Same situation happened if you watch the Spurs and the Heats game. TD couldn't guard Blount who started because of Shaq's injury. Blount has a very nice outside shot for a center and TD didn't even bother coming out to defend. Blount ended up scoring 23 points on 10-17 shooting but the Spurs still won. I stopped watching midway cause it was boring but yea, the point is you can let their center keep shooting jumpers from outside if you can keep everyone else shut down.
all negative threads get low ratings and yes.. it's all nearly equal in every corner (check the previous post if you don't believe me)... some people take the YOF and TOF thing too personal. it's like the mac vs. windows thing, waaaayy too geeky for me to care.
I don't know, I guess Morey made you the coach since you act like you know everything. Who said anything about chasing him around the 3 point line, just leave him. If he gets hot from 3 pt range then adjust defensively. If you go into a game worrying about stopping a center from shooting 3s you're in a crap load of trouble to begin with.
Okur? He can shoot 3 but he's not quicker than Yao. At least he couldn't drive by Yao to the basket. The problem is w/o Yao's interior defense, how would it affect our overall game? I guess it's worth a try.
in order to adjust defensively we'd have to take yao out of the game and put in a guy who can actually contest his shots, thus benching Yao would defintely be an option.
Play teams with TD, KG or has a little bit slower(compare to Amere or other fast, too athlet C) 5, we need to play Yao. for teams like Sun, golden state, .. we need limit yao's play time.
I agree. Scola subbed for Yao with 7:30 left because Yao picked up his fifth foul. Adelman probably would've subbed Yao back in after a few minutes if the lineup he had in there wasn't doing well. But they did and so Adelman kept with it. Good call by the coach.
That's the one thing that bugs me about Yao. When you put smaller more atheletic guys on him, he tries to shoot fadeaways on them instead of dominating them down low. They also front him and take him out of the game easily. When you put bigger and a bit slower guys on him, he will be more likely to take it to them.
Id rather let Okur try make his streaky shot at the 3 and have Yao ready to rebound. Boozer is harder to shut down than Okur and hopefully Landry and Scola can continue to improve their defense without fouling by postseason.
This reminds me of Seattle. Obviously Hakeem is a better player then Yao, but the Rockets never benched him when Sam Perkins was at center, even though the Rockets got their heads kicked in every time they played the Sonics. Sometimes there is just nothing you can do and you have to go with what got you there. The Rockets are on a roll. It would be silly to completely change everything that is working because of one game. Especially when the Rockets actually won that game that Boozer went off in. It would be one thing if the Rockets got pounded, but the Rocks actually went to Utah and beat the Jazz.
well, I'm reminded that the NBA is all about matchups. Some teams play other teams better because matchups favor them. When you're starting center is a perimeter oriented player on offense it does present matchup problems for a team that has a center wants to stay close to the basket and is your primary shotblocker and is forced to guard a smaller quicker player. remember that the rockets had problems with the sonics in the Dream era partly because Sam Perkins stayed around the perimeter. Yet when we played the Barkley's Suns we played them well because Oliver Miller and Joe Klein weren't hanging around the 3pt line all the time.
So you prefer to remove your 7'6 guy away from the basket, therefore diminishing your interior defense, and move him to the perimeter and weaken your perimeter defense. What do you honestly think that will achieve? You and the rest need to understand this once and for all. It doesn't matter who our other PF is, it could be Kevin Garnett or Tim Duncan, Adelman will always choose to put Yao on the post player instead of a perimeter player. Always.
we beat the Jazz because Yao was in foul trouble. Once Yao went to the bench Utah miraculously stopped scoring. Hayes could contest Boozer's shot and Scola could come out on Okur. We won BECAUSE of Yao not playing.
Yao should never be benched. Adjust the defense, but benching Yao would be a terrible mistake. He should probably see less minutes against the teams we match-up poorly against.
So you prefer to give remove your 7'6 guy away from the asket, therefore diminishing your interior defense, and move him to the perimeter and weaken your perimeter defense. What do you honestly think that will achieve? I said in my other posts that I wouldn't have Yao chasing Okur, I would just leave Okur open on the perimeter. If he hits he hits. It would be silly to worry about a 7 footer and his 3pt shooting. You and the rest need to understand this once and for all. It doesn't matter who the PF is, it could be Kevin Garnett or Tim Duncan, Adelman will always choose to put Yao on the post player instead of a perimeter player. Always. Are you Rick Adelman? If you're not, you don't know what he's going to do from game-to-game. I'm guessing that a lot of Adelman's decisions are going to be based on personnel and situational matchups.
