Scary plays against Utah reminiscent of Yao's injury

You can't play the game worrying about geting hurt. Of course, things happen that routinely scare the heck out of me, but you just live with it.

 

I think Yao have to do this at that time. No choice.

 

Yea i remember seeing that, and i stood up cuz from where i was sitting i was sure he slid into Yao's knee.

 

Good Observation! Hope Yao be aware of it.

 

yao: don't jump! we don't want to see you land on battier or hayes and injure your ankle or knee.

 

Yeah, I noticed this exact same thing ever since Yao came back.

And YES, it is absolutely something he and the team should be aware of and definitely strategize about. This is not some freak play, this is part of the ROX defensive scheme...and if not checked, it could systematically cause injury to one of our stars. They need to talk about this and work it out, that's without question.

 

i was just thinking, that if this happen so many times, what if that tim thomas play, was just a freak accident?

 

This thread deserves 5 stars. Someone please let Rockets coaching know.

 

Hayes is an out of control player. While he plays with alot of energy and hustle he is very limited in the talent area. The only way he can compete is to be everywhere and to put himself in positions where he can create problems. However, all that being said, he is is not able to control his body in a professional manner.

He has caused 2 injuries this season to major players...both centers...Shaq and Yao. Basically these guys are too big to move quickly away from a flailing body like Hayes when he flys out of control.

Just ask any professional ballplayer. They refrain from playing against non-pros in the summer time because guys are always out to prove something to them and in their attempt to beat or compete they play in a way that puts other people at risk. Fonde has even made adjustments that keep pros away from want to be's.

Hayes is pretty entertaining but he is careless with his body and there were a few times in the Utah game where he was on the floor in the paint. It is only a matter of time before he injures someone else.

 

So basically, you want Batt and Chuck to stop taking charges if they are near Yao, who lives in the paint?

Chuck and Batt both took two charges in the game against Utah - of course one of them was called a foul on Batt, but that's besides the point - which gave us a scoring opportunity and took one away from the other team.

Yao knows where they are on rotation, and he knows that if the person is driving that they are going to take the charge. The reason he was hurt was when Chuck went down on the charge Tim Thomas rolled up and the two of them ended up under Yao.

I can understand yall being nervous, but do you honestly think that JVG is going to say, "Chuck, Shane, everyone is nervous about people on the floor around Yao, please stop coming over on rotations to stop the drive to the basket ... just move aside and let them have it, if Yao can't block it we concede the points."

In that case you have to discontinue all charge calls... what if Yao trips over someone trying to take a charge from him. Or what if Yao is going up for a rebound and someone tries to take a charge from Tmac and they fall underneath him. To borrow a phrase from Spock... "It's illogical"

It was an accident, yes it was scary, yes its nervewracking to think it might happen again, but you can't tell either of them to change something that they are doing right for the 1 in a million chance that they same injury will happen again on a charge call.

 

Yao plz protect urself! We can't risk to lose u once again! It hurts!

 

c'mon, read before you post. sloth clearly stated ...

 

Sorry, I should have been more specific when I posted my response, I wasn't replying to sloth I was replying to Sonkhan.

I think Sloth is absolutely right... Yao should be aware (which I think he is)

But saying that Chuck is out of control isn't true, because he isn't the only one taking charges under the basket. Shane takes them and Juwan (though not as many) is now taking them too. So if Chuck is out of control then all three of them are.

Do we say Mutumbo is out of control because his elbows happen to be head height for everyone else?

 

i thought the same thing. Especially when collins was on him. I got the feeling that a little dirty play by utah (nothing new) could and probably should be expected come playoff time.

 

Yao needs to be more discriminating about going for shot blocks against the good rebounding teams like Utah. We can't give up second chance points like we did on Sunday.

 

Good point. I was worried about it too. It was part of the defense strategy, and the coach staff should figure out a way of avoiding it systematically.

 

Great observation.
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