Right on! I didn't care for Ewing much but he wasn't enemy to me. He was a fierce competitor, nothing wrong with that ! Now that he is a Rockets, let's give him a chance.
I just don't get the resentment on Ewing still. What's wrong with some of you people. JVG and MJ were saying Ewing has all the skillset to be a very very good coach in this league. I trust their knowledge of the game a heck of a lot more than some of you idiots in here. So much judging going on and the season hasn't even started. I thought that was a very good quote by Ewing.
Some of you forgot how great of a player Ewing was just because of his last few years in the NBA. For years and years, he was on the same level of Hakeem and Robinson, it not possibly even a little better...with the exception of a few championship years when Hakeem just took it to the next level and went nuts.
That about sums it up. I like him as long as long as Rox are improving everytime they step out on the floor....
From another thread in an interview with JVG: "He still wants Ming to go for paint positioning. Ming and Patrick have been going at it in one-on-one sessions. These sessions start off slow and then gets real intense and Patrick is full of pride. Ming tries to share the touches and he is trying to get Ming to understand that it is okay to get many touches in a row without feeling guilty."
The anti-Ewing posts are just tasteless. I don't see Ewing take credit for Yao's improvement. He is just doing what he needs to do to make Yao more aggressive and more dominant. What's wrong with that?
I hated Ewing when the Rockets played against him because he was so good. I'm really happy that he's on our side now because he was so good. That is all. As far as the resentment against Ewing the coach because he is not Hakeem or whoever, what a joke. If one were to put together a list of centers that it would be awesome luck to work with Yao Ming day in and day out, Ewing would without a doubt be on the short list. And man, look at CATO! Anything I may have had against Ewing evaporated the second he became a Rocket. I couldn't care less if the guy likes strippers or doesn't do autographs, because I, too, like strippers and don't ASK for autographs.
Ewing is a Rocket now and Hakeem is nothing but a memory that is diminishing faster than it should, but thats all Hakeems doing. If he would of been an honest and fair man he would of dealt fairly with the Rockets and went out the way he should of went out but he and his hold up man Fegan were out to rob a team any way they could and that was the reason he went out the way he did(imagine if the Rockets were the suckers and paying him what the Raptors are paying him - rocks would be up **** creek) anyways, Hakeem wants no part of the Rocket organization right now, dude has refused a statue - how cool would that been to have of statue - of him in his honor because he's no fun and is in Palenstine on his way to becoming a stoic saint or whatever but Ewing is here and he's here interested in helping the Rockets win so when you see Ewing out on the town don't be an old bitter rock thinking that Hakeem is some mosque with his feeling hurt because of it but instead raise your drink to the damn yankee to celebrate the fact that he is now a Houston Rocket.
That's the best post in this thread. Plus, I agree with OMR that Ewing doesn't have much to offer Yao other than what Yao already has. I also remember that Ewing was supposed to be a freakishly talented and athletic big man coming out of college. His coming to the Knicks was more hyped than Olajuwon's coming to Houston. So the notion that he's greatness was by being hardworking and smart is BS. As someone pointed out, Yao said JVG was the one who taught him one on one, not Ewing. And in the summer, Yao, while in China, was quoted to say how he suddenly "got it" when he was playing for the Chinese NT. And we saw that Yao did play more aggressively during the Asian Games. So Yao's improvement apparently has nothing to do with Ewing's coaching. That said, I think OMR is a little overboard in bashing Ewing. What Ewing said in the quote was just standard stuff. I don't see anything wrong with it.
Okay Easy I'll take it Easy. I guess some of it was personal when he dissed me and my son at the Marriot hotel in San antonio. But as someone else said he is a Rocket now and I am a diehard Rocket fan so I will have to accept it. But I can treat him like Kobe treats Shaq. He is on my team but he is not my friend. Mostly j/k.
"Ewing's on the Right Track" Wow, I never thought I would ever see these words come from a Houston fan's mouth unless it was refering to a train track.
I saw Ewing play in high school, and to say his career was built on hard wor, not talent is absurd. However, it is also true that he worked hard at Georgetown to learn fundamentals from one of the better teachers in the college game at that time. He developed into a defensive monster there, and improved his offensive game as well. To say Hakeem did it all on talent and didn't work hard is also absurd. He worked HARD to achive the improvement in his footwork from his freshman year to his sophomore year to his junior year-- followed by improving something about or adding something to his game almost every year until he'd been in the pros for over a decade. While Ewing wasn't at the same level as Hakeem and Shaq, he was at the same level or only slightly lower than Robinson. And I think he is a good choice to work with Yao. Are there better choices? Yes, but not many. I'll take it and be quite happy.
Right track no doubt. But Yao needs more work in the rebounding department. Also learning to be agressive and keep away from collect UNnecessary fouls while doing that (maybe that is more about respect from the refs). No doubt can score on anyone in the league but rebounding, staying out foul trouble and more stamina will catterpault him to the top 5 in the league easily. Props to Francis also - the health of his relationship (supporting, complementing and deffering) with Yao makes Yao's job easier and in the big picture benefits our team in the general scheme of things.
Ewing is a Rocket coach now so I will judge him solely on how good a job he does. It's way too early for me to judge that. However I feel pretty confident that he will do his best. I know that he wants to get a championship ring. He did'nt do it as a player thanks to the Rockets so this is only way for him now. I wish Yoa could spend the off-season in Houston so he could hook up with Moses or even Hakeem to get some of their insights. But Ewing was one of the best of his generation and I hope our big men and any other players on the squad can benefit.
Wow! That was painful to read! Absolutely the longest sentence in the entire history of Clutchity (Clutchfans) forum!! Seriously though, tell us how you really feel!! A lot of hate for Hakeem including unnecessary attacks on his religious beliefs.
