Yes, then you can image what happened down there on the court. If you don't want to play the lowpost nuclear weapon, why bother leave him on the court running up and down?? Damn!
He should be angry and let his teammates&coach know that. The loss is on all players and the coach. Choosing RA as coach is a big mistake. Maybe he is really a good coach, but not suitable for Rockets. Tmac should not always blame his teammates after every loss coz he himself played very bad.
Its getting old. This team mails in games. JVG would have never let this happen. The only players who give a damn are Yao, Battier and maybe Rafer. Everyone else just plays and does whatever. There is no order to anything!
Tracy is living in lalaland. I'd love to Tracy to watch a rerun of this game to count how many bad shots he took with 20 seconds remaining on the clock. "We go back to isolation plays?" I'd love him to go back and look at how many times he posted up a the elbow, turned and faced up, waved everyone away, and then tried to take the opponents all by himself.
Yao, i love your comment, but you should let your game speaks louder than your voice. Today, you played like crap too, at BOTH end of the floor. You are better than that. That's the n times I see you owned by some 6'9 tweeners. You are only effective against some 7' stiffs. <sigh> .......
Yes sir, you're on point. Adelman may, in some way, be a better coach than JVG but he's not the better fit for THIS team. I'm glad Yao said something. Somebody should have. That somebody should have been TMac, but I get a feeling he's smiling cheesily somewhere right now. Yao was correct in every way with what he said. This team was supposed to have more leadership with the likes of James and Francis coming on board, but it in fact has even considerably less than last year. That's a reflection of the coach.
This is why the "patience" argument fails. It isn't about learning a new system. It's about effort and intensity, which falls on the coach. I don't want JVG back, but I'm starting to think hiring Adelman was a mistake. He's got to get the attention of the players. Coaches have to enforce their will on players. Whether by screaming, yelling, coddling, hugging, teaching or whatever. When all of the players are indicted, the coach is also indicted. Would you agree we have a coaching problem? I'm glad Yao is having these outbursts. It shows he cares and is disgusted with what's happening, even if his mistakes are a part of the problem. I want Tracy to get disturbed too, disturbed enough to have better shot selection.
My #1 hope for the rockets is that the system begins to click and team chemistry builds. - This will result in a playoff run My #1 fear for the rockets is that the system never clicks and there are more games like this and we miss the playoffs. Then it will all be pointless. I didnt like ugly gundy ball but im starting to wonder is it me or did gundy adjust his system to the players he had and then traded for others he wanted. I dont understand why you force a system that wont fit. but then again time will tell.
“It’s all on us. Us. I’m one of us.” I think Yao is beginning to step up to be the leader this team sorely needs. Here he is basically saying, "I take responsibility for the team's failures, and I expecte everyone else to do the same." Yao has lacked maturity in the past with his tendancy to timidly second-guess himself (if not outright whine) after bad games, but he seems much more sure of what he needs to do in this quote. Unquestionably, Yao brings a quantity of production to every game matched by very few in this league, but none of that matters when the game/season/sereis/championship is on the line. It's not his job to get x points and y rebounds per night; or keep his turnover down; or win the opening tip. It's his job to make the team win. And it's the team's job to win.
I will give him some more time because there have been some signs of what we are capable of if we can learn the offense better, but in all honesty, if I was the Rockets, I would have tried to pull Phil Jackson away from the Lakers. His specialty is turning good teams into great teams. He already have the two most important pieces and added good help, so all he had to do was come in here and give the players some books to read and make them do some yoga and we would have already had a championship. But, it is still somewhat earlier into the season, and I am willing to give Aldeman until January to get the ship on the right course, then the Phil Jax chants start coming out!!!!
18 offensive rebs for them, only 8 for us. Landry had 5. You won't win too many games when this happens. Skip or no skip.
Absolutely the new coach is not working. i feel like JVG is what Yao and Tmac needed. Without him here, this team is just mediocre.
Yao said he hated this game. Wait till he meet 76ers with Dalembert and his gang of strong rebounding players. I have seen a few 76ers games recently and though they are not very good but when they get their alot of offensive rebounds, they will win. I just hope the Rockets bring their energy and practise their shooting when they go for the next game.
I think Adelman made a mistake to play Landry in the 2nd quarter for a long period. That sent a misleading signal to rockets players: this is not an intense game and made them too relax.
we lost cause we didnt box out gave up too many Oreb...didnt play good Def...took too many bad shots ala tmac dribbling the ball down and stopping to shoot a contested 3...didnt have any passion or hustle... all of those equates to a lost...it was a team lost
