the motion offense starts with someone beating their man off the dribble, in this case it was mostly C-Bud and Brooks, after that the defense breaks down and we are able to find the open man for a high percentage shot
I posted earlier, and during preseason, that having a balanced attack is our best bet. Having multiple guys avg around 10 a game is what this team needs to succeed this year. To answer your question, you usually have a pattern to the offense...so and so superstars score the bulk of the point, then your role guys, bench, etc. the distribtution is predictable and therefore you know wher eot send your defense. OF course if the players are too good, you probably won't stop it, but knowing where the points are mainly coming from, and not coming from, is still an advantage. in the rockets case, they're not simply switching from Yao and tmac scoring 25 each to brooks and scola scoring 25 each. Now that would eventually be predicatable and teams could adapt to it just the same, eventually. In this case though there's too many players involved, many who can score from different areas, so not only is the offense coming from more players, but from more directions. That's going to be very difficult to adapt to. Is Scola going mostly post tonight, or short js? Is budinger slashingand fastbreaking, or is he a jump shooter? Same for Ariza. Same for Brooks. Even Lowry to a certain extent. Even shane. Is DA posting up more, or shooting more? Or both evenly? Landry? Same. You're gonna have one game where most score 10-13, but Bud breaks out for 20+. then the next most score 10-13 and Aria breaks out for 20+. And next game it may be scola, and then shane, and so on, or two of them, so many combinations possible...whoever is hot that night gets more shots, everyone else limits themselves to high % shots......versatility at its best.. Yao and tmac have this same ability, which can make this team very interesting later on.
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you're not overachieving if your players are playing within their abilities. So far Brooks has been our best guy, and that was a realistic expectation. Scola's been up there too and that too is realistic to expect on a consistent BasisThe role guys scored around a range of 10-15, which isn't overachieving on their part. Ariza's been the only who you can argue "overachieved", but if he stays aggressive, around 17 ppg is realistic for him, so it may not have been such a huge leap. Teams built around stars need the stars to step it up significantly, but they need their role players to step up in smaller ways too. We don't really have stars, but if all of our "role" players can step up in a small way all across the boards, there's no reason why as a whole we cant match the other team. 7+2+1 = 2+2+2+3+1
also, i should have added, in the playoffs it's not always about stepping it up as in scoring more points, it's mostly about being more efficient, making less mistakes, tightening up your play. So our guys don't really have to step up and become superstars just to match them, they can individually become more efficient to raise the team's efficiency just the same as the opponent.
Yes, our team did a nice team work. They always moving, shooting, etc.....Nobody can chase them, as you guy said there are too many combinations possible. Everyone is our super star, how to limits our team. No way.
What in the world happened to Hayes in the recent two games? He started to score and I am very pleased to see that . Keep up the good work.
Blah, we suck beacue you're yao is'nt there. blah, blah.. stop overrating yao's effect. belittling our success because yao is here is a ceap shot
The days of YAO OR TMAC CENTRIC offense are finished. this going to be a balanced offense where on ball and off ball the movement dictates who scores
Wait until we face: Boston, LAL, or San Antonio before you make that call. Utah and Portland were good, but they aren't Boston-LAL-SAS good.
I wonder how many calls Morey is getting for Chase right now? Chase maybe our ticket to getting rid of Tmac's contract and actually getting a player back who has value and contract that wont put us into cap hell. Loved the way he played tonight I hope we keep him. But we all know Morey is a sly fox.
It's always a great feeling to wake up knowing that your team beat the miserable state of Utah. I Hate everything about that team and state.
