I agree completely, but most importantly they just need to cut his practice minutes and he will be fine......
That's why he's the coach making millions, and the rest coach-wannabes just shoot s**t on BBS. If the fans voices were listened to by the coaches, then the rockets would most likely be the worst team in the NBA.
I am mainly talking to the guy(or guys) who said Aldeman needs to be fired for playing Yao in extened minutes. We really can't do anything about it, but if it is true that Yao is sitting out full practices and skipping out on running excerises, then I guess things will work out.
it not the minutes per week that is a problem. If that was the problem then cutting his practices would be a great solution. The PROBLEM is when you get tired you get lazy, you get weak, you lose form, and then you get injured. Thats just the bottom line. It does not matter for one second if we are the 8th seed or the 1st seed. If we are healthy at go time we win. If injured we can lose just like any previous years where we had a great regular season.
It was a rather stupid decision to have Yao train too much (whether it was Yao's or the coach's decision) the past seasons. Yao did too much stamina training between games, and that made him run out of gas by game times. Remember all the news report about him jogging in stadiums etc? He needs to know that top athletes should train smart, not train hard. I guess old habits die hard. Chinese basketball coaches have been living by the "train hard" philosophy for decades. And apparently that unscientific philosophy has been drilled into Yao Ming's mindset. I can't believe that only after playing for 6 seasons did Yao came to the sense that he might have been tiring himself out during the pregame workouts.
I hate to sound cocky, but I did expect Luther Head, Von Wafer, maybe, to get some time against teams in the Thunder's calibur.
Your premises are correct, but you came to a false conclusion. The fact is, Yao isn't tired at the end of games any more, and that is most likely due to the fact that he's practicing less. because he stays fresh all the time on the court, it's much less likely he'll reinjure himself.
Adelman is a Genius for cutting Yao's practice time and let him play 40+ a night. Yao is really earning his paycheck now.
there is no such a thing as a "timid" 15pts lead. plus, it's way passed the mid point of the 4th quarter. do you really think if we had scola or even hayes in there and slowed down the pace a bit, they'd have killed us in the end? i know they have 2 seven-footers, but neither is like td or even shaq's caliber. and ron ron was pinning down durant in the 4th. i'd think yao should've subbed at least 3 minutes earlier to avoid possible fatigue as well as possible unexpected injuries. just from a fan's perspective.
it's ok..it's ok..easy guys yao can reduce his minutes in practice off the game. 5 miniutes more running on court isn't going to kill him. he'll be fine.. let him play more on the game. run less off the game.. agree with A.
How many times have you seen the rockets lose ten point + leads in the 4th quarter, or even in the last 5 minutes the past years? way too many to remember. That has been rockets signature in the Yao/Mac era ----- 4th colossal 4th quarter collapses.
I am not surprised that Adelman played Yao so much. The fact is there is no one to substitute him at the moment that the coach is confident with to maintain any lead. When Deke is here, perhaps there are some possibilities that he'll play as I believed the coach has some confidence in him. At the moment, the rookie, Dorsey, Hayes and Scola is not convincing enough to the coach to play as a center at crucial time.
yes, there were quite a few times the rockets lost their leads, often in double digits, in the past few years. and almost every team will have some of that in a long season. exactly how many times? especially when they had a 15pts lead passing the mid point of the 4th? i don't know. maybe you know the exact number. but people tend to over-state that # quite a bit. there is no 15pts possession in basketball.
Four minutes are a lot of time in basketball. Fourteen points are not that big of a lead. There's a reason RA is Ron's favorite coach. You got to have faith in one of the best coaches in the NBA.
Sorry to pick on you but what you say so far are pretty idiotic. A colossal collapse against the worst team in the West at home while having Tmac and Artest both on? You just don't know how to argue.
