ibm, I just get tired of every post game thread and posters talk about the same bs. Its the refs and how many shots yao got. I don't care how many shots he got , nor artest,scola, brooks and down the line. His job is to help the team win. If yao is struggling, which he was and seems to do vs pryzbilla then its up to the others to step up. Last I checked, a to is a to regardless. I'm just cool they won and its sickening to see people always talk about yao ming shots. Like in another thread, there are posters that want the rox to wn, but want their favorite player to be responsible for winning. I'm not painting you in this corner, but there are a lot of posters like this. I don't care who is responsible for the win.
i suspect adelman will favor brooks anyway. after all this is his hand-picked pg. the best adelman will do, i guess, is to let the 2 youngters split the minutes (with barry play a little in between).
not trying to make excuses for Yao this game, partly because i didn't see the game, but Pryzbilla tends to defend Yao quite well in the past. If Yao's perforomance was a shocker because he made alot of dumb, unforced mistakes, then the bashing is somewhat fair enough
I wouldn't call him terrible. It is true that he has challenges because of his height. But he can break down the defense and create a mismatch. That means someone is open. His job is to find the open man. As Morey has indicated, the box score doesn't tell you everything. If AB beats his man off the dribble, draws another defend passes out to the corner and the ball is passed out again for a three, who gets the assist? Who made the play? Who gets credit? The box score wouldn't give anything to AB yet the mismatch he created on offense started the sequence. If AB is 9-1 as a starter in the NBA and the Rockets are more efficient with him at the point (the latter, I haven't checked), then something is going right.
well, you are politically correct. but did you skip the game tonight? yao didn't struggle per se against pryzbilla tonight. he got foul troubles due to flops and bs calls. and then they sewed him up like they did ab the other night. or maybe you haven't read the entire thread. the yao-debate could go meaningless sometimes, but tonight it actually started by a couple of baseless yao-bashing posts. i understand there are a lot of yao's countrymen on this board and most are just reacting.
we should cut the crap and start celebrating. Yao is not as good, so what? Did you even notice how good Blazer's defense on him?
yeah, i think that's what adelman has had in mind and drawn up all night for ab. the biggest thing is he's gonna learn (and a lot) how ti find the open man. he's not a natural in that dept. his natural first reaction is to shoot the rock and shoot the heck of it.
Great game, even though we blew out the 15 pt lead, but still u gotta love the effort from the guys, especially Luis Scola, The dude is like pitbull.... DEFENSE, DEFENSA
Yes. Reverse the ball and feed from the top of the key, or skip pass and feed the opposite block. The problem is that when Yao is fronted, AB panics and drives (resulting tonight in a lot of flailing no-calls) and RA looks at the floor, takes two dribbles and fades away from 24 feet. The Rockets didn't run their offense at all in the 4th quarter.
"Memo to players" is more like it. What you've just suggested is what Adelman wants them to do. The fact that he has accounted for Yao being fronted with a specific offensive set has been highly publicized. The problem is that the players don't run it very often.
I was thinking the same thing throughout the game. The tallest player in the league seemingly misses the most dunks and gets his shots blocked the most. It's truly embarrassing, annoying and frustrating. Yao's a real treat to watch when he's taking the 12 foot jumper, the soft turnaround fade or the strong hook. But it's also nauseating to see him dribble for turnovers, shuffle to traveling violations, and cough up should-be rebounds. Is there another superstar in the league so bumbling and awkward in his game? It will be a breath of fresh air to see Coach Adelman begin to deploy Yao in other ways offensively: Pick and pop, elbow screens, triangle sets.
