I think AB doesn't know when he's needed. When we are down, no one is scoring for us, he needs to start being selfish and create his own shot, which is something he can do. The time i don't like is when AB shoots those pick and pop three pointers, or the drive in and get nothing lay-ups during our lead, those are bad, just pass the damn ball to Yao, or drive in and throw it back out, that's how our leads get screwed up, we go to Yao, good he scores 4-6 points than he is completely invisible to our team members. WTF is that crap? Yao is the center of the team, give him the damn ball until he is tired!
Yao played 39+ hard minutes, against Shaq. That's more minutes than he would play normally. We know Yao's limits and can't ask for more than that. is it his fault that when he sat down the Suns went on a 9-0 run and his rest was cut short?
i cant belive this thread is still open..before clutch sold the site this would be closed already LMAO
Great game. Im not as worried as most of you guys. Yes we made some boneheaded plays in the 4th quarter (especially Yao), but at the end, we just got outscored by them. They brought their A game. They were shooting lights out for 3 quarters. They are a dangerous team when they get it rolling like that. Im glad we wont have to face them in the playoffs. Lets just take the positives from this game and learn from the mistakes. Big game coming up Friday. Lets just be ready for that.
Brooks should have attacked Nash constantly like the last game. It's not like Nash plays any defense, I mean if the guy is going to destroy you give it right back. Yao Ming....look we need to play better defense than this. 61% at the half? That's r****ded. No team should EVER shoot that for a half against us. I'm sure Rick didn't do nothing since in the clutch we got tore up with the SAME PLAY over and OVER and OVER again without doing anything different. We treated this like some game that didn't matter in the regular seaosn.
Because then who is Brooks going to guard? Jason Richardson? Hell no. The bad defense against Steve Nash falls just as much on Yao's shoulders as it does on Aaron's.
resting 4 days doesn't suddenly make your stamina increase. if yao's max playing time is 36 minutes, resting 4 days won't allow him to be able to play 40 minutes fatigue free. it's common sense really.
I wish he had better stamina too but when you are facing a physical Shaq and playing against a fast pace team like the Suns that's going to happen.
Brooks was blocked once. Lowry, 3 times in about half the minutes. Brooks had a bad game but he was by far not the only one.
Scola was trash tonight. He should have absolutely abused Matt Barnes all game yet he played like a 6 foot PF. Airball 3 feet from the basket with the game still within reach??? Oh my eyes!!! Juwan Howard flashbacks!!!!
No big deal, I think we just need a healthy Landry to come back, he brings a different element to the team....... It allows us to go small with a quicker team...we're ready for the playoffs.....i can't wait for it to start.
