The Rockets have some fundamental problems as a team. Among the most significant ones are the following: (1) Turnovers (2) Passing (3) Defensive rebounding But we've all known this since the beginning of the season. Practices are tough to come by during the season, but when / how are the Rockets going to address these issues (and please don't suggest trading Yao/Francis/Cat). I'm confident that if the Rockets improved in these areas, we wouldn't have this ridiculously inconsistent play and we'd put teams away instead of letting them linger and come back.
True but then I'm sure people would be losing jobs and the team would have to go through yet another adjustment. Could you imagine all the negative posts if that trend started? I think the turnovers are not all on the play of the PG but also has something to do with some of the offensive plays they run. Like when someone throws a pass into Yao and then screens off of him Yao has to wait for all that traffic to pass and it gives too much time to strip the ball because he can't make a move until the lane clears. The inside-out game is fine but it needs to have more flow than that. Passing deals alot with decision making and I think some "do's" and "don'ts" have to be drilled into the heads of a couple players. (You can enter names here you know who they are) Rebounding I think is starting to take care of itself. I'd prefer Yao get more offensive rebounds for second chance shots and then do alot of the boxing out and let Cato, MoT and the others clean up the garbage on the defensive end. This, of course, does not mean Yao should not go for any defensive rebounds. MoT is certainly showing improvment here though. With his improvment along with Cato and JJ doing a decent job I don't think we are sitting to badly.
I think a shake-up's in order. Give Pike more minutes at the 2, Mobley more minutes at the 1 and Boki more minutes at the 3. What I'm trying to do is: - Reduce the amount of time Steve and Cat are on the floor together. - Improve shooting, which will ultimately improve us in the assists area. - Get bigger, take away Mooch's minutes and reduce JJ's, while increasing Boki's at SF (6'9), Pike's at the 2 (6'5) and Mobley's at the 1 (6'4). BTW, how many games did Denver and Cleveland lose last year? If we wanted to tank, we'd have to lose all but around 6 more games. I think that's imporssible to pull off without making it unbelievably obvious.
Seriously and unconditionally commit to running and early offense now and see where that brings you. Let talk again in 10 games.
I hope that is a sarcastic remark. If not, that's one of the worst statements I've ever heard. Did you think we were going to win the rest of our games? We were just on a 4 game winning streak, against pretty good teams too. We lose one game to the defending world champions and you want to start all over? Yes, we had a bad game, actually the worst I've ever seen, but it does happen. Detroit lost to Cleveland lastnight, Dallas lost to the Clippers the night before, SAS lost to Denver earlier in the season, teams have bad games and teams lose games, thats what makes this a league. Last 5 games: 4-1, lost to the defending world champions, we'll be okay.
the way we have been shooting, it's not the defensive rebounds that are killing us...it is our offensive rebounds. When all we get is one shot each time down the court, and that shot misses more often that not...it spells disaster. now, Im not saying we dont need work on the def boards..especially since we allow teams to get multiple shots per possession pretty often....but if we could get our own boards off of our all too frequent misses....we would be in much better shape.
