Adelman post game: "Yao has got to demand the ball."

You are the coach, Rick! JVG never said so, like Yao should ask for the ball!
The only time Yao felt unsatisfied with his teammates is when YOU, RICK, lead us a 6 game loss streak last year, and he also said he himself played like crap, too. Forget it, RA?

YAO will never cry out loud to his teammates!!!

 

I think if JVG back next season, Yao will become as dominate as two yrs ago soon. He can still hook on doubling and darw 6 or 7 fts every night if the guards pass the ball.

But dont let AB stand there too much time, and the most important thing is PASS THE BALL THE YAO when he is down low in the paint QUICKLY. KEEP THAT IN UR MIND, Aron.

 

LISTEN to what adelman was saying , YAO need to stop setting the pick an roll and start being the man by demanding the ball. hes not blaming yao hes trying to toughen him up.

 

Rick Adelman just forgot HE is the coach of the team not anyone else and it is up to him to make the plays for the team not some random things by his 'smart' players. Geez... He is that caliber of coach at best can lead us to the second round, if lucky enough.

 

it all starts with Yao................

 

You think rudy had to tell the players to get dream the ball? You think phil had to tell the team to give shaq the ball? Have you read where shaq overheard dream in the finals during a to to get him the effin ball? Its part of being a great player.

 

wow, now he wants Yao to do his job on the floor and coach everyone to give him the ball? why dont you tell yao to demand the ball and at the same time, demand that your people pass it to him.

 

Yao is Tupac stuck in Digital Underground
once he realizes he's Tupac then he'll dominate the Wess Side!!

 

funny..he said this?

 

What's so strange about Rick trying to get Yao to show some leadership?

 

I don't think that applies, but its funny. I remember hearing Humpty's Dance on the way to the summit in 89. We played Clear Creek before the Rockets v Sonics game. In college, I got some serious action off Sex Packets.

 

This just proves that either Artest and Brooks dont always do as the Adeleman tells them to or the coach just cant ball his players.

Eitherway, Yao really needs to look for his shot more and FORGET the team thing. He tries his best to try and fit in and passes up too many scoring oppurtunities. As a result team suffers from too many bad shots and passes. Then all the haters sniff on Yao's rear allover.

As ironic as it is, t-mac was right. The best player has to take the most shots. He jus didn't admit Yao was the best player then but there is no argument now. So Yao, "please go and get 23 shots a game." If we are going to have any success in playoffs Yao has to step it up big big time.

(thread like this gets a three star vote... shows you the kind of people there are on this board.)

 

yao must learn to shout: give me that d#$% ball!

 

thank you sir. key word : LEADERSHIP.

 

The b**** Is Back: Rockets 106, Pistons 101 (2OT)

I'm a b****, I'm a b****
Oh the b**** is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can b****, I can b****
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do

---Elton John


Can't you just see Yao Ming taking the floor one night wearing big glasses, a garish suit and platform shoes?

Can't you just see him stepping into the spotlight, grabbing the microphone and making it all entirely about him?

Sir Elton, meet Sir Yao.

And that would be Coach Rick Adelman sitting in the front row holding up his lighter and screaming for an encore.

When Yao takes 22 shots in a game, Adelman wants 23 and 24. When Yao scores 31 points in a game, Adelman wants 32 and 33.

Trouble is, Yao is often like the band that wants to play a few songs from the new album. And the audience only wants to hear the greatest hits.

There were a lot of different reasons why the Rockets ended up in mud wrestling match with the Pistons - poor defensive rebounding and a general malaise, to name a few.

But when Yao scored the last 7 Rockets points of regulation time and it came down to the final 54 seconds with a chance to win, it was all about the things Yao didn't do.

That is, b**** and moan for the ball.

Yao passively watched Aaron Brooks dribble and then Luis Scola put up a 19-foot jumper. He watched Ron Artest get the rebound and then saw Scola try to make a move to the hoop and have the ball stolen by Antonio McDyess.

"I can b****, I can b****." That's what Elton would have sung.

