I concur, you damn well know he wanted Yao with that ball. I bet 4/5th's of everyone here saying Adelman's fault is a T to the Apologist Mac.
Yao was actually on clutch mode so that last play shouldve been lined up for him inside so atleast he could draw a foul. Foul was almost guaranteed with the way samuel was playing Yao all game long. Tons of contact and bumps, even at the point of release. It was a team effort in getting themselves in that position and were lucky to atleast have a chance to draw it at the end. I was a big fan of artest but Im convinced he is harming more than helping the cause. He shoots like rafer yet takes the most shots. He should take shane's selective approach, and only drive or take wide open shots. We cant have 2 macs when we cant even handle 1. Also as rusty as Yao was, I felt they could've done better establishing Yao earlier on. Hope things will get better soon.
Yao has definitely been more physical this year instead of settling for fadeaways and outside shots. He just doesn't match up well against strong, athletic, physical players well
Anyone who thinks this loss should blamed on mcgrady is really ignorant. First of all, it was a designed play by adelamn (horrible play, clydes play was dead on) which yao was suppose set a pick and mac shoot for the game winner. Unfortunatley yao doesent know how to set a pick and tmacs shot was blocked. Tmac looked nice out there, and I too am about to trade artest for a pg. Bibby and Marvin williams for artest?
At the present moment this team is not only not very good, their defense is so bad they give opposing teams a lay up drill and they are offensively challenged, but, worse, they are boring. This coach and his assistants are in trouble, this team is completely out of sync and that is a leadership issue. Putting the right players on the floor at the right time and developing the right game plan and plays to be effective is the coaches job. Something is terribly wrong in River City.
Um, what about the ten first quarter points (eight by TSlack's man and two by Miller) where they drive right around TSlack. And another play where his man drive around TSlack, Yao has to come and help leaving a wide open dunk underneath. He should be called Tracy McGray because he has no D.
i didn't write that like i should have...i meant he hustled back on D 3 times to prven THREE fast breaks, not that he hustled back on d and then later prevented a fast break. He wasn't even the closest guy to the play and he still went 94 ft each time and forced a tough layup and they rolled out, that's 6 easy points he practically wiped out. The point is some guys have complete bad nights, couldn't do anything right, but battier isn't that guy, there's always sumn he did well, because he goes out of his way, above and beyond, to make something happen when most guys wouldn't even think about it, much less act on it, but its not recognized much because disrupting a fast break isn't as glamorous as hitting a 3 in someone's face or dunking on a center....
it's not about the last play....it's about how in hell we could blow out our lead and end up losing every single time? damn,,,,,our defense has been killing us lately,,,opponent team keeps driving and penetrating at will. with yao out, our defense is fairly painful to watch. if our offense isnot clicking at that time, we know we are done that game. hope we can get some D up and big 3 can gel eventually.
While everyone's expectations of the Rockets are low as of now, I'll go ahead and say that this team will eventually get it together. It's just a hunch I have, even if they completely choked tonight. I don't wanna be one of those fans that wait only when things are going good to support them.
as for Yao and his clutchness, there's were some stats posted either by the chronicle or mentioned during a game, maybe both, about how he picked it up in the 4th....the problem is his post game isn't effective when he's crowded, so he's not that effective in last second shots, and sometimes not even in the final 2 mins. He usually does his damage from about 8 mins to 3 mins in the 4th....but its up to adelman to recognize when he can be effective (and pound the ball to him every time) and when he can't (and have him use his teammates)...
well the inbound play had a variety of variations, so whoever got the ball was basically going to be the one to shoot the shot/drive in for the layup, but when mcgrady saw that dalembert was on him, he wanted to isolate him and the ball got tipped, tough break. ROCKETS FAN TIL I DIE.
and maggette is great at getting to the line, but he does have a tendency to dominate the ball and shoot bricks, he's similar to Artest in that manner....he was having some issues earlier in the season about not getting the ball enough, but now he looks to have settled as a sixthman..
I understand why you are saying this, and it might happen, but something tells me that this a collection of players, coaches, and organization people who just aren't compatible. There is something "systemically" wrong with this team and I don't think time will fix it. But I hope you are right.
The LAST thing we need on the ROCKETS is more INJURY-PRONE players. No way IN HELL I would try Artest for a player that will probably strain his hamstring getting out of the airplane. We NEED players that are DURABLE, not old and brittle, we already have those (Yao and T-Mac)
It's a stat he considers but not his sole one. People get enamored with offense but never comment on defense. That is where I think his -5 is mostly coming from.
