Yao was again below average at best last night (13 pts, 4-13 FG, 6 reb, one fewer than Chuck Hayes despite being on the court for 15 extra minutes) but he did almost win the game for the Rockets. I found the TNT postgame criticism of Yao’s inbound defense a little unnecessary. Barkley basically said he was out of position and should have made more of an effort to get in the passing lane, as opposed to standing between inbounder Steve Blake and the rim and trying to prevent a cheap, desperation backside oop. I feel when a dude throws up a perfect 28 foot shot with 0.8 seconds left in overtime, you just have to take in stride and move on. Not much else you can do.
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Posted by Harvey Bars · November 7th, 2008
Yao was again below average at best last night (13 pts, 4-13 FG, 6 reb, one fewer than Chuck Hayes despite being on the court for 15 extra minutes) but he did almost win the game for the Rockets. I found the TNT postgame criticism of Yao’s inbound defense a little unnecessary. Barkley basically said he was out of position and should have made more of an effort to get in the passing lane, as opposed to standing between inbounder Steve Blake and the rim and trying to prevent a cheap, desperation backside oop. I feel when a dude throws up a perfect 28 foot shot with 0.8 seconds left in overtime, you just have to take in stride and move on. Not much else you can do.
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