agreed. he needs to get closer to the basket and attack from there. adelman is a smart man, i hope his intention is to build around what yao does in the post and mix it up a bit. i don't want to hear anymore about miller or divac because yao is on another level from those guys. take a page out of those guys' books but please lets not model a system around yao ming in the high post. i don't think adelman does that though.
i think when adelman says this, it's off of these 2 plays. off the pick and roll, where another big man rotates to stop yao, yao will simply stop at 12-15 ft and nail a jumper instead of tmac passing it to a role player. or yao will be at the high post (and not posting up), there will but cuts and movement around him, he has the option of passing or simply take 1 dribble and fade. the reason yao sucked w/ those fadeaways v. utah is he's BACKING UP and then fade. here, yao will take face up jumperes i believe.
Well he was specifically saying it shouldn't be "uphill" to score. The offensive system last year was what many of us here and national commentators said "laboring." Scoring took a LOT of work from the team. He was talking about devising a system in which guys didn't have to kill themselves to score. SO yeah you are right, it shouldn't be about Yao and Tracy doing everything and then the rest of the guys getting whatever falls to them. It's about moving around and getting easy buckets for whoever it is there for.
Yeah he did say he wasn't going to take the post game away, just that he wants to add more. That makes sense. Why limit a talented player to one thing when he can dominate in multiple ways?
sorry to disagree. Yao took fadeaway jumpers from the post off one leg, not face up jumpers in front of the basket off both feet. One is much harder to do than the other.
hopefully yao and tmac can stay healthy for 70 games so we can get a top 3 seed. we need some wack teams in te first round.
Adelman also said he won't remove Yao from the low post but add more dimension to his game. This way if Yao becomes a threat from the high post along with his already solid inside game, this will open the paint for our guards to attack the basket. Imagine if Yao can knockdown the midrange shot and then take a defender down low and attack the rim. He will become unguardable.
Why did 610 have to cut away from the press conference for random idiot opinions? I don't care what Bob Vance in Missouri City thinks.
We streamed it live from Rockets.com. The archived version is being uploaded now. It should be on the site shortly. Hope that helps.
