So you're saying Battier played well tonight? His man Iguodala scored 20 points shooting almost 50%. Battier, on the other hand, gave us 5 pts and 4 rebs in over 30 mins. Your standards for a guy playing pretty well are low. Battier needs to be benched, because 5 and 4 is not enough from a starting 3 in the NBA. Those 30 mpg he's getting could be going to others who are more productive like Wafer and I'll even take Barry at this point over Shane. He played horribly again. Just admit it.
But AGAIN, Maggette gets to the line and gives himself a chance to score. I'll take that over our current scenario.
Rock I'm agreeing with you. I'm saying you can't really judge him by his play in Golden St. because of their style of play.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Adelman didn't use Yao, McGrady and Artest at the same time through most of the first three quarters, but then put them in to "bring it home" in the final quarter. That seemed to be a big reason why the offense became so dysfunctional at the end.
I can definitely see us winning a playoff series without Tmac or Artest. The talent and chemistry is there. But they would do so DESPITE Adelman not because of him.
I just want to point out about Magette, outside of one year where he only played 32 games, he has averaged 70 games played for his career. I think the truth is not as bad as the perception. DD
<br> Ok, I don't understand what the argument is about here.. I never said anything about JVG being the coach we need right now or whatever.. <br> I said that Rick is a terrible at drawing up plays, and his decision making is horrendous. His rotations are whacky, he can't ever draw up a last play, and he has allowed our defense to go down the gutter. <br> And yeah, I think that JVG is a better coach than Adelman at this point in their careers. But that isn't relevant to any of my points..
When I mentioned guards, I wasn't talking about only McGrady. I would have mentioned him specifically. But since you did ... The only guy who you could say had a great game is Scola. McGrady wasn't a -5 for nothing.
DISGUSTING AGAIN!!! Coach A- your substituition scenarios are POOR! To say the least! Again I see Selfish players looking only for their own shot! It is a Team game! BATTTIER- not effective on either ends of the court- which became obviouis very quickly into the game but of course our coach just stuck with it without any adjustments. Rockets games are no longer interesting because the ball is no longer going through Yao and Von Wafer is being ignored by the Coach.
Von Wafer being ignored, yes. Yao was just putrid tonight... But seriously, I demand that Wafer gets 25+ min. of burn every night. I don't care if that means Battier and Artest both get 20 min.
T-Mac to Golden St for Jackson, Maggette, and Brandon Wright or the other young big they have (the one that dunked on Yao and got a T for taunting). Reunite Jackson with Artest and his home area (relatively speaking). Goldent St would do it because the Rockets are taking Maggette's contract off their hands. You could also try asking for Jamal Crawford instead of Maggete or Jackson, but if Stephen is not part of the deal, I wouldn't do it.
What about his turnover when they were pressing. He simply didn't catch the ball.... And his defensive rebound when he just slapped the ball out of bound. Too bad those are tangible loss of possessions for Mr. Intangible.
<br> On the contrary, McGrady most definitely had a better game. If people would just stop "stat watching" (not pointing at you specifically) they would see this. Everyone knows the +/- stats are the most distorted stats in basketball. He did a good job of playing within the offense. He drove hard. Played decent D. He shot above 40%, and was perfect from the line. So he couldn't hit some shots after our "team" squandered away our lead... We should have never lost the lead in the first place <br> This was most definitely a loss because: 1. Most of the team played terribly (basically outside Tracy, Scola, and Battier) 2. Rick Adelman's coaching
Besides Boston (when TSlack didn't play), have we ever pulled one out recently with TSlack in the lineup? I'd say LOSER. Our team has a LOSER mentality. Especially Mr. It'sOnMeButI'veNeverMadeItOutOfTheFirstRound.
What the hell was up with the reffing on Yao today??? I mean, Dalembert was allowed to grab him, hold him, push blatantly in front of the officials, and he couldn't get a damn call. I mean, what more does he have to do!?? Its really frustrating that he only gets 4 free throw attempts during the game with all the fouling thats going on. Yao is seriously being penalized for being 7'6. Thats all there is to it. I don't like to blame a game on the refs, but with Yao, they blew it, once again!
Let me add this: On the last couple positions, you can see Yao is determined to score, drive, kick, eat the ball, or otherwise. Sure, he missed FT, but he had fire. Too bad the last play...
