For all these CD can't coach Knuckleheads, Like any teacher, you have good and bad students. Mo Taylor did develope a jump hook he used as a Rocket as did Eddie Griffin. These two were both about as fat dumb and happy as they could get with contracts and didn't work on what they were taught. Ralph Sampson developed a good Hook learned from CD. Dream credits CD, Guy V, and Pete NEwell as the best big man Coaches he's ever worked with. Elvin Hayes and Mo Malone worked with CD. Carl Herrera developed a nice jump hook and baseline turnaround he credits to cd. For every one of them there are two failures. Does it mean anything? No. For every one success in the NBA there are twice the failures on any team. For every one of Tom TH successs he has two or more failures and weve seen he can work with Yao and Ewing but he sure doesn't have the list of names CD can claim. You guys sound like my flippin kids arguing about who's ego is bigger and who can't coach. Bottom Line: They both can coach and one is irrellevant to us now. Now finish your veggies and go to your room until you can come out and play nice.
I just read that Yao would come back to China in July, and CD would travel with Yao in charge of his training.
The excuse made for the disgraced head coach JVG that Hakeem could not tutor Yao is due to the "conflicting schedules" of the two big men. Now what do you Gundy lovers have to say about the fact that even Rockets' own CD was not allowed by JVG to teach Yao?
Actually if you read between the lines in Justice's article, it sort of implied that with all the talking about cabs in Shanghai etc.
I read that too from the latest article of Wang Meng. http://nba.sports.tom.com/2007-06-18/0424/84013046.html But I doubted about the genuineness of this article, as we all knew Wang Meng is now back into Beijing. And the article just came out shortly after Richard Justice's article about Yao Ming training together with CD and Stanley Robert...... Anyway, if what Wang Meng wrote is true, particularly about that portion of Hakeem the Dream Olajuwon had had a couple of additional sessions with Big Yao after that highly publicized one, then that's GREEEEEEEEEEAT !!!
I do agree that the Rockets are trying to subtly point out that JVG and his regimented rules were part of the problem, which I agreed with anyway, but they are clearly trying to distance themselves from JVG's regime. DD
CD is responsible for taking Dream to the next level, turning him into the MVP that we saw in '94, and the player that basically stole took the MVP right out of the hands of David Robinson in the '95 playoffs. Dream was very good already when CD started with him, just like Yao is now, but he wasn't an MVP.
cd was there from hakeems rookie year...cd was pushed out by les...its just a made up story that he retired...and you can kill the messenger all you want, but thibodeau is far superior as a teacher than cd. you will see by the results next year. and who said jvg was an ego maniac...the players?
Now, CD was forced out? Dude, you need a link or some credentials, because right now you sound like you are making stuff up. DD
I am glad to see Yao finally get some decent coaching. It sounds like Hakeen and CD are really teaching him a lot, and I expect Yao to be a much impoved player next yr. I think this whole thing with Yao this offseason has shown what a rotten job JVG and his staff did. We kept seeing Yao make the same mistakes over and over again, simple things like dunking instead of laying it soft or bringing the ball down and getting slapped away. Everytime I'd see him make those same mistakes, I thought, these are simple mistakes that can be corrected, why doensn't someone tell him to dunk the damn ball or stop bringing it down? He wasn't being coached worth a damn that's why. MVP season for Yao if he stay's healthy and keeps working on his mistakes.
oh the cd apologists live on...cd's ego is loving this...just show the stats baby..you will see if he was being coached well. but you guys have probably never coached or led anything in your life so you just love to be critical of guys like thibodeau even though you never saw them work ever. by the way, cd wants yao to be a power player and adelman wants him in the high post...cd on his own agenda again and again and again
Did CD take a whiz in your drink? Who is apologizing for CD? Who is saying Thibodeau didn't do a good job? You are making a lot of assumptions here. I think Thibodeau did a good job with Yao, no doubt about it, but you can have more than one coach, and I am glad that Yao is getting additional tutoring. Each coach may teach Yao something different, and that can only help Yao in his development, right? As for CD, I think he has been trying to remake the old Rockets for years, and has not quite gotten it done, he has left the organization, and was part of the leadership that brought 2 championships to the city so he gets a bit of leeway in being remembered, just like Rudy T. Why do you hate CD so much? Are you saying that CD forced out JVG? Maybe I have missed it in some of your posts, but I was sort of gone for a while. DD
DD, Just ignore him, man. It ain't worth it. He's not even in your league man. Don't lower yourself to that.
Nobody is saying CD > Thibodeau. Nobody. Tom Thibodeau did a great job on Yao Ming. Look at the Yao JVG and Tom created. Yao is a great player and all credit should go to them. However, it can't hurt for Yao to receive a small 1 on 1 training session with a Hakeem or a CD. Why not? That it happened 5 years into Yao's career is sort of sad. I've read accounts that JVG is the one responsible for this. What the hell did Ewing teach Yao? Why not bring in a Kareem Abdul Jabaar who publicly wanted to teach Yao. Anyway, Tom did agreat job. I wish he was still with the Rockets.
