Other than Ron and Hayes, there is no defense being played on this team. ITs just sad. and the princeton offense is gone
That doesn't tell the entire story......it is also the players that are on the court with you at the time..... Scola can at least score the ball...and box out for rebounds better. The team took off last year on the winning streak when Chuck went out of the rotation for a bit and Scola and Landry played more. DD
That doesn't matter !!!! Did you see T-Mac not even put a hand up when he went after Roy .....Just lazy !!!!!!!!
I thought that dunk would spark us but Ron got over agressive on Roy, and Roy blew past him and got an assist. I know it's early but I have been disappointed in Brent Barry.
At the same time alridge was destroying scola earlier, it was crunch time and who knows how the pressure would have gone to alridge's head. He did miss two FT's late in the game. scola on the other hand, has big game experience with him this past summer. TMac was getting trapped half the time with chuck inside. How does is not scoring any better than trading baskets?
ahhh, ok, i do remember a game we shouldn't have won costing us a spot in the draft. of course, looking at the box score, how in the hell did we win? keith bogans, mutombo, wesley, alston, and juwan howard in the starting lineup? with hayes and bowen on the bench. with bogans and alston shooting 10-32? it doesn't seem like you should even need to throw that game. but of course jvg just had to win it, while minnesota has mark madsen throwing up 487 3 pointers in their final game.
Scola was getting eaten alive trying to defend Aldridge, whereas Chuck basically shut him down. I think that's the only reason Adelman went away from Scola. He had a very good game otherwise.
We all know that Chuck can play D but has no offense !! When he is on the court you have to decide what you want out of him !!!!!! UGHHHHHHHH I can' t and won't sleep tonight !!!!!!!!
It was Artest job to switch. Both T-mac and Artest did jump. Just face it, it was a great shot Roy made. End of story.
I understand the whole bit about Scola playing more and the team winning. BUT their are certain instances when matchups are unfavorable and tonight was obviously one where Scola could not match the LA's length. It is apparent to all but you...
It was a great shot but I rewinded it 100 times and T-Mac did not put a hand up !! Artest just looked and Yao just stood there !!!!!!! I hate Roy !!!!!
The rockets really have some issues. Hayes is our best post defender in the post but has no offense. When you gets knocked around he gets down and discouraged. TMAC just does to many isos, give the ball to him and let him create, then teams figure it out and the end and start to send double teams. This team is not ready for a championship run
Yao looks hurt out there. Maybe not any particular area, but he has no ups. Not even an inch. It looks like he gets shorter when he tries to jump. He doesn't look particularly winded; despite the heavy minutes I haven't seen any of those doubled-over Ming poses he used to frequently do for JVG, because JVG would have him defend the guards on PnR's. Nowadays Ming just sits under the basket, doesn't get 3 seconds called on him bc the refs respect him too much, and just half-heartedly bats at any driver that comes his way, MAAAYBE gets on his tippy toes once or twice a game. We don't need Yao out there. We did ok in spurts he sat. If he needs a game like tomorrow's to take off, we should let him have it. One loss is not going to outweigh having an ineffective or injured Yao Ming the entire year. And if this is the best he can muster out there, he doesn't belong on the court anyways.
Ron has done a great job on defense this year, but that is affecting his shooting %. There was a reason why Reggie Theus didn't always let Ron guard the toughest opponent in Sacramento. Ron isn't Michael Jordan who could lock down a great player and also score 30 ppg. If he has to guard a great player, then he should be posting up and getting to the free throw line, instead of taking too many contested jumpers. I'm not bashing Ron in any way, I love the man's hustle, desire, and determination. I'm just saying to make life easier on himself, he should post up more, until Battier comes back to give him a break from defense occasionally. Its a long season, and he's trying to do too much on the offensive end. Tmac kept us in the game again, and I'm really impressed with him driving to the basket and also his improved FT%. Brooks was a spark off the bench as well. This kinda reminds me of Kenny Smith aging and Sam Cassell emerging in 95-96. Rafer is more experienced, but Aaron Brooks is outplaying him in every facet of the game, including making plays. Yao just hasn't looked right the last couple of games. I thought it was just one game vs. Boston, but he looks tired or maybe he lost some lower body strength while he was injured, and maybe did not get to rehabilitate it completely before the Olympics. I hope he's not hurt already, because I haven't seen him play back to back games this way since 05. Hopefully he isn't hurt and he can just clear his head and just play. I think he's just thinking too much. The rebounding is starting to worry me a lot now. I'm thinking we need to atleast give Dorsey as shot...we need some physicality down low and some intimidation. Ron brings that on the perimeter, but Landry doesn't play physical, Scola, Hayes, and Yao are physical, but they aren't mean, but Dorsey is somebody who's willing to knock somebody to the ground when they drive in or give an elbow here or there. I know its early, but that rebounding is going to kill us come playoff time, so its better to get it fixed right now. As far as the last shot, I don't have a problem with Yao guarding the inbounds passer, because I would much rather let a guy take a 27 ft turnaround 3pointer with less than a second to go, instead of a closer, possibly cleaner look. Brandon Roy just made a great shot. I would be much more pissed off if they got a turnaround 15 footer, or a lob pass to somebody like Outlaw. Make them take a tough shot. If he were to shoot that shot 99 more times, more than likely he misses a majority of them. I might have double-teamed Roy, that might have been the only thing I would have done differently. If Roy misses the shot, Kenny and Chuck wouldn't even bring up the fact that Yao was guarding the inbounder. Yao took away the easy 2 point option, which is what we wanted him to do. If this was a more experienced team, they would've beaten us much earlier in the game, and it wouldn't have gone to OT. They were a young team that let us back into the ball game. Tmac isn't right athletically. He can't move laterally. Even on offense, he is going up and down with his moves (which is working for him, so I hope he sticks with that), but on defense, he can't keep up with anybody right now. Thats something we'll have to live with until Battier comes back. But just remember, without Tmac, we aren't even in this game. For the 2nd game in a row, he's been the only one being able to carry us.
Scrubola is outmatched against starters. We already have one big slow guy, we dont need two. He scores, but thats about it. He is a black hole when it comes to passing in the paint.
DaDa, I agree with you most of the time but Scola was getting MURDERED by Aldridge. Now I do agree that Chuck was left out there a bit too long but we clearly needed someone to cool Aldridge down. It worked.
