Yeah, good analysis. But I just can't agree with one thing. Yao is NOT in his prime. He was back at the beggining of 2006/07 season. He was simply unstopable.
Jeff Who - Good point. Yao was better just prior to his injury. He's not quite back to that level yet. D R
True, but he is not that far away from that level, to me, his skills look the same but his understanding of his role is not and thus he is not as decisive. Because when Tmac and Ron where out, he looked AMAZING......right now, he looks confused. The pieces do not fit. DD
I also belive it is because of that injury. I remember those games, for example when he scored like 38 and 8 blocks against the Knicks. He completly owned Curry. But damn, I would like to see that Yao once again...
DD - Agree the pieces do not fit...see my prior post in this thread. Going forward addition by subtraction. By this time next year both Artest and TMac will be gone. D R
I agree with you, and think the team will be better off depending on how Morey moves them. I have been dissappointed in Morey's lack of looking at personality types as part of the equation in putting together a team. Anyone with half an understanding of human nature could see that Ron Artest coming into the Rocket's leaderless locker room was a potential disaster. I don't blame him for trying because they got him so cheaply, but he HAS to move him now, it is clear that Artest is one of the main problems with team chemistry. He has become an anchor. DD
I've been slower to come around than some, but I think Morey needs to move Artest too. He doesn't fit.
Ron leads us to Big wins without Tracy.Utah Boston and other games where ron led the team when tracy was in street clothes.
Does anybody else think that Adelman might be sending a message to his players? For some reason, I get the feeling that the locker room is just a mess of independent personalities that aren't meshing together well on OR off the court, and Adelman might be letting them figure things out for themselves, since this is a veteran squad. You know, like "ok, make your mistakes.....sooner or later, you'll see that you have to rally together in order to be successful, but I can't force you guys to do it....you have to see it for yourselves. And when you do, I'll be here, ready to guide you." Why else would he have left the starters out there after they let the Bucks walk all over them to the tune of a 20 point deficit? Think about Boston last year.....guys like Rondo and Davis looked to KG, PP, and RA for guidance, not Doc Rivers.
I think that Ron fits a lot better than T-mac right now. But having said that, the Rockets are not going to be able to trade T-mac so they might have to trade Ron.
I think benching T-mac would be a big enough shake up. Start Artest or Wafer they cant do any worse than mac. Let T-mac have to earn his spot.
not gonna happen. it takes guts to enforce that, and i don't see it in either adelman or morey. les is too big of a fan of mcgrady, his biggest investment in his tenure as a rockets boss.
