's only a natural side effect of classic cognitive dissonance --- in their minds, it is inconceivable that Yao could actually be going through a slump, so they have to direct their blame to the natural target - it must be McGrady's fault! He's hogging the ball too much! He's rubbing oil on Yao's palms before the game so he can't hold on to the ball! He spikes Yao's tea before the game making him cross-eyed and causing him to brick free throws! Trade McLady!11!!111

I don't know ... maybe somebody has a better diagnosis than I do.

 

you guys are letting the YOFS turn it into a thread about Tmac when this thread is about how badly Yao played.

 

LOL. Yao would have had 20 shots against Minnesota if he could have held on to the ball.

 

It's very simple actually. Yao creates a lot of mismatches but he is also a liability against certain types of players and defenses.

 

yao plz score 25+ and get 15+ rebs on thursday night

 

WOOHHHOOOOO Rockets win.......

If the left one don't get ya, the right one will.

DD

 

Are you a DR.? lol

 

He loses the ball every game like that,still no excuses for his lack of touches. The dude was just player of the month in january,His last game without t-mac he got 36 and 19, since then it's been all wack down hill playing pick and roll, high post garbage.