he is a pussycat and he turns the ball over like crazy when he is pressured. accept he will never be great and just move on
that does not make sense at all. adelma has repeatedly said if yao is not doubled right away, ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK. you're putting words into adelman's mouth apparently. he said if teams double IMMEDIATELY as he touches the ball, any smart/intelligent player would pass b/c you're most likely trapped. but yao usually waits 3-4 seconds for the double team. that's too freakin' long. he cuold use that time and either do the fallaway or go baseline. 3-4 seconds are enough time to do your move.
Then it is on Adelman to draw up more effective plays to get Yao the ball in the post. JVG the supposedly inept offensive coach was able to do this. This "motion" offense has just resulted in a lot of bad shots by the guards and a lot of turnovers. It is a load of crap. Our offense is most effective when McGrady is isolated on the wing/elbow, when Yao is isolated in the post, or the two are running pick and roll. It is Adelman's fault for not drawing up effective plays because Yao is playing with more energy now than at any point since the knee injury.
and that could be francis. alston/james showed they can't penetrate to take advantage of this fronting defense or run the pick and roll effectively to get yao the ball. we need to have someone else besides tmac who can do that and that guy may be steve. gotta try it when tmac is on the bench and put steve out there and see what happens.
I singled Yao out because I feel he's the best player on the team and the guy to can best help the team win. Since Yao couldn't do anything on offense and defense while the Mavs cutting into the Rockets' lead, T-mac was put in the game. Even though T-mac missed shots and made bad decision of passing the ball to Alston and Yao, he tried to make something happen. The team was stagnant when T-mac had the ball on the right side. Instead of isolating T-mac, why didn't they run the pick-n-roll? The pick-n-roll with Yao and T-mac was their bread-n-butter in 05 playoffs against the Mavs. Please don't disrespect the past Rockets (Kenny Smith, Sam Cassell, Robert Horry) with the current group of Rockets.
What I highlighted pretty much has everything to do with how they handled the last few minutes of those games okay. I feel that the Rockets are depending on the other team to just roll over and play dead when they manage to build a big lead on them. For the most part, I really think that since the Rockets seem to play not to lose in 4th quarters most of the time, their opponents (no matter who it is) are going to keep thinking that they can just simply come back and win the game in the 4th quarter no matter how much of a lead the Rockets run up on them, and probably won't lose confidence at all about winning the game.
like i said, only 2-3 teams fronted yao last yr. if that is the case this yr, yao would get a ton of shots. JVG never faced fronting defenses EVERY game like yao is. i don't know the sudden fronting b/c lakers/jazz/spurs never did in the first 3 games and suddenly EVERY team fronts him.
What I see is that he takes about 2 seconds to see if any cutters open up in the lane and to see if he gets doubled. Then he attacks. This is entirely consistent with what Adelman has said. Yao is waiting for the quick double and if he doesn't get it, then he makes his move. If you try to make a move and the quick double comes and you're supposed to pass, then you will be more likely to commit a turnover. If he makes the move and just ignores the double and shoots, he'd be ok, but Adelman is telling him to pass out of the double teams.
there is no cutting when yao has the ball in teh post. zero. nada. the purpose of that is to give yao enough space to operate. yao will turn the ball over if the space he's occupying becomes congested. so why the hell wait? please, stop blaming adelman for this. even if u put pat riley who has coached big men, he wouldn't know how to stop fronting either, esp. with yao. he's just not mobile enough. why can't people get that? if this was shaq/howard, it's an alley-oop. hakeem would love the fronting D since his quickness is one of his assets.
There is a reason why only a few teams fronted. Don't you think the coaches who had Yao drop 35/15/7 on them thought about fronting him? Maybe they realized that JVG had his packages to deal with that? GS and Phoenix are exceptional because they simply doubled Yao off the ball and literally dared the other Rockets to beat them. If you remember Phoenix was forced to play behind him late in that April game because McGrady was torching them so badly.
They waste time trying to figure who was going to go 1 on 5,who was going to take the shot. James,head,wells come into the game and they don't balance out one another. If james is shooting wells doesn't play any defense because he feels he is in the game to score so why is there a need to play any D. When head shoots,james is only thinking about when he will get his next chance to shoot the basketball on the next offensive posession. They don't come into the game and build on the game plan because all 3 players feel that their calling card is scoring so they don't do the little things to cover for one another and inturn it creates a long jump shot and 1 of them decides that it isn't his responsibility to get back on Defense because his job is only to score. You have 3 players in the game with very low B-Ball IQ NO BALANCE
If the other team is fronting Yao, pass the ball to Scola who should cut to the free throw line area. He can knock down the open shots or take the ball to the rim. Once Scola has the ball, the defenders will instinctively focus on him. Then he can also lob the ball to Yao, who is now facing the basket with his man, the guy that's doing fronting, behind him. Triangle offense?
EXACTLY. that's another way to make teams pay for fronting yao. but we have to feed scola. but w/ hayes in there, pick and roll is a better play.
If Hakeem was so awesome against the fronting defense why did he struggle so bad against Seattle? That "illegal defense" Seattle played is legal defense now. One major problem I do see is that lob passes require coordination and frequently Yao and the guards are simply not on the same page. Yao will spin into the lane and the guards won't pass or Yao won't even make a move into the paint and the lob will come.
This all is beside the point because Yao rarley touched the ball on the low block against the mavs. They couldn't even get him the basketball ojn the low block,most of Yao's points came from screen and roll,put backs,jump shots. Rick adelman is the blame because Yao can't even get the ball in the freakin post to even see how he passes out of double teams. Right now Yao's points are coming from the perimeter. THERE IS NO LOW POST GAME
In that case, the Rockets needs to fire Adelman. I also puzzle when Yao drop the ball off to Alston or Head when they cut to the basket because these two guys aren't great finishers like Francis, T-mac or Bonzi Wells. Yao needs to watch how Bonzi Wells attacks defenders in the post.
YEP!!! The problem is Yao's mindset and physical limitation. I don't know if he's still believe in "I want to be the best center in the world" anymore. Mentally he's too nice so he end up thinking too much and fail to take risk at the right moment. At times he seem more worry about making mistake and getting yell at or disappointing his teammate rather than the single thought of dominating. Physically he's too slow in the faster system at both ends relegate his power useless. Dwight Howard will be the next big man very soon when the Magic do some damage in playoff.
