Can we change the focus of our team back to DEFENSE???

I don't think there's one coach in the NBA that abandons defense. You just got to have the players and rockets back court are not those players.

 

How did that work out for the Bulls?

DD

 

Our bad defense had everything to do with not having Yao Ming. When will fans understand this?

 

Rockets have defense with 7 fters.
Rockets lose 7 fters, and defense went down.
hmmm....

Give Yao bionic legs.
Give Hayes a step ladder.

Problem solved.

 

And.......

DD

 

hell of a lot better than our no D team did.

they do need another scorer, but to say they did poorly because they played too much defense is idiotic

 

They got shut down by a better defense.

 

You're saying this like it's being ignored? I'm pretty sure they're trying to get back on track defensively, but it's not going to happen before the playoffs are over.

 

THERE IS ONE

Spoiler

 

Don't worry because, to paraphrase the Go-Go's:

WE GOT THABEET!

and Yao.

 

and we are in the lottery

and we won one series in like 15 years

and Bulls are a lot better than us

and Heat is rigged, not really beatable

 

Damn good teams with dominant players win championships.

As long as the Rockets don't have at least one, better two dominant players, they don't need to worry about winning championships, but rather about acquiring that type of players.

And playing great team defense with a guy like Kevin Martin is like playing great team defense with Steve Nash: not possible.

 

LOL.

We had better defenders on the bench. If RA had wanted to, he could have played Bud and AB less.

I think it would be wonderful if the Rox would get back to defense this year.

 

Let's see here

top 5 defense + 2 superstar/star = multiple 1st round exits
horrible defense + no star = .500 record

Seems to me defense might just be a bit overrated.

Look, what improves defense is better interior defender and/or having star player(s) so your role players can concentrate on defense. Not some magical coaching philosophy. If that's all it takes, then the warriors these past years would've just needed JVG/Mike Brown type to be perpetual championship contenders.

 

You can choose to believe that.

But an offense built around 1 player going ISO makes that said defense appear a whole lot better than it really is. C'mon...how many crunch time PnR's did we see? Zippo.

But the defensive guru himself...Jeff Van Gundy...said it best in CHI-MIA Game 4. And I quote...

"You can't be an elite NBA team and put a player on the floor that the other team doesn't have to guard".

The problem with the flat-out "Defense wins championships" bunk is that it fails to recognize the importance of players with skills on both ends of the court. And especially transition O.

The Bulls ran a flawed offense that made MIA look better than it is. I strongly suspect the Mavs will take advantage of the fact they have more players that can create offense on their own. Essentially, the Mavs are an offensive team that learned to play D. That is what now wins NBA Championships.

 

Balance boys, balance.

Got to be good at both O and D.

DD

 

It has nothing to do with individual talent, Bogans is just as bad offensively as Stevenson or Fisher the last few years. Their offense schemes are just awful.

But ya, usually the teams with better defense win, this is just a fact. It's because defense is consistent and offense may not be.

 

And yet not enough offense to get past the Heat