I know I'm beating a dead mule here, but I can't believe we're even having a conversation where people are arguing otherwise.
I think the people who are arguing against it think that we are saying force feed Yao regardless of whether or not he is fronted and double teamed. I don't think that is what you, I, Cannonball, or others are advocating. We can't concede letting them take Yao out of the offense just because Portland is trying to take that away. We have to find a way to move the ball around and get Yao into the offense.
qft. finally some truth being said - in a thread full of crappy posts. the lakers are more talented than us, eh? try let kobe take 6 shots a game and see how "the other players" beat their opponents.
Exactly. Everyone can see the advantage except those on the court. I don't understand why RA didn't make the adjustment.
It depends on how you define "isn't involved in the offense". If it creates shots for others, and we knock them down, we should be fine. If they only play Yao with one man and he can not get the better of the matchup, we'll have problems. In the past, we complaint that we forced the ball into Yao too much. I also remember JVG's days when he completely exhausted Yao because he was involved in every play at both ends. I see a difference under Adelman is that the offense isn't run thru Yao all the time. Sometimes we ran it for Artest, sometimes Brooks took it. We even ran it for Battier sometimes. I think it's better this way. As far as Roy concerns, we can shut him down if we want to (we did that to Lebron). The question is whether it would leave open shots for the rest of the Blazers and what they do with them.
Kobe can take more than 6 shots every game because he has the superstar skills and a championship heart to do it. Kobe does not need anyone to feed him the ball.
do you have reading comprehension problems or you're nitpicking on purpose? let me repeat it for you - for any team, if your best player is taken out of a game, the team's chance of winning a game (much less a series) is not so good. no, kobe can't be fronted since he's not a post player. but let's just say we double him and he never gets the ball; or kobe simply is having a period and decides to take it easy for a game and only touches the ball 10 times a game - how do you think the lakers will fare?
If they merely front Yao with one man, you can move the ball around and get him into the offense. If they double him before the catch and dedicate 2 players to the job, there is no movement that can get him the ball. Somebody else have to beat them. If we knock down some open shots, they will have to change their defense. If we don't, there is no reason for them to do so.
kobe has the superstar skills and a heart of a champion. yao doesn't. there, i said for you. you coward.
Then we find the open man and we get a wide open shot. But you have to be selfless and keep moving the ball and not give up on Yao. Eventually the ball will find him and he will be open. But you have to be dedicated to 100 percent and you can't give up on Yao. They weren't doing that last night and they didn't look to Yao.
creating shots for others is what all great players do...but not at the expense of their direct impact on the game. if you're talking about yao taking 15 shots or so and giving up some to feed out of the post, that's swell. i'm all for that. if you're talking about yao only taking 6 shots in 30-something minutes of play, i'm not ok with it. i'm not ok with turning it over to guys who aren't played max dollars to win playoff games for us because our "superstar" can't get more than 6 shots. i mean, we're not even talking about just the peripheral players picking up some slack and knocking down a few big ones...we're talking about the Rockets taking a grand total of 74 shots, and 68 of them are taken by everyone else who is not named Yao Ming.
In my opinion,Yao should get more chance to shoot the ball. yes,we can ignore him sometimes.that's we said the tactic choice. Let him be the decoy is a good method! But,if we ignore him all the quarter even all the game,that's absolute bad strategy. I still remember that JVG showed some basic tactics onnew york times. He said the best way to stop kobe is forcing him givethe ball to other player,and let them finish the offence.So,why we always choose the best way our opponent want?that's just what they want!!
It was just a bad comparison because Kobe doesn't have all the liabilities Yao have. You can't stop Kobe from getting the ball even if he's doubled but you can with Yao because he is very limited physically. Even if you give Yao more touches, he usually tends to just pass it right back out because he can't do anything with it and it just kills the shot clock.
please don't say it for me. This board has been hijacked by fans like you. All I know is that Yao is unstoppable and you are a warrior.
there is a way to take any player out of a game. literally anyone. but since bball is a team game, doing so bears a cost. it all depends how a team feels about that cost, and how the other team exploit that.
There's still not a reason. You let Von Wafer beat you all day long. If he does, he does. But you keep stopping Yao if you can....he's more efficient...and it's shown to work. See Bass, Brandon.
