Everyone has called him an offensive genius. I realize what he did with the Suns back in the day, and it was definitely impressive. Don’t get me wrong, I thought he was a good coach for this team. However, what exactly did he do here in Houston? Not taking anything away from him as a coach, but in terms of schemes and being an offensive genius, it looks to me like all we’ve done is A) give harden the ball and spread shooters or B) give Westbrook the ball and spread shooters. He’s gone with Morey’s vision, but what has he really added? He was a good coach, but I just don’t understand these people labeling him as a genius. Our offense was extremely predictable...
I mean, simple doesnt mean bad. Its pragmatic We would very well have had a ring here if Cp didnt get injured. We've never lost to a team less talented than us, never. Highest offensive efficiencies during the regular season and despite what anyone else says we did have offensive success in the playoffs as well. All good offenses are going to look worse agaisnt playoff defenses. Westbrook killed his offense.
Houston offensive ranks since D'antoni arrived - 2016-17: 2nd 2017-18: 1st 2018-19: 2nd 2019-20: 6th His playoff coaching was obviously a problem, but you can't deny the success of his offensive system in the regular season. That 18-19 year was a top 5 offensive of all time. The offense wasn't nearly as good before he arrived.
No, I understand the numbers. I’m just saying - there’s little off the ball movement, there doesn’t seem to be much play calling. He’s had the most dominant one on one player in the league on his team. That’s not a knock against him, but I feel like I could stand out there and say, give Harden the ball and spread out... nothing special with that, but I understand what the numbers say
The Rockets had 3 top 20 offenses of all time in 4 seasons of Dantony I don't think you understand the numbers.
It's a combination of things, and most of it is stuff we don't see. Figuring out what works and what doesn't, removing those bad plays from the offense, encouraging players to make the right plays, pointing things out in the huddle, going over the tape/math behind the scenes...there's no real way for anyone other than the players to know exactly what's going on with this stuff but the proof is there in the results. If you think any coach would've had the 1st, 2nd, 1st best offenses in the league with those rosters (all 3 top 20 all time as SamFisher pointed out) I can't really argue with that. I don't think it's true but if you do then that's your opinion.
after seeing all of dantonys rocket games, and after not consulting any data, i think his biggest flaw was not paying attention to those 50-50 games. i m not talking about when harden daggers the three over donkey or when ginobilli slaps the ball from behind, you cant coach that. i m talking about ending close games when we go into full fumble mode, consistently turn stupid or something. its hard to tell how much you can do about it as a coach, but i feel i never saw him do anything.
Harden became the “the most dominant one on one player in the league” after MDA arrived. As with Nash, MDA developed an offense to get maximum utilization of Harden’s skills. Harden’s numbers will almost certainly dip under a different offensive system. Whether that’s good or not for the team as a whole remains to be seen.
I feel this was the criticism of every coach we’ve ever had. Do the numbers show that we lost more than our fair share of those games?
dont know, didnt look, i get that this criticism might be universal, cause people remember those games longer than boring wins and boring loses...but im not saying he lost more 50-50 games than the next coach. i m saying he rarely reacted. as if he let players deal with pressure themselves.
anybody can be an offense genius if they really on all time great offensive floor raisers like nash and harden. How did mike do in new york and los angeles. Not so good
I think calling MDA an offensive genius is a misnomer. MDA’s offensive philosophy was cutting edge and progressive but I tribute that to MDA’s open mindedness and maverick attitude not his genius (at least from an Xs and Os standpoint).
He resigned finally. His thinking maybe correct, but the players do not have this kinds of qualities and the opponent teams are too strong in defence. All the bench earn very little, it is difficult to have good players. It is good to have new changes for the team. If he gets Curry, Thompson, KD
Credit goes to both player and coach. Maybe something like 80% player 20% player coach. This extends to other coaches like Phil Jackson, Jerry Sloan, and Pops. In the end, it's the player that has to play the game. Nash and Harden were/are elite. MDA should still get credit, he maximized guys like Lin.
He is a regular season overperformer IMO. It's getting tricky in the Playoffs. I stand convicted that the Suns were his best team in terms of overall chemistry. The 2018 team was all Chris Paul and Harden and defenders. This not developing any youngin is very well crippling.
The Rockets are not going to have a really different offensive system regardless of who their coach is. We will see some new wrinkles and hopefully some new adjustments but that is about it. I can see why you would say Harden's numbers would dip but I actually don't think they would even if they radically changed their system. Harden is going to have the ball in his hands. We will likely see a dip just because of age. The hope is that they can take what they learned with MDA and also get the benefit of a coach that is more detail oriented and add to it.
