From the game tonight, we showed up as a basketball with: No offense No Ball Movements No Defense No Chemistry No Teamwork No Superstars No hope
Yea i kno they have a long way to go but cmon it takes time and all these knee jerk reactions of blowing up the team is insane. Tmac can be great when he wants to b. Artest just needs to find his role on the team, and Yao is the most dominate center in the league, and people wanna blow up the team. That is absolutely insane. we have found our PG in AB. Shane battier, the glue guy, is still out. Their r still positives.
Im not gonna lie, I think im a curse, there just is no easy way to say this. I didnt catch the Clippers game and we win, I watched Celtics,Portland we lose. I turned on the game when it was 32-16 and then it was downhill for me after that. I went to opening night and that was pretty rough to.
I love seeing brooks, artest and landry out there lets get a tough scoring sg and a tough defensive center and we'll be good to go. i just cant stand soft yao and lazy mac anymore... rip hamilton and sheed for tmac and yao
We had a 16 point lead in the 1st half so what you said isn't true. We just couldn't keep up with what you listed. But we started out with good offense,good ball movement, pretty good defense, good chemistry, and good teamwork. I won't say good superstars though.
It's more logical that yao isn't up to speed yet with nba basketball then to think all of a sudden the leagues big men are too fast for him. it's possible that his injuries have severely impacted him but I seriously doubt it. There's no way yao is too slow for the game, not when the last 5 years defiantly proves completely the opposite. let's see what happens in the next month.
I'm not being negative and blowing the team up but we need T-Mac to play like he always has year in year out. Yao is not 100 percent and Rafer....well I'll just shut up so I won't be negative. The team just looks lost out there and damn how many offensive rebounds are we gonna give up !!!!
Yao did not get "owned" by Bynum. Yao has looked bad this season, but it wasn't because of Bynum tonight. Honestly, Bynum still didn't impress me one bit. It's like Charles Barkley said -all he can do is dunk open shots he is suppose to dunk like everyone else in the league should be doing. The 21yr old got beat down the floor several times by Yao which should never happen to Bynum. Outside of playing well for one month last year, in his career he has looked like a more athletic version of Eric Dampier than the Laker's saviour. Trust me-even at his worst including tonight, Yao has always been a better player than Bynum has ever been in his career. Maybe that changes 4 years from now, but up to and including tonight, Yao has never been owned by Bynum.
I agree he could still be hurting but the other bigs are much faster !! Lokk at Howard, Bynum, Gasol, Odom, Stoudamire !! Much more athletic and quick ! Yao plays his own style and it works but damn sometimes I just want him to be more aggresive !! I Love Yao but he needs to heal or step it up a notch ! Watch the next game he is always a step behind when he is getting back on defense !!
He also gets mugged and hacked all day long and the refs just look away until Yao's on defense and just breathes and foul
I agree. Bynum might have canceled out Yao tonight (with a lot of help), but by no stretch of the imagination did he "own" anyone. He played 7-8 more minutes than Yao and had to have a help defender on Yao at all times (whether sneaking up from behind or pestering him on the front and sides). He had a not-so-good shooting night, and scored his points and got his boards when Yao was on the pine for the most part. He was actually pretty pathetic when he was on Yao, compared to what I thought it would be considering Yao's recent stretch and the uber-hype of Bynum. At best, he might have canceled Yao out tonight, but not by himself. But, seriously Yao, what the hell is going on?
Now thats a different story ! I always say if I was Yao I couldn't take it I would have to get in the refs face a lot ! Yes Yao gets hacked at least 10 times a game just look at his arms !!!!
yea but at least francis could still come true to 85% of what he used to be, tmac will never be a superstar again i doubt he even averages 20ppg this year,yao isnt gonna get any faster or jump any higher, but maybe francis 8% of his former self that still has a little hope seing how hes just comng off surgery for a nagging injury and he wasnt playing horrible while playing through it. I think just after that phoenix game last year i just dont wanna give up on stevie he has a little something trust me.Hoping for the best rafer is not what we need when we have a 7'6 guy in the paint commanding double teams everytime and the double team stays because our pg shoots 20% from deep so why bother to run out
