ibm, the dallas game was because what they didn't do moreso than what they tried to do. If they ignored yao, attacked the rim, started the offense weakside and played defense, they beat dallas. They tried to force it to yao, ate up the shot clock, had to force a poor shot then couldn't defened. When u combine all that, u lose.
So Yao gets fronted today but the team doesn't make them pay for fronting Yao. And even when Yao had position sometimes, players ignored him in the post. Why doesn't the team make effective plays for Artest, Brooks, or Scola? It seems like if Yao gets fronted, the team becomes offensively impotent and can't do anything.
Totally agree. especially this one---- even when Yao had position sometimes, players ignored him in the post.
instead of opening a new thread, i just decided to bump this thread. can someone tell me what was our plan in game to counter the fronting? like i said, we still HAVE TO get yao the ball against a fronting defense. of course, we need other players to attack and make plays, but these 2 things are not mutually exclusive. i mean it's not like we currently have any allstar caliber wing players. so when yao is fronted, just to let others do their thing is not good enough. adelman needs to come with more. our chance of winning a game, when yao only has 6 shots and scores only 11pts, is not so good.
It's one thing that we tried to feed Yao the ball but failed, it's another thing that we did not even try. It seems to me our game plan is to use Yao as a decoy to draw the defense and let the other players take the jump shots. Does anyone honestly believe that we can win this series by going away from our best player and main weapon completely? Even the Blazers announcers pointed out that we did not even try once the fronting came. Pathetic.
temps to pass to Yao make defenders stick to Yao closer when Yao is fronted = open shots somewhere else totally ignore Yao when defenders front Yao or just pretend to front Yao = ? as long as Yao can firmly attract 2~3 denfenders, it's good enough. 11 points or even 1 point is fine. but if defenders know there will be NO ball coming as long as they stay within feet away from Yao, they will be happy with it, and even more leave good position to Yao to save energy.
So I guess holding roy to say 20 and aldridge to 17 wouldn't have helped out? Ok, what about holding the blazers to 44% vs 50+ wouldn't have helped either right?
It's unbelievable, after the whole season the fronting issue was never solved.... And it's the biggest issue of the team.
So the pg is the problem or the reason why the rockets lost eventhough they gave up almost 70 pts to 2 players and 51% shooting. Didn't u say brooks is the leading scorer and had a angry face behind it?
I got quite outraged about Adelman's strategy, if the answer to fronting Yao is to pass no ball to Yao. Each time, Yao fighted for a position, AB kept playing the ball until the Yao's position lost and then he kept running and hit the wall of portland. Damn it! Give the ****ing ball to Yao. Take a look at the portland guys in the paint, each got at least 4~5 fouls. It was just the time to let Yao beat them down. Under this circumstance, they would fear to foul and their defense would not be aggressive. Easy for YAO to score.~ What's the ****ing mind in Adelman's head to let AB keep running blindly?
again, this is not a thread to discuss why we won game 1 or lost game 2. this is a place to discuss how to counter the fronting defense on yao. you may think ab was not the problem at all, some may think he's part of the problem. why does that matter to this discussion? and yes i said ab so far is our leading scorer - in another thread. ain't that a fact? and yes, i do believe with ab being our leading scorer, our chances of winning a series are not so good, at least not as good as yao averaging 20+ pts. do you have a problem with that? and i've said it earlier - sometimes i feel ab to yao is like sammy to dream. btw, the face i put up in the other thread was this now look carefully. this face says "embarrassment", not "mad". in case you don't know. anyhow, this is all irrelevant to this particular thread. now go back to the thread and talk about the fronting defense, if you want to.
