Now we will see, how we are progressing Here is: It's clear. Silas thinks all of the fans are stupid.
I don’t entirely blame Silas, but all of the losing is getting old. The entire organization is culpable from the owner to the GM to everyone else. I hate tanking. Hate it. The players aren’t losing on purpose, I don’t think Silas is losing on purpose, but what he has to work with just isn’t good enough. Having said that, I do think they should be better than they are right now. He needs to do better.
this is absolutely pathetic and people like you are exactly what's wrong in this world. Hide on the internet and say ignorant stuff like this thinking nothing will happen. Tbh I'd slap the shitt out of you given the chance, which is well deserved after a bs comment like this. Go get hit by a bus or whatever. karma is definitely coming for your dumbass
Time to take a break from Clutchfans. Do you happen to have any family you care about more than Sengun? Because if you did you wouldn't ever say something like that.
Our most important carryover players from last year (KPJ, Green and Sengun) have shown some demonstrable individual improvement over last year. Various shooting percentages, turnovers, ratings, etc. Overall, the down areas are usually compensated by greater increases in others. They added two more highly touted prospects, so while it can be disappointing that there hasn’t been an increase in wins that would prove we made the right picks, it’s way too early to expect that. Where I personally get frustrated is the lack of experimentation when the team is expected to be bad and the lack of accountability for individual play. I realize the need to develop rhythm and continuity, but you are missing opportunities to find out how certain lineups would work together. Most, if not all, of our starters are lucky to be starting for an NBA team. None of them have actually earned it. So I don’t understand why they don’t get yanked for boneheaded turnovers or failing to get back on defense. Put the 2nd or 3rd string in. We don’t need the win in the short term, and you’d be instilling valuable lessons for your hopeful future starters. Our players feel entitled. If we handle this offseason right, a few of our starters are going to the bench. You better get them ready for it. They need to be earning their spots now. They might be the most talented at their position right right now, but it might not be for long.
three of the more obnoxious SENGOOFS are already gone . . . seems like the others are in a race to see who will be
Didn’t know we had Silas’ family posting on CF. Hello Mrs. Silas & Silas kids. Thunder. (Spurs & Magic in range) In before you now try to quantify it. “ReAlLy?! 2 mOrE wIns? 3 mOrE wInS?! 5 mOrE wInS?! StEvE iS DoInG a GrEaT jOb!” (Records updated from my previous post) Just give Steve some veterans! Some veterans to work with! “No CoAcH cOuLd SuCcEeD hErE oR dO a BeTtEr JoB! StEvE iS FaNtAsTiC!” There’s our boy Steve! Look out Brian Winters! Look out Clair! Look out Dick! Can any 99ers tell me about the Jack McMahon era (San Diego) Rockets?
The other issue is attempting to fit a square peg into a round hole. KPJ PG experiment needs to end. We need to bring in a veteran PG to help this experiment end. Silas needs to stop trying to play so many players. Choose Bruno or Usman depending on the match up, stop playing both. Stop playing Matthews. He is not a consistent shooter and his defense is horrendous. Play through Sengun more and stop the heavy isolation play. The lack of a good floor general really makes our offense look messy and predictable. I'm not saying Sengun is our savior, but more often than not, the offense appears to flow better when he is in. A lot of these issues lie on Stone as well and poor roster management. He is not giving the right players to Silas and he also needs to be held responsibly for the lack of cohesion in our team. The fact that no moves have been made to bring some stability to the team is frustrating. I don't see next year being any better which as a fan, is starting to concern the hell out of me if we will even be competitive the next couple of years.
Well, last year's start was historically bad. We averaged over twenty turnovers a game for a long, long stretch. As unappealing as we are this year, we are "better" in this part of the game. We only had ten turnovers against the Mavs. This Rockets team is more talented than last season's team. We are an NBA-level rebounding team now when Sengun is on the court. Last year we weren't. We show flashes of being a competitor, not a winner but a competitor. However, our liabilities are among the league's worst. We're at the bottom of the barrel in the NBA in the most basic categories: Our player development from last year to this year is limited at best. Who is better than they were last year? The player rotations that we put on the court don't make sense. They expose everything that doesn't work on our offense and defense for huge stretches of game time. Defensively we are stuck in a losing, sag-to-help, out-of-date scheme. And on the break, we have little ambition and, clearly, no plan to get better. And this last point irritates me more than anything else. Given that we're committed to playing a lot of guys (albeit randomly at times), we should be an excellent or even above-average running team. But we don't know how to run together and create a greater tempo. We're left with one random guy (usually Sengun or Jabari) rambling toward the basket at mid-to-full speed. Powered by Luka, who is no gazelle, the Mavericks outscored us on the break 7 to 5. This group of young players can only earn 5 points on the break? That's the Rocket's average in the last three games. Most of the league is running more this year, and we are stuck in neutral. For context, Indiana averages 18 points per game on the break. Sacramento is at 16. The aged Lakers are at 16.9. Maybe the Rockets coaches are protecting the players a bit and don't want to expose how bad our conditioning really is. I'm under no illusions that we should be winning, but I expect our coaches to be able to look at the roster and make smart decisions based on matchups. And I expect adjustments on offense, out-of-bounds plays, defense, and on the break. Why are our coaches so passive? Why don't they care more about improvement? I did love the irony of the end of the last game. Silas took his timeout and feverishly drew up an out-of-bounds play with the game already decided. The Mavericks, with Jason Kidd at the helm, went out and stood in a zone. That was enough to blow up whatever coaching and diagramming was happening on the Rocket's sidelines.
Offense regressed and defense improved swapping out Christian Wood for 19-year old Jabari Smith. Who would've thought?
Honestly this isn't a good way to judge age of the actual rotation. Boban and EG inflate our number. There is a reason why Breen included "heavy rotational minutes". For example the team ahead of us in average age has a star player past initial development at age 24. Who knows what someone like Green will be at 24. I can tell you he's going to look like a different player by then. Other teams that have an average low age for their entire team also have veterans probably playing more heavy rotation minutes. The Rockets have 8 players 22 or under playing full everyday rotational minutes(Green, Sengun, Smith, KPJ, KMJ, Tari, Usman, TyTy now and before Nix) Now compare that to other franchises. Hence why neutral commenters are saying this is the youngest rotation they've seen. Eric Gordon is literally the team's sole vet who plays every day minutes and he isn't really known for being a good on court coach for young players like someone like Conley or Brunson or CP3... A steady ship vet who knows how to distribute and run an offense.
Thunder top 11 players minutes played & ages. 1 24 years old/ 276 games played 2 23/ 174 3 20/ 85 4 21/ 32 5 21/ 137 6 21/ 91 7 28/ 228 8 22/ 75 9 24/ 77 10 22/ 209 11 31/ 458 Rockets top 11 players minutes played & ages. 1 20 years old/ 104 games played 2 22/ 173 3 19 / 36 4 34/ 780 5 21/ 161 6 20/ 105 7 21/ 37 8 20/ 59 9 20/ 55 10 26/ 177 11 20/ 95 Interesting to look at i guess.
