Well, the title line is just too short for me to say We should not be just copycat to imitate Sacramento Kings. We should play the Princeton Offense with Houston Rockets' own characteristics. That's why I have highlighted those quotes in red. BTW, IMHO, Yao Ming is not like SamFisher or some other posters said is a malcontent or complaining about Rick Adelman's systems. He is just voicing out some of his observations and concerns about the current adaptation of the systems. He NEVER indicated in this interview or any other interviews that he is unwilling to learn, adapt and adjust to the new systems even at the expense of sacrificing his own personal stats as long as the changes are in the best interest for his team that will bring them wins. Remember what he said in the beginning of the interview and towards the end of the interview? Posters just need to read to understand before jump to bashing him that he is complaining about Rick Adelman and the new systems.
Yao is like a rebellious child reacting to change. I think he needs to adapt to it rather than complain about everything to Wang Meng or the chinese press all the time. lol. His mistakes were on him anyway..he's never played well against mehmeh okur and boozer in jvg's system either. Things were rocky at the beginning of jvg coaching too..but at least in Adelman's system, it makes everyone else better and the offense has alot more movement and we play a lot better overall.
PRYUEN, Adelman's kings princeton offense ain't broke, so why fix it? Yao needs to change his playing style. It's not natural for him and it feels real weird for him to play in different ways rather than the 1 dimensional post up area that he hangs all day under JVG. So he needs to be more open-minded and shake off the JVG rust instilled to him and adapt to the princeton offense. It is just that he doesn't have enough confidence in himself that he will succeed if he keeps on working on it. I'm sure he'll adapt to the offense soon.
Well, Big Yao NEVER indicated he is unwilling to change and adapt to the new systems. He's just stating the obvious that there is still alot of work in front of them to get into the groove and become a well-oiled machine. I don't know whether you watched the first 2 games. There were times when the offense was not as flowing and smooth as we would have thought it would become, and the shots of the Rockets were not falling, and there were not a lot of without-ball movement from the players.......at least that was my own observations while watching a short stretch of 2Q in the game with the LA Lakers from TV.
are u serious? t-mac had to WORK for his shots against utah. someone ran a pick for him and he would score. the difference is instead of passing it off like he wouldve done last season he looked for his shot. Matt Bullard even said T-Mac got nothing easy and had to work for his shots.
Yeah i watched both games. And as bad as the rockets played..do u know the last time they beat the jazz? by more than 10 points too!! and we were winning comfortably against the lakers too..the team overall played a hell of a lot better than jvg's rockets..at least so far..
Come on..this team also has a better bench. If we had Mike James last year, we'd probably advance past the first round.
Yao haters like you deserve to watch Kobe and McGrady fight over the ball and Andrew Bynum making ridiculous rookie mistakes while Deke isn't playing his 5 mpg of nothing while seeing Yao dominate in LA.
And jvg had no say in Mike James leaving when he was here? Also, JVG had no say in not playing BOnzi when you say that we had a horrible bench? He had no say in signing swift or snyder or benching vspan? OK battier was decent but regardless of the players his style was flat out boring and ineffective offensively. I think it was 60% jvg's fault about the bench thing but it's just me. Anyway you cant ever argue that JVG's offense is better than Adelman's because if you watched a single game under jvg last season the offense was pretty one dimensional. It was either post up yao or tmac and pass out to spot up shooters. Oh I'm not a yao only fan like you but I do support yao. So your assumption about yao haters is wrong. Just because I think he whines a lot to Wang Meng doesnt make me a yao hater. He's pretty much criticizing a proven coach in rick adelman based on his own horrible play that he's unhappy with. Stat wise only he played badly in the past 2 games, so he needs to realise that it's partially his turnover mistakes and has nothing to do with adelman since every other player had good stats except the constant rafer alston who will always be. That's like kobe criticizing phil jackson...we know who will look stupid in that case.
So you have very low reading comprehension ability....ehhhh?? Where did he say the bullsh*******t you said he said about his proportion of wages reflecting in the stats sheet?? Please re-read that question once again. And in case you still can't understand, Yao Ming just meant that it's of utmost importance and impact that he gets adapted to his new role in the offense systems as soon as possibly he can, cos he is the anchor and originator in the heart of this new offense systems; he does not want to be pulling the hind legs of his team; he is the cornerstone and foundation of this team, and one of the highest paid stars in this team.
Which particular answer to Wang Meng's question was Big Yao complaining ? He was NOT complaining. He was just voicing out his observations and concerns about how the Rockets should adopt to the new systems.
Hate to look at the bright side, but he mentions two very critical things that we've observed already: (1) he does not get as tired, and (2) he will be able to board more. These are related to one another b/c Adelman is, IMHO, much smarter than JVG in terms of positioning Yao on defense. Instead of having an immense mountain of a man fighting through screens at the 3-pt arc, Adelman keeps him reasonably grounded near the lane. Adelman has said as much in interviews, and it's going to help us in so many ways. 12-15 rebounds won't be uncommon, and if he's not getting as tired, he's less likely to get injured. This is incredibly good. As for relating this interview to the OP riddle, meh. I still think, if a trade goes down, Rockets are a minor 3rd party of the main trade.
