Rockets coaching

Just try to look deeper. Bickerstaff always does well his first season then soon after acts like he's stuck in imaginary limited options. He's the treadmill coach, Pistons like every bickerstaff team have already reached their ceiling. Lest you forget, the team was sucking balls till injury forced him to start a shooter next to Cade. That wasn't even his choice. He will get fired from the Pistons when preaching effort and defense is at its capacity. His last interview with Cavs he was whining about how they did everything they could. Atkins came and made minor tweaks that transformed them. Word gets out, people know he has no creativity for solving problems. Very tactically limited.

Finch is underrated I'd consider him if Ime is fired but he's not as successful as Ime at this point.

Sampson forget it. College coaches are for teams who have nothing to lose. It's a coin flip which ones will adapt and which won't.

Udoka better than all these guys imo. Just needs an offensive assistant that he can trust. Like the Grizzlies we should also demand better assistants so that we have a safety net. It's still possible he won't grow out of his bad offensive habits.

 

everybody thought JB Bickerstaff was a joke when he was here calling him inept and incompetent

Is it Chris Finch who made the Wolves relevant again, or is it mostly Anthony Edwards?

 

The Coaches are getting better and better, all these young coaches know about X and O's and stuff.

 

Be careful with that idea ,,, or you might lose Amen due to too much winning

Not just Amen, but if you ever want to tank, tanking for Wemby was the time

 

Stone screwed us….could and should have been excited for Flagg, but he gave away that pick for a wose pick. Worst trade in history and when you add the whole Silas drama and his svrewup with picking Reed this year and handing Jarrett Allen to Cleveland for a bag of chips….how is he still our GM???

 

Bickerstaff was a joke when he was with us. I still remember his notorious double big lineup with Dwight and Capela and him playing Corey Brewer 30 minutes every night.

 

The Cougar franchise owner was going to lose KS to the Rox’ franchise owner? No way it would have played out that way.

 

Kevin Salpmson is too short to coach NBA ball.

 

We should pick up Taylor Jenkins to the coaching staff if he doesn't get hired this off-season because he's magically able to find no-named players and make them play like elite role players every single season.

 

? They had no one on this team post harden first year. Then enter Green Sengun and KPJ for couple years. Then Ime took a bunch of 3rd year and Second year guys and added vets to another level.

Pistons have a couple 3rd year guys (ivey, duren) 4-5 years (cade, stewart) and mixed in seasoned vets (harris, beasley, hardaway) to get them to where they are today. JB didn’t take a rookie team or those second third year teams anywhere. Like the Rockets it took time for the team to develop and gel and with additional guidance from vets.

 

lol losing for years just to wait for Flagg? Wtf?

 

Sampson wasn't interested in being head coach for the Rockets - not at that point in his career. Even two or three years earlier and he would have likely had interest, but he had made the decision he wanted the UH job when it was available.

JB Bickerstaff was considered a hot shot assistant when the Rockets first got him - but he wasn't ready to be a full time head coach when the Rockets had him. Also, don't mistake Harden willing to spend time with JB as the same as Harden respecting him as a Head Coach. Harden didn't go to the club with Sampson of MDA, but he respected them both a great deal.

As for Chris Finch, that was a Morey guy, and with different timing would have likely ended up a Rockets head coach under Morey. However, that wasn't someone Stone was a huge fan of, and Finch wouldn't have rolled over like Silas did.

Yes - there were other options, but Silas let Stone dominate what did and did not happen on the court and in the organization.

The biggest issue for the Rockets is that they haven't found a real star player yet. The depth and secondary players are very good.

 

Dude is delusional lol Even if Nets dont get Flagg I'm sure he'll still find a way to blame Stone for us missing Flagg.

 

Coaching is like a chef and players like ingredients. Even if we got a great chef what dish was he gonna cook with House, KPJ, Daishen Nix and KMart Jr? Those are the guys we would have without tanking.

 

Any time someone says we should have kept that Nets pick, I can't take anything else seriously. You can get random dudes to make the play-in in the East, and the west is going to be loaded for years to come. I'd much rather have the Suns picks. You can see the implosion in real time.

We may not need another prospect to develop for next year, but 2027 and 2029 will be great years to infuse young talent with a core of players 24 and older.

 

If the season ended today, the Nets would have a 9% chance at landing the #1 pick. We would have a 1.5% chance. Most likely we will end up with a 2.5% chance as at least one of the Bulls or Heat are likely going to surpass Phoenix.

You're getting worked up about a 6.5% chance difference? It's highly likely neither of us end up with Flagg. Saying this is the worst trade in history when the Suns AND the Mavericks picks in total will likely end up being more valuable is insane.

 

It doesn't even matter if the Nets tried or not this year. As I just said, they have a 9% chance at the 1st overall pick. We likely will end up with a 2.5% chance.

You're telling me that difference is worth forgoing the Suns 2027 1st, the Suns 2029 1st, AND the Mavs 2029 1st for just the Nets 2026 pick? You can say we got "lucky" with the Suns imploding and the Mavs making the dumbest trade in history but we are going to end up winning this trade by a landslide.

 

Agreed. 2025 being a top ten pick is house money. We have 7 good prospects to develop right now and don't really need an 8th. I mean we'll take one, but this view a lot of posters have is incredibly short sighted. We wanted to win this trade in 2027 and 2029 in case some of our core doesn't work out, we just infuse the roster with cheap, elite prospects all while competing for a title. It's beautiful, and I can't imagine finding fault in this plan.