无论是季前赛还是队内训练，tracy都是“doing more sitting than playing”，这无疑让火箭的赛季开始阶段充满了变数
“We’re nowhere near where we wanted to be,” Adelman said. “I don’t think that’s possible with Tracy not playing that much in the preseason. We’re going to still be feeling our way along. I think we’re good enough that we should go out and play pretty well. But we have a long ways to go.
“You know it’s a long season. You don’t get everything done at the start of the season. You want to get enough done to win. But we’re going to be a work in progress.”
“Protecting the paint, not taking care of the ball, not being so stagnant on offense and just competing,” Chuck Hayes said of the list of issues. “We’ll get killed one quarter, like we did in the second quarter in Sacramento, giving up 35 points, and then give up 37 the whole second half. We got a lot of guys back from last year that tasted success, so we expect a lot more from ourselves. We expect us to be better than we are.”
“I don’t think you’re ever happy,” Adelman said. “Tracy has only been back for the one game. We got a lot of work to do before we play. We have to get a lot more efficient in what we’re doing at both ends of the court.
“We have to be consistent in what we do. We’re trying to tweak things offensively to make sure we get the ball into our main guys’ hands. Our concentration has to be there so when we make a call, everybody knows what we’re doing. If Yao’s posting up, you can’t just mentally go into a vacuum and not understand what we’re trying to do as a team.”
