今天中午和朋友一起出去吃飯，談起今晚rockets的比賽。 朋友說今天對knicks應該沒有問題吧？ 我說這個難說，knicks和heat都是Riely一手調教出來的死纏爛打的典型。上回在miami就沒占到便宜，今天只怕也夠嗆。晚上一看，果然rockets打得既沉悶又無章法。居然被knick這個聯盟殿底的爛隊壓着打。輸的一塌糊塗，命中率聯30%都不到， 實在是可嘆之至。先說姚明，現在發現對付姚明的最好辦法就是用小個隊員來防。這麼多場球下來，凡是對7footers, 如robinson,miller,candi man,divac,更不用提bradley, 姚明都是要風得風，要雨得雨， 要命得命。一旦對方身高不足七尺，麻煩就大了，najera is only 6-8, grant 6-9, and kurt thomas 6-9. all of them gave a ton of trouble to Yao ming, The reason? samller players are faster and can front yao ming much easier than taller players, and once fronted, Yao ming's teamate can rarely lobe the ball inside. and sometimes even when Yao ming caught the ball inside with good positions, he failed to capitalize it with a dunk over those much smaller players, but more often tried to head fake and do up and under moves to draw the defenders off their feet, however, it is far more difficult to fake samller players away and try to go under them. The solution? like Shaq, dunk it over them! However, this is alot easier to say so, in reality, unless you have a body like Shaq, it is very difficult to work above those smaller players, once you strech your body over them, your center of gravity gets higher and people can easily push you away from the basket or simply put a body on you and make you lose your balance. Yao ming definitely has to learn how to work over smaller players.By the way, I have a feeling that the best small forward for rockets is not Posey, not rice either, but should be Nachbar! He only played for two minutes, but I saw his potential: on his first possesion he dished a perfect entry pass to Yao ming and the latter score easily in the lane, when attempting another entry pass to yao ming in the post on his second touch of the ball, his defender went double team Yao to deny the entry pass, he simply let go a rainbow for a 3 ponit swish. It seems to me he understands the game and have solid fundmentals---the entry passs to posts is not trivial at all, to pass it at the right time and let your post player catch at the right position is an art. most USA players coming out of street ball playing, like Mobley, have no idea how to deliver the ball inside, often the timing is off and Yao ming is pushed way off his optimal positions.sigh, let's hope the best...