You guys are missing the biggest Adelman mistake of the game and probably the season. Battier should've been on Terry. Shane basically shut down Terry when Terry was hot in the 1st half. Then we stick Wafer and Lowry on Terry and he goes NUTS!!! Their best 2 offensive weapons against us are Dirk and Terry. Two of the best defenders in basketball are Artest and Battier. Why in the hell weren't our 2 best defenders on their 2 best offensive weapons!!!!
Seems to me like the team was poorly prepared to play a determined Mavs Team./ The substitutions were poor and sometimes the wrong person was sent in. Coach A had flights of fancy if he thought that Scola could guard Dirk, yet he was very slow to find another defender. Chuck was the best but only played a short time. Besides this Yao was wrestled for all of the second half while trying to play near the basket. No effort was made to go to an alternate way of getting Yao Involved. Players ..B Coach,, c-
Yao was not fronted the entire 3rd quarter - the team ignored him. They only started fronting him at the end of the 4th quarter. This was a COACHING disaster on a mass scale.
Yao scored 23 points, which is higher than his season average, on a 11/20 shooting and you are still blaming him?
What bothers me is sometimes guys immediately swing the ball away without any real effort or intention to get Yao the ball when fronting happens. Almost like they are looking for excuse to create their own shots, especially AB, and sometimes Artest today.
I am blaming him because he is completely and totally useless on the court when there is a fronting defense. He refuses to seal off his man and establish a position. It irritates me to no end when people try to put this on the coach or the refs, when that is NOT the problem.
This one is not on RA. The team just doesn't have the right pieces for the game. They couldn't execute under pressure.
exactly. we spend 15 seconds trying to get the ball to Yao when he can't even establish position. that leaves only 10 seconds to create something out of nothing. and people wonder why we always take horrible shots at the end of the shot clock? it starts with yao being unable to get position to receive the ball.
I watched the ESPN broadcast. A timeout was called when we were down 4 and shortly before Dallas really started pulling away. The ESPN sideline reporter said that during the timeout Adelman didn't go over any strategy or draw up any plays. He just tried to reassure his players that everything was going to be all right and to just keep playing hard. WTF is that new age BS? We're struggling mightily offensively and Rick just tells everybody to keep their head up and nothing else? That's total crap right there. That's a total failure at making adjustments. I'm still on the Rockets bandwagon but I just jumped off the Adelman bandwagon.
this discussion seems to be exclusively on p-n-r's with yao involved as the screener.......on the 3rd page there was one poster who tried mentioning landry/scola as the screener, but he seems to have been ignored or misunderstood... in any case, i am asking why the p-n-r (or any alternative play) is not run with the other 4 players when yao is being fronted.....use yao as the decoy and just run something else....if anything, at least yao would be in good offensive rebounding position in such instances......but as it stands, the team just looks completely perplexed as to what to run when yao is suffocated....
Yao getting position and the offensive game plan is WHAT COACHES ARE HIRED TO DIRECT. I watched Shane run the baseline to the same side that Yao was being fronted on over and over. You clear out and space everyone on the 3 point line when your big man is fronted to force the other team to cheat. That way you either get a 3 second violation or you swing the ball for a wide open 3 pointer. This is only ROCKET science for our coach!
I beg to differ. You may blame Yao being slow, blame his slippery hands, blame his jumping ability, etc.. But to blame his effort --"Refuse to seal off his man", that's is just wrong. Yao is always there fighting for position. What bothers me is, as a team, we just did not try HARD enough to get Yao the ball.
