Thursday Rockets report  Sean Meagher, By Sean Meagher, on April
23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, updated April 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Jonathan Feigen, Walking a tightrope:  In Game 2, they were just
as trapped on the other side of the line, generating plenty of
offense away from the Blazers' defensive obsession with Yao but
failing to keep their best weapon involved.  Usually a defender
was positioned in front of Yao with another coming from behind.
But if the timing was not just right and the second defender got
there early, Yao was surrounded by Portland big men as tight as
leftovers wrapped in aluminum foil.  When Yao did seal off a
defender, keeping him on his back, the Blazers had that second
big man rushing to help in a more conventional, if unusually
oversized, double team.  There were, however, times that Yao
moved with the ball across the lane. Though open only briefly,
there were chances to get the ball to him inside that the
Rockets missed.  "We weren't looking," Adelman said. "We didn't
have the patience to l