It's Time to Go Full Up-Tempo

I think it's clearly obvious the Rox are no longer a half court team and pretending to be only makes things worse. Their personal is geared more for a full court PHX Suns type ball and that is okay. Problem is that their still trying to shove the ball into Yao and maintain that full court mentality when it's not there. Yao is a fine player but that time limit restricts him a great deal which means people are trying to do things they aren't capable of and Yao knows it.

http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2010/11/at_04_rockets_face_possibility.html

I think it's time to move Shane into the same role Chuck performs, defensive specialist. Shane's defense isn't great anymore and less minutes may make it better for him to conserve energy and a lot more fresh when called upon. His offense is horrible and while it was thought with Yao back, his 3-point shot would be key, it hasn't been there.

Also play Jordan Hill A LOT more, sure he will have his issues but he should be backing up Scola. Guy can run and fill the lanes, playing him at center is fine but not ideal especially with Dampier coming into the fold. Also more of Jeffries would be nice to fit the new mold of offense and defense.

Now to Yao, not bashing him at all, he is just what he is now. A good but no longer great center, that is fine but don't center the offense around him. Yao is now just one of many good players on this team and thus can add his specialty to this unit. Use Yao as the outlet passer and run, don't wait for him, that time is gone. Run around Yao on offense, not through him, which means post up Scola more and use the pick and pop more often.

The new rotation should be...

AB/Lowry
Martin/Lee
Budinger/Jeffries
Scola/Hill/Jeffries
Yao/Dampier

Use Chuck, Shane and Brad only with certain matchups and start to sprinkle in some PP from time to time.

We are a dam good team that needs to find it's inner PHX Suns, the personal is screaming for such a move but it will mean sacrifice and a lot of outscoring of people.

 

It's not about the players we don't have, its about the players we do have. We have players that are better suited for a faster pace not spot up 3's IMHO.

They are still going through YAO, come on, this is obvious and he even knows it by his comments. If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't complaining about the time limit.

 

Suns made the West Finals last year and while AB is DIFFENTLY not Steve Nash, they won with guys like Dudley, Frye and Amundson playing vital minutes. We have the advantage with Martin, I think Bud will be better than Hill by season's end by and Amar'e vs Scola is closer then you think.

Nash vs AB
Richardson vs Martin
Hill vs Bud
Amar'e vs Scola
Frye vs Yao

I think we have a better bench than they had last year, all this leads me to believe we can be that type of team.

Edit - If Nash is the key then trade for him, Suns are going down the same path we are. Nash with more talent would be nice.

 

I keep seeing this and I've been guilty of saying this as well but looking at the 4 games so far, maybe it is a problem.

Great against the Lakers, no complaints.

We scored 128 against GS but that's what they do, give up points sooooo....

We only scored 94 against the Nuggets and had trouble in the 4th.

We only scored 99 against the Hornets and again had issues in the 4th.

Not sure about how great the offense is currently.

 

Hell YEA more offense, the point is to outscore your opponent and with this squad the defense won't get much better at all, so stopping them is going to be an issue. This team has just WAY to much offensive talent to be struggling like this and going back and forth with their offensive style isn't working.

 

Yao is the outlet guy and stays back while Aaron and Martin speed down to the other side of the court.

I guess, my main problem with Rox is the lack of physical tools on defense not the "scheme". If you CAN'T play "D" then outscore everyone, just have no faith AB or Martin can guard anyone but they can score A LOT.