http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 00283.htmlBelow is Yao's reaction after Gaame 5:
Yao had grown tired of being reduced to a witness.
“I don’t know,” he said sarcastically when asked what went wrong in the 88-77 loss in Game 5. “I just went up and down on the court. I don’t know anything. I just ran baseline to baseline for seven or eight times. That’s it.
“I mean, I ran up and down. We didn’t organize well. We did not execute.
We did not know what is the play. We don’t know what is called.”
To me, the rockets have certain plays to get Yao the ball but they did not run any of those plays in the 4th quarter and Yao is frustrated.
See Adelman's responses:
“Offensively, we have to have more patience,” Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. “We can’t just come down and play at a frenzied pace.
“We only had five assists in the second half.
We shortcut a lot of things. We played impatient trying to score, and we didn’t have to. And we turned it over too many times. That’s the impatience. If we play the way we’re capable of playing, we’ll be OK.”
If Adelman could say this after the game, why he did not able to correct it in game? Maybe the players just refused to listen during timeout?
Here is AB's response in the same article:
“The first thing you want is to get Yao the ball,” Brooks said. “
You swing it around and try to find him. You find yourself in an awkward position. Somebody has to take the shots. I don’t mind taking them. Normally I make them. This game, I didn’t.
Read AB's response, seem that it is not AB's job to pass the ball to Yao directly but to swing the ball around and hopefully someone (Battier being most successful so far) will pass the ball to Yao. Ya that may work if Yao is fronted. But why swing the ball if Yao were not fronted?