And that's what Hakeem Olajuwon would have done in the same situation.

"He's got to demand the ball," said Adelman. "That one possession there at the end of the game - he's just got to go to the post and you tell them to bring it to me.

"He's slipping around, playing pick and roll. We just scored like six times in a row. He's just got to demand the ball.

"If they front him and they take it away and then we go to something else. But until they stop him, we have got to run it through him every time.

"He's got that mentality that he's trying to fit in and sometimes he's just got to take control. I just think it's something he's got to continue to work on. If they're going to let us run 1-on-1s, then he's got a huge advantage."

You approach the dilemma from a professorial standpoint of X's and O's and different options. Or you can think back to the days when Hakeem was roaming the middle for the Rockets and Sam Cassell's ears were frequently burning.

Now the Rockets have a pair of young point guards running the offense and it would seem to be time for some old-fashioned tough love for Brooks and Kyle Lowry.

It's seven years in and the cultural barriers should be long worn down, preferably trampled by Yao enroute to stomping his way through the league.

"I need to be more aggressive, I guess," he said. "That's not me. I'm in this situation before. Ask for the ball, ask for the ball, ask for the ball.

"He's right, in the fourth quarter, I scored the last seven points and the overtime I scored the first two possessions and then I disappear. I need to do more for the team."

Actually, the criticism is that Yao needs to do more for himself and that, in turn, will do more for the team. If Yao is demanding the ball, especially at the end of games, there will be fewer chances for Ron Ron to go rogue and jack up those hackle-raising treys. There will be fewer times when guys like Scola will feel pressured to do more than they should with the clock running down.

There were more than a few nights back in the old days when Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler were ready to grab Cassell by his neck and wring it in order to get the ball.

"I don't have Hakeem's speed. I don't have his moves," Yao said.

And he doesn't have is Hakeem's swagger and the regal arrogance to treat the point guards like his minions.

"I'll walk them to the sideline and say it behind the scenes," Yao said. "I am not going to do it in front of everybody and say, 'Give me the damn ball.' I just don't want to do that right in front of everybody."

It is a difference in styles, a different in culture. Yao admits that every American coach he's played for has wanted him to milk his scoring ability. But he says back in China, it was all about spreading the ball around.

"It is like this water bottle," Yao told me, picking up a prop for his demonstration. "You don't want to use it all up right away."

I thought back to Hakeem and shook my head.

"No." I said. "They want you to be like a hose and just keep the water flowing."

Sir Elton/Yao laughed. I nodded.

Before the b**** comes back, first he's got to get here.

http://blogs.chron.com/franblinebury/2009/03/the_bitch_is_back_rockets_106.html

 

what part of this u dont get???? ofcourse he can tell his players to pass more to yao, but he wants yao to step up and be a leader.

 

Understatement of the year. I always think it seems like the Rockets games interrupted Rick's nap time or something. We need to find a ClutchFan member who sits near the Rockets bench and give them some blowgun darts laced with Red Bull to keep Adelman alert.

Rick Adelman = standing nap

 

This is where we need Deke to start throwing elbows at people's noggins when they forget rule number 1: Give the effin' ball to Yao!

Once they get a taste of Deke's sharp, bony elbows they won't forget.

 

That's what people have been trying to do for awhile now. Tracy has always said this is yao's team, but its like yao doesn't want to be that dude. That's why rafer or a guy like artest decided to be the leaders.

 

Personally I thought we setup Yao alot near the end of the game / OT's. The biggest problem I see is that our guards (AB, RonRon, etc) dribble around too damn much.

If the shot clock's around 10 secs, Yao stops posting and sets a pick for the ball handler. I think this happens almost 100% of the time unless the ball handler waves him off.

At least we had one play that was money for us in OT. It was where our PG dribbles to the right side of the arc, Battier cuts to the top of the arc to receive the pass, and Yao sets a weak side screen for Artest to curl.

At this point, Battier either passes to Artest open from the screen, or pass to Yao posting on the left block.