Mavs game, Rockets Strategy (and a few of Yao's own words 1 hour ago)

I am quite happy with the outcome of tonight's win. A Win is a Win; last season it was really frustrating to watch Rockets losing to scrubs.

Coming up MAVs will be the first real test. My hunch is this game will be a real close-up. I am counting on JJ to put up some numbers, Mobley will continue his impressive performance.

Lastly, I will be damned if this has been posted, but here is what I dug out from big dude's own BBS:

His original words

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Translated non-verbatim:

After reading your guys' posts, I have one thing to say: the opening of this game is very important. In a basketball game both sides would like to play it within their own rhythm. This is why sometimes we say today we follow the opponents, this is the upper hand of the game. Cows/Mavs have a faster rhythm than us, they like playing pick n' roll (?) and fast break offence(?). In a nutshell, they attack before you establish the position. We will counter their half-court game with our determined defense and rotary defense (?); also try to improve our FG%, this will leave them without much counter-offence. Last thing is rebounds. I am off to bed now. Tomorrow we head to Dallas, I will catch you guys in a few days.

 

Mine is more about MAVs game