ok yao isnt god.. i like the guy but hes slow, clumsy, and cant rebound for his life... worst thing about him is that he can never get to the rim, his only weapons are a mid range fadeaway and a hookshot.. sometimes i feel people havent watched yao play before dubbing him a "superweapon" or even a great advantage... and what the hell is a ball game organizer? do u mean a PG? hell yeah we need one...
At least we're clear that you think that Aaron is more important to the franchise than is Yao. Because from my perspective, the two cannot coexist. There is no reason for Aaron not to pass to an open Yao with his man pinned. AB is a scrub and a nobody. If he doesn't pass to Yao, he should be riding the pine. That's it. But we know where you stand, apparently.
i know it's easy to head to that direction, but does this thread, and every other thread, have to become a yao-related thread?
i always blame our coach who can not see how terrible Brooks is. we should not cost a playoff series to train Brooks, an x-factor in the future. i am wondering the reason that RA got fired by Kings? who can tell me??
AB's most responsibility is to organize offense for whole team. if his shooting is off, then he is useless.his turnover is horrible and could be avoidable if he willing pass ball to Yao. I really don't like this guy in red next season.
u can see Yao is fairly frustrating..if tthis is what we have to team up with YAo next season. Yao might leave here.
fu_ck su_ck. ab. why all we see it.but adelman can't understand. must kill_ ab's hand. i hate him very very much. so fool ,so poor guard. no use.just a back leak of the all rockets.
To me, AB does not know how to pass the ball cleanly to the big man. Also as the starting pg, he should recognize who has the hot hands i.e. Scola and get him involved. Yao needs to have a chat with Hakeem on how he controlled his pg's because if that was Hakeem in there, AB would have had his head blown off and would have never shot the ball again unless the ball went through Hakeem first.
No joke, i saw several times Battier is a pg and show good today. I think that is not a bad idea for battier to replace Brooks00.
This is the definition of a KNEE JERK thread.....one bad game people, one bad game. And for those complaining about AB not passing Yao the ball, didn't it start with Sura, then go to Alston, and now it is AB, huh? Come on.....everyone has A BAD GAME......even Yao...... Seriously, this is funny....it was one bad game from a guy who was shooting .511% from the field for the series before last night. Yes, he has to get better at passing, it will come he is a 2nd year player.....he makes mistakes. Every player makes mistakes...... SHEESH !! DD
It's more than one bad game DaDakota - it's the third very mediocre game in a row (unless you count his 4-16 shooting over games 3 and 4 as a good game? ). Likewise, Aaron Brooks has had a very erratic year overall and continues to repeat many of the same mistakes. His indecision is obvious and the Blazers, defensively, have been exploiting it since Game 2.
Since when did Rafer have problems passing to Yao? Didn't Yao get 25 PPG in 2006/2007? Few of us ever complained that Rafer couldn't get the ball to Yao. We only complained about Rafer's poor shooting %.
i agree. basically, we were up 3-1 somehow, DESPITE these problems from AB and artest, and it is important, because it shows the blazers can just as easily rattle off 3 wins in a row on us as we went up 3-1 on them.
no this game was definitely brooks and artest's fault. mainly brooks. artest may have jacked up some stupid shots like the 3 pter toward the end of the game but he played solid defense even got a steal and a bucket. as for brooks, he shot 6 for 20. how many assist did he have? (not counting the one where he runs out the clock and fumbles the ball under the basket and then passes it to yao for a lucky shot). he made crucial turnovers at crucial times (at the end of the third quarter, all of the fourth quarter). he hesitated on open shots to go move closer to a defender and take a contested missed shot. i'm over the fact that he doesn't pass the ball to yao when he seals off his man. I'M JUST TIRED OF HIM TURNING THE BALL OVER OR TAKING BAD SHOTS AT THE END OF THE GAME.
A foundation in passing skills and court vision is something you come into the NBA with. You can refine passing skills and court vision with experience to make it better - but you can't change a player who was never strong in this area into a player that is. Once the foundation is set, it's set. It's like trying to teach Chuck Hayes better FT shooting. Forget it, it won't happen. Same thing with AB. He doesn't have a strong foundation for passing and court vision in the first place. Thus, his upside to become a decent passer with court vision is capped.
This is what AB is thinking: 1) When Yao makes a few shots, he goes: now Yao has got his, let me ignore him, it's my turn now. 2) When Yao misses a shot, he goes: oh, that doesn't work, so let me take over. That's why we kept having these scoring droughts and could never sustain a lead. If I were Yao, I will slap him in the stupid face.
Alot of us have been saying this about Brooks for a long time. I for one, have been saying this all year. He is a scorer, plain and simple. He is not the point guard we need. Sure he can score points, but when he has a bad shooting game he is worthless to the team. In other words he is one deminsional.
