Did Anyone Else See This Big Problem After Tonight?

So since when Yao is not a member of the team?

Also, if we win a championship it won't be because of Yao? So are you suggesting that without Yao we will still be winning?

The saddest thing for me is to read a post like this dissing the best player we can have right now, instead of supporting and wishing him to do better.

 

This "post-TMac-era" team has been playing team ball for just about 3 weeks and they are winning. I would be patient and give them some encouragement for their success as a team, rather than blaming a particular player and/or players for not playing well.

The Rox is now smoothly taking off with all gears functioning. Cheer them if you would. Just enjoy the ride. Thanks Rox for a thrilling and entertaining basketball game this evening. Also thanks Rox for all your efforts. Go Rox.

P.S. Perhaps you would like to create a particular "Team Problems" thread and voice all your dissatisfaction there after each game so that we can see all your perceived problems there.

 

On another forum a poster paraphrased Bill Walton who said something very cool about Hakeem. He said that all big men learn post moves. Hakeem didn't think that was the right way to do things. Rather, he studied how guards played around the post, because he wanted to mimic that quickness.

I wonder if Yao could train like that. Or at least study how forwards played around the post.

 

If we win it Yao will be a big reason why. BTW your boy Tmac sucks.

 

the SPURS are a whole different team during the playoffs, they alot better and thats why they have couple of rings. G,pop is a geniouse is the best coach outthere.

 

Watching this team night in and night out the only team we could beat for sure is the Blazers.

Mavs would win because of Jason Terry and Dirk.

Nuggets would win because of Chauncey and Melo.

Just being honest.

They only way this could change is if Yao avgs 25pts 13 rebs 3 blks...anything we will loose.

Yao has to imprint the game from beginning to end . Unfortunately , Yao cant play more than 33 mins.

First round exit here we come....again

 

Dude, he gets murdered in the low block. I know that is no excuse, but you can clearly see he is trying his best with what the refs give him.

You guys have to see that the refs, in a way, dictate the way Yao plays.

And with Pryzbilla molesting and flopping all over the place, it makes it even harder on Yao to play his game.

You can clearly see, night in and night out, how opponents abuse this privilege.

 

Umm tmac has nothing to do with this...I would love to trade tmac for some adelman type players...I would do it in a heartbeat. Tmac doesn't fit the offense and neither does Yao.

I wrote in my post that the guy is dominant when he has ONE on ONE coverage and deep post position...so why would teams guard him like that...all they have to do is throw another defender at him to make him ineffective.

Obviously Yao is part of the team, but he wont be the reason we win the championship...he will just be an equal part to the team...he wont stand out the way a superstar does. Superstars raise their games to another level come playoff time, but if you take a look at Yao's playoff averages you will see that he doesn't have another level in him....instead he gets owned by people like Okur and gets exposed on his inability to play defense that requires him to him to stop the pick and roll or come outside of the paint a little bit to guard his man.

 

good point astros,
yeah, definitely something we need to work on..down the stretch plays...and strategy.

 

If the great LaMarcus Aldridge can nullify our superstar simply by fronting him, we're in big trouble. Hopefully we figure out how to run the offense a little bit better, because we're not going to beat anyone playing at this level.

 

Only thing i've noticed is that Yao is not stepping up at all, and that worries me for the future. When Tmac went out I thought Yao would start taking more shots and leading this team. Well, Artest has been the guy stepping up and I don't see Yao making any improvements. Now that this is his team he should start getting back to his old stats and bring it in the 4th. I still doubt the fact that we should build around him...

 

My god, so ONE bad game and we can't win with Yao?

The last time I checked, Yao is averaging 21 points, 10 rebounds, in 31 minutes this month w/o T-Mac. This while shooting 57FG% and 90FT%.

Every player has good and bad matchups. Portland simply looks to be a bad matchup Yao. Yes, this could be a problem if we face them in the playoffs, but it should have NO BEARING on our matchup against anyone else, and has no bearing on Yao's ability.

Not all teams are the same. Just because Portland fronted Yao well doesn't mean everyone else can do it. It has to do with personnel and philosophy.

I'm not saying Yao doesn't have his problems. I think there needs to be a lot of work for this team to make noise in the playoffs. But this game alone doesn't say jack, other than the fact that Portland owns Yao.

 

Yao has proved himself not to be a terminater. When the team needs him to step up,he has the courage and determination, but never the ability to achieve it based on the fact that he has screwed it up many times when he did really step up!
Especially after I witnessed how suck he was in the game vs Utha, while Artest stepped up and took over the game,leading our team to success. I was never ever so sure that Yao could almost never master the game!

Maybe because i am a chinese, i pay too much attention to him. But sometimes he really disappoints so many chinese fans.

 

If Yao cant get the ball, what can he do? Playin PG himself?

 

Yao's total playing time was a little less than 30 minutes last night. If he played the entire 4th, that means he played 18 minutes in the first three quarters.

There's really nothing else Adelman can do to manage Yao's minutes. He's got to step it up somehow.

 

NO HE CAN'T.

 

it is better to have a player to score in the three quarters and to share YAO load. YAO is tired because of the physical limit

 

the big problem was all the ****ing flopping by Przybillena

 

I think in the 4th quarter, the other team decide to deny the ball to Yao (double team). So it up his teammates to beat them. If we feed him the ball anyway, the offense was too predictable. Most likely it will cause the turnover.