bball 100001 for you, a real superstar player wont have so many F games in a short span. If yao bring his A game at least play at the level of B or C not level F like 4/13FG% 14pts 6rebs and 5TOs type of game that frequently!
one more chance for you to get educated - and for free, since i am in the mood. yao's season avg is pretty close to 20/10. that means for every 14/6 game, he's got a 26/14 game to compensate to get to that avg. his t/o avg is 3. so for every 5to game he's got a 1to game to compensate it. kobe, according to you, is avg'ing 27pts per this season. tonight he had 33. so somewhere he has a 21pts game. is this too hard for you to comprehend? i thought even a 2nd grader could grasp the notion. but i could be wrong.
Refs kept it close, but cannot put all the blame on them because the 4th quarter was a disaster and there's only two words for it: CHOKE CITY Wafer wasn't involved at all but two times I believe: once he passed it to Yao, who missed the shot and the other time he spinned on Kobe and couldn't make up his mind and blew the shot (he could've dunked it and threw it off the glass, instead he throws it on the rim). He should've gotten much more shot attempts because he was 10-13 through 3 qts, 0-1 in the 4th. That's a choke (as a team, not to feed the hot hand and for Adelman keeping both hot players out: Yao and Wafer) Yao missed everything in the 4th: he was cold because he had taken a rest and only took 3/4 shots. Choke Rafer for bricking 2 FTs and almost throwing the ball away before getting it to Battier. Choke Brooks passing it to Yao and not demanding it back when he was open. Choke Landry for passing up a wide open shot. Choke The 2nd unit in the first 4-5 mins of the 4th: not understanding RA offense and didn't know what to do. It was like they were looking for a go-to guy like Yao / Wafer. Choke Hopefully they will learn from this 4th quarter and take it upon themselves to show they're not going to take this nonsense from these so called refs anymore. The first 3 quarters were the best of the year except for boxing out and rebounding. Great game overall with some great dunks and Wafer was showing some T-mac type shooting which blew me away. Landry also made some tough outside shots and Yao was great. Too bad we lost..
I guess you would say the opposite about Yao after the game against the Celtics What we call this kind of reaction？
reguardless of the outcome of this game, we are pretty good, especially Wafer and Yao, Wafer had scored a career high score, congratulations. Also happy to see Mutombo on the court, free goals 2/2 and got 4 points need to appreciate. Though this game I saw a great unity in the league, if we can play games like this we can hardly be defeated. Outcome is sad to all the Rocketsfans, also the referees contro;;ed the game in the 3rd qtr, before Yao got his 11th T, and Scola had 4th foul. we are at a postive stauus. But.. the referees again..hate it Rockets hopeful. We can beat any teams in the league, we are the best..
Yes the Refs has again gave special treatment to kobe. How the heck would u call those fouls everytime kobes drives to the lane? Yao was clearly taken a charge from kobe and they called it a block? Overall it was a great game, too bad it was a lost.
How many times has that happened this year? Heck, how many times has that happened in his career? I like Yao... he's a good guy, and a great talent (esp given his size)... however at some point, his consistency (and being able to carry a team) will separate him from one of the truly best... vs. merely an all-star who happens to be good given the lack of competitiveness at his position amongst his peers. You don't build entire teams around simple all-stars. You build them around franchise players. Franchise players are "the man" night-in and night-out, especially against the best teams in the league. We need Yao to be that guy now more than ever... the safety net of T-mac is all but gone. My fear is what i've supsected ever since I've watched Yao... that he'd be much better served as a "complement" to a PG or SG who can handle the ball and get their own shot. I hope otherwise, but truly we've seen teams be able to shut down Yao when they want to (which we know will happen in the playoffs)... and that frustrates me.
I think the issue Nick is that both Yao and Tmac would probably be best in a Pippen type of role. We know it for sure about Tmac, and as you said "we suspect it" about Yao....I guess we are gonna find out... DD
So we beat the celtics without tmac and artest, we nearly beat the lakers without tmac and artest, both those teams had their major players healthy....can anyone imagine what will happen if tmac and artest got healthy and played? I seriously think we can be the best team in the NBA, hell we hang in there neck to neck with Cleveland with Yao on the bench 3/4 of the game. Ppl dont give the rockets enough credit, just wait until tmac and artest get healthy and we go on a crazy streak, these last few games we played against the elite teams while behing short handed have really shown what kind of potential our rockets have this year, lets get tmac and artest back and we'll be on our way.
That 4th foul wasn't a good call on yao. Other than that, sometimes when teams overmatch another team, you have to try to be overly aggressive to compensate. That's why the rox fouled so much. Plus the lakers have slasher and guys who can put the ball on the floor and the rox have wafer and sometimes brooks. btw, how good is it to have a guy like ariza that can guard pg's to sf?
I actually disagree. Bricksters like TSlack and Artest would have doomed us. We needed high energy, high efficiency players and that's what we got yesterday. The honest officiating on the other hand ... yes that would have swung the game. I mean, how blatantly bad can these guys get before something happens?
I watched the whole game and looked at the shot chart. Yao was getting the same shots he was getting earlier in the game and missing them. Yea doubling makes it harder to get the ball to him but once he has it DFish isnt going to effect the shot. His teammates were hitting their shots, with the exception of rafers floater which led to the FTs that were not pretty. Yao is a very good center, and he is a super star because he is Chinese. BUT he is not the leader of the team and he is NOT clutch. It is just the way it is.
at least looking at today's game, I believe coming playoff time with a healthy squad, whatever spot and opponent we get, we can still compete hard. But still, Home court advantage is absolutely vital
It was a good exciting game. I actually don't blame on Yao for the last shot. AB had the ball in the corner and pressured by the Lakers, for no reason he gave the ball to Yao with 3secs left. Yao had no one else to give the ball to. It was a questionable play by Rick and a bad decision by AB. Of course, if Rafer was more competent and made those 2 free throws, we could maybe force an overtime. I wish we had Ron in the game.
you've gotta be kidding me. without Landry's effort the whole game, we wouldn't have even been in position to win. he almost got an offensive rebound with two guys pushin on him. i agree with you that he should have taken that open jumpshot though and the loss doesn't fall on Yao. it falls on Rafer and Adelman. Rafer for not makin his free throws and Adelman for not makin sure that Von got the ball down the stretch while he was hot
-kobe, despite being a whiny b****, hit a dagger. -the refs called a lot of bad fouls on the good guys, especially vs. scola. -yao pretty much owned bynum but demostrated once again that his BBIQ is severely overrated. -rafer just flat out sucks, he's a joke. -wafer and landry looked great. the biggest positve i took from this loss was that wafer looked totally devastated after the loss, this may portend greatness, we'll see.
