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Mike D’Antoni Defensive Adjustments

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by tinman, Jul 31, 2020.

  1. tinman

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    There’s no more games for me to prove to you I was always right
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    We lost to the Lakers after winning the first game cause the Lakers made adjustments

    you want to make a bet to see if we win the title ?
    I saw we don’t . $100 bet
     
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    What’s the excuse this year ?
     
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    As long as Westbrook is on this team, you are gonna get the same results. Yea Mike got out coached hard, but he also has had the worst roster he's had in years. Find a coach who will make Westbrook successful.
     
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    The Lakers made Adjustments

    The next coach for the Rockets should be able to do that in the playoffs I hope
     
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    Sam Cassell
     
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    I mean Mike is not coming back, so what do I say here. Mike deserves to be gone. But Westbrook is also here and its gonna always be tough for us to win.

    We arent winning the title with Westbrook but yea we probably also couldn't win it with Mike(we almost did though) :(
     
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    Okay, well if he gets hired, we can revisit this.
     
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    He’s guard friendly for sure
     
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    That’s not almost
    Almost is losing game 7 in the nba finals

    too stubborn to stop shooting three pointers when we have the lead in game 7 against the warriors is on him.
    Not calling timeout when golden state goes on a 20 to zero run is on him.
    No adjustments is the same problem every series regarded we got the real Chris Paul or Russell or anyone
    Lost to the warriors without KD at home ?
    No adjustments
     
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    Honestly we never recovered from the House news. He was our best wing defender and allowed Covington to play more help defense which Covington excels at. He’s a very mediocre man defender but elite on the weak side. With no House our defense took a huge step back and you can see it with the games Lebron put up.
     
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    I mean, if we win that game we are beating the Cavs who were a much inferior team to us and swept the Warriors.

    The rest is stuff i talked about already man, if you wanna criticize him this series fine. He was really outcoached, that other stuff was different.
     
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    We have pj Tucker guarding Anthony Davis deep in the post with no help
    How is this a good idea?

    this entire philosophy of playing all undersized players and focusing entirely on three shooters doesn’t work deep in the playoffs

    Worse I don’t see any urgency from the team the last two years facing elimination
     
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    why we get a ‘tired’ harden ?
    Why do we get threads of people complaining about bench players that never get any playing time?

    the D’Antoni era is over
     
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    Harden wasnt tired this year or last year and those have been his best post seasons.

    Yea I know, lets see what happens, dont expect amazing things as long as Westbrook is here.
     
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    House has to go
    He clearly has always been about his money and stats
    There was no conspiracy. Other players let their families especially their wives in the bubble.
    He didn’t.
     
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    only reason why mike even wins games is because he had a superstar ball handler like nash and harden, when he doesnt have that and actually to coach like he had to on the lakers and knicks he is mediocre
     
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    The help usually comes from Covington and all the rotations were off. The drop off between House to Rivers or Mclemore is too much to overcome with our penny pinching owner that gave away all our depth. We didn’t lose to Anthony Davis. Lebron just dominated us on both ends of the court. I still think he’s the GOAT and what he did to us at 35 almost 36 just proves it.
     
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    Sure he has to go but it doesn’t change the fact that him missing the last three games significantly impacted the team
     
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    We can’t overcome the complete lack of fear that we have no real shot blockers

    I hope we employ a new offense and defense next year
    It would be good to see a real center again
     
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