NWaba/PJ Starting together is a COACHING DECISION Rotations are COACHING DECISION. Boogie didn't not come in until we were damn near down 20 Why is that? Rocket River
Start Eric Gordon in sf position Sign Gernald Green and Michael Beasley Start Michael Beasley Let Harden to play iso again. Otherwise fire Silias and Employ JVG
Learn how to balance players on the court. If something is lacking then that player needs to be replaced. When you are down by 30 against a championship team you might as well experiment by doing things like playing Cousins and Wall together to see if that helps anything. Have the players do basic high school drills like boxing out and passing for the next 3 months. When Kerr got in on the GSW he actually did things like that to a lesser degree. Teach your players things like how to pass the ball inbound. Play Tate over Nwaba.
What is working for the ROCKETS? There is no coordination on Defense at all We don't box out at all . . .. . . . . I really don't know what we are even TRYING TO DO Rocket River
37% career 3-point shooter. A ~300 shot slump is not enough of a sample size to determine the shooting ability of a player. Look up any player's 3-PT% on medium volume year to year, and you'll see huge fluctuations year to year 3-PT%. Even LeBron has ranged from 0.300 to 0.400 over the past 8 years. I'm not giving up on EG yet.
Streaky players don't make premium dollars. Consistency is more important than anything. A shooter is someone you can rely on, you can't rely on EG. When EG is off he is WAY off.
I don't think you can rely on ANY shooter when they're off. Everyone has bad runs. He shot .317 last season, which wasn't great. But over a small sample size. But when LeBron shot barely over 30% in 2016, would we suddenly not rely on him as a shooter anymore either?
Why did you completely gloss over the keywords like consistency and streaky. You can shoot 40% on the year and be inconsistent.
I glossed over them because that claim is very difficult to prove or disprove, is very subjective, and prone to confirmation bias. How would you define "consistency" exactly? And how would you go about demonstrating a certain player is not consistent/streaky or consistent? EG has a bad shooting night..."See look how inconsistent he is!!" ...then tonight he was 3/8 which is perfectly "average"....no one says anything. EG jacks up a lot of 3's on a game to game, and there is a ton of variance in the 3-point shot. That's universal. If there is some mathematical evidence that he his 3-point shooting is significantly "streakier" than the mean over the course of his career, hey I'm all for it. But otherwise that type of subjective analysis tends to really be a lot of anecdotal evidence and selection bias.
If you haven't realized that EG's scale of highs and lows are far beyond that average player then you must be new to Rockets basketball. It is interesting that something almost anyone agrees on which is EG being a streaky shooter that can get insanely off for long stretches and does good for some strech that you disagree on. No point in arguing. Almost anyone reading this would agree that EG is a streaky shooter more so than your average NBA player.
Sad thing is I still agree with my statement before that this team has more latent talent than even the 2017 team but is about 20x more disfunctional. I guess you could say boxing out is a skill but it really isn't on the upper end of the spectrum. Getting back to stop a fast break also isn't on the more elite skill sets in the NBA. I don't know if Harden's disdain for being in Houston is permeating throughout the team or what. The chemistry on this team is not even remotely on the same page as that talent level. It is sad to see.
In some ways, Silas lucked out. Sure Russ and Harden left so Silas got a raw deal here. But if Mavs GM Donnie was canned and a new Mavs GM come in. Usually the new GM want to hand pick his/her own Mavs Head Coach, which often lead to new assistants as well. The fact Silas