Quote from Kevin Mchale
Tonight they got some open shots because of Yao. We're trying to circle the wagons around him and try to keep the ball out of his hands. Again, I thought that we were able to front him and keep it out of there and did a pretty good job, but if you're going to front, you've got to pull the weak side off, and they spun it around and made a couple shots early. It was really during that (stretch) we weren't able to execute and slow them down. At least if you're scoring, you can get back, but they got some breakouts. We had some mismatches or some cross-matches that we didn't run back on, and they got a couple layups and got the lead extended out there pretty good on us."
From our STarting PG
I think last game we kind of settled; if Yao wasn’t open we were just sitting there waiting for him to get open instead of doing something else and going away from him to try and score. So this time, if he wasn’t open, we tried to get our own shots.
Go go go, i want to see more fronting, so Rockets can beat any scheme thrown at them in the playoffs.