That's fair, but my original point was that "great coaching" can't happen here. Or if it does, it would be indistinguishable to us from not-great coaching because the team is so bad. I don't believe we're in a position or have enough evidence to make a judgement on the quality of Silas' coaching. Bad teams will look bad. They look bad because they are bad.
No one can predict the future we all just guessed. I guessed his ppg correctly it was an educated guess. Every single post of yours that ive seen is a Jalen hate post and you almost always blame "Jalen Fanbois" but your posts amount to hating Jalen. Its like you're trying to create a versus war or something lmao
Analysis is a thing, it's not just "guessing". Also, you foolishly continuing to claim that I "hate" him, just proves you are one of his ridiculous fanbois...so by all means, carry on kiddo. I just won't be able to take you seriously.
I don't see a system that the players are running, it seems that we have a lot of guys getting in the way of each other, throwing the ball out of bounds in an area they seem to be expecting someone to be. It just looks like pickup basketball with bad chemistry. KPj and JG are both SGs......with different styles, but they both need the ball to develop, and frankly KPj is a better shooter at this time. How do you manage this bunch of everyone needs to develop? First, I would base it around the PnR with Wood, he is the most efficient offensive player - and I would like JG and KPj run it with him, also I would have KMJ as a roller with Sengun as well, then build off that as the main offense. Right now, we sort of just roll it out there it seems.....it looks like we lack leadership, and I don't see Silas correcting ANYTHING...he may be a great guy, but the jury is WAY out on whether he is a head coach. Right now, he would get a solid D minus - I don't see him holding anyone accountable, or putting in a system. This is stuff that should have been done in preseason, IMHO. DD
I only ever see you post wildly negative things about Jalen. Calling me a fanboi only speaks to your childishness. Analysis my ass. Plenty of people who have been doing this a long time and are a lot smarter than you had Jalen at #2. You guessed who would be more NBA ready good for you now get over yourself Mobley is not on our team. You picked Mobley and he looks good and you now you hate Jalen. You're not that hard to figure out pal.
I measure it by watching... I've coached basketball as well (albeit at the middle school levels lol) .... I'm honestly not sure what you're even doing in the thread? Not trying to be offensive. You're basically like "I don't pay that much attention!" lol... Some of us pay attention. A LOT of attention. I watch a **** ton of NBA basketball. Like A LOT. I watched the Rockets game on Tuesday over the Astros game. I watch other teams play. I watch bits of every game last night. It's all on my phone and easy to do. There's no scheme that's clear. They lack fundamentals across the board. The rotation is questionable. Many players that were positives last year have taken steps back. It's unclear how they want to play defense. It's unclear what they are focusing on in their off days. Of the few plays they do run, they don't make sense. Players are far too often confused on where they should be on plays. Etc, etc. I could go on. If replacement level coach would have ALL of these problems, then you got me. But... as noted, i've coached basketball. I coached a team of 9 year olds once for example. Their entire coaching at that point had never involved being coached a play at all. I got them to coach once a week, for an hour, with a game once a week another day. On one day, in one practice, in one our, I "installed" one play - an under the basket inbound play - that we then ran in the game 3 days later, extremely successfully. Not just because it worked, but because the five 9 year olds involved in the play ran the play they were supposed to run without getting confused. Lol... I'm sure the counter will be "9 year olds", "not the same", yada, yada... to which, I'd push back. There are lots of similarities, and IF the issue is they're super young and prone to be confused, etc... then you absolutely focus a lot on the basics. is rebounding a problem? Yes. So you focus on it, a lot, ever practice, to the extent if you see players not boxing out and rebounding in games, you take them out. The end. It's not complicated. Now, since you haven't been paying attention a lot, you might not be aware, we have quotes from Silas himself where he's kind of pushing the opposite. He wants them to kind of "figure it out". He was happy when he didn't have to "call as many plays" one of the games. Etc. You were like "coaching doesn't really matter!" and immediately we had a crystal clear response that proved it did. Was that anybody's claim? We're saying coaching matters, not that the Hawks and Rockets are analagous. How many times does one have to say he doesn't gaf about wins/losses?? Again, you're uber focused on w/l. The rest of us are uber focused on player development. I watched the Hawks last year, lol. You're way overcomplicating this. Especially since your assertation in this particular scenario... i guess (???), is that coaching didn't matter at all and the fact that they looked like and were two completely different teams w/l wise last year was just coincidental. They were 14-20 last year with Lloyd. They were 27-11 to finish the year with McMillan. AND they looked the part. Roles were clear, system was clear. I'm a BIG believer in "luck" so to speak. And circumstance, etc. Basically what you said. But I'm also a BIG believer in the opposite of what you said. Luck/circumstance exists, but then its what you make of it.
I think it's very hard to tell what great coaching can do to a really young team that clearly lacks experience and talent. I know what good and bad coaching look like when the team is already good. I don't ever remember people mentioning coaching being good or bad on a tanking teams, I don't even know who the current coach is for OKC, or Cleveland. I don't know who coached the Hawks when they were tanking, or the Suns when they lost 1000 games etc.
