Exactly. No way we’re gonna be winnings game after losing for so long. But seeing Lucas coach with fire is exactly what a young team needs to garner discipline and to start playing the right way. Holding players accountable is the best way to fix mistakes.
A mark of a sht coach the inability to acknowledge or recognize that a big man has the skills to compete in a guard dominate era. Silas mindset really is the mirror image of folks who believe that only centers that are a certain height and athletic can succeed in the league.
Biggest diff last night was we had more defenders playing - we still shot like **** from 3 .. we still blew a 12 point lead … we still had awful turnovers … Lucas played every player available (folks complain when Silas does) Lucas played a 3 center Rotation .. (folks complain when Silas does) Silas has his faults but he’s doing what is demanded of him
The biggest difference last night was that we played a team that was just as crap as we are. Also, we didn't play 3 centers. Boban didn't play.
The biggest difference is played the Pistons who are just as bad as we are, and the flip coin landed in our favor. That's it.
https://theathletic.com/4136110/2023/01/30/rockets-nba-trade-deadline/ Hollinger: The Rockets have young talent, they have enough financial flexibility to add players this summer, and they likely have a high pick coming in. Now they gotta try to play real basketball. Look, we gotta talk about the elephant in the room. Ask anyone in the league who is the worst-organized, least-sound team in the NBA, and they will tell you it’s the Rockets. They’re selfish with the ball, they don’t run back on defense, and Gordon wasn’t lying: Most of their key players’ worst habits haven’t improved. Even the Rockets’ good moments are mostly a triumph of energy and athleticism over solid fundamentals. They play like an AAU team, except they’re in the NBA. Look, this wasn’t the job Stephen Silas signed up for, but it’s hard to say he’s done much with it. It’s his third year and he’s won 24 percent of his games, which is an average of 19.7 wins per season, and they’re on track to have the league’s worst record for a third straight season. To put this in context: No other NBA team failed to win 20 games in either of the previous two seasons, even when they only played 72 in 2020-21, and no other team is on track to fall short of 20 this year. People will tell you he’s not the right personality to rein in wild players, on or off the court (I’ve heard him compared to a substitute teacher) … and, to be fair, others will tell you the organization never empowered him to do so and has looked the other way when it comes to player discipline, especially regarding Porter. For the moment, a coaching change might not be in the Rockets’ interests, especially if they don’t know who they want to hire. I just don’t see any way they can come back to training camp next year with Silas at the helm and expect anything to be different. Again, the organization probably needs to look a lot deeper than just Silas. But the Rockets can’t be anything more than the league’s most exciting bad team until they clean up some of the very glaring fundamental failures on both sides of the ball.
Anyone that thinks all of the Rockets problems are because of Coach Silas is wrong, but he is part of the problem and he isn''t the solution. It is possible he can be the solution for someone else, but he is tuned out at this point after losing for so long. Is it fair to him? Yes and no.... he made the decision to be Stone's puppet rather than get fired and try to get a job elsewhere.
KPJ is a failed experiment and hopefully the organization comes to terms with that. Nice numbers but overall one of those situations of addition by subtraction.
Yeah, this is 100% accurate. It isn't even a situation where some or even the majority feel this way around the league -at this point it is pretty close to universal. Stephen Silas is very well liked as a person around the league. When he got the job a lot of people gave him the benefit of the doubt and rooted for him. However, now he is seen as someone that is doing a comically bad job. The only thing thought worse of around the league? The Rockets front office, which is viewed as unprofessional, unorganized, dated and chaotic at the whim of the owner. While Silas is liked, Stone isn't especially and ownership certainly isn't liked.
It is still possible that Fertitta ends up hiring the right GM or that the Rockets get Victor or Scoot in the draft, and doesn't matter.......... but what I will say is that the Rockets leadship is really poor and that makes it really hard to win, and win long term.... look at the Texans. Kubiak won somewhat for awhile but that is it.
How long until we fire Silas, he stinks as a Head Coach. I mean I know his father's memorial was Saturday - and it may look callous to let him go, but it is clear the team responds better to Lucas - time to let Stephen go - and give the job to Lucas as an interim so we don't lose another full year of accountability and development. DD
I’m ok with Lucas as an interim, but we need a complete overhaul in the off-season. Find a good coach and let him pick his assistants. Maybe he keeps Lucas, maybe he doesn’t. Hopefully, Lucus would bring more accountability for the rest of the season. You will see a bunch of whining and crying from the privileged few, but hopefully it will sink in that the me-only attitudes have to change. I’m talking most specifically to KPJ and Jalen.
If Stone knows how PR works, he’ll fire Silas around the deadline when the press is busy obsessing on trade rumors.
