[Chron] Rockets in stall pattern without Brooks and Yao

He-who-must-not-be-named you mean? :grin:

Hard to find such players. we have to live and die with Brooks. He is the only guy who is remotely capable of breaking down a defense

 

"With the Rockets, teams front Scola, load up on Martin and go under screens set for Lowry, who is shooting 23 percent in the fourth quarter. That clogs the lane to defend Lowry's penetration."

Which leaves Battier or Miller to try to win the game. Hence the reason for Miller doing those dribble-drive penetrations at the end of the Chicago game. The Bulls had Rose, the Rockets had Miller.

 

I'm still an advocate of bringing in Courtney Lee and letting him run in the backcourt with Martin at the 2, Bud at the 3, Scola, and Miller for halfcourt set offense.

 

newsflash: they sucked with Brooks and Yao too.

 

Yao and Brooks played a grand total of 3 games together (against the nuggets, hornets and Lakers) hard to make any judgement off that sample.

 

Other than that they lost all 3.

I could not think of a worse insult to the constructor a team than if it's built around a one-dimensional 5-9 shooting guard who will probably be gone to some sucker in the offseason.

If that's truly the design then Morey should be taken outside and beaten with a pole and then given a colonic by Dana Barros.

 

Last year his FG% was .397 and his 3P% was .272. That was against other bench players and tired starters. If anything his percentage will be lower than last years now that he has tougher competition.

This year you can blame some of his poor shooting on conditioning, but not much.

 

Adelman is not GM. He can not trade or draft players. Your post sucks.

 

Bingo Fish. Bingo.

What makes us think that once we get Yao and Brooks back we will start winning? With those guys on the floor we HAVEN'T WON even a single game.

Will healthly Brooks help? Sure. But this doesn't mean his comeback will turn this season around.

Bingo. Spot on.

 

I thought it was obvious for you. You said Ariza would not help this team either.

The normal logic is: any legit NBA player would be able to help this NBA 's worst team.

 

Dude, c'mon...

Yao is being introduced to a whole new system. This system is completely different from what it was 2 years ago.

2 years ago when Yao was healthy, it was, find Yao in the post, let him go to work. Yao is physically unable to do that right now and is incapable of taking over a game with his post game.

And like I have said before, this team has potential to make some noise in the west (still not championship contender tho), but will not do so until Yao no longer has any restrictions.

I'm sure once we have a full complement of players, 100% healthy, things will start clicking and we'll put together multiple winning streaks of 5+ at a time.

Hopefully it just wont be followed by a 3-4 game losing streak

 

That's a poor description of Aaron Brooks. You sound like a box score fan.
That "one dimensionanl" player played like a superstar when it counted. He was the ONLY and is the ONLY way we have a chance at beating the champs. The Lakers cant match up with Brooks (really, no team can).

I dont know how many Rocket games you watch kid

 

You guys didn't understand me. Can a healthly Yao and Brooks help? Sure and they probably will.

But you act like once they come back, it will automatically mean 'winning'. So far it has not been the case.

So I will say it again, they WILL help but it doesn't mean we will become a playoffs team all of the sudden. Facts don't lie.

 

I've probably watched enough to not get THAT jazzed about getting 'trained by the Lakers in game 7 because the team is not remotely good enough to be on the same floor. That was a nice little overachievement but it was 2 years ago - I have since moved on.

And sorry, brah, but with the most unguardable player in teh NBA dropping a blazing 19 ppg, the result was a lottery season out of sight of the playoffs - can you explain why I am supposed to be impressed by this? Or by the Rockets equally poor showing this year with him?

 

Our team just needs to do the flying V formation on offense.

 

This argument is confusing, because it essentially means every single one of our players sucks and is unimpressive as long as the team isn't winning.

In that case, why bother complimenting anyone? Recently I'm noticing that you have some allergy to positivity.