I disagree. And again, would look to last year. In my view, they didn't look as bad as they were last year. In fact, up until the start of training camp this year, i was still a Silas fan. So... MAYBE I'm just a little early and he can turn it around. In fact, as @heypartner noted I hoped on the dumb thread title, in part, because didn't it have an opposite effect recently? Hoping maybe can get some voodoo going or something, lol. But last year, the effort was there and clear, players knew their roles, etc. They were just out-talented and out-injured consistently. So do I think Silas forgot how to install roles and systems? I'm not sure. Maybe. Or maybe he didn't really know last year and much of his success as a coach that he's been linked to, indeed, is a function of the talent level on his team, and not anything he's done. We shall see I guess...
Perhaps that's all you see because you are viewing him as your child, upset that any criticism would come his way. He's been flat out terrible in 4 of 5 games, so he's there's been more criticism than praise... but that's not because I "hate" him, it's because he's been terrible. When he does good things, I praise him for it..... he just has almost never done those things.
You could almost tweet EVERY offensive and defensive possession and it would look like this, lol. The most embarrassing ones are the fast breaks, which should be super simple. And part of my point regarding coaching, is it seems like this is exactly how they want it. Silas has said he doesn't want to call plays and wants to see them learn how to play together. I feel pretty confident on the first clip you posted for example, that Jalen is trying to make something work with CWood on PnR, cause they're "system" is just trying to be "let's run more PnR action!!!"... The ENTIRE team would benefit tremendously from a hammering home of the philosophy of "just hit the open man". Make a move, if nothing is there, move it along. We like to focus on Green a lot here because obviously the whole "future MVP messiah thing!!" lol. But its easiest to see with Sengun. Who absolutely makes some question plays at times that are just dumb and coaching wouldn't help... BUT you also know and can tell that instinctively his bball IQ as A++, and he's confused as f out there at times... to the point where he's overthinking things so so much that he's missing point blank wide open layups. Confused or not, he shouldn't be missing wide open layups... and the reason there is tons of upside is because of this - Jalen, Alpi principally but others too just leaving so much low hanging fruit out there... but it also points to the utter confusion that's going on.
I had a dream last night that I met Coach Carlisle and got him drunk and he spilled the beans on Silas’ coaching credentials. Carlisle told me he’s overrated in terms of what Dallas’ offense produced because of Luka. Straight from the horses mouth folks…
It will happen. The Rockets have no organization plan or culture and that will eventually cause problems. If Silas doesn't do a good job, the players won't develop and Stone will get heat. I will say this, I am not happy with how the Rockets coaching staff has handled the Rockets rookies so far. The Rockets have handled Jalen Green a lot like OKC/SEA handled Durant and I am not sure that is a good way to do it. Green is being asked to do too much. Sengun is not being played consistently and should. His game just isn't being utilized at all. Sengun is the only player on the Rockets that has any shot selection process at all. I suspect that at the end of this season we will see Silas replaced and a coach that has an system will be brought in. Someone in the mold of Nick Nurse. I think you make a good point BUT keep in mind that with the Astros it was a different situation because the players the Astros drafted spent a couple years in the minors before getting to the NBA. With the Rockets, these players are in the NBA right away and are raw and not really being coached very well. I don't see Silas being fired this season, but I would be surprised if he is back next year. The Rockets are going to be one of the 4 worse teams in the league this year and the organization will take another high lottery pick. At some point the Rockets will need a strong coaching backbone to improve raw players like Green and Garuba and Christopher and to utilize Sengun. Right now the Rockets are spinning their wheels and suck at attention for detail. They lack any real culture at this point. Silas is a very nice man, everyone that has been around him loves him..... so he should be an assistant somewhere, he just isn't a great head coach. He is actually probably a better coach for veterans that can police themselves than for young players.
He's a ****ing rookie!! Not only that but what you're seeing other than defense from Mobley comes from having a point guard a real point guard and guards who are already good at passing so Mobley is already getting easy shots he has the luxury that he doesnt have to create for himself he's a role player. Bickerstaff has grown as a coach he was god awful for the Rockets but he recognized how good Mobley is at defending the perimeter very early and he is using him in that way. Silas is not using Jalen the way he should and anything we all recognize that should happen with Jalen in the offense is not. He is not using Jalen the way Shaw used him and he doesnt have a pass first point guard gving him the ball so he will have to create every thing himself. Comparing the two is really not fair to Jalen at all because we all expected SIlas and KPJ to be better and they are not. So Jalen is going to have to become near elite 1v1 player his first year in the league on THIS team. Whereas Mobley can just catch lobs and passes off of pick and roll from Rubio and Sexton. Mobley would not be as successful on this team as he is on the Cavs.
We are still closer to bedrock than people would admit. I am in the camp that Silas probably isn’t a good coach but this roster is pretty bad. Wall was supposed to be PG leading up to training camp but that changed. I think that’s a bigger factor than people want to admit. Even though KPJ trying PG seems more prudent, it will take time. I don’t think the rosters make a lot of sense right now but we also have a lot of players with question marks. I think it’s still early…. If it’s mid season and this is still going on then that’s different.
