Rockets: If The Rockets Couldn't Win With Yao and TMac They Sure Won't With Harden and Dwight

[Koolaid_Man]

@ Rockets fan...another year another team with false hopes and false dreams....gotta give the Rockets brass credit..they try hard to build a winner but it's just not in their cards...the Rockets are like the nice guy of the dating scene...the nice guy in the club...everyone knows that guy gets no pussy

Yao and Tmac > Harden and Dwight

[RsxPiimp]

Amen^

[Michael Jordan.]

[CitizenDwayne]

If the Lakers couldn't win with Kobe, Nash, Pau & Dwight, they sure won't win with Swaggy P and Jodie Meeks.

[Clipper Nation]

Yao and Tmac > Harden and Dwight

Capri actually pulling a decent take out of his ass for once

[Michael Jordan.]

If the Lakers couldn't win with Kobe, Nash, Pau & Dwight, they sure won't win with Swaggy P and Jodie Meeks.

[Budkin]

Yao and Tmac > Harden and Dwight

Fact.

[Michael Jordan.]

So no one remembers Yao getting punked by Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur in the playoffs?

[Thread]

I hate to go against my Koolster, but, Yao & TMac ain't got a pot to piss in.

[Michael Jordan.]

I hate to go against my Koolster, but, Yao & TMac ain't got a pot to piss in.

People don't remember, while Yao was talented on offense, he wasn't a dominate force on offense until his latter two years in his career. And was soft on defense. McGrady was just as lazy as Harden on defense but got by on offense by pure skill. He never worked on his offensive game.

[Clipper Nation]

So no one remembers Yao getting punked by Carlos Boozer and Mehmet Okur in the playoffs?

Nobody remembers Yao ting on Dwight?

[irishock]

Dwight accomplished more in his first 5 years in the league than Yao had in his entire career.

[Michael Jordan.]

Nobody remembers Yao ting on Dwight?

Dwight took his team to the finals. Yao was busy getting on by Okur and Boozer. McGrady's first year in Houston, where he was a beast in the playoffs, up 2-0, they blew the series because of Yao

[spurraider21]

If Yao didn't go down against the Lakers I think Houston would have won that series. iirc it went to 7 as it is

[Clipper Nation]

Dwight took his team to the finals. Yao was busy getting on by Okur and Boozer. McGrady's first year in Houston, where he was a beast in the playoffs, up 2-0, they blew the series because of Yao

Hedo fortified DwightPERIOD

[Michael Jordan.]

Hedo fortified DwightPERIOD

Hedo shot 42% in the playoffs. And 41% in the regular season. Dwight shot 60% in the playoffs. Try again.

[Katherine Robinson]

True, Capri. The Rockets have the talent, but riddled with flaws.

[Trainwreck2100]

Y

Dwight accomplished more in his first 5 years in the league than Yao had in his entire career.

East

[Koolaid_Man]

Capri actually pulling a decent take out of his ass for once

Here's another take I'm sure you'd agree with....

ShaKobe > Bron, Wade, and Christina...

[RsxPiimp]

Dwight took his team to the finals. Yao was busy getting on by Okur and Boozer. McGrady's first year in Houston, where he was a beast in the playoffs, up 2-0, they blew the series because of Yao

Ungrateful Houston fans Yao put y'all on the map

[elmanutres]

Capri actually pulling a decent take out of his ass for once

Too bad its an obvious one everybody already knew.

[Chillen]

Actually the opposite, they have more of a chance at a le with Harden, Howard tbh. Yao had his limitations and Tmac was a scoring machine but had never been to the NBA finals or a deep playoff push before. Both Harden and Howard have helped push their older respective teams to a Finals appearence.

If the Lakers couldn't win with Kobe, Nash, Pau & Dwight, they sure won't win with Swaggy P and Jodie Meeks.

On paper that was a team that should have won 1 NBA le together, but it was an epic disaster that team never had any chemistry and both Kobe and Nash were past their primes and injury plagued to be fair.

[Michael Jordan.]

Ungrateful Houston fans Yao put y'all on the map

Um what? Hakeem did that. I don't see how Yao's marketing has anything to do what he did not do on the court. Yao, being 7'6, always tried to take charges instead of blocking shots, and could not dominate the boards (averaged only 10 RPG twice in his career, should be dominating much more when you're 7'6) to save his life. He was incredibly easy to stop in the playoffs for most of his career. Again, what did that combination produce?

[Killakobe81]

Actually the opposite, they have more of a chance at a le with Harden, Howard tbh. Yao had his limitations and Tmac was a scoring machine but had never been to the NBA finals or a deep playoff push before. Both Harden and Howard have helped push their older respective teams to a Finals appearence.

True. But Harden who I like a lot is not a prime TMAc.

Dwight is a much better defender but Yao was a highly skilled big man.

[Michael Jordan.]

True. But Harden who I like a lot is not a prime TMAc.

Dwight is a much better defender but Yao was a highly skilled big man.

You are right, McGrady had all the tools on offense and was supremely skilled, he just wasted his talent. Yao disappeared in the biggest moments of the Jazz and Dallas series.