I voted for defensive rebounding. If the team was better at that, they would be a one of the best defensive teams in the league. While the turnovers are bad, they usually seem to win the games when they have really high turnover numbers. EDIT: 3 point shooting is a huge problem as well. I'd say that's the biggest offensive problem, and the rebounding is the biggest defensive problem.
Out of the first three choices, I went with turnovers. Granted, when you're pushing the pace all the time, you'll have your share of them. But we seem to just give the ball away far too often. The biggest flaw overall IMO is 3-point shooting. We rely on the outside shot so much, yet we don't really have too many reliable shooters on the roster. In fact, we just traded our best one.
Defensive rebound, it stops the Rockets from being elite on Defense. Turnovers aren't stopping the Offensive from being elite.
I Wish 3 point percent was higher but you can tell the team philosophy has changed. The Rockets take a considerable less amount of 3fg recently.
Its just overall consistency. Sometimes they play hard, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they execute the offense, sometimes they look like they don't know what they want to do. Sometimes they play good switching/trapping/aggressive defense, sometimes they're already running down to the other end letting their guy score. These are all marks of a YOUNG team that really hasn't faced much adversity. That comes with playoff series... more importantly, playoff series LOSSES. Teams grow together during those tough games/series more-so than anything that can happen during the regular season. The 93/94-94/95 Rockets don't happen if they don't take Seattle to 7 games in 92/93.
TOs definitely. Particularly bad passes that gets picked off or overdribbling. Those mostly (if not always) lead to layups for the other team.
Turnovers - and both Harden and Lin make some really boneheaded ones.... You honestly can only have one of them on the floor at the same time making those high risk passes. If this team could limit turnovers they could win it all. DD
I understand we have a fast paced offense; we have more possessions on average so we will inevitably have more turnovers...but it's getting ridiculous. Bone-headed pass after bone-headed pass. I mean, i stopped playing competitively in HS, but I would be making these passes. I think it falls on coaching, and I'm generally a fan of McHale. He really has to make a point about these turnovers or it will continue being an issue. Maybe Canaan can take care of the ball...
