My best guess... he is disputing the amounts(they were never married) and she leaked it to put pressure. I mean let's be real, neither should be struggling to provide for a young kid. As always, the fact it's public sucks and this should be private but always the kids who suffer while adults fack **** up. She's gone public with details several times already and that really is a bad look imo. Perhaps this relationship isn't one-sided with the toxicity.
This is the kind of stuff where I'm in agreement with the "none your business" folks. These personal life details hawked by tabloids always make me uncomfortable. I care if/when there are things like potential consent issues, but when it's stuff like custody battles and he said/she said verbal spats with exes, I'm out.
IIRC, although Nia knew that Ime wasn't the most faithful guy, she was furious when it broke out into public because he would not stop the affairs when the team asked him to. I could see how it pulled her and the kid into embarrassing light. It's not surprising that she would make sure he was going to pay.
Obviously she's not a "good Christian person" per Tillman if she isn't willing to forget about <whatever it was Udoka did that has never been officially revealed> That's what forgiveness is all about - the forgetting, or even better, in Tilmans case, not ever knowing.
The defense ratings is last year's. After off season where moves happened. Bos losing Marcus and Grant for a more offensive Kristap to me sees BOS below their #2 spot. HOU should be higher.
We added Udoka, FVV and Brooks. Jabari and Tari not rookies anymore. Can't imagine we won't climb significantly. I imagine we'll move to somewhere between 12th and 18th. Top 10 is tough, you look at those teams they're full of vets in the starting lineups. Experience makes such a huge difference on defense. Would be a miracle if we got into the top 10, although I will say we can be better than OKC's defense last season (13th).
So many people are snoozing on that point, Silas was the worst coach I have ever seen in the NBA, the least prepared - and I have been a fan for 50 years, his father was awful, but he took it to a whole other level of crap. DD
This. Silas was so bad that the Rockets wanted to lose and STILL considered firing him during the season. Rockets could have accomplished what they did with no head coach at all.
One thing I’ve noticed all summer is Ime being present at nearly every Jalen Green, Jabari and Kevin Porter summer run (Rico Hynes, Through the Lens, Chris Brickley Runs). Dude is locked in to shock the world (make the playoffs) with this squad this season.
He definitely appears to be taking his job seriously. He's letting these guys know he's the boss and he's watching. There won't be any questions about who is in charge come training camp. I already get a sense this won't be Silas buddy experience but a real coaching experience. He's learning these guys habits.
If people still complain about Silas by midpoint of the new season, there must be something going on.
The last 3-4 years Udoka has either coached or assisted in the East, I think the West is a notch tougher and more balanced. He does not have a Duncan or a Kawhi to make the Play In/Playoffs comfortably. If you take Sacramento, before Mike Brown, they finished their last 4 seasons......39/31/31/30 Wins (Joerger/Walton) And then 48 W season and added Sabonis. Rockets : 17/20/22 (Silas and Stone) I think it is fair to say if you go by that the improvement might be somewhere between + 9-17 wins 31-39 W - where teams like Utah, Indiana, Magic finished last year.
More than Silas, our pace should slow down. Just giving the other team less possessions to score will help drop the numbers. A traditional point guard controlled offense will naturally slow the pace, too. We may even run different sets and plays.
Agreed, we would not be running G League, Summer league level of stuff. More half court and P&R and then transition.
Our pace wasn't all that fast compared to the rest of the league. As a matter of fact, our pace was about league average/middle-of-the-pack. Could it go down? Sure. What definitely needs to improve is our defense.
Our pace was surprisingly low because our defense was so bad. Teams that get a lot more stops get a lot more transition opportunities.
Interesting - how would you explain the Spurs, then? San Antonio had a horrid defense (worse than ours, probably) and was one of the 2 fastest-paced teams in the league.
