Man...We got unlucky with Jabari Smith

after you post here long enough you realize 100% if the Rockets were to win a championship posters would still b*tch and complain about things.

 

people have already forgotten how good he was his rookie year. he was goooooood

 

Sad to see.

Folks were btching when harden was making us relevant.
Folks proceed to btch wanting to rebuild instead of catering to harden

Folks proceed to btch about how long the rebuild is taking
Folks btch about draft picks and other rookies

Safe to say dem folks will btch about anything cause they can't be happy with anything. u call them out and they say it's valid criticisms not nonstop btchin

 

Paolo would have never been able to get Silas to smile like this

 

Hopefully Stephen Silas is gone after this year and Mahmoud AbdulFetteh is the New Head Coach.

Stephen is like Snake in the Grass type of person, others fault not mine.

Jalen Green shot was fixed by John Lucas and Will Weaver but Stephen Silas took credit.

Will Weaver left, sadly

Plus Playing Christian Wood over Alperen Sengun the Whole year, while Christian was half jogging getting back on Defense.

Alperen Sengun plays so hard on defense and dives on the floor for the loose ball and he plays 5 minutes is inexcusable. I hope Stephen Silas is gone.

 

I agree. I wasn't a Jabari guy at all. He was my least favorite of the big 3 we had a chance at landing.

Now with his college days, if you watch that Auburn team there were actually a joke. They were poorly coached and had terrible guard play. The fact that anyone believe in them as a legit contender at any point was a joke. Their guards regularly phased Jabari out of the game and gave him the ball in tough situation that he had to bail them out of. Auburn was the last place he should have gone. Switch him and Paolo and their teams respective season results likely don't change.

My whole point of saying this about summer league is how much of a joke it is when someone watches someone play poorly in SL and immediately says "oh he can't hang, he's not going to make it". It just shows a lack of understanding of basketball and development for the most part.

 

Literally the only thing I want from him is to make multiple all nba defensive teams & average 40% from 3

If he does that in his career I’ll consider him a superstar draft pick. Let KPJ/Green do the heavy work. Just hit those 3’s and lock mofos up baby

 

Amen!

 

And that's his key to stardom. Just be the best at what you can do. Especialist superstars aren't that rare. Green, Curry, Kawhi, Jokic, Smart, Tatum, Giannis they abound the league. They can't do all but they are the best at what they do.

 

Smart & Green maybe but those others are certified superstars. You see how hard Jokic went for Denver this year. I don’t think he’ll ever be able to carry a team like that

 

There are people here who hate Harden. Dude continues to give Houston love and yet they feel offended that he went to seek a ring somewhere else.

Not sure how anyone can look at Jabari/Green/Sengun and be mad lol.

 

Rashard Lewis should have been a Rocket.

He and Yao would have feasted off each other.

 

Sure, we've won 10 championships in a row and are largely considered the greatest franchise in NBA history, but that last one wasn't even a sweep and Tillman still hasn't upgraded our facilities. Cheap b*stard.

 

Melo is the only player to win rookie of the month every single month and not win rookie of the year. He was good.

 

Unless you have specific examples to share, I haven't heard anything but positive things about Silas as a person - certainly nothing that would suggest he is a "snake in the grass". I can certainly understand why people would want him gone based on the lack of a coherent offense last year but I personally am in the camp of "this is such a young team it's not fair to expect Silas to be able to implement a sophisticated offense when there are 3+ guys in every lineup who area still learning how to set and read screens properly or still need help reading basic defenses"....I imagine the start of this year will also be rough as well(more young guys, even less vets than last year), but I think we will start seeing this offense gel by mid season - certainly by the end of the year we will know if Silas is getting the guys to understand the Xs and Os. Since there is no clear directive to win MORE games this year, I am giving Silas until end of year to see how this team looks executing a strategy by end of year.

That said - aside from shooting the ball poorly, this was actually a pretty decent offense last year given how young and inexperienced the team was when you compare them to other teams in the league. They found ways to score even in the most dumbed down version of Silas' offense...but obviously they struggled to defend which was why they lost so many games.

I would argue Lucas/Weaver didn't "fix" Green's shot so much as tweaked it to give him a quicker release that would help him in the long run and on the court it looked like it was "broken" but really that was Green adapting it in real time....and again - when you don't want to win games just yet, it makes a lot of sense why you would make that change in the season rather than waiting until the offseason. I like Lucas in the skills development department, but I don't see him as a strategy guy at all - not all coaches are created equal and while I appreciate what Lucas has done for the team, I wouldn't want him as our head coach.

I don't know what happened with Weaver. Seems like a bright enough guy but he also struck me as a guy very much about climbing the professional ladder who was trying to present a specific way. I've spent a career working with ambitious ladder climbers in competitive business environments and he very much rang all the bells to me in terms of positioning himself for the next role when I heard him give interviews.

 

I had not seen RL play in while and he is way more fluid than I remember but he has the same type of game that Smith has just more decisive, the comps are very accurate and I would say Smith currently is a notch below.

I really want to see Smith coming off screens and pulling up that will tell the tale, if he can do that at a great level it will unlock his dribble drives and mid-range game.

I think he is going to be a better defender but I would like him to be a guy you can run the offense through for stretches and not just a guy who camps out at the 3.

Going to be really interesting to see what they do with him as the season goes along.

 

LeBron had no business winning ROTY in '03. Melo was flat out better and took an almost as dreadful Nuggets team to the playoffs.

 

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/wPrn-SjU6pY

 

Jabari is already twice the defender that Rashard was.

Defense>Offense

 

Anthony Bennett was a beast in Summer League too.

EDIT:
I confused Summer League with Pre-Season, he didn't play in that summer league.


Lonzo Ball looked like a mega-star in July though, and Kevin Knox looked really good his rookie SL season too.