Clutch play Call on "Jazz Night" All copyright reserved by 无悔客 (Wuhuike) Thanks for SlimForce's translation http://bbs.hoopchina.com/read.php?t...page=1&toread=1 Round 1 Rox(O) – Jazz(D) Rox’s goin’ to take higher pressure on Jazz if only finishing a solid cooperating,there’s enough time to take over the game. M&M were both haltin’ at high-spot for a clear double-high. C that?Yao got the ball N then…ROXer in red circle set a screen while Yao running along the L-path.Considering the defensive players following T-Mac,Yao faced a blank paint in front of him. SKIP took a SKIP-shoot out the perimeter.Wut a coo option!I mean,even if it bangs the basket,the OReb should jump to Rox thx to the awful position of JAZZers in blue frame. Wut a pity!Yao was still runnin’ to the set post-slot without noticin’ his little dude,n the best pos for Oreb has getting’ away when he awoke that. So…no excuse for a lucky 3…We r too puerile comparin’ with Spurs or Pistons (Try it again if the pics not display correctly)
Round 2 Rox(D) – Jazz(O) 3:21 & 5pts left,the yells were flowin’ through n around in my mind that reverse n desire of Champ after it. The Jazz set a high-screen ROXers compelled the ball-handler moving to right-wing and wut’s more they cut the connection between the red circle and the entire left-wing. Hurriedly,the ball was passed out without a nice angle n strength,and it even was not caught while Blue did not get ready completely. But Jazz got a lucky money for goin’ on this offence,10 secs left. High-screen ditto encountered double-team by ROX.8 secs left Havin’ got to pass to anybody brought a bang obviously…Nice Def!!
Round 3 Rox(O) – Jazz (D) 3:03 & 5pts left.Wut an OMEN for stealin’ the victory!!...If…If only ONE solid cooperation T-Mac was at point,Yao seems gotta set to high-spot…I know lots chirrs around the play call,but ,do we have any one better and more useful?Nope…so nothing we can choose but just use it.M&M-double-high-A or M&M-double-high-B or even X…But wait,wassa up?T-Mac direct Yao set to post but asked Shane for a pick.Maybe it’s a subtile signal about Yao’s degree in the play-book…just maybe Now then,did Shane take a decent screen?Absolutely NO. And can Yao take a solid post in a double-team set?Absolutely NEITHER. So,stop ur chirrs about high-screen-by-YAO.T-Mac is neither AI nor Wade,he does love jump-shoot rather than rush-in,and his style is not helpful in such situation.Do high-scree-by-YAO plz,higher pts is much better than higher degree. Ok,take a breath.He took jump-shoooooooooooooooo…wait…he passed it to Teddy. OMG,unbelievable ! just guess the reason as multiform as u would = =|| Obviously,Yao’s jockey for position.After the quirky pass by T-Mac,the low-spot-JAZZers were all at a loss n forgot to take double-team on Yao.But also ROXers were the same,Shane did not make the right decision in such sudden accident. Tell me Kill Bill , were u Shane , would u throw it to Yao with no hesitance? Tell me Novak , were u Skip, would u miss the open 3? God bless ROX…but he was takin’ a bath that moment… Skip gonna be Messiah after a bunch of shots he had made,but…the ball rejected him…
Round 4 Rox(D) – Jazz(O) 2:43 & 5pts left. Come on buddies, a successful defence could save more time n hope. Excellent Def Position！ Shoot? Can the guy catch the target over Yao? Pass? How n to whom? How erratic the shoot was! It’s Yao-time! Being blocked out in such a crowd, wut a solid center should do is just pokin’ the ball out. And Yao did do this, at 7-6 addin’ up his arm. Considerin’ the ROXers marked with a red line, it seems to be a pretty Def…but…hold on… Come on Rafer, u were not in Rucker Park n u can never been Skip on the NBA court, and to be the most noticeable, the def-level is much higher away that in mixtape…Bein’ stolen when there was 2:38 left, all the ROXers can just gaze at the score. So wut we learnt? In such clutch point, Rox is too imprudent to control the game,especially the 1-spot. Remember the 05-06 Finals? More clutch it was, more franchise for their Wade, and the other HEATers were all role players includin’ Shaq. And wussa up in Rox? Where’s our Yao? Anyway, we lost the admirable chance. We were all stampin’ with fury beside TV, maybe so was Jeff beside the court.
Round 5 Rox(O) – Jazz(D) 2:25 & 7pts left. We still kept something since the 145 secs there. Do the high-screen! ****in’ “take the post”! We have neither RIPs nor AIs, our backcourt can not take any part of pressure on Yao. T-Mac was not himself exactly that night. Only thing we can do is just takin’ high-screen-by-Yao again and again. Rox deployed themselves just like gettin’ ready for throw-in. Anybody rushed out can draw away some def-player. Actually it was T-Mac. Second high-screen-by-Yao. T-Mac handled the ball while Yao was rushin’ into the lane…Looks nice! But…wut the hell goin’ on about Rafer n Snyder! Were they seein’ a movie performed by M&M? The TWO immovable guys were just reducin’ the space for T-Mac, and to make it more perishing, they were still happy with the movie. One of the audiences named Rafer received the despairingly pass, he suddenly found that he was also an actor even though as a costar. 11 secs left. Yao clapped eyes on the break-in acted by Rafer while still tryin’ to take his low-spot. God bless Rox! Shane was waitin’ for a 3pt near the right bottom line, n T-Mac was takin’ a walk out the arc. Luckily…it was Rox at the opposite side to Jazz but yet not Spurs or Dallas. Wow! Skip to my lou! With that undescribable off-shoot, was he imaginin’ that he was in And.1 Mixtape? Anyway, we got have to pack and leave. ----------------------------- That's all! not 6 plays but 5. All of them were crucial to the end of that game. Great work by Wuhuike and Slimforce.
