If you start aggressive, and play consistantly, you will be tolerated throughout the game to a certain physical level. If you attack right in the bigging, you will get calls down the road. Look at Railey's team, they always push to their limits and the refs' limits.
probably the same knuckleheads who dissed the mjackson pick up and weatherspoon pick up are whining crying and stomping their feet now right now. 40 or not. look at those ghetto guns! athletes like oakley and malone redefine the perception of "veteren"
I liked Mark Jackson, and I like Weatherspoon, I don't like Oakley. However if he toughens up the team and gets them to play smarter, then I will be happy we got him. Anything...JUST GET TO THE PLAYOFFS. DD
Recently Yao has been called 2 fouls in the first quarter. And Cato, MoT are always being called a lot of fouls. I don't think our post defense is soft, they were always quite physical. Refs are just too rough on Rox.
heh, Fouls have nothing to do with being tough I could go out there and foul out as an enforcer under that definition. Our post defense IS soft. Did you not see Amare? He didn't even get fouled hard once. Hopefully Oakley will let other teams know.
Maybe it's too late to say, but actually I would rather to have Ming go strong and aggressively in the beginning. Even if those refs' call two offensive fouls on him. Ming should just continue and dare them to call his 3rd or 4th offensive fouls. And the whole team should step up to the intensity. Consistant aggressive team gets rewarded with calls.
Come on he has 6 fouls to give One thing he can do is lay out some people and take the foul to teach Yao to be tuff and teach other teams to not push the rockets around. We really don't have any toughness on our team when you look at it.
Does this mean that the Rockets have given up on winning the NBA championship and are now planning to play wheelchair basketball?
He'll be a GREAT help if the Rockets can somehow convince opposing teams to pause or slow down their press long enough to allow Oakley to make it up the court within the 24 second time limit...which should be a piece of cake for him in his wheelchair.
Hopefully, Oakley will get the calls from the refs because he'll need it. He's probably going to be dishing out some really hard fouls in the paint. If the refs favor Oakley, they won't call those fouls flagrant like when Cato whacked Pau Gasol really hard across the arms.
exactly....6 brutual fouls to give and push some players around and imagine having a PF who could get some rebounds......just a few, but it is a 10 dayer so everyone chill...who else is out there...he is a perfect 10 day candidate.... I feel bad for GS, SAC and Portland....this is the testing period and you know he will be in full form....if it helps us get three wins on the road then I am down it is worth the 5k per game or whatever a vet gets on a 10dayer
Oakley is now the toughest guy on our team. On the plus side, this means we finally have a tough guy. On the down side, this means Charles Oakley is now the toughest guy on our team.
Oakley is a smart guy. He will assume the same role for the Rockets as Rick Mahorn did for the Pistons. If someone starts roughing up Yao, Van Gundy will send Oakley in to settle the score. Who cares if he gets fined or suspended.
I was on board from Day 1 with both MJax and Spoon. But this is a very bad move. At this point in his life (note I intentionally didn't say career...that's been over for years), Oakley will be far less productive than Cato For the record, Oakley never averaged a double-double for TOR. His best TOR season was his 3rd and last and it took him 35 mpg to get 9.6 & 9.5 (6.9 & 6.8 year 2, 7.0 & 7.5 in 32.7 mpg in the strike shortened season). That was in the EC, it was 3 years ago and he was 37.
Come guys, you know he'll bring some toughness, no matter how old he is...I bet he's still in great shape and can put the hammer on someone when we need it...
