Hush up. It's Jabari's turn to get the pitchfork. Everybody on the team gets their turn. lol. The forum is pure comedy. We've got Sengun being the problem, Jabari being the problem, coaching being the problem, GM being the problem, ownership being the problem, tanking being the problem... somebody please... don't forget Jalen, Nix, etc. But I guess their turn on the wheel is just coming again because we went by them once already.
Folks complain about players being soft… then get someone like Bari and oh he got attitude issues ( if he speaks up to the Lord and Savior Sengun) If someone made a video of Sengun mistakes Bari covers on defense …. Oh the tears
I'd be pissed too if I had to play for a brain dead coach who focused his offense around a bum like KPJ. If anything it tells me he cares about winning
Okay since you have started like a pretentious prick, I'm gonna answer you just like that. Yes I know what it means. Dont talk to me like a 5 year old, Ive seen you make bad takes before and I dont talk to you like that when you make them. Alpi looked at his man once before the shot even goes up and just stares at the ball he makes no effort to even try and get better positioning against Williamson, he could have from the baseline if he had cared enough or from the other side where he had room. He did not try at all there. He's THE BIGGER body, he tries to do a dumb over and back and when he could have gotten Williamson out of position was well. bro, you dont have to kiss his ass so much that you cant acknowledge that he wasnt trying to get better positioning(boxing out whatever) either, he completely ignored his man and just watched the ball before even reacting same as Jabari. This is a terrible response. Do you know dudes in the nba pass to the spot all the time? Why would Jabari pass to Sengun there when he is a terrible 3 point shooter, the game plan is not for him to shoot those. Do you even read your sentence? What do you think they go over in practice cause its not for Alp to shoot at the three point line. Jabari was following the game plan Sengun was not. And with 2 seconds left why would you expect your center(whos a bad 3 point shooter) to be at the three, that's moronic. Lol bro, that is exactly the issue I was referring to, Sengun is in the wrong spot. Jabari made that pass thinking Sengun was gonna be there. And Sengun is a part of that problem too.
LMAO no one tell me anything about Sengun idiotically relocating to the three point line. A 27% 3 point shooter LOL but yea that was Jabari's fault.
Are we supposed to be content with the results? Seems a pious take with no emotional investment. We are fans are we not? Short for fanatics.
Content with what results? The team sucks. The players are young. One week we're saying players should be held accountable and it's good if they each hold one another accountable - that's how championship teams always do it. Here we have Jabari yelling at teammates for screwing up. I think it's good. Just like if they yell at him for screwing up, it's good. Draymond's over there yapping his head off at Curry and others even when he's playing like crap. They don't usually complain about it. Why? Because if one person makes a mistake, it doesn't mean he didn't make a mistake because another person who made a mistake points it out. They're all screwing up due to youth and inexperience at some point in the game. All I'm saying is if you want people to be held accountable, then that should be always. Who cares about the results right now - they suck. We know they suck and will continue to suck for a while. That's separate from accountability at the moment.
That Anthony Mcguinn clip is exactly what I'm talking about with players not sliding over along the perimeter. Allowing one defender to easily guard 2 players. As Jabari drives Sengun needs to slide over towards the space Jabari is vacating. Sengun-EG are too close. No point on being so close. You don't ask EG to move over more to the weak side where Green/Kenyon are spreading their "wings" out. The best I've seen the Rockets this year was when I criticized Sengun being out on the perimeter......put him as a screener if not on the blocks. It must have been passed on to him.....because he screened often for a few games after. Even saw him screening off the ball many times. Those fews games where they (Rockets) won games 6, 7 and 8 of the season. But they diva probably said, "I'm too good for this off ball screening stuff!"
I’m with you on your broad premise (hell - probably your premise about broads too). But from some of the clips I’ve watched - seems Jabari barks when he should be being barked at. If that is the case is it not ok to call out? If you’re going to be a vocal leader should you not lead by example?
It's right to call him out as being wrong, but there are people that sound like "he shouldn't be barking when he's making stupid mistakes, too!". That part makes no damn sense to me. I'm sure the coaches tell them behind the scenes who blew the play, who's right, and who's wrong ... And about broads, I swear somebody just sent this link to me 2 minutes before you responded, and I will never forgive them. Click at your own risk : Spoiler
Yes, it looks like a 2-3 zone defense. 1) Jabari is playing for the drive. 2) Sengun man was perimeter shooter at far side or weak side corner 3) shot went up and player had inside position on Sengun.....Jabari being raw surveyed the defenders near the FT line to box out 4) looked to be playing the rebound to the free throw line instead of getting an angle on that opponent with inside position on Sengun. Sengun-Bari sandwich. Don't get excited SOFers 5) another Rocket had the long rebound near FT line covered Summary: Jabari is still raw. A rookie. Goes with needing experience.
I'd genuinely love to see this. I think Jabari is playing some solid Battier defense on his own man, but I haven't been terribly impressed with his off-ball defense at all. Have you seen otherwise?
These plays don't annoy you? No one (that I don't have on ignore) said "Jabari is the problem." If anyone on the Houston Rockets acts like this, from the top to the bottom of the roster, I think it is worth discussing. We have a bunch of kindergartners that need to improve. Here is an instance where little Jabari is an entitled brat. Additionally, would Alperen Sengun please stop throwing his hands up in the air after every damn play? Next play, dude, Jesus Christ. I won't even go into the horrific body language of our backcourt...
That's complete horsesh**, they are already switched when the shot is going up and Jabari is in a textbook boxout position. Sengun can't get better positioning than Jabari in that space of time and if he would, he'd have to tackle away Jabari and then also have the player at the 3pt line completely open. Sengun does it to space the floor and give Jabari more room to operate. If you check the situation, literally every single defender is near the paint area and it makes much more sense to pass it back to the 3pt line. He could easily give it to Sengun who then passes to an even more open Gordon. But Jabari has very little court vision in these situations. Your responses really make me question the way you understand basketball, sorry.
Bro look at what happens once the shot goes up. Sengun looks once and isnt worried about boxing out his own man who's run out to play transition defense, he then ball watches, as soon as the ball is in the air. He could have cut baseline and got Williamson out of position, its very simple. But yes also Jabari messed up and should have boxed out. Im blaming both of them. Obviously Jabari made the bigger error but Sengun was bad here too. Sengun is also not even paying attention to that guy at the three after his first look. Bro what are you looking at???? There is no justification here for Sengun going to the three point line. How exactly does Sengun space the floor, he's a 27% 3 point shooter. And besides that Jabari already had two dudes on him, He didnt need Sengun to clear up space for him because it does nothing. He needed to be AVAILABLE at the spot for Jabari to make that pass. Of course Jabari is not thinking one of the worse shooters on our team is gonna be at the three point line. His man doesnt even follow him. If he had stayed where Jabari passed it to which is where he was SUPPOSED TO BE, he could have made a drive to the basket, maybe made a middy, or actually pass to Gordon wihtout someone closing out to him. Add to the fact that its very hard to even make that pass to the three from the position he was in. But okay lets play this silly hypothetical, if Jabari passed it to Sengun at the three, the guy who intercepted the pass would now be closing out to Gordon and leaving Sengun open where he likely bricks the three point shot because we have NOTHING on the shot clock. You guys make no sense at all . Yall really need to check watch your own damn clips because this is nonsense.
