Did Anyone Else See This Big Problem After Tonight?

what flaw? the spurs have 3 guys willing to take on the pressure and responsibility, which are higher in the playoffs.

 

Yes and it's nice to get a big W, but if this game were in the playoffs against a team other than Portland or maybe Denver then the Rockets would have lost with the way they played down the stretch. The Rockets scored 7 points in the final 6 minutes, you just can't do that. The team is lucky to have won this one. But a win is a win in the NBA, let's hope the Rockets come out strong and finish strong against the Cavs on Thursday. We'll need a full 48 minute effort against Lebron and company.

 

Not knowing how Ginobli is I would say we have a better chance at beating the Spurs than L.A.

 

i dont know what the hell is up with Yao. I dont know if he is slacking off in the gym now that the olympics have passed bc he looks so slugish out there. When he tries to get rebounds even that are right in front of him a little guard comes and gets the ball over him. I know its bc of his size, he i think he should also comand his space more and get out there for those rebounds. His rebounding is really really bothering me.

 

No, but Yao isn't atheletic enough to catch a running pass to the basket or sky over his defender to get the pass. It's a team problem. What we did was we just looked at Yao trying to figure out how to get the ball to him for 14 seconds and then either Artest or AB had to force up a shot. Yao's fault? He has a hand in it for sure, but don't question his leadership because the TEAM didn't know what to do.

Adelman will show them vid and they will work on it. It's just a glitch in teh offense that needs to get worked out.

Any more questions?

 

The only team I'm absolutely afraid of is L.A. I'm confident we can at the very least compete with any other team in teh conference.

If I'm not mistaken the point you were making at first was that, of the teams we're LIKELY to face, those are the two taht would be most favorable as we're not likely to get a top 3 seed.

 

thought this is a worthy thread. but when i looked at who the op was...

let me say something to make the op happy -

this team is missing mcgrady badly. we need him to be remotely successful.

oh and btw, yao sucks.

yawn.

 

Subbing in Chuck for defensive purposes at the end of the game was obviously the right decision. And, in fact, he probably should have done it much earlier in the quarter.

 

Here is what is wrong with this logic and why it flawed.

Just because you barely beat a team and another team blew them out doesn't mean the Rockets can only beat 2 teams.

You said we could only beat the Blazers and Nuggets.

Well why can't we beat the Mavs?(They have had worse problems than us)

Why cant' we beat the Suns?

By your logic we beat the Celtics who blew out the Suns twice, so we should be able to beat the Suns too. That is why your logic is flawed?

To say our only chance of getting out the 1st round is playing against the Nuggets or Blazers is ridicolous.

Dallas and Phoenix are not like they used to be.

This definitely can beat New Orleans.

You said you thought this team could make it to the WCF last year if Yao didn't go down, well this year the supporting cast is better, and you are just replacing T-mac with Ron, who is pretty damn good.

 

that's not the argument i was going with. my argument is they have 3 guys who want to take over if they're called upon. they dont' shy away from taking a ton of shots if they have to or making all the plays. we need someone from this team to do the same, esp. in games like these.

 

heres a solution to the fronting problem. have 4 our of players parked at the free throw area. One of them has to be Yao. Have only Yao cut into the lane and have our point Brooks lob it into him. Or sometimes just have Brooks go one on one while four our players just stay around the free throw area. Brooks can blow by his defender everytime for a easy layup. The other team will be confused as heck by our formation. We could run it everytime we have trouble geting the ball to Yao in the post because of fronting. The other team would have to worry about the 3 sec defensive and illegal defense so yes they will stay with our players around the ft area and can't protect the paint very well.

ok heres how it looks like. Of course Yao will need to practice catching the lob pass over the shoulder like TO.

 

Yeah I don't see us matching up with them in the 1st round, but I mean period. If we face them.

My main point is I don't see how anyone could say the only teams we have a chance at beating are the Nuggets and Blazers.

 

A gimpy TMac was willing to take a lot of shots .... Odd, we seemed to lose most of those games.

 

yao made some clutch baskets in the past games. RA just needs to draw some other plays b/c the opposing teams know that in a close game, rockets tend to go to yao (especially now that you dont have tmac and ron isnt as clutch as youd like him to be).

you cant rely on motion offense and read and react game when you need to score in a short amount of time.

 

The problem is we were getting burned in the fourth and the reason was Yao not being quick enough to get out and guard the shooter. And you say that its better to make then jumpshooters, thats true, but with Yao out there the other team gets confidence that they will get their shots off so that gives them confidence to execute. I could just see Roy licking his chops before exploiting Yao's slowness

 

1. I said that L.A. DOES scare me. Reading comprehension FTW
2. If Kobe wants to take 35 shots a game, I'm all for it
3. If Bynum plays Yao straight up (ie he doesn't front him) then Yao will dominate him.
4. Will Bynum even be there?
5. If we dont' play as a team we lose. It doesn't rest on one guys shoulders and we don't have a player who will make it their responsibility to take the game over himself.

And in case you were wondering yes that was a dig at McGrady.

 

Crap. Last year the whole team took responsibility. If Yao or T-Mac had an off night, like tonight, the rest of the team took care of business. The result was the 22 game win streak.

The biggest problem tonight was the team as a whole had problems executing offensively. They still gutted it out and got a win. If the Rockets remember to play as a team and stick to the game plan they'll go far.