It was a figure of speech buddy. Steve Francis was their starting point guard for the last 5 years. He is representative of their fastbreak. I didn't mean every second of every game. Come on.
but he did miss a number of games couple of season's ago, and the team was horrible without him, right? So where was the fast break, better team work then? The point is you cannot blame SF alone for the failure of the Rockets for the past several years. Everyone should share the blame, includes Rudy T. and JVG.
I did notice that JJ can run a fastbreak ten times better than Steve. He was even able to get his teammates layups on the 2 on 1 fast break! Yeah, he sucks at throwing alleyoops to Cat though.
Also, did anyone else notice that when Mark Jackson came into the game, no matter how slow he is, our break was much better?
well it only took about 70 posts but ding ding ding, we finally have a ****ing winner. anyone who thinks we were missing out on fast breaks while jvg was gesturing should get their eyes examined. all he wanted was to start the offense earlier, even though it just meant waiting for yao. and i'm sure if we had set up early and had early offense and didn't wait for yao to get down there and run "jvg's offense", i'm sure everyone would've praised steve for that. good for you steve, getting the early shot w/o yao getting down there, we love you! as for other matters in this thread. steve is not good on the fast break. he doesn't make good decisions, this is apparent. he seems to fear making even a semi-difficult pass (the kind kidd makes look easy) for fear of a turnover. he's not good at it. ok. in the atlanta and chicago back to back games where we had double digit 4th quarter comebacks in each (jj's buzzer beater then a 2 OT game against atlanta) the rockets went from being dead in the water to running and gunning with yao out and steve and cuttino basically bringing energy and an uptempo spirit to the game. there wasn't a whole lot of fastbreaking necessarily (or if there were they were breakaway 1 on none's or some such where decisions weren't really required) but we did go uptempo and it worked very well. even w/o great fastbreaking ability they did manage to be uptempo and successful (against weak opponents admittedly, but they that's what the eastern conference is all about). when they were let free a little and out of the confines of bring it up, set it up, give to yao, they had some success. those weren't the only times it worked, just the two that stick out. so saying they can't go uptempo, especially with possibly players more suited for it, is not undeniably right. it's not sure that they will be uptempo, it's just that it has worked. rudy was never much for the fast break and jvg certainly wasn't. i mean, brake check was stealing money they donated so little for our fast break points last year. weren't we either dead last or 2nd to last in fastbreaks last year? considering the number of 2 and 4 fastbreak point games we had whereas we didn't the year before, it's hard to paint jvg as the victim here. wasn't one of the big complaints about jvg's knicks their insistence on running a half court offense in the face of having smaller, quicker players more suited for breaking? i know spree could get out every once in a while but wasn't the insistence on going to ewing all the time a complaint back then (and possibly a reason the ewing theory started, once ewing went out they did try running more and it worked better).
Thank you. I was going to bring up that Atlanta game when they had to take Yao out, and all of sudden we have an uptempo team that came back to win. Funny how that works.
