This is the style of play they should have tried to start implementing LAST year. Maybe Yao would not have gotten injured, and then today we would be extremely competitive. I think the Rockets will be the team to beat if Yao can come back and if they get something reasonable to replace McGrady. But unfortunately both are very big ifs...
Run and gun = Suns motion offense = Rockets Amazing people think a Run and Gun team is going to win a championship....can't argue if people refuse to see the facts.
It really THAT important if Yao fits? Yao is not a washed up player that no one wants. If he doesn't fit, he can be traded and get good value out of him, and i bet we can even put the guy in a good team as a favor for what he brought here.
well your even further away from a championship when you build your team around a 7-6 stiff/softie who needs a major operation every half a year its amazing people still think yao is the guy to build your team around. at this point, i would rather have a guy like sam dalembert, easy.. atleast he is mobile. you add a defensive presence like that to whatever we can get for mcgrady, we'll have a better chance to contend for the years to come
I would say that the style of Rockets now is neither Run and Gun nor Princeton. It is the style of Adelman. Rick really is a master with the ability of exploring young guys's potentials at the maximum.
it sure feels that way. and all great coaches are capable of that. the question is, the max of young guys' potential = how many wins?
If Yao doesn't fit into the system, we will change the system to fit him. He's our most talented player. There's no point of asking him to play in the high post or wearing him down his stamina with a run and gun tempo. If he operates best down low in a half-court system, that's what we'll do. That's what we've already done when Adelman realized Yao couldn't adapt from the JVG days. You gameplan around your talent.
Exactly right, Mr. Buttocks. The gameplan going forward for the Rockets, when Yao comes back, is to look for as many early offense and transition opportunities to score as they can. Thier defense is still pretty good, and will only improve with Yao's presence. What Yao has to do for this team (and something I've hoped would happen for some time), is to become a more dominant rebounder for this team. I understand that Yao lacks some of the quick leaping ability and speed and athleticism of other big men in the league, and how that may translate into a bit less-than-average numbers in rebounding for him. But what the Rockets would need consistently from Yao is the one thing his size gives them - a potentially 12-15 rebounds a game that would easily translate into easier points for the team, and less of a grind on Yao. Yao hasn't averaged 10 rebounds a game for his career. I feel that that is the best way for Yao to come back and make the biggest impact. By playing his position with more than a scoring mentality in mind. There are seemingly going to be a lot more offensive options for the Rockets than at any time in Yao's career here. A lot of these players won't need as much help to score. But none of them can play center as well and as impactfully as Yao can.
So if the teams ends with the same record as last year, you are going to go back to last year's systems so that Yao can fit in? instead of using that massive cap room to have someone who can operate within this system and translate into more (and not the same) wins? Not saying that is the reality, just saying, you don't always do what the talent dictates you. Sometime you just need a less talented player that fits better on the team concept.
40% chance i say if T-Mac doesn't come back, or if he comes back without disrupting the system. (this has less percentage chance)
These are the kinds of threads that I just wish never happened. You can't predict how Yao will come back and play with Ariza, Budinger and a very-much-looking improved Landry and Lowry, much less how these guys will sustain their play thus far into a new season.
And that game plan is why yao is so injury prone. gundy's system has taken it's toll on yao. as i said, te days of yao or tmac dominating the offense are finished. who scores from here on is dicated on on/off the ball movement.
Adelman's system need alot of movement, Yao is slow but if we want champion, we need Yao badly, we can never win a champion by offence, especially fast break...
29 teams don't want Dalembert. Horrible contract. God we know you hate Yao but lord lay off the crack. Stick with some better facts. Run and Gun = no championship
While i believe yao will be on decline and at best will be an upgraded version Bg Z, but dalembert is garbage. the guy is stromile swift slow
