That’s why these people clamoring for a star don’t make sense. Structurally, schematically this team is flawed. But the question is can this team thrive with the current personnel? I think they should at least try to revamp the offense to not be as Sengun centric and find a way to balance the touches and scoring between him and Green while creating sets that allow for perimeter dribble drive to the paint. In 22-23 the Rockets were: -7th in Drives per game at 50.2 -12th FGM 10.9 -11th FGA 23.3 -3rd FTM 6.8 -3rd FTA 8.7 -10th points on drives per game 29.5 Rockets In 23-24: -24th in Drives per game 44.5 -27th FGM 9.8 -24th FGA 20.4 -16th FTM 5.3 -15th FTA 6.8 -25th Pts on Drives per game 25.8 This year they are 22nd at 43.6 Drives per game Jalen: 22-23 Drives per game: 12.9 (9th) (guards with at least 65 games & 28 min per) FGA on drives: 6.5 FTA on drives: 3.4 (3rd) Pts on drives: 8.8 (9th) Front Ct touches: 34.1 (10th) 23-24 Drives: 9.5 (24th) FGA 4.9 FTA 1.9 (11th) Points 6.3 (16th) Front CT Touches 25.2 (33rd) 24-25 Drives 9.0 FGA 4.5 FTA 1.6 Points 5.7 Front Ct touches 25.4 As the Rockets shifted to give Sengun more touches and opportunities as the main option and initiator of the offense their drives to the paint have decreased. Green’s numbers reflect this trend as well. Rockets need to find a balance in this offense instead of force feeding Sengun or playing 2 man FVV Sengun game. If they can’t then they should move either Sengun, Green, or both.
Ben Dubose's tenacity to attack the refs is to be admired, but there's a reason nobody has put out a stopwatch video on the 5 seconds violation - it was absolutely a 5 second violation. I know this because I pulled out the stopwatch just to check lol
Little Tyler gonna Feel the Roast the Rest of his Career. Tyler Herro will always be Meme. https://giphy.com/search/tyler-herro
Much like defensive 3 seconds, it's usually not held to scientific rigor. Is there any new evidence that suggests Fred's ejection wasn't just Davis on a power trip as well?
Saw a dude on Twitter ask why isn't there a clock for it, like a shot clock. Taking the guesswork/ambiguity away from the assholes and using the shotclock would fix this instantly
It is if you ignore the timeout call. House of highlights video paused at .15 shows the ball in air on way to FVV. The timeout occurs as .19 turns to .20. He literally appears to have called timeout just before...
Just like GS game that was 7 seconds getting the ball inbounds, Brandon Podziemski got blocked by Jabari Smith and the Rockets won.
Absolutely no reason the shot clocks couldn't have a second, smaller inbounds clock above them that's operated by the same person and remains turned off at all other times.
It may be a true 5 seconds, idk it was very close but he was making that call hell or high water. I think it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny to say something something human element about officiating but also hide behind “it was exactly 5 seconds” when really he wasn’t even looking for the timeout. There is plenty of instances of a ref allowing a grace second or two and giving the timeout. The inconsistency is what makes the NBA lose credibility. It can’t be human element excuse when they **** up and some rigorous administration of rule on one unannounced and specific circumstance. There’s zero credibility there. Exactly this too. Nobody is hard counting 3 seconds ever. But after absolutely bumped the ref voicing displeasure, idk that one is like pretty obvious. Fred doesn’t have that cache either, what was he expecting. Honestly he should’ve just bumped him and made it known as a “formal complaint” regarding the hard 5 count.