Thank you skywater for these screenshots! Great job. Keep 'em coming to relevant Rockets game discussion threads. This is nothing short of a resounding slap in the face of John Lopez's "Alston all Rockets need at point guard" assertion.
I like it. I could tell what they were doing by the screen caps so I didn't need the translated captions. These are the times I missed HeyP's posts about plays and such. They were much more entertaining than reading posts from people like myself b****ing about how Van Gundy sucks.
What are you guys talking about the translation is satisfactorily understandable, well except for maybe the first round. Nice post btw.
Skywater, good stuff. Comments: Round 1: The Rox should work on that play some more with Rafer throwing the ball hard and fast to the left lip of the rim as Yao is running the L. Not a lob, a high hard pass right to the left lip of the rim with Yao expecting it to be there. It has to be fast enough to avoid defender flying over from the weak side. And it would have to be practiced quite a bit because Yao seems to have trouble with hard passes. But, regardless, that looks like a quality open shot for Rafer. He should be able to hit those kind at 40% clip. Round 2: I don't really mind AK-47 taking a 20 footer with McGrady with a hand in his face. I think that is a good play. Round 3: I do not blame Shane for passing over to Rafer on that one. The defender was between him and Yao. He would have had to throw a bullet pass up to Yao, which Yao has a difficult time catching, or he would have had to lob and the defender is positioned were a lob would have been difficult to achieve. The 2 problems on that play was that Rafer should have been in the corner already. Spacing was bad between them when Shane received the ball. Of course, we are looking at stills here. McGrady had gone up for the shot. Shane was probably heading to the glass and Rafer was headed back down to defend. But.....Rafer did have the option to throw it into Yao after he received it, nevertheless. Round 4: Don't remember what happened after that but I am assuming Fish stole the ball. Wonder what VSpan does on that one? Bust it up the floor himself and use Snyder to finish? Even then, it still looks like if you throw the ball to Snyder's left shoulder, he's got a breakaway. Round 5: I put some of that play on McGrady, the first part of it anyways. Sometimes, he does not wait and use the screens. He moves before the screen gets there. This puts Yao in a precarious position on getting the moving screen foul call, and on executing the back half of the PnR. The screen has to be set otherwise the PnR gets clogged up. However, sure looked like Shane had the shot in the corner there. Would VSpan have thrown it out to him?
Skywalker/Wahuike: This is the best Rockets post ever, especially what can be learned from it! I just would have enjored and benifitted more if I could understand exactly what you were saying in your commentary.
the game was quite winnable... actually the first quarter is where the rockets got killed. wide open shots were there, but noone could hit a thing. and to come back from 20 to 5 with a darn good chance at cutting it to 2, i would take that. if those sots fall in the first quarter, then the rox would have won... side note brewer looked like the second coming of baron davis, he has got some mad hops
no no you don't understand, vspan is better than alston, end of discussion, he is the emotional backbone of this team
Round 1) Rafer needed to wait on Yao to cut almost the other side of the lane. They had Jazz in bad position and it'da been there if he had. Rafer though had a WIDE OPEN look so I consider that a good shot. Round 2) Good D. (Sorry to break away from the seriousness but what's Snyder doing up top in this pic ) Round 3) Rafer shoulda been spaced out more to the left as was pointed out (and all the way to the spot on the bench according to most of you) but his man wasn't on him and he was mildy hot from outside. I'm sure Battier woulda loved to have gotten Yao the ball here. We're assuming Yao would make all the right moves once he gets it but the Jazz D converged on him decent during the night, and it probably would have been on YAO to have not seen a wide open Rafer. But yes crunchtime late in the game you want the best players touching the ball. Round 4) Not much to defend, they flat out blew that one. I was too pissed off to notice if the D made a good play or not. Rockets should be hitting their FREE THROWS (Tmac, Snyder, Battier) and not been so far down anyways. Who's to say Spanoulis who's turnover prone would have made the heads up decision in that spot? He might play more Rucker Park-like than Rafer does ironically Round 5) Whoa Battier WIDE stinkin open. You can tell Boozer wasnt going to get out on him. Bad Rafer decision. Looks like Rafer had his mind on the bucket there the whole time. Now THIS here is when you can imagine Spanoulis not doing what Rafer did and probably kick the ball out instead of playing D-Wade in the playoffs. Don't care how close he was there, Shane open from 3, Tmac up top or just tossing to Yao for a quick catch and shoot is higher percentage than Rafer doing that. That was fun, hope to see more of these and act like I really know what I'm talking about Spanoulis on this current day roster might be the emotional backbone...I'd still give that title to Bob Sura if he indeed will see court time in 6-7 weeks. Then Bonzi 2nd when he ever gets in.
I didn't really check all of them, but this analysis sucks. In the last screen shot above, and from memory of the play, Rafer made the right decision and hit battier who hit the open three. It was too little, too late, but he did the right thing. On the screen shot above in which Rafer was open and missed the three, spacing was what it was. He didn't have to move all the way down the line to get open, because his man had already rotated off of him. He just had to plant his feet and get ready for the shot. For our offense to work, our perimiter players have to be able to hit this shot.
