It's so obviously YM and TM are not compatible for their playing styles. YM should be surrounded with shooters and cutters, not with someone who wants to hold the ball and make every play. Magic would be a good fit for YM. TM can play only one style. He holds the ball, and every teammates runs pick and cut for him. The center should be a good shotblocker and offensive rebounder, and shouldn't have much post move so he'll get out of the way to open up the paint area for TM. That's why TM had more success with a rejuvenated Mutomubo last several years and the YM led TM-less team looked energized this year. Unfortunately neither can change their style and still be effective. It's never gonna be the 1-2 punch we expected. That's the root of all evil and trading one of them is only viable solution.
they do have one thing in common: can not perform in the 4th quarter. Yao had 3 TOs in the first 5 minutes of 4th. TMAC shot 0/4 in the last 5 minutes of 4th.
That has to be the most ridiculous thing ever said. Ask any coach or GM if they would like to have their Center to have a good post game and it would be an astounding "YES!".
1. Anyone thinks TM would attack the rim if YM's not in the paint? 2. Park/Manu attacked the rim, Kobe/Wade attacked the rim, even Wafer attacked the rim when played with Yao. Yao is big, but the paint area is much more bigger.
Whoa, what a clever and devastating comeback. To be fair though you should pay royalties to the guy who came up with it 20 some odd years ago.
i wasn't really "coming back" to anything i just thoroughly enjoy antagonizing you besides i didnt realize that was a patented phrase
That's kind of amazing, seeing as it's been around since the dawn of message boards. I guess that just speaks to your youth and innocence.
