yao was covering the passer out of bounds and didnt go to the shooter (roy, a few feet away) after the ball was thrown. tmac didn't chase roy and pointed for someone else to rotate to roy. roy made an open shot. a lot of the fault is on adelman for putting yao on the ball...you always get someone tall and quick (to defend the passer) to double team anyone who catches the ball behind the arc. very costly mistake adelman.
I have no clue why T-mac was on Roy to begin with. Makes no sense. You know in that situation they will set a screen. T-mac has struggled all year fighting through screens. Yao jumping over there was just worthless. Bad decision all around.
It's OK mistakes happen. The team showed some heart. As much as I appreciate what Chuck Hayes did, Landry should have been out there in the clutch. That dunk over Pryzbilla is the reason why. Ron and Yao sucked but they never gave up. T-Mac could have been lazy but he played to win. We're going to start clicking in a little bit. We just need to tighten up some loose ends. Once we get Shane back and our defense meshes, our offense will come. When it does, watch out.
i disagree calling it a defensive mistake putting yao on the inbounds. that was TOUGH shot. i'll let him have that shot again. i dont care.
If T-Mac stayed with Roy, we win the game. With 0.8 secs, you can't expect Yao to guard the ball and go towards the shooter. T-Mac was just not ready for Roy to make that move. Oh well, it was a great shot.
Just watched the last play again. Not sure if they were trying to play some sort of 4 man zone, but Tmac was near the paint with Roy. He ran towards the ball and TMac pointed at Artest, who was at the top of the key, to rotate. Ron rotated late (either his mistake or it was TMac's job to stay on Roy), TMac saw he was late and sprinted over to Roy and Roy hit the shot.
The bottom line is TMAC should not have been on the floor. JVG would have known that TMAC is not as fast and cannot keep up. We have plenty of guys that could man up with some speed and height and vertical. That one is on Adelman.
But you have to be picked to switch...Tmac just stayed back and watched...he made a poor choice and the team got burned by it. DD
but yao was on the ball...he needed to chase whomever the person that caught the ball. that's why you dont put yao there.
agree, the whole purpose of having Yao on the inbound was to prevent Blake from throwing the ball right at the basket for an Ally-Oop. and given the size of our front court, i see a great chance of that happening.
he is obviously playing hurt has no lift and no defense. He should not have been out there. Our Defense from JVG is starting to wear off.
roy was clutch and having yao toward the basket preventing alley oops with landry was a better choice. the percentage is higher with a farther shot but a wide open jumper.
he also cuts off the corner three (or makes the pass difficult). that was a hell of shot by roy. the best shot the rockets could have hoped for as far as selection goes.
That depends on what Adelman wanted. As I stated, I just rewatched it, and right as Roy took off TMac pointed to Artest for the switch, and Artest was late. If Adelman wanted to do that (playing a zone or just the call), then it's on Ron. If Adelman didn't and it was supposed to be TMac on Roy, then it's Tmac's fault for calling for a switch and not running with Roy. Guess it depends, but one of them messed up
I would put Scola in instead of Yao to defend the inbound pass, definitely put Ron on Roy. we could Shane in this situation though...
Agreed. I just didnt expect the timekeepers to screw up. We might as well have been playing the jazz.
