from what i saw so far..i think Yao is pretty efficient...he scores efficiently.. but i can see in the gs game, when Yao is not here, ellis and others can drive to the lane like nobody's there..just crash on our so-called big man and hit the and 1.... tmac is not productive while Yao is not...btw, i think Hill can help us a little bit on that...or maybe our new guy can help as well..
I mentioned T-Mac because of the in-and-out rhythm disruption thingie he did.. but in the case of Yao, we know what is going to happen unlike T-Mac's game time decisions.. but the point his, the whole offense has to change if Yao is on the floor.. from run-and-gun perimeter-oriented offense to half court inside-out... that is quite an adjustment to make.. and very difficult considering the skill set of our current players
should not have mentioned T-Mac there.. his was ridiculous game-time decisions.. Yao's is fixed .. was just trying to draw an analogy.. And we are not doing what you said.. "When Yao is in, go to him. When he's out, do what worked so well last year." .. they keep forgetting Yao's presence because of his limited minutes/presence on the floor.. so we not using his presence efficiently.. maybe Yao needs to demand for the ball from next game..
Scola needs to be fed the ball in the waning minutes of a 4th quarter. He has to our go-to guy until Yao gets in better game shape. This simple change will fix these 4th quarter meltdowns or at least give us a better chance to win.
I've said it before. He's not a point guard anyway. Dudes a dwaft Shooting gaurd with little to no vision.
Is Martin taking on more of the playmaking because Brooks is in a funk or because he's more familiar and confident with the team now? Is his contract situation an issue? In the past Brooks found himself in a slump when Rafer returned from injury and he went back to the bench. He claimed being demoted was the cause of this. If he's fragile mentally perhaps all of the above can contribute a little to throw off his game?
Does anyone remember how we played piss poor just before the trade dealine last year. Scola and Battier said it affected them, They tried to not think about it but it definitely affected them. If the Rockets are talking to any team about a possible trade you can bet the rumors may not come out but certainly there agents would get some wind of it. Management talks, secrets leak, agents talk and sooner or later it gets around to the players. If you hear a rumor about trade that includes you of course it's going to affect your game. Martin said recently he would dress up as Melo. I guarantee he heard something involving him for Melo. Maybe now Brooks as heard something. Whatever is going on the team definitely looked out of sync. It seems like there is more to the Dampier signing holdup than just finding a partner for taking JT. Something big is brewing. Or maybe not.
Read it and weep. I know it hurts your soul DD, but this is 100% truth. It remains to be seen If a tiny scoring backcourt can be sufficiently helped with great frontcourt defense. We need new personel at the SF. Your move Daryl.
Originally Posted by DaDakota If Yao wants the ball at 7'6" then he should go get every fricken rebound...... DD -------------------------- If Yao wants the ball, then rich man's Mike James, without the defense, should give it to him, because this team is going nowhere unless Yao is THE focal point. As of now, Aaron Brooks is a tiny shooting guard, and the Princeton is not working...
maybe the opposing teams actually game plan for us now? i think last year we snuck up on some people b/c yao wasn't there. now it's up to adelman to make adjustments and players to play better.
The most cited quote in this thread and for good reason - you accuse others of not knowing basketball and then make r****ded posts like this one... HA!
He is as he was last year. He is just more exposed now that he has better players around him and teams have scouted him well. His weaknesses were evident last year and many posters have pointed them out in this GARM, even during the offseason, over and over again.
It is only r****ded to people who do not understand basketball, or what is going on with the team right now, so they flail around like ignoramouses with a keyboard and transfer their angst on a message board. Yao is 7'6" tall, if there are times he is not getting the ball hit the glass and get an offensive rebound. Right now, he is not ready to dominate and at 24 minutes per game is not going to be that guy. If they take the bunny slippers off of his glass feet and let him play 32 minutes then the team can get it's identity back. Because right now it is stuck between last year's style and the previous year's style and neither of them are working all that well. DD
Now see, if leebigez would have said this, I would've been called a yao hater. What you said is what coaches have been saying for decades about big guys. Sometimes, the big guy has to get the ball off the glass. Youcant't setup and run plays for the guy everytime down the court just to get him the ball. I said it wouldnt take long for the yao crowd to get pissed because this is no longer a yao-centric offense. They said I didn't know what i was talking about and I'm a hater. Well, what I said is true and adelman, not brooks is leading the charge. Now I think there are times to get yao the ball when he's in, but they will just play with yao in the game just like if he's not. The team shouldn't or don't want to go yao centric for 24 mins because it kills everyone else. Then when he goes out, the team is all of a sudden suppose to start playing the other way? I doubt that, it doesn't work like that.
No, you're not a hater. You just don't have common sense. Different heights have different levels of mobility and athleticism. You can't compare Yao to traditional 7 footers. If you compare him to Bradley, Muresan, and Bol, you'll see he outperforms them all.
Thanks. So you're saying the taller a player is, the better rebounder he is (or should be). Gotcha, great basketball mind. Thank you for sharing some of your infinite basketball wisdom with the peasants.
