Everyone's playing like absolute crap, especially on the defensive end. Soooo many things wrong with this team right now...
is yao having a melting down from last night game or what? 0-2 field goal ??? someone pls tell me. i don't have espn.
More or less. He's looking really tentative out there right now. He's having trouble sealing off...guess who: Grant and Diaw.
Can't watch the game but from the playing time it looks like Van Gundy is benching Ming? if that's true then I say, ABOUT time! It don't matter if we have to dump this game Ming needs a Shakedown and Wakeup call from management!! stop coddling this guy!
For second half adjustments, the rockets need to guard against the three. Make Phoenix beat the Rockets from inside. The Rockets are bailing them out everytime they help defense.
I am watching ESPN now. The game is not in his way, Suns played too fast, therefore he's on the bench for quite long. Maybe something will happen in teh second half, and some plays called for him. But our defense is a little bit orientationless now.
I'm sorry but Yao just sucks. Tired of watching his tired butt out there doing absolutely nothing. And this team does have a lot of problems right now, I think we have the WORST chemistry at this point in the whole league, seriously. Who here can actually refute that statement? Secondly, no one here can Honestly make a good argument about the Rockets playing bad because of new players that need to get acclimated to the JVG system because the Suns are the CASE AND POINT. Yao is just horrible and the team cannot play defense.
stupid screamin' A smith. "all you have to do is sneeze on yao to take him out of his game" yeah if fronting him is sneezing. yao is doing well against every other defense so far this season, even physical players don't bother him anymore.
How the hell am I supposed to know? Everyone is playing like absolute crap tonight. I'm afraid the team is starting to develop a "loser attitude/mentality." They're starting to expect to lose and as a result it's affecting everyone's play.
Ouch! Steven A. Smith just laid one of his smackdowns on Yao. During the halftime on ESPN, they were talking about Yao being taken out of the game by fronting him and stuff, and then they went to Smith and he said, "Well, actually a sneeze will take him out of his game", basically referring to Yao as a softie.
Some of you really need to stop blaming the fronting issue on Yao only. It is getting old. It is a two way street. The guards aren't doing a good job of lobbing either. This is a team problem that needs to be fixed.
It's funny how JVG doesn't bother making the GAMETIME adjustment. I wonder why he is so stubborn with his "scheme" It does NOT work for every team. For a team that thrives from he perimeter, why not just guard the perimeter and lure them to drive into the paint and then collapse on them? Is that so difficult to do?
