It seems there're a lot of high school teenagers hanging on this forum: In the first half: "Yao is god", "Yao is so Fxxking dominant"...stuff like that After the loss: "Yao is a soft p***y..", "Artest is most Boneheaded ass"... Come on... I would blame this loss on the coach more than anybody else... Yes, AB looks stupid and don't have the court version.. That's what he is. It is up to RA to decide when is suitable to play AB or Lowry.......... Yes, Yao can be easily denied by fronting D. That's frustrating. But RA got to figure out a way to beat it. Two years and no improvement.......... Yes, Artest makes bonehead move on a regular base. Accept it, You got his intensity, you got his boneheaded stuff at the same time. As a Rocket fan for more than one and a half decades, I love the players on this team and am quite optimistic on our playoff run, as long as the coach doesn't make the mistakes he did tonight.......
First and foremost that fronting crap is bull#%%. Most of the time the little midget that is fronting Yao Is fouling. He can manhandle Dwight. But he can't out position Bass? I mean if you're going to let it be a physical game let both teams play physical. A lot of BS calls against are players. Ron had 4 fouls midway through the third. Yao had 4 fouls in Quarter come on!
Yao is not aggressive enough to demand the ball when fronting came. It is this team's responsibility to win this game. But, I think it is not a good time to criticize anyone on Rockets uniform right now, we have to take what it is and move on.
you have a point about not drawing fouls, i posted i wish landry, lowry, brooks, and von would drive every time the moment hollins picked up his 4th, if they could have drawn the 5th on hollins, then a 5th on Dampier, Yao could have came in facing very little resistance from them both....i think Kidd's strength is underrated, and shane strength is about average, don't think posting kidd would have worked much. He tried once, but Kidd stood his ground. Chuck should have been on dirk from the second qurtr on, he's going to defend him the best out of landry and scola. Adelman deserves alot of this blame, there's too many substitution mistakes and lack of plannig during timeouts for him to get off easy tonight. Really most of the players shoot poorly, except for landry and Yao, landry probably played the best game, Yao tired out and couldn't fight the fronting and of course players couldnt get it in to him anyway.
Well as a Rocket fan for over 3 decades 80's,90's, present this is a board so people can vent this is what we do so for your 4th post you have a lot to learn and if you don't like what you read then this board is not for you !!!!!!!!!!
It wasn't all Adelman's fault. Brooks, Artest, and Scola needed to show up and didn't. I think they were extremely fortunate to even be tied in the fourth because they are a pretty big part of the rotation. Scola I am not worried about but Artest and Brooks? That is a different story. I think when Adelman was talking about players not being in their right spots when teams front Yao, I think he was mainly talking about those two.
This is hilarious coming from you. The same guy who mocks other posters after every game for their emotional, knee jerk reactions. You are a hypocrite.
Yep Artest just doesn't know any better. Coaches have to understand their players and put their players in position to play well. When Adelman keeps ARtest out there to jack up shots, he's letting Artest hurt the team and then he's making Artest look bad. Artest REALLY wants to do what is best for the team, but sometimes Artest thinks him putting up shots is what best for the team...and who can blame him? When you're team goes on these droughts and you're Ron Artest a leader on the team you feel like it's your duty to lead the team offensively and defensively. Artest is just doing what he thinks best for the team. Adelman is trying to please the players too much. Giving Brooks too much time and not making Brooks realize...Kid you gotta step your game up if you want to start. It really didn't help that Scola was a no show (which just happens from time to time, he's not a choker I feel)
This team is just not built for the post season. The playoffs require extreme mental fortitude under high pressure with leaders calming the role players and leading them with physical action on the court. We have none of those qualities. We are a great regular season team where we have a bunch of games to go thru swings of lethargic unmotivated play and step up motivated play led by roundtable spot leaders but in the playoffs with only a few games under high pressure we simply run out of games to make any meaningful adjustments. This horrifying trait is magnified for us against a seasoned Playoff team like SA, Dallas, Lakers and even Utah. The only way we have a chance to have some bit of success is against playoff (semi) virgins so Portland and NOs are probably ideal but if by chance we will be second round cannon fodder. Teams that have a dirth of experience playing under post season pressure are the ones that usually come out ahead. The past eight years of post season dissapointments is a phsychological trauma this team will be hard to shake. Playoff past success and the resulting experience earned is highly underrated.
Agreed, Yao got called for 2 BS calls imo 1 of them was a definite no call so lets just say he earned 3 in that 3rd Q. Yao in the game switches the whole game plan of teams, teams know that once yao is out we're screwed I'm not going to say that i give up on this team but Portland is going to be a tough match up for us. The key for Hou/Por series is going to be Scolandry if they can outplay/outmuscle Aldridge we will be good but thats a big if
Man, that was a horrible 4th Q. I hope that is not an indication of what our playoff 4 qtrs will look like. We just need one of the first 2 games in the RG to take away HCA and then win both at home and close out at the RG or back home.
Yep, i'm not going to get my hopes up. Denver is going to throw in the towel soon and rightfully so. They have the 2 seed now, no need to risk anything from their POV. Portland should be favored with HCA, I'll go into the series like that...why get my hopes up? We haven't been able to beat a 5th seed the past few years...why should we be able to beat a 4th seed now?
Thank god someone is optimistic on here. So much negativety in the air as I'm reading all these posts. Have some faith in our guys, they've been so resilient all year.
