Brooks and Lowry will need to work on this then, because I'm sure neither of them have much experience with the timing of an alley-oop. MAYBE Lowry, with Rudy Gay, but idk.
There's a big difference between a defensive rebound and an offensive rebound (which this is). Yao is a really good defensive rebounder because of his size, it helps him to box out. His offensive rebound rate is not that great though. I wouldn't consider it a good idea to throw the ball off the backboard expecting Yao to go get it in the way you might expect that out of a Tyson Chandler or a Dwight Howard.
Anybody see that play in the Magic game where Wafer drove in and and put it really high off the glass, missed badly but the ball went right to Landry for the easy putback. Wafer was credited with a missed shot but I could swear Wafer was deliberately trying to pass it to Landry off the glass. There's too much luck involved in a play like that, its hard enough to make a perfect lob pass in traffic let alone try to figure out how the ball might bounce off the backboard. The Rox ought to practice perfecting the lob pass with Yao in motion to the basket first.
I'm pretty sure they can throw solid alleyoops, most pgs can, dont just count their experience at the NBA level, they probably also threw a lot in college and in high school.
If anyone noticed from yesterday's game that when Yao was fronted and doubled in the second half, there were couples of plays that Yao didn't even try to fight for his post, instead stood still, set a screen on the two palyers in front of him and let Ron or Wafer take the ball to the rim with much more room in the paint. Fronting isnt a bad thing.
I think It could work (with some practice). Bullard is always talking about just get the ball up on the glass and let Yao go get it. I used to think thats what rafer was trying to do with all those ugly floaters. This should be something that they should work on in training camp
Yao has problems reacting to rebounds that come straight to him - I'm finding it difficult to see how he'll react to a pass off the backboard (which would in itself would have no certainty of going where it should).
This is what I'm thinking too. Yao has a slow reaction time which leads to him not being able to snatch all the boards that come his way. It probably happens a couple times a game where Yao just throws out a hand at a rebound a lot of other players are able to grab. A pass off the backboard would essentially be the type of rebound Yao has the most trouble grabbing.
if yao is fronted and there is no weak-side defense preventing this pass off the backboard, why not just lob a normal pass into yao? why add the backboard difficulty?
Morey's team of statisticians have probably calculated the % chance of this actually working.....and its probably very low i'd rather have us try to make a contested jump shot with Yao in better position for a rebound than this
yea i like the creativity but seeing as how we have problems even feeding yao in the post against bigs with active hands and long arms..can't see this working
