Is there any way we can get someone to come in during practice and run some dunking drills with the Rockets? This is becoming a real problem because we lost 8 easy points during last nights game that were all in critical moments that would have stopped the Lakers momentum. Key plays: Kobe's block on Yao really fired him up. Odom's block on Artest at the end of the half which would have put us ahead. Kobe's block on T-Mac which would have ending our bleeding on offense. Landry's put backs in the third. When we see Landry not putting down the vicious dunks, I am a bit concerned. I hope it was the Lakers defense and not his knee. But if this trend continues, we are going to have some real problems because these should be easy points that either end the other teams momentum or jump start our bench/fans. I don't understand why we are so in love with soft lay-ups. Or it might just be a sign of some other problems. Maybe injuries (T-Mac, Landry)? Maybe our players tire out too quickly (Yao, Artest)? Maybe we just lack the athleticism (Yao, Hayes, Scola)? I am still hopefully that once our offense starts rolling, everything will come along. I just keep hoping that the influx of new rotation players is lagging our offense a bit like last year and that around late December or so, we begin to click. P.S. Luther Head should not be allowed to play. He just loves to dribble into double teams, gets trapped very easily, and annoys me with his jump in the air then pass technique!
Yao's slow. Artest picked up the ball early because of farmar or whoever else was running with him on the break, no way he could dunked that. Tmac just got kicked in the knee, can't expect him to dunk while moving away from the basket Not sure why he failed here :/
Landry had already gone up strong once on that possession then tore the ball out of Odom's hands before going up the second time. He was tired is my guess.
That is true and Yao had a nice dunk after T-Mac made a beautiful feed in between two Lakers, but they still missed a few dunks. I just hope that someone gets fired up and does something. If you really think about it, we might be one of the teams that finish towards the end in dunks. Or at least don't have a lot of players that dunk. Out of our "bigs" (Yao, Landry, Hayes, Scola), only Landry goes up strong. And even he has been having problem so far this season. I know its still early, but hopefully this is something that gets fixed soon.
But the whole point is that if you go to the basket strong (and with two hands preferably) then you gets calls to go to the FT line. Yao could have gone up w/ two hands and he would have gotten fouled instead of blocked. Same with Artest and T-Mac. Landry seems a bit tired because he was fighting like a beast for those boards. But this wasn't the only game this has happened. The lay-up that are getting blocked have happened a lot in this early part of the season.
More like Court awareness. They need to be aware of player movements at all times. Yao could have pumped fake and dunked instead he got blocked.
I miss gerald Green who was released by morey last season. Fortunately, we still have another two great dunkers in landry and barry. I hope to see barry dunk sometimes, just as he did when he was young. The real problem is with yao who missed countless dunks in the seven games this season. I suggest yao ask barry for some advice for dunking, I would rather to see yao get two with a lay-up than see him get nothing with a missing dunk.
We should've kept Gerald Green and I question the Rockets for letting him go. He can get to the rim cause he's got sooo much elevation and he is a good three point shooter. Now that he is with Dallas you probably will see what we should've kept all long but Landry is also good at finishing around the rim. He has lost some hops from the surgury but still get it done. Now Barry is no dunker. Yeah he won the Dunk Contest before but he won't be throwing it down on anyone any time soon.
Since Tmac and Yao are not getting any younger, the Rockets have been trading young talents for mature guys. If we dont win the champion in these 2 years, chances are we are gonna regret even more as those young boys we sent away will get better and better.
Barry can't get anywhere clsoe to the rim anymore. Part of it is the knee problems. Hopefully Landry's altheticism doesn't go down the same path as Barry's. Barry was pretty athletic when he was young before the injuries piled on.
Oh yeah, great point, I agree. We are just soft, soft as hell. 1) This season Yao is soft as he has never been. I just can't belive that. He doesn't want to jump at all and that's why he is getting blocked not only by players, but also by the rim. He need to throw it down with power. 2) This Kobe's block was amazing, but it was Tracy's fault. He got the ball near the rim, he was wide open so he tried to lay it in softly. Now my question is WHY? Just move one step forward the basket and DUNK IT. If he had done that it would have been a 3pt play. I tought Ron ain't soft...
