your hope is very very very feasible. he has GOD-GIVEN talent, blocking shots and rebounding. CD pointed out thabeet has already these skills. can we move on to ask a little bit more?:grin:
I just hope someone is working with PatPat about defensive rebounding and free throw shooting at least as much as Thabeet. PatPat is a much more valuable player and any gains he makes will definitely be used in games.
I think not at this point. Thabeet needs to develop essential skills to get on court and to be valuable. Free throws, catching the ball, passing the ball, defensive rotations, leverage, and man to man defensive skills are what he needs to work on to see court. Teaching from strength builds confidence.
You're really reaching with all of these asssumptions. First, CD made it clear that Thabeet was sort of forgotten because they were focusing on Gasol. If thabeet hasn't learned much in the league it's not because he can't do it or didn't want to, but because Memphis didn't put in enough time with him. That may actually be a good thing because CD said he's willing to learn, so you just have to give him some attention and there should be an improvement. Second, CD has been around for quite a while. He's coached a lot of different players from various ages. I'd be surprised if he didnt know how to coach Thabeet, even if Thabeet is new to bball. It sounds more like he's picking at his thoughts to figure out the best way to coach him and build a personalized coaching approach for Thabeet. That doesn't mean he's lost, but rather gathering necessary info, which seems to be CD's usual approach to coaching. That's a great thing to hear because you can't coach every the same way and CD seems to know that. Like he mentioned, you can lose a player otherwise. Third, none of that means Thabeet is necessarily a slow learner. It sounds like CD was starting with the very basic things to find out what he knew and didn't. I'm pretty sure if he got blake girffin in there he'd start with the same questions and come out with the same basic conclusions. Simply watching game film doesn't tell you everything you need to know about a player's fundamentals, especially when there isn't much game film of that player in the NBA. also, keep in mind this was only a quick session, 1 hr and 45 mins. CD could easily spend 30 mins just talking to him, maybe more. FT talk and practice could easily be up to 20 mins, also maybe more. Like CD said, it went by pretty fast. Don't expect him to come out with a highly detailed analyis of every part of thabeet's game from this practice.
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=32861 Not exactly but you can sneak into it and found what Dawson's reaction regarding about yao
It is a link to the draft workout for 65 team reps. CD didn't get to work with Yao, that day. I meant for Dawson's training session with Yao, like Thabeet.
i don't disgree what you said. my point has also been pointed in my original post. i said he might be a newbie to bbal or he might just get lost in bball (in other words, DNA doesn't allow him to play bball). c'mon. we are not in a summer kids bball camp. we can't aford to spend years and years to develop him. yao, from every espect except his height, is not born to play bball so he had to spend his whole childhood and his teenagehood to develop himself to the current level. if we only ask thabeet to be good enough to stay on the court after millions years development, i am fine with it but it doesn't make any sense to me. we have way more important things to do. we are looking for a title run. is it very impossible to find a center whoes job is to spare a few minutes for a starting center?
We just got him. He's on the active roster, which means he's flying out with them, attending regular practices and anything else the team asks him to do. I imagine CD has other things to do as well and it sound slike he had to do some reasearch on him first too. If this came together within 3 weeks of acquiring him in mid-season, then i'd say they're going about it quickly enough. I would guess during the summer it would develop a lot more quickly and frequently.
there was a play last nite. one pacers' big dribbled around him. he watched pacers's big and was trying to use both his hands and just didn't know what to do with his hands. he didn't know move his feet and didn't know to raise both hand straightup. he was completely lost in that play.
sorry. i searched the internet briefly and can't find one. but you can see how CD was excited after just watching yao's drills.
How bout we don't worry about what else the Rockets have to do, and what Thabeet can and can't do at this point. The Rockets know how to allocate their energies for the current team and to help their players improve for the future. Let the Thabeet thing play itself out, give him the summer working in the weight room and with CD and lets just see what happens. If you don't have any expectations he won't disappoint. If Thabeet improves in 2 years with the Rockets as much as he did at UConn, he'll end up a serviceable players. That's all any of us can really hope for at this point, a guy who can give you quality minutes providing defense and rebounding. The last thing I would want to worry about with respect to Hasheem's game is offensive output. CD is retired btw, so the fact that he is spending time with Hasheem doesn't take away from the coaching the rest of the team is receiving, this is after practice extra work.
Also sounds like a new player who knows he has limited PT and is trying to play mistake free, which often will just result in mistakes. There has to be some nerves creeping up on him, especially playing back in Houston.
It's ok. I think you might have a problem there, now that I think about it. From what I remember, JVG didn't want CD to work with Yao. He only wanted TT to work with Yao, so that he would not get confused. I think CD didn't get to work with Yao, until Adelman came along. By that point, Yao was already a 20/10 player.
Good to hear about the session. The Beat is a project and if he turns out to be useful next year it would be a great trade. It's not like Battier was going to be useful next year for the Rockets. He is a free agent and he was replaces with players that are doing well for the team. If The Beat can block shots, rebound and do a little be of eating up the paint defense wse, then it would be great. CD is not saying The Beat is the 2nd coming of anyone. He will not be much use this season and was not meant to be. CD changed his FT style! That is quick for 1hr 45min. The Beat is willing to learn. That is a great sign. The Grizzles ran Gasol 1st and then The Beat got left behind. I think by next season this BBS will be saying what a steal this trade was to get a center out of nothing (even a decent backup center is better then what they have now). (Yes, Battier is good but wasn't helping a lot this season and is a free agent next year).
