This scares me. A PG standing there and make a pose for at least 3 seconds? Call for the big guy and shoot...?
I don't want Tmac to distribute the ball. Rafer should do that for the Rockets. I want him to be the old Tmac, who could score 62 in a game. I know in reality he might never be that Tmac anymore. But that Tmac is who the Rockets wanted when they traded for him. And that Tmac is the one who deserves 20mil a year, deserves to be an allstar. A Tracy only good at distributing the ball does not deserve all those things. So if he can not play at that level anymore, just trade him please.
The problem is defense, allowing teams to score at a 50% plus clip is going to get you beat most times. Mcgrady and Artest need to think less about scoring and concentrate on the defensive end for the Rox to get better.
It appears every month there's a similar article about the Rockets and "improving". This time actually I want to see it, I want to see that happening, team sounds like a broken record, always repeating the same thing.
What RA needs to do and hasn't done it yet is to place Tmac off the bench to lead our second units. Tmac is generally better in transition and capable of faster pace game then Yao. RA should have our starting lineup: alston Von Artest Scola Yao second unit off bench: AB Tmac Battier Landry Hayes
please watch all games when tmac didn't play. i hate ppl judge a player based on one game. it just makes me wonder what hell i come here to discuss the bball w/ ...
...and at the start of the season we were going to see a "vicious" T-Mac that was going to attack the basket. It's nice to hear him acknowledge he knows what people want from him, and that it's what he should do....but talk is cheap, and his is year-old bread. Evan
I don't know if it's more shocking that we've had our full roster available for only 3 games so far or if it's the fact that we've lost all 3 of those games.
I'm not so sure that he gets it. It's not the quantity of shots he is taking that killing the team. It's the quality of these shots that is painful to watch. If he shoots 30 times a game and 20 of those are layup attempts...I'm fine. These shots are made at a higher %. Constantly pulling up for a 20 to 25 footer tells me that he is lazy to go to the basket. Shooting is physically easy...driving is hard work...and this is what it seems he often avoids. Now thats not to say that a heat check from time to time is bad, as he is prone to go nuts from three any game, but it seems as if he thinks he is on fire all the time. THe other knock on him is that he doesn't play within the offense. He tries to BE the offense. That has proven to fail. Adelman's offense is showing, as the players are learning it, much improvement. I think Mac would be awesome if he played within the offense. But he too often goes into his famous top of the key, palming the ball behind his back, head-faking offense. This is what his problem is. He used to be a slasher...not he is a camper. He has to move and the ball will come...and so will points.
He played like Kobe the past two seasons after Yao went down and he drug a sorry team to the postseason. I hope he has it in him again....
Its like a broken record....always the same old song and dance and then when he gets back on the floor its back to business as usual...
Ron Artest... I must admit I worried about the Interactive Fan Experience™ coming to Houston, but he is great with the media. He's a straight shooter.
I hope for the best, but I am truly worried he might stifle the team for the rest of the season. And the Rockets need as high of a seed as possible to get out of the first round.
no doubt.. let's hope for ball as well as body movement and not 1 on 1... if i see tmac setting up top and calling for a high pnr and then taking a long jumper i'm going to
a pick and roll is a fundamental play of the game. rafer does it ALL THE TIME. brooks does it ALL THE TIME.
