I've seen the new look Timberwolves play. They are better team than the bad teams the Rockets keep losing to. oh boy.
Rockets player really need GPS to know where to play defense. No teaching at all. House and mcLeMore plays like 18 years old rookie on defense. They are 27 years old?
https://www.si.com/nba/rockets/news/pj-tucker-rockets-look-in-mirror-losing-streak "I think everybody has got to look in the mirror," Tucker told the media after the Rockets' loss to Orlando on Sunday. "It’s easy to point fingers and say that this guy does this, or we’re not doing this, and everybody has a solution. I think at the end of the day, if everybody takes care of themselves and coaches themselves, then we’ll be fine." Both Tucker and James Harden have cited effort issues over the last week, and those same problems came to a head against the Magic. The Rockets were once again beat on the boards, but even more concerning was their defense on the perimeter. Harden and Co. provided little deterrence at the point of attack, allowing Markelle Fultz, D.J. Augustin and Aaron Gordon to get to the rim at will. After a menacing defensive start to the Robert Covington era, the Rockets have backslid in recent weeks. "I think we’re second guessing ourselves a lot of times. There’s no swagger, we’re passing up threes, we’re driving in because we missed so many threes." D'Antoni said postgame. "We need to take the shots. We need to take the threes. Even if we miss it, so be it, but we need to play the way we play."
When has MDA's team ever known for their toughness. Milk muh freakin hair has a better rep for that. opposite of soft = hard PLAY HARDER Yeah, it's on the players, but give me a break when they're not the deepest team for what they're trying to do.
Suns had 7 top tier 3 pointer shooters under MDA. Suns were soft. 6th to 9th man is the problem. Players are the problem.
As early as we could get our problem exposed and solved, could see any chance move on; the above quote makes MDA looks soft, think what pop gonna do? Cleared the bench whenever starters played like sh*t or lack of motivation. That's the difference between excellent coach and championship coach. 'Iron wrist' always better than good man. Now obviously there are some drama in the locker room. I believe there were conflicts came up after Celtics game. Should we got draymond kinda players, at least there were the vocal one or someone speak up. No just a merely 3pt draught, no leadership (even make critical tiebreaker in playoff look doomy)
Mike d'antoni can't develop bigs. Tyson Chandler has a ring so can't really say d'antoni is doing a good job with his bigs!
Not soft at all, telling it straight IMO. Rockets are not shooting 3's like they were during their win streak and 3's not falling has nothing to do with opposing teams packing paint. In fact packing paint makes those 3's even more wide open. Rocket players are 2nd guessing themselves after Knicks and Clips loss as well as in shooting slump. Their lack of effort on D makes me believe even stronger about theory that confidence is shot because switch everything defense is all about effort.
I dunt wanna make a fuss about yet, dunt wanna get panic to bring about issues say rebuilding, our coach firing or sending away harden for picks. We still get chance. But imho… Now the question is we are a 1st-2nd rounder? a contender? Or a championship caliber？In CF forum, different ppl setting different bars for this team and quarrel/arguing with based on different visions. But personnel-wise, 4 losses speaks volume: 1. Leadership vacuum (mj n Kobe never allowed his team lost in this fashion…lose to worst teams 15-20pts w/o a way out), even LBJ gonna act like this: （thats the instinct born to be, not swagger to be) 2. A span of 4-5 games characterizing with 3ball shooting draught too long to believe we have kinda personnel equipped around the core to sustain the micro ball, in addition to efforts issue (in playoff, only 7 games n played in 13 days, against elite teams even a 1.5 game 3ball draught is unacceptable ) Till now, i hate to believe, but this year, we are a qualified 1-2 rounder, unless any magical happened. p.s. I answered 3ball woe issue separately in your post.
I still believe buddy. 5 Out and switch everything can beat any team (or lose to any team). Puncher's chance is better than our chances earlier this season and even last season. Looking forward to Lebron demanding to guard Harden, it will be a bloodbath. Harden has roasted him 1 on 1 last 5 seasons.
What about Amare and Diaw? Also it’s not like he was doing a bad job with Capela. I wouldn’t say he can’t develop bigs, but he certainly has a preference in the types of bigs he likes maybe?
