If we put YAO on Ocur, nobody can cover the paint (don't count on Hayes). That means lots of easy layups for Deron Williams, AK47 and Harppering, not to mention Boozer. All in all, we need a better PF, at least taller and more athletic. Yao used to defend Ocur-type players in Olympics and he's got his teammate protecting the paint.
DDD you are correct , JVG has not used Yao Ming to play his best game by demanding so much that takes away from his game.
rofl did you just say utah is a WEAK jump shooting team? I was at the game, I've been at 3 for the series, and you're an idiot.
feel sry for yao and tmac. I know yao will practice even harder now and work on his rebs. but damn those scrub role players sux and its on them not the 2 stars that the team goes from 2-0 to 3-4. Every game yao and mac scored over 50-60 pts combined and yet this team is being outworked at road games and every first half of home game. When u have 2 stars that can constantly give u 50-60 pts and that demanded so much attention, the team should be winning not losing especially not even against an elite western team. Just shows how much work the rockets have to do to change their scrub role players
What dosent kill you makes you stronger. yao and mac will be back. we need to upgrade our bench. look at Utah, there almost 10 deep. besides head and juwan, we got nothing.
Sorry but I would say that after Yao & Tracy we almost have nothing and feel it is a correct way of thinking if we are to go forward and put this thing RIGHT!!
Well that was luthers first Playoffs series. the intensity between the regular season and the playoffs are 20 folds different. luther was struggling due to he's lack of playoffs expierence. he'll get better. he is a good player who will only get better.
The team does not have the talent. It has nothing to do with the coach. The bad thing is that JVG overachieved. With other coaches, Rox would be a lower seed, might not even make the playoff this year.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw this. Thanks DD. Yao gets winded enough just from running up and down the court and setting picks for his teammates.
yao shouldn't be saying this. it should have been jvg or tmac. at precious times in this series tmac would jack up 3s. especial when we're down 1,2, or 3. we don't need silly shots. those break up our momentum. jvg for getting outcoached again by two different coach in games 7. i mean, come on, one by a rookie, avery. another by a veteran, that does the same tricks over and over. pick and roll. back door. pick and roll for harping to get open. jvg was suppose to be a defenseive mind coach. he didn't show up in either of those two games. down 40 in a playoff games? thats just damn embarsing. this time we got homecourt advantage, and still lost. imo, two years ago, if jvg didn't have bobby, that team would have lost earlier. bobby gives that fire under you, doesn't matter what coach he has. jvg, just couldn't let them play for serious in the 1st quarter. if we ever had a lead in this series after the half. that would have been so much easier for us. also. after seeing the hard fouls we get. we night fight back? i would love to see fisher, okur, bookzer, williams, oh, and also ak47. that will make them think twice before coming down and trying to dunk or layup. i just saw way too many layups and dunks in a playoff game. thats just not right.
This is the truth that only a few people are sharp enough to see. With lackluster players (other than Yao and Tmac) we were LUCKY to win 51 esp. with the injuries. JYG did overachieve! In fact, we played pretty badly in the first two games that we won. We just didn't shoot well this series and many shots I saw looked like good ones. Again, that's players and not JVG. Same problems we had before: our other players aren't good enough, or they didn't really show up for this series. Is that on JVG or them? I go with the players mostly. JVG could have played other players more during the season (Vspan, Snyder). But I'm telling you, they didn't play because they could not play well enough to get more minutes. Bonzi screwed Snyder out of playing time. Bonzi's inability to play more and be part of this team is ALL ON HIM and not on JVG. HE didn't have the heart or the shape to play and people can't blame JVG for that. Someone posted a while back and it was the truth: JVG made Yao a post player. Yao came into the league wanting to be a jump shooter and JVG made him better. He's is slow and unathletic and that limits his play against the monster that is Boozer. We need a better PF who could guard Boozer and rebound inside. Have Yao guard Okur outside, I don't know. SO, this series is on everybody. Don't single anyone out.
JVG is probably only a few coaches left in today's league who still don't adopt zone at all. I watched Toronto and New Jersey series. Raptors is an excellent jump shooting team and they have an excellent mobile PF in Bosh. But throughout the series, every time Nets used zone defense, the raptors got freaked out. Their offense became total mess. So why did JVG refuse to use zone, even a little bit, when Yao was totally owned by Boozer in the post? Utah's outside shots was not falling until game 6, so what exactly did he worry about? The only explanation is maybe JVG himself doesn't have any ideas of using zone.
Yes!!! Get him a point guard who won't wilt under pressure, who can up it in a notch when it gets to be clutch city time. a pg scorer/slasher, and Yao won't have to apologize so much.
