You are right in that aspect, but unless we completely get the post entry part down it's all meaningless. Also, dead eye shooters tend to be slow defenders, athletic dead eye shooters like Ray Allen don't grow on trees.
If Allen iverson replaces Tmac we are automatically 2nd round. He actually makes people better, because unlike tmac, he attacks the basket relentlessly. Look at all the philly players like korver, iguodala, green, etc... Look at their scoring efficiencies before and after AI left, it's night and day. He makes it easier for people to score. What's more, this season he is more efficient than Tmac and is shooting a higher FG%. Iverson doesn't take that many bad shots, all franchise guys take bad shots, but Iverson doesn't take any more than guys like kobe or tmac. The difference is that iversons bad shots are usually when he forces drives to the basket and Tmac's bad shots are when he forces up a long jumper. I'd take forced drives to the basket anyday over jumpshots because with drives, you have the chance for offensive rebounds and increased chances of getting fouled, while with jump shots you increase the probability of opponent fast breaks. Iverson is infinitely better than tmac because unlike tmac, he is very active off the ball, and his first option is always to attack the basket, when teams start fronting yao ming and running junk zones on us, iverson will make them pay by driving into a defence that is not prepared to stop him.
Rockets management failed to build around Yao with proper players and a proper coach. Jeff Van Gundy was the closest, but he can't coach offense and is too thick headed.
if we have these guys, we will build around them not yao. in fact we should probably get rid of yao in case of nash and get the likes of amare who fits nash better.
yao isn't amare stoudemire,dwight howard, and olujuwon in the post and rafer alston is not steve nash so the qeustion will always remain...so we gotta just roll with what we have and hope for the best
who cares about building around anyone. The Rockets may face a crisis at year end where TMAC may want out and Bonzi may leave. Whether you can't build around Yao or not he will be back next year. This team is not playing a style that fits its team make up, we don't have the athleticism and penetration to play up tempo, we need to change to a style that fits the team.
Don't mean that down the road we should not try to build a team to compliment a player. I think we should focus on having three prominent scorers whoever they are, including or excluding Yao. Yao is the most recent draft pic that we have let develop into a 20point 10 rebound player. The Rockets passed up draftees Richard Jefferson and Rudy Gay, because the team seems to focus on developed players. Lets not talk about rebuilding until the season is over.
It's easy if you wanna build around Yao . Just look at Magic . Their system is so simple . They give ball to Dwight inside , double team comes to Dwight and he pass the ball to Hedo - Rashard - Bogans . They're consistent 3-pointers and trustfull inside shooters , they dont need to drive too much but they're doin it when its needed. İf they're not in their shooting mood Dwight takes the night . T-Mac isnt the major problem . Our major problem is this brick shooters , Shane - Rafer - Bonzi . Same movie last night against Boston . Yao pass - Shane brick , Yao pass - Rafer brick , Head pass - turnover . So many people blaming Yao for not making assists . He's passing the ball , but our shooters ? I don wanna call them ''shooters''
Let's been realistic, it's not like you can just get all the good shooters come to Houston with cheap $$. Plus, good shooters need to be in their comfortable position to be good shooters, there is no guarantee they will remain as good a shooter when play with the Rockets. Yao is one of the slowest player in the league, if not THE slowest, that put a lot of pressure on other players to compensate this, e.g., the shooter needs to release the ball a lit quicker since the ball will be passed to them slower than they liked, etc. A team with Yao always requires more athletes to compensate his deficiency in that department, but it's very hard to fully utilize those speed and athleticism with Yao on the court at the same time, can you image Yao running up-down the court in the Sun's system? In theory, you can build a team around anyone in NBA, as long as you have a talent pool to choose from, but it's not as easier as you suggested, especially with a player as slow as Yao is. Teams can easily take him out of the game and force you play a different way, like the Warriors did.
The only good PG we could possibly get that can nailed shots and make good passes is Mike Bibby. Is he the right person? Anyway, I have great confidence in the old Yao that nailed %50+FG and unstoppable within 5-10 feet of the rim and would build around him. This year YAO is different. He is bricking shots at the paint but his FT is still gold. I hope he will be back to old Yao form soon.
I don't think people are blaming Yao for not making assists, more so his own 7-20 shooting for 19 points showing a lack of ability to carry the team. The role players were more than adequate last night if Yao has even an average shooting night.
