Game Plan for Houston

Game Plan for Houston

Given the 11 healthy guys not including Arenas, Stackhouse or Whitney,
here's the rotation, per quarter...


12 8 6 4 0

Blake Knight
Dixon Hughes
Butler Jeffries Hayes
Thomas Laettner
Haywood Brown

or the mirror-image of that if you are hung up about "starting". That's
everybody playing 24 minutes in 6 minutes stints except Butler, Jeffries
and Hayes going 4 minute stints per quarter for 16 total.

Think Dink.

Yao covers a certain amount of space densely, but he doesn't cover the
whole paint like Ben Wallace. Threaten the bucket, but pass inside. Go for
the dink, the 6 to 12-footer. Cato is a tough defender of a lower, wider
airspace than Yao. If Yao or Cato checks Laettner pull him out for some
18-footers.

Jim Jackson is shooting well this year. I was amazed he got traded.

Rick Hohensee
Precision Mojo Engineer