Yao's Worried About Life in the High Post

Published: October 27, 2007, 1:32 pm

Filed under: Rockets, HoustonRick Adelman's arrival to Houston sparked plenty of outside elation, as the Rockets certainly have offensive talent which has been... underused of late. But life in Adelman's motion offense -- specifically the high post -- is making Yao Ming nervous, according to a story by the Houston Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen."To be honest, I'm thinking about this right now," Yao said. "Being in the new system, I think I don't want to take away my advantage on the low post. That's still my game.Adelman says Yao will spend two-thirds of his time near the basket, and the rest at the elbow playing the screen-roll, pick-and-pop and backdoor passing game. Even that deliberate shift away from the basket will put Yao in a whole new mindset: NBA.com Hotzones feature indicates Yao took 28 of his 819 field goals from the perimeter... and most of those were on the right baseline, which isn't in Adelman's playbook. Rough math would suggest Adelman wants Yao to take about five

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