The funny thing is Heat type of teams think they are good when they beat us in the last attempt. They are not. No Silas&Nix, Rockets, the dead bottom team would beat them by 15. Undersized Bam, whining Caleb, spoiled Herro, that's all Miami have. They still needed biased refs, underperforming Green and headless Silas&Nix to beat the worst team in NBA. Heat is a sleepwalking team.
and this is not an isolated incident.. this is happening 2 years in a row now... from the 1st summer league game of sengun and this is easy to notice but rockets fanbase doesnt want to look at the elephant in the room.. they dont really want to think sengun is really special or good, they think any 3 pt shoot is as good as sengun creating things. They were too invested in doubting sengun at the start, and finding faults with him, its hard for them to go back now and spit on everything they have said or claimed, they just choose to lose their minds when it comes to sengun because he is a negation of all their basketball dogma summed up in 3>2 athleticism > no athleticism and bbiq = knowing when to call a TO playing through Sengun is also an embodiment for them of the biased foreigners only fans who they hate and who want to take over their beloved team, so they would rather lose massively than having Sengun being a major factor in Rockets doing well and their enemies, the fake fans so called SOF being right...
Heats window closed already, most of their players are burnt out. They sand no chance against top east teams
They had Lebron not that long ago... Still have a Top 5 Coach, a top 10 owner, Top 8 City...... This crop of players isn't good because their star player Butler isn't really a superstar. Not every Top 8 franchise can have the best superstar every decade. The Rockets shouldn't make the mistake this version of Heat made and give Butler a max or super max. Yes, Lebron, Wade and Bosh were worth it.
And they play us..beat us…and someone has a career night. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. i don’t mean that to be argumentative with you. Just frustrated.
"Heat culture" is a glorified middling team lmao. a fluke finals run in the bubble is really all they have lol.
The question asked was "Was that what you wanted?" Silas answered the question directly. Saying he is blaming the players seems disingenuous and suggesting what another coach would say is pure conjecture.
"They" referring to your own players you are coaching should never come out of a coaches mouth. Especially in the media. creates division. where is the cohesion, silas? lol you can say the mistake and default to the "we gotta do better". It's easy. It's not conjecture when silas is always saying the players are doing something wrong that he thinks absolves his trash coaching. "well i told them to do this and that." is cringe.
1. Pretty sure he said "we" repeatedly. 2. Is "we gotta do better" much different from "another lesson learned"? 3. The immutable fact is Nix did do something wrong. The conjecture is your suggesting what another coach would say. 4. "Cringe" is not a state, it is a response. That is all.
Their broadcast and one of their assistant coaches were talking about stopping Sengun in the 2nd half. And that's with the Heat starting the game by fronting him with the SF and having BAM switch over if the entry pass was successful. FFWD to the 2nd half: Don't think they went away from Alpi in the 3rd quarter. Three of Green's turnovers happened feeding Sengun, 2 of them in that 3rd quarter. Immediately followed by Alpi's two consecutive TOs, no body check foul called on the first "turnover". That's 4 possessions lost that were intended for Alpi. Oh and the funniest one, the down to the ankles bullet pass from KMart, so 5 possessions. Jabari had 2 turnovers also meant to feed Alpi. Miami was prepared for Alpi. A vet PG would have found a way to take advantage of no Bam in the middle. We just shot more empty threes. The time Alpi was atop of the 3 point line with the ball, Travis Scott lined up against him. Love Alpi, he is not going to be the Highest In The Room against Travis Scott that far out from the basket.
Sengun should play on ball more, these scrubs both dont know and dont want to make precise enough passes(and silas dont want to train them) to set him up with the ball in the most opportune places, but luckily he can work his way towards the basket wherever he has the ball. Whoever watches the games or even highlights should know this by now. And this is a much better offense than anyone else on the rockets doing anything else
Imagine being so bad at coaching that you put this guy in for defensive purposes when all you need is to stop them scoring for less than a second No other coach in the history of basketball would look at Daishen Nix and say "that's my defensive stopper". And yes, I'm still mad. Goddamnit Silas
I definitely think this years team should have played around Sengun and Green. And Silas was an assistant coach when Boris Diaw was starting for a few a seasons in Charlotte. He has some experience with a good passing big man operating from the elbow or high post. He should have known better. I would prefer the coach/front office to have a more creative way to build an offense and rotations that can use Alps playmaking but not completely rely on to the point they are building a team around him. (No evidence they are at all doing that right now.) But mainly because I worry that Alp has a ceiling offensively. He could develop into a starter on good playoff team, but I don't think he would ever be No. 1 playmaker on a good playoff team. Jokic is currently probably better than Alps ceiling given Jokic's height and 3 pt shooting, and even Jokic has yet to prove he can be that.
Why do I read the Last 2 Minute Reports? They're always absolute horseshit. Apparently this is an offensive foul: http://official.nba.com/last-two-minute-report/?gameNo=0022200840&eventNum=2100 And this isn't: https://official.nba.com/last-two-minute-report/?gameNo=0022200840&eventNum=2103
Silas is the one that had the brain genius idea of putting Nix in when you need a stop instead of Eason or Garuba
I looked at Green's turnovers but did not see any trying to feed sengun. See the turnovers here: https://the-high-low.com/video/player/nba/2022-23/1630224/tov?ordsq=latest&shotFilters= Only the fourth one is on a drive that would have assisted Alpi, still not feeding Alpi for playmaking, which is what i was talking about. Jabari has no turnovers in the boxscore. KMJ's turnover was also hitting Alpi under the rim. Whole game long they did not try to get the ball to alpi in the high post as far as I saw. You are right Miami was prepared. That turnover on the double team, I remember this happening some other game. When Sengun stops dribbling and getting a double team, we need to have a more structured, planned movement for the other guys. Sengun can't protect the ball now in that situation.
