Yao expressed his dissapointment with the Rockets' outside shooting

declan32001 · Mar 21, 2006

terse said:

If our role players were hitting at a 60% rate and Yao still called them out for poor defence, then that would be equivalent to what JVG did after Yao's 36-pt game. Even if the coach's criticisms were true, he was a fool for attacking Yao in public, and after a huge performance too. JVG should have tried solving the problem in private.

And now we are seeing the results. Yao is beginning to pull away from JVG.
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terse I really like your analogy and completely agree with your conclusion but
I don't want to derail this thread because there's some interesting stuff going on here. I'm just not sure who's disagreeing with whom, or why.

joggler · Mar 21, 2006

For Italy

YallMean said:

JVG actually migh make a greate soccer coach.
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canoner2002 · Mar 21, 2006

canoner2002 said:

that is because for whatever reason, opponents choose not to play 3-on-1 against Yao and 2-on-4 against the rest of rockets in the first half. Personaly, I think it is stupid. if i were to coach a team and play against rox, i'd play that way from tip off. the way rox are playing, that stratigy will gurantee a win 99 out of 100 times.
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See, Avery Johson is doing what I suggested, DT or TT Yao from the very begining of the game. By sheer dumb luck we hit 3 3's in the first quarter and they missed all jumpers, we are up by 3. But we only scored 14 pts in 10 minutes. That is a sure receipe to beat Rox. Now Yao is on the bench, we are running offense cluelessly. We have NO offense game other than letting Yao and Tmac take control. JVG's done NOTHING to coach our offense.

canoner2002 · Mar 21, 2006

Give me a nba team, i can beat the rox by 20+ pts. Once I put three guys on Yao and effectively take him out of the game, the rest of rox look uglier than my ****.

terse · Mar 22, 2006

declan32001 said:

terse I really like your analogy and completely agree with your conclusion but
I don't want to derail this thread because there's some interesting stuff going on here. I'm just not sure who's disagreeing with whom, or why.
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No problem. Though I thought I was being on topic, if we expand the subject slightly to ask, "why is Yao suddenly being so much more outspoken?"

IROC it · Mar 22, 2006

Yao expressed his dissapointment with the Rockets' outside shooting
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Haven't we all?

Lil Lee · Mar 22, 2006

next season with t-mac and yao playing together hopefully at full force, we most definetely are going to need sum great shooters from the outside. a player that had a great shot like wesley person.

Also, our three point shooters have no reason to not be able to make it to next year's three point shootout. With all the attn T-mac and yao will receive, its gonna lead to a lot of wide open 3s. If these players cant hit them 42% of the time...hell....LET ME PLAY!! I could guarantee I'd make atleast 35% of my 3s. haha

mil · Mar 22, 2006

Texas Stoke said:

"Our guys are prepared; they shoot a lot," Van Gundy said. "I have no complaints with the amount of time our guys put in the gym. They come early, they shoot, they shoot hard, but, again, everybody's going to focus on our shooting. Our defense right now is substandard."

That's the actual quote before the sina transalation.

I understand what he's saying. The Clippers scored 53 points in the second half, shot close to 50% percent for the game. JVG knows our guys can't shoot and are not going to outscore anybody, so what he's saying is right.

About Yao Ming comments. I don't see that as him complaining. I know Yao Ming is smart enough to understand that this is not the team the Rockets were suppose to be coming into this season. I know Yao Ming knows, or has not forgotten that there is no more Mcgrady, no more Wesley, and even no more Barry, and because of that he is left with Brunson, Bogans, Bowen and Head. If Yao Ming is complaining, which I don't think he is, he has become as shortsighted as the strangely infatuated yof's are. But again, Yao is smarter than his particular fans who hang on his every word, move, expression, eye lash movment, toe wiggle, passing of gas, etc....
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You said that JVG knows that our guys can't shoot and are not going to outscore anybody.If your guys can't outscore anybody,then how are you going to win regardless how much emphases you put on defense?

TMAC888 · Mar 23, 2006

Texas Stoke .... Chinese YAO Hater..

over.

kfgan · Mar 23, 2006

I think the correct translation should be "When we can't shoot from outside, we have to attack the rim every offensive possession and too many people are defending me." I'm not sure that report is reliable, though.

Hmm · Mar 23, 2006

mil said:

You said that JVG knows that our guys can't shoot and are not going to outscore anybody.If your guys can't outscore anybody,then how are you going to win regardless how much emphases you put on defense?
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JVG's dream is to average a points against of 76..

before that happens, there will just NEVER be enough
emphasis on the Rocket's defense..

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