Houston Rockets Breakdown

[Erick Blasco]

His lack of halfcourt success can be attributed to a timidity in Martin’s game. Despite his free throw rates, Martin tends to try to avoid contact at the basket. On one first corner drive, he took a handoff and sliced parallel to the lane, making no attempt to actually get to the rim. The result was a wild missed banked runner.

 

The same tendency was on display later in the game when instead of challenging a help defender strong at the rim, Martin veered off, switched hands, and attempted an awkward right-handed prayer that wasn’t answered. For the game, Martin forced two jumpers, missed all four shots in the paint, none in the immediate vicinity of the rim and only earned two free throws.

 

Defensively, Martin has trouble staying in front of his man, and is a complete disaster guarding the post. In five possessions where Martin was posted up (five times by Stephen Jackson, once by Boris Diaw) and the Rockets didn’t immediately double, the Bobcats shot 4-5 for eight points in five possessions, a terrible ratio from Martin’s end.

 

The fact is that while Martin is talented, he’s not tough enough to be a team’s primary isolation scorer, and he’s an awful defender who needs to be compensated for at that end of the court.

 

http://www.thedreamshake.com/2010/11/28/1840831/houston-rockets-breakdown-rockets-lack-an-identity

[ChosenOne]

After all the reading i have done for finals the last couple of days no way i read this right now, maybe some time tomorrow as I am curious to read what Mr.Blasco has to say.

[Erick Blasco]

After all the reading i have done for finals the last couple of days no way i read this right now, maybe some time tomorrow as I am curious to read what Mr.Blasco has to say.

 

Works for me!

[htown11]

Great read Erick. Ya that Bobcats game sucked and the Rockets had another one like that last night against the Bucks. Similiar problems that you mentioned...

 

He did foolishly try to bring the ball up once, resulting in a turnover though

 

Ya that was painful to watch...

 

The Rockets really are at a crossroads and Yao Ming is not an excuse anymore.

[ChosenOne]

You would pick one of our worst games to watch and write about.

 

Miller did splash a three and he has excellent vision and touch from the high post—3 AST, 0 TO—but he needs to be paired with an excellent defensive rotator like Hayes to cover for the fact that he simply can’t move.

 

Have never thought about that but it could work as Brad Miller is the slowest player in the league laterally.

 

The Rockets are in an interesting dilemma because their troubles aren’t necessarily contingent on a lack of talent but a lack of a clear-cut identity. While the team can easily form one, it would be dependant on the team choosing one philosophy based on their roster’s dichotomic schism. And until Yao returns from his injury and develops a substantial sample size of playing time, the Rockets won’t have all the information necessary to make that fundamental choice.

 

That is the perfect paragraph to describe us.

 

Well done Mr.Blasco, it was a good read.

[Erick Blasco]

You would pick one of our worst games to watch and write about.

 

 

 

Have never thought about that but it could work as Brad Miller is the slowest player in the league laterally.

 

 

 

That is the perfect paragraph to describe us.

 

Well done Mr.Blasco, it was a good read.

 

Thanks!