Just saw the chronicle article here. link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6035014.html RA is going to install his offense style this season. It sounds good for the team, but it can be a disaster as I don't believe anywhere else is good spot for Yao Ming to be effective, I mean didn't they try that style earlier last year and the result is not impressive at all?
This sounds like a bad idea...why fix what is not broke?!?! (the part about Yao not being in the low post)
As long as Yao isn't shooting lots of jumpers from the high post, I'm all for it. Its easier and harder to defend to get Yao the ball on the move than to let the defense setup and try to guard him.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-rockets-adelman&prov=ap&type=lgns (Basically the same article from the chron.)
could sound like a bad idea just due to the fact we won 55 games with the plain jvg offense and now that we added more firepower our projection is a lot better. BUT imagine if we were to implement adelman's offense, we could witness the offensive production of the kings of yesteryear and the current rockets defense which will produce one of the greatest teams of this decade.
We knew for a while that it could take years for Adelman's offense to start clicking for this team. Remember Jon Barry's warning at the beginning of last season? I'd like to see some more high-post, corner-series basketball this season. Imagine an inverted offense with Artest cutting from the corner to post up and Yao stationed at the top of the key for that little 15 footer when the double team is drawn. We could see a lot of that this year.
I'm for it. Adelman's system is supposed to take a year to learn anyways. It wasn't necessarily broke last year, but 17th in the league in offensive efficiency ain't that hot either. Yao just spent a whole summer playing a style of basketball where he was on the perimeter. If it can reduce the wear and tear on his body as well as improve our efficiency, why not give it a try now and in the first couple month of the season when we have little to prove?
You can never have too many plans of attack. We largely got RA here to boost our offense so let him do his thing I say. And to utilise McGrady in as many away from the ball situations will keep him fresh and take the pressure off him to force the action. I concede that, come clutch time or if the offense is stalling, pounding it inside to Yao should be option A B and C.
I LOVE this. Now that we added Artest and Barry, we now have 4-5 guys who can create their own offense and play a versatile brand of basketball. Last year, with Scola starting out the season trying to figure things out, we had only 2 players who could create their own shot in the Adelman offense. As a result, T-mac and Yao were tremendous, but the offense was miserable because no one else could create if T-Mac or Yao were doing it for them. That is why we put T-Mac back into the high PNR and his scoring dropped off while assists went up. With Artest, Barry and the maturity of Scola, that will not be a problem. I especially like this for T-Mac and Artest. For T-Mac, it takes a huge burden off him having to create for others constantly, and brings him in iso's closer to the basket. He will get easier shots and less offensive responsibility. I expect close to or above 45% shooting from him this season, which would be his best mark since 2002-2003. For Artest, he will fit much better in a slash and cut offense than one where he has to camp outside waiting for McGrady to come off a PNR and dish it out.
I imagine the sound of a clank with Yao shooting a 15 footer. He can make them but he is not as good out in the perimeter as he is in the post. I have no problem with the percentage of low post and high post Yao had last year. I think that shouldn't change.
it will never be Adelman's offense with this group of players. dont worry. Also, the JVG offense can give you 55 wins and 1st round exits.
I think you are right. I imagine them trying the RA offense in the begining of the season, the result is not good, and then they have to "modify" RA's recipe for offense, which means divert away from RA style, finally they end up something in between RA and JVG.
Something about using RA is it? ? I usually hate it too but just went with it because it's used in the thread title.
We need to go for it. We can always revert to the old offense if it doesn't work like we did last year, but the kings' offense was exciting and effective. I'd love for opposing fans to hate our offense as much as I hated theirs.
You will notice I am not the only person to use RA in this thread. Im not sure why you singled me out
