People need to realize this isn't the 90s, 80s and 70s anymore. You can't rely on post players to do everything anymore. The double standard of wings and post players are laughable, but that's just the way it is. They prefer having wing players dominate and punish other guys for being too tall. Just the way it is now. Sad, but it is.
Wow. I showed up after the Rockets won. I've been here all season. Again, I didn't say I completely agreed with the OP. Again, those are the limitations I'm talking about.
Chill out. The guy brought us out of round one and got us the Game 1 win. He was playing injured today. He can't do it alone.
Agreed, it was the perimeter threat that enabled Shaq to operate with more freedom down low, that was the theory with having both Yao and McGrady. Assuming that McGrady does not play again, what player out there would fit this role for the Rox?
Yes, and if you think it's automatically right? You got your opinion, I got mine. Neither of us are using logic anyways. Yes, and let's wait and see what happens next year when he stops playing in the off-season for china all the time. Yao Ming's game is built for the playoffs but his size and height hurts and limits him. That's just the way it is.
dream had sammy and kenny, let alone horry or max. outside of ron, tell me who do we have right now with the guards?
Yao isn't a problem. The talent and heart is there. I'm not blaming him for losing any games. Just that his stamina is a limitation we have to acknowledge and plan for. Yao is a winner. Too bad his body isn't cooperating. We NEED a backup C.
did u watch the first round? u do know the lakers were very scared of brooks going into this series right and phil had to make adjustments? our bench is ridiculously good w/ lowry and wafer. we have A TON of talent. we just dont' have someone to counter kobe.
even prime shaq has kobe and wade.yao need his man,hope we can get it.then we will be an amzing team.or even this season ,if we have healthy t-mac,we can match up good with lakers,if we trade him for billups and prince,we can beat him.
It's extremely hard and I doubt many other will be able to do it BUT... Hakeem did do exactly that when the ROckets won the first championship in 93-94. Drexler wasnt on board until the next year. Hakeem was required to play 45+ minutes a game and create on every single trip down the court and play defense too. But then again Hakeem was a freak of nature.
Ding ding ding ding! We have the answer to all of our problems on the sidelines. Siigh. God I miss T-Mac.
Some of you guys have absolutely crazy expectations for Yao Ming. The last big man to ever win with no all-stars is Tim Duncan and before that guy was Hakeem Olajuwon. I hope you realize those guys were one of the most mobile big men of all-time especially Hakeem and his athletic ability. Yao Ming just needs a break from basketball in the off-season and he also needs teammates to help him out. Yao cannot win by himself, no player currently in the playoffs can do that anymore.
Everybody knows we need another perimeter player who can create his own shot. That isn't a knock against Yao. Even Shaq couldn't win a title by himself, he needed two of the best perimeter players in the league (Kobe and Wade) to help space the floor and take some of the offensive load off of him. This current Rockets team is overachieving due to heart and great defense but that doesn't change the fact that we either need a healthy McGrady OR a player of that type that can create his own shot off the dribble.
And that was the 90's were checking was allowed and people were tougher. I love Yao but he isn't comparable to the basketball legend that hakeem was.
Yao has to guard Gasol, and Gasol's quickness and jumpshot is allowing him to score on Yao. Meanwhile, they're constantly running pick and rolls, and Yao doesn't have the lateral quickness to keep up with all the quick slashing and stuff...and he can't go too far out, or he'll get blown by. we can't take yao out, because then we wouldn't have enough of an inside presence against the lakers. no shotblocking. plus, nothing offensively either. still, even offensively, we haven't been able to get the ball to yao, and even with that open up opportunities elsewhere, we didn't capitalize on any, we just didn't score, even though we have some good offensive players, we don't have that d-wade, carmelo, (who else is a scorer..ginobili...devin harris..) type of guy. i do think brooks has a problem. i think he might be better with the 2nd unit. he has no court vision, he doesn't set people up, and he likes to drive, and that's harder to do with the starting unit that clogs up space.
