These issues had all been brought up back in training camp and worked on, but once it got to real games, they still got exposed.
Take the simplest one: after grabbing an Offensive Rebound, he'd instinctively drop the ball down, and end up getting stripped.
Back when they were with the national team, Gan Guoyang had already reminded Yao Ming to fix this bad habit.
Yao Ming probably heard it but didn't really take it to heart; after going back home, he kept playing the way he always had.
Because in the CBA there aren't that many quick-handed guys, once he put the ball down Yao Ming could go back up right away, and nobody could stop him.
In the NBA it's different. The players here are fast and ruthless with their hands; in his first two games Yao Ming's top priority after touching the ball was simply not to turn it over.
Only on that basis could he move on to his next action, which also made his decision-making a bit slow—of course that's another detail issue altogether.
