Just give the damn ball to BATTIER! because battier passes the rock to yao so fast the ball looks blurry! and battier loves to give the ball to yao.. i dont know about the others..
That's all nice and fine, but I'm not asking for an explanation. I didn't try to explain why they didn't pass to Yao either. We have a problem and whatever the reason is, we still have a problem. We went away from our big man for the game, we did it the game before, we did it the game before that. If it just was one night, this thread wouldn't exist. I agree. Yao played 30 seconds short of the entire 3rd quarter on a back to back. He was tired. Absolutely true. But saying Kurt Thomas got the best of him is like saying Balkman and David Lee played better than Yao after he played 36 minutes in the game already, when Yao dominated them both with the exception of the last 3 minutes of the game. Also, I would argue a tired Yao is better than the rest of the team. We don't just jack up 3's any more. We jack up 3's when we aren't hitting them. At no point in time did anybody stop to think, "wait a minute, this isn't working. Maybe we should go back to the guy who got us back in the game in the first place." That never happened. Know what's funny though, when I was watching the game, I heard 2 people in the arena saying "Yao, Yao" on every possession (offensive) when we first went away from him. Even the fans in Phoenix figured it out, apparently our team still hasn't. Mark Blount isn't a good low post defender. I agree. I'm not trying to say he is. What I am saying is that he did a better job in one single game than Kurt Thomas did. Veteran or not, it won't guarantee you will play well every game. Go back and watch the game again. Yao got basically the same position he did on Thomas as he did on Blount. The best position would be deep in the low post. The worst position was closer to the arc because they pushed Yao out because the pass never came. And that really is the difference. The pass never came. Of course, there is Rafer's brain farts. Yao is pushing deeper into the paint. Let me pass it right out of bounds. Unfair? I don't think so. If they didn't give Yao those pathetic calls early in the game, he wouldn't have been in foul trouble to start. The Amare high-five would have been inconsequential. It's not that Yao's fouls weren't fouls as much as they don't call it on anybody else. Over the back on Amare on the offensive board? It was an over the back (just barely), but they didn't even call that on trash like Kandiman. Foul on the Amare and1? That's as much of a touch foul as you can get. The only thing worse than having no justice is having unfair justice.
Normally I'd agree with you. But the Suns game, it wasn't the case. He didn't get the ball and pass back out. He just didn't get the ball at all.
aaahhh hyperbole gotta love it when used as a tactic in a discussion. want me to do the same thing I did to the "Sura doesnt pass to Yao" crowd a year or so back? he had a decent number of "touches" , not as many as he had been getting previously to tha game....my main complaint with the Yao situation was they didnt try harder to RE-post.
