Team ball! The stupid harden iso has cost us at least 3 winnable games! Tonights. The first game vs. blazer and the one vs. heat. I am so sick to watch this. If the coach dares to sit harden on bench in 4th quarter, we will be in playoffs. The coach who said that the ball is never democratic should be gone.
It's not Harden's fault. He is not a selfish player and he is no doubt just doing what the coaching staff tells him to do. I tell you what though. You see how Sampson benched Delfino tonight? $20 says that Delfino pointed out how stupid the Harden ISO stupidity was and the coaches didn't like it.
if he can benched starter whenever he's like, i think he probably can decide what kinda play he want to run. you're right that he probably didnt invent new play for the team, but it's his decision to run those iso play near the end of the game
uh,delfino is injured. btw this is the 1st time i've seen a well respected bball chinese fan in the chinese forums shaked his head over(tabloid) http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1440881071?pn=71#
the game was so exciting (up to OT) that i forgot we even have Delfino lol. no Jones either. wtf. yea, at the end of the Miami game, Delfino's face was like "wtf are you doing Harden?!". Sampson probably didn't like that. not sure why he keeps letting Harden and Douglas get away with things
The last 5 or so games where it was Harden ISO galore, I was horrified and disgusted but tonight I thought he had a healthy amount of ISO that allowed Jeremy to also get his chance at playmaking. I dont mind Harden ISOs when run at an acceptable rate, he's really good at getting to the line with those. A nice balance of everything is what the goal should be.
Just seems like a lot of people don't understand that this team is the youngest in the league. The lack of ball movement late in the 4th quarter is a product of that. Veteran teams are going to do this to us often. We have to develop and let the guys learn that getting wins in close games is going to boil down to execution and ball movement late. I'm not thrilled about some of the things Sampson has done with substitutions either but this type of play is hardly a crystal clear reflection of coaching. I did like that he stuck with Morris. Late in the game the rockets settle for jumpers. Spacing and movement suffers and is key to breaking down the defense and this is something we will have to watch develop. We didn't look confident down the stretch. Veteran teams take high percentage shots late in the game, they get in the paint. Young teams like our rockets settle for contested jumpers, and turn the ball over a lot. What I wonder is if Morris will be trade bait because of his increased value or if Morris has made Patterson or Parsons more expendable. Time will tell.
Need to give Harden a break and have him finishing plays as opposed to initiating and finishing. McHale mentioned they took some of OKC's plays when Harden first got here; well they should run some of KD's plays for Harden. They often run high double screens or on the wings to get KD some easy catch and shoot opportunities. Obviously, during crunch-time you need to rely on some measures of hero-ball, this is why you pay guys the max. Harden is still new at this and hopefully all of these repetitions will pay off in the end. Sometimes the offense reminds me of the Tmac era when we relied heavily on Tmac to start and finish all the plays. It was atrocious offense. Especially when Yao was phased out the game or he was injured.
Yeah, now Coach Sampson says Delfino is injured. Dude, lies just flow so naturally out of that man's lips! He needs to pay up that twenty bucks he owes me.
yes , Mchale did ran those play when he's still here but would he still run the same play if it didn't work? we don't know. basically it's Sampson decision to run it again and again , you can't blame Mchale for that when he's not around. Sampson also make a lot of controversial rotation late in 4th quarter , he benched Asik who obviously our best defender and rebounder twice late in the games when we're leading. and he benched Lin today.
It's inevitable When a team's offensive sets dies, the ball goes to the best player for an iso or a pick and roll This isn't just the rockets, it's literally true for every team in the NBA and since our offensive sets dies constantly, we resort to Harden iso all the time. But because Harden isn't the best Iso player out there today, we suffer because of it.
Lmao @ the way this question was asked by OP... 'Do you prefer Nazi Hero Ball where nothing ever works or...Super awesome strippers and chocolate cake team ball where everyone gets open shots and we win games'
I was not in favor of the trade for Harden. I don't think what he brings to the team is more than what they gave up, not even counting the draft picks, for this season anyway. Lamb is still an unknown, but has a high chance of being very good imo. I'm sure their record would be the same or better with Martin and Lamb now. Martin can score w/o dominating the ball so much. He scored 27 points in 27 minutes last night. He also moves much more w/o the ball which greatly benefits the offense. He is definitely a better 3 point shooter. He is averaging 17 points in 29 minutes shooting 48% and 51% from 3 point range. So w/o the trade, the Rockets would be a better team offensively now imo because their spacing, passing and teamwork would be dramatically better.
obviously, u gotta mix it well. everybody get involved and makes easy wide open shots, that's cool. but u need a guy who can go one on one, ISO, so he can either get to line or make shot when it seems nobody can buy a DAMM basket.
as long as it keeps giving our coaching staff a boner, i don't see it stopping. the defense can see it coming after the third time and they adjust.
