This Team is a Chokejob waiting to Happen and its not because of defense, its because of our predictable offense. What do u we do When Yao is fronted? We were up 17 with about 5 minutes to go, and then all hell broke loose.
and now the bulls have the lead, This team pisses me off, Compare this to the damn Mavs, and they win close games over and over again.
No, it was about defense. Regardless, the more things change, the more they stay the same. This team has no composure or ability to close out games against the dregs of the league. And there is no T-Mac or Rafer to blame anymore. At least Rafer could defend and take care of the ball.
Artest took 3 dumb shots because he is an idiot. He will never be a clutch player. He thought he was a superstar and failed 3 times in a row, then he wants to cry because he acted like he got fouled. He choked and then cried about it. He is a friggin joke.
Now in practice they will practice counter plays and making counter decisions when Yao is not open. Brooks can create he just needs to play his game and get comfortable enough as a starting point guard to do it vs. trying to be what everyone says a point is supposed to be. He just needs to be Aaron. Yao is going to Yao and Ron is going to be Ron and so on. Aaron has to take hold of this team as a point and to do that he has to be comfortable in that position with how he is going to play his game through Adelman's offense... once that breakthrough happens we will be fine.
you mean after 4-5 seasons of this happening, they are finally going to address this issue in the next practice
The real problem is the fact that they rely on Yao too much. All people talk about is "Get Yao the ball at the end" when it is obvious they are trying to do that. The other teams know that... which is why the front him at the end. The Rockets just need to play basketball at the end.
This team cannot excute under pressure, we have to just rely on our defense to win games, Sure we gave up 34 points to the Bulls, but we got 14, Just FOURTEEN.
