I don't disagree that they have things to work on before the postseason. But you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. You can point out a flaw like this one while still being pleased with the play the six previous games. And you don't overreact and call for the heads of Adelman, Brooks, Artest etc after one loss in 7 games. Furthermore a team that dismantles a very good Cleveland team the way they did is not fools gold, regardless of 4th quarter issues.
Why Yao always wrestles with defender when he was fronted. He should let the defender go and go deep. Why nobody dares to front Shaq? He should learn from him. If Yao can't solve this problem, we can't go very far in the playoff.
Yao is slow as a worm and that´s the reason he has to fight so much for position, every time he gets to the other side of the court the defense is already stablished. Elite PF and C are more mobile and can enjoy more "easy" scooring opportunities than Yao, is Yao´s problem as much as the team, if he as a player has to succeed he has to work on that, and same goes for the team. If he is injuried by PO time, so be it, we won´t win without him on the team, but we´ll also lose if he can be taken out of the game so easily. The only solution is for us to make him play as much as we can againt that kind of defense, even risking an injury, if we find a way to score with him while being fronted that would make us a much better team. No risk no win. º
Naw it ain't that serious but it's a balance in how I think they blow those whistles. Dwight will miss 7-8 of those 10 free throws so they figure it will even out because they know he's going to brick at the line. You put Yao on the free throw line as much as Dwight and you will see Yao going 8- 10,10-10. Yao would average 30 a game if got as many whistle,s as dwight.
I was being sacastic. Only a idiot would think Adelman was trying to punish Yao like a red-headed step child.
Have you ever played any serious ball game? even a caveman know it is much easier to get hurt when you are tired.
This is called grasping at straws. Two minutes of court time is nothing, and Artest is still healing his bone bruise in his ankle, which needs some rest. The other 10 minutes were about everyone getting on the same page concerning the fronting issue. They left brooks and lowry in to finish as well, and lowry has been beat up since joining the team. If you really think Adelman is so bitter as to risk a Yao injury in a blowout, you are crazy. No Yao and McGrady=crappy team=Adelman getting fired.
Thats an idiotic response man, you got to see the game against Lal tonight, Shaq fight through the same kind of defense than Yao does, but he is stronger and has better hands to catch the pass behind him, that´s why no one fronts Shaq, and is the same reason no one fronts Duncan. They are fastt enough to catch the lob pass, Yao isn´t.
No, you're confused with less effort. It's easier to get hurt when you're out there not giving your all and giving it a lackluster effort. This is pretty much what every football coach teaches in America. That if you go out and play hard all the time, you don't risk injury as much. Then look at the players who are always hurt...the same guys who have their effort questioned... Everyone is tired in the 4th qtr of a back to back...why not just play the guys who didn't play the night before
Talk whatever you want, but the refs are not the problem, Yao does not attack players the way Dh does, and that´s how he sells the foul better than Yao. And on the marketing issues, i think no one will disgree that during this financial problem nothing would help the NBA than a Championship for Yao, that would sell a lot in china, in broadcast, in whatever you want to call it, much more than any other team being champs.
no one does. i know the argument about yao's minutes and the "punishment" factor is silly, but to make up something just for the sake of arguing is silly. we need to move on.
Plus, no one even knows if Yao is tired. He's always giving his all and after every break he always puts his hands on his knees (Which doesn't help actually). People saying he was dead tired are just guessing. Most likely, most of the team was tired, it was a back2back after all.
