I'm no coach but is RA and the whole coaching staff seriously committed to winning this game ? Rafer plays terrible, Yao plays terrible and what do you do ? Take AB out who was playing great, take Hayes out who was playing great D and let the Celtics win. Do they not see what we see ?
I agree with keeping Aaron Brooks in but not with keeping Hayes in at the expense of keeping Yao out. I wouldn't have minded Yao and Hayes at the same time though.
especially Yao. rafer has his advantages over brooks. but even now, when we desperately need a 3pter, we're still not puting brooks or barry in. why????
Rick should have at least realized how big a liability Yao can be at the defensive end... and take him out on those possesions. JVG realized this even when Yao was tearing the rim off (and not getting stuffed by it).
Coach's substitution at the 5 minute mark cost us the game. He let Brooks finish vs Dallas and the small line up was working vs the Celtics. Rafer can't score and they don't even guard him when he's on the court. Yao layed an egg tonight too.
It looks like their more about keeping player's happy and confident more so than winning games. If you can't step up your game you need to be benched until you figure it out, plain and simple.
I guess most coaches in the league would rather keep his star players in the game in the 4th, even if they had a poor game. There are 82 games in a season. Keep the star player in the game will benefit for the long run. The same reason why most coaches play 8-9 players.
If I were the coach, I would put Yao there if he plays horrible like tonight. As a star player, Yao has to dig his own way out or he will never become one of the central pieces of a real contender.
Yeah, but most coaches don't have the depth of players we do, so they stick with an 8-9 lineup because the rest of the players are ryan bowen-level scrubs. Adleman even admitted it, I remember reading an article where he wondered if he can play an 11 man lineup. Dorsey is like the Anti-Yao, he's inexperienced, undersized and an athletic freak. If Yao was having a hard time chasing his man around then why couldn't he put Dorsey in? He's quick enough to stay with whomever the C's have at center, and his long arms would probably change a lot of shots...I'm seriously having doubts with Rick Adleman's in-game coaching ability Didn't he let Kevin Martin and Gerald Wallace rot on the bench when he still in Sacramento
oh, man,Celtic's muscle man deeply hurt us, why coach didn't give Jory a chance, let Jory fix the muscle man,,, no matter what, it's foul, let jory foul them , .....And ours defense was too soft tonight.........
Yeah but Yao is only human. He will have off/terrible games like tonight. Its the coach's job to compensate for it by finding substituting other players until he can contribute meaningfully to the team. Keeping the player there when he is obviously struggling looks like lazy coaching to me
its as asimple as this: the rockets are trying to use Yao like he's TD or something similar, which he's not. The guy is more Ilgauskas and that's the type of game he needs to play. He's never going to jump high so he's always going to put some shots where they can be blocked. What needs to be done is give him some more face up jumpers instead of so much work in the post. This is more than reasonable because the guy CAN shoot. A lot of people say, "well if he's 7'6 why let him shoot jumpers, put him near the rim", which makes sense for a guy like Shawn bradley or Muresan, but Yao can shoot lights out from 18 feet in and i'm pretty sure he would shoot 3's at almost 40% (not that he should take a lot of those, but proves he can shoot). Yao's gonna make 50-60% of his close to the rim, but he gets pushed a lot there. He'll make AT LEAST the same percentage of jumpers because he's not being pushed and he's more unblockable shooting a J than he is inside because of the way the D is positioned. Let him shoot more jumpers, you'll get the same result (20+ points and 50% shooting or better), but he'll take less pounding, will be blocked less, will pick up less offensive fouls, won't be discuraged so easily when facing a quick andbig center, and he'll have more variety to his offense. the only downside is he won't be in position to get offensive rebounds, but i think our forwards and guards rebound well enough that it won't be a big problem. Plus, with Yao shooting, there won't be many rebounds. Also, i don't understand why Adelman doesn't play Barry with Yao alot more. the solution to a big man being doubled is to put a consistently legit 3 point threat on the same side of the court. That's barry, not Rafer. Barry is alos a better at making the entry pass to the post, i only makes sense to give Barry more minutes alongside Yao.
Adelman needed to see what his starters would do in the clutch. He's already seen what the bench can do in the Dallas game. I know exactly why he did it. Though I would have rather have had the win instead of the experiment. Adelman was thinking long term rather than short term. Battle tested... as much as you can be battle tested in the regular season. He put the starters back out there to see what they would do.
