Should Silas be on the Hot Seat?

Silas was a get at the time of his hire. He had the Dallas offense doing all time great things with lesser players than Harden. If given a chance Harden & Silas would have paired well, IMO. As of now Silas is a player’s coach that has no players. Sadly that is why Wood does the things he does.

 

no.

but also yes.

 

Silas has underwhelmed but we have a bad roster. Not making excuses for him; I don’t like what I see, but we have no size, we have no point guard, and we only have two real shooters on this team (one of which has plantar fasciitis). It’s not good.

 

Is Silas on the hot seat? He should've been cooked by now!

I'm willing to give anyone a chance but from what I've seen he is just an assistant coach, not a head coach. Prime example from last night. Rockets were up 26-25, the 2nd unit came in and immediately turned the ball over 4 or 5 straight times and gave up the lead.

I thought he should've immediately called a Timeout. The problem all yr long has been BAD QUATERS. They play well and for some unknown reason, they lose focus and fall behind. This is a learning yr and the only way you learn is by stop repeating what you're doing wrong.

 

the draft is our focus. he focused us on the draft.

once again, dead last in the association. give that man a raise.

 

The defense should not be the league's worst even with the roster we have. I just hope that Silas is deliberately trying to lose for draft reasons because if he's legitimately trying to win games he should be fired ASAP.

 

I say again not completely his fault. He is working with what he has. If you aren’t given the resources how much can you achieve in any profession? The Rockets aren’t good because we don’t have good players especially when management has placed an emphasis on developing, starting, and evaluating two players who have had a history of character issues and lack of effort. The Rockets run their offense through these two who are simply not good enough lacking focus and discipline resulting in poor on court decision making and selfish play. There are 3 rookies on the team and role players such as Matthews who is an erratic and inconsistent shooter and poor man and help defender. While KMJ can’t shoot, post or dribble drive as an undersized 4.

Any expectations of this team achieving something more is just unrealistic. And this rebuild will take couple years longer because of the Wood KPJ experiment. These two are low risk temp stop gaps that management thought may have a chance at a good return. But it hasn’t worked out so i would say if Rockets decide to trade Wood/KPJ or bench them in favor of young talent then let’s see what he does with that team to fully objectively evaluate him. Even with the crappy Wood KPJ tandem Rockets have hung with the league’s best teams and been competitive. But we simply don’t have enough especially with Wood KPJ running the show. So let’s be fair and not conveniently blame Silas. The team sucks. No coaching can get players to shoot better or make better passes or have more poise or make good playmaking decisions or have more effort. Players league.

 

I don’t understand? What roster really? Matthews who is both a poor man defender because he is laterally slow and almost no help D? 3 rookies? Sengun who doesn’t slide his slow feet and always reaches in? Wood who plays no interior D but reaches in or guards people with his hands too high or backs off perimeter? This team just isn’t good. Not really anything more to say about it.

 

Not completely his fault. Rockets run that offense through Wood and KPJ. Green doesn’t get as many touches or featured. Those two sucks but management has placed an emphasis on playing them. They don’t fit and we know it. Stone tried to trade Wood. Decision pending on KPJ. 3 rookies. Undersized team. This is what Silas has to work with. How can you put the blame all on one man and not the players? If you get rid of KPJ and Wood next year and Green and Sengun are featured and we get bigger longer tough players that can shoot and defend and we don’t see any improvement then we can talk about Silas. But until then this roster isn’t good enough. Post harden temp Transition roster.

 

Cousins scored 30 because Wood doesn’t play defense, Tate is 6’4”, Sengun is a rookie, and we pretty much have no one who can protect the paint. That’s why Cousins had 30 points. That’s as much on the GM as it is on the coach.

but let me be clear, I agree that two seasons of Silas have laid bare a lot of inadequacy on the coaching side. I think u have to give him 1 more year with an improved roster and more developed players. If it doesnt come together next year I think you let him go, but even if we do poorly next year the silver lining is that we have our own draft pick.

look it’s not a good situation but firing Silas without addressing problems in the front office won’t solve our problem. I think we need to give this nightmare one more year to see if we are going somewhere, or need to hit the reset button.

 

He is working with what he has. Wood was signed for low in hopes of higher returns with low risk thats why he was only given 3 years. Same with KPJ. Reclamation project on rookie contract with extension decision next year. We know these two suck. It’s not working. So until he gets better players, Sengun, Green, JC are featured and when these 2 are out the picture then let’s evaluate him. Until then pointless because this Wood KPJ team stinks.

 

I don’t understand why fans can’t just accept we aren’t that good lol. It’s not hard to understand. We get dominated by longer, bigger more physical teams. The raptor game recently highlighted this inadequacy. It was like watching an NBA team against an NCCA or high school team. Physically outmatched. Poor focus. Bad leadership from Wood/KPJ. Poor shooting. Just not good lol. Yes I agree let’s get a new roster. Get rid of the 2. Get longer players. Get couple real bigs. Maybe sign or trade for a young free agent with star capability. Let’s evaluate him until then. The team we have watched for last 2 years was a low risk gamble and experiment in hopes for a higher reward. But it’s over. New team. Evaluate him then.

 

If we can draft a top big, and resign Schroeder, perhaps acquire an impact player through trade, along with the continued development of our young guys, there won’t be an excuse for anything less than a massive improvement next year. But it’s gonna take some good moves from our GM.

 

I would say the unbalanced roster is entirely on the GM.

 

I don't think Silas is getting everything he could from the players we have on the team. But, you're right. He doesn't have a lot to work with and Stone should take blame for that. However, there have been too many times where the team looks disorganized, undisciplined, and lacking effort. That's a coaching issue to me.