So another question is, what do the rockets do? I don't believe u contruct teams to beat 1 team, but what can the rox do to make the rockets matchup better? On the cool, La is a bad matchup too.
we have a very balanced team that can play certain players depending on the matchups. v. utah, deke and hayes MUST play more. play yao a little less and play battier much less. v. the lakers, who yao usually plays well against, then we do our usual thing. b/c they have kobe, we play battier more we have a very deep and balanced lineup and the advantage is that it gives adelman the flexibility to adjust to the teams we're going to face. he has to utilize that depth.
I don't know if ur playing or not, but i'll take it . BTW, have there ever been a harder player to officiate than shaq?
actually, you do construct a team to beat a certain team. the Rockets have done so every year. After we lost to the Mavs in 7 games in 2005, we got Battier so T-Mac wouldn't have to defend Dirk. However, we played the Jazz the next time, and it became apparent that Battier wasn't nearly as useful when he wasn't defending a star wing. After that season we tried trading Battier for an athletic wing who could score, but that didn't work.
Deke is a more intelligent defender and a better shot blocker than Yao. He anticipates the shot but remains in a defensive stance in case Boozer drives. It's great to have him on the team. Yao should watch him defend and realize he should be able to do everything Deke does and more.
Pmac, that's pretty food and I've been saying for a minute. Deke is always close enough to contest the jumper, but yao is always late. Boozer shoot uncontested jimmy after uncontested jimmy when yao is in vs deke. This in no way all yao fault, but does he watch film? Why is he so far way from the shooter?
It's not even just that. He doesn't commit to anything when he plays against Boozer types. He always seems like he's just far enough to not be able to contest the shot and not low or far back enough to stop the drive.
Totally serious. The whining in here after every Jazz game is pathetic. I co-coach my son's hoops team, and they're exactly the same -- every quarter, they come off the court whining about how they're being fouled, the referee isn't calling it, etc. I tell them to be a man and play through it. Why should I expect any less of grown men? And the same goes for fans. Nut up, people. It's the NBA. Stop whining about Jerry Sloan, and start beating him.
The opponents (especially the Jazz) should start punching Yao in the head and kicking him in the groin. Yao will get called for the offensive foul and everyone one will tell Yao to play through it. That's what I want to see.
That's like picking a woman in a bar, get her to the house, its about to go down, and she goes to sleep because shes too drunk .
So true Will. I remember against Baytown Sterling, their team would undercut u on jumpers, but the refs wouldn't call it. Coach told us on the next shot, follow through, and bring your elbow on top of the guys head or collarbone. We started doing that until the refs started catching us and asses fouls,but by that time, two of their players were out the game. The rox, unlike the 90's version aren't tough enough. The jazz were never tougher or more athletic than the older version.
exactly. there's a reason yao faces the same problems 7 years into his career. you know what's gonna happen, do something about it. and the fans complaining about refs is annoying as hell, like it's gonna do something.
Right. Other teams should just start aiming to end Yao's career. Yao isn't going to do anything about it and neither will the NBA.
yes, they have been trying to end yao's career? yao never averaged 25ppg in his career. he never dominated an NBA game before. yao never gets his own calls
You ******* idiot. I just watched 2nd qtr action where Kirilenko went up for a 3, Battier jumped up in front of him with his arm outstretched to defend. No contact from Battier. AK came down from the shot and as he did he violently rotated his body and his arms and hit Battier very hard across the head and knocked him on his ass. The ref was right there. Guess who the foul was on? AK right? Flagrant foul right? Deliberately endangering another player right? Wrong - it was called on Shane. I have watched these losers for years since Malone and Stockton get away with hurting other people and the refs missing the most obvious calls. I will never say anything nice about that dead M-Fer owner - he created this Frankenstein and supported it for years. Any so-called Rockets fan who says anything even mildly respectful of these douche bags will get nothing from me but total disdain and disrespect. I could go on and on with the slow mo deliberate foulds I have watched thru the 1st half. These r****ds fould 80 times a game. Personally I think Adelman should call out Sloan for the dirty cheater he is and never again mention Sloan's name and the word friend in the same sentence. I would never be friends with a turd like Sloan.
I think that is the bottom line. Whether we want to face it or not, the Rockets on a whole are not a tough-minded team, and that is why Artest was brought over here. Yes, the Jazz are floppers, but they are taught to play tough and to rough up their opponents. Just look at Kyle Korver. He never played like that with the Sixers. The Rockets need to match their intensity or they will continue to lose against the Jazz.
yeah lol i just don't know who right now. You can throw Yao in there but The Centers and Power forwards get officiated differently than the Guards.
good post. I agree with you. We are who we are and thats it. I doubt one person in Artest could make the other 14 guys tough. That's just not who they are.
