small ball as primary system in the long run gives us no chance, you got to take losses to develop new system. rockets aint winning chip anyway right now so its perfect moment
you should be directing your vitriol to the owner not Silas. Although he’s deserving he’s here because he doesn’t cost much. JVG didn’t want to be here because Morey was on his way out. Morey was on his way out because Tilman didn’t shut up and listen when Morey said trading for Westbrook was a bad idea. So it all comes back to the tilman.
The current distance from our planet to the sun is 91.826 million miles. That's slightly longer than the leash I'm going to give Stephen Silas. He's been dealt a complete mess, and I want him to feel perfect freedom to experiment and see what works. That includes failed experiments with players we end up trading as a result. The worst thing we can do is make this guy feel that he's under pressure to produce wins at the expense of rethinking everything we do.
Enjoy watching smallball V2 tonight. The sequel is rarely as good as the original (and the original sucked). Rockets fans no longer think “big”....we settle for 27 years of mediocrity. Thought NASA was a positive symbol of the area. Now we accept smallball because we are accepting losing. Why not think big and go get Andre Drummond??? We have picks and certainly a lot of money now. We become instant contenders with Drummond, Wood, Gordon, Dipo, and Wall as our starters. I even placed EG in the starting lineup as an olive branch to our small ball lovers. With Drummond and Wood starting you can afford to play Gordon as a small 3. Instead let’s keep rolling out Tucker and House and just be smiling and happy as we garner the 9th pick in the first round for OKC!!!
He is trying to run a team with a **** show start, half the veterans know they are probably being traded, best player on the team is hurt while the other two starters switch sitting on back to backs He ain’t that bad
We also have core pieces that expected to be major comtributers by the end of the season currently in the g-league
This thread sucks. Your star jumped ship and everyone is hurt. You were probably ready to suck his doc during that win streak. Go home bandwagon.
KPJ seems to be okay taking mid range shots. My problems with Harden wasn't his talent and skill level. Those elements have always been through the rough with Harden, it was mainly his mentality when things weren't going well in the middle of a game that pissed me off, going too far to the extreme in the 3 or lay up offense and his weight management in certain seasons. I'm just exited to have genuine young talent. We really haven't had that in a while. I'm willing to admit that when I watch Wall and Dipo play, I've taken Harden's talent for granted because watching them play can be so infuriating.
.Its not really about Harden or MPJ. Its about the philosophy. We arent going to be taking more mid range than before. At most we will be takin those in the clutch, even now though, it doesnt seem like we do it that much. If Harden's mentality was driving you up a wall, you really REALLY shoulndt be putting stock in that with Kevin Porter Jr.
Tilman definitely has played his part in our current depressing situation. His cheapness is the reason we got rid of Capela and why we hired Silas. It’s also why we don’t have Jarret Allen and so on. It will rear its ugly head at the trade deadline again, when I assume he’ll start attaching first round picks to players that make a lot of money (EGordon) to get rid of salary.
There will always be those that look to place blame. In this case, some folks deserve some. Tilman, Morey, Harden, Pringles, Covid, the weather and and a few more. But Silas? He inherited this mess from all the above. Yea, some of his in game decisions can be criticized, sure. What coach cant be? But blaming Silas as a principle problem is just way off IMO.
Silas hasn’t looked amazing, but this team is ass with an engaged Harden and great health, this team would be a 4th or 5th seed at best...without Harden and replacing him with broken down Dipo to go along with bad health, well, we see the outcome but 2nd round and occasional WCF appearances with dreams of winning a title was so bad for many, so they can enjoy blowout Ls every night now instead
Silas lobbied hard for Dipo over Simmons. Silas CHOSE to run offense thru Wall instead of Harden. Silas did not aggressively engage Harden from the beginning and CHOSE to give him space. Was also passive aggressive towards Harden instead of empowering. Silas purposefully cultivated Wall and Boogie as his team leaders and sided with them every time. Silas may not be the PRIMARY factor for Rockets mess, but he is far from blameless.
Billy Donovan just sat almost the whole starting line up after halftime after being down by over 20 at HT with piss poor effort. The Bulls came back to win the game.
