14 points per game sounds about right for Yao. He won't play much more than 25 minutes per game. His last couple seasons, he scored at about 21 points per 36 minutes. With a more balanced scoring attack on the team, his scoring rate can be expected to reduce. Expect something like 14 and 7 from Yao next year.
I just think that its funny that you're hanging around to read how everyone blew your thread up lol!! but ya man... its pretty bad!
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Pretty much every person in are starting five has the ability to put 16- 20 plus on you a night. We're not going to lack offense especially going not this third year with Adelman.I could see this team easily being one of the top five scoring teams in the league. And we'll probably lead the league in three points made. What they'll need to concentrate on will be getting the defense back to its top five status. Because that's what will put this team over the top. To many defense lapses last year. Yao should help, but the team attitude of the has to be defense first. This team has a lot of versatility.
I would be exstatic if Yao could pull those numbers playing only 25 minutes. One more thing, no more using Yao on the pick and roll defense. I would think that kind of effort puts tremendous stress on Yao's lower extremities. Send a PF instead. Sacrifice some points, but reduce the risk of injuries.
To average that, you would need Steve Nash at the one AND two guard, Lebron at the 3 AND four, Amare at center,play no D, a longer game, and some crystal meth.
Props to the OP. (No sarcasm intended... honestly) This thread is probably one of the more realistic threads I've read in a while. After reading about our good chances to land Lebron, this has got to be more realistic than that.
Leave this type of work to the REAL statisticians then. You CANNOT just add individual ppg averages to arrive at the team ppg average. To expose your FAULTY METHODS, I need only go back one year. Last year using your method, the Rockets would have averaged 157.6 ppg. Please, please do a better job of understanding your intellectual limits and don't make another thread like this.
WTF!? The Rockets average 102.4ppg last year. And it seems all predictions sans the OP are predicting our scoring in the 90s? Not that it matters, as offensive efficiency is more important than points per game, but I'd be pretty disappointed if we can't crack the century mark in ppg next year. If so, then it probably means our offensive cohesion sucks and Yao can't play well with the rest of our group.
I wanna thank a lot of posters in this thread for making me laugh out loud. That doesn't happen often. I appreciate the sentiment, OP. We have a very well balanced squad. Let's go Rockets.
The ultimate goal would be to break the 2.0 points per possession barrier. I think we can do that if everyone keeps the averages given in the OP and then the team also draws about 25 fouls per game on three-point attempts. Would take some tweaking of the offense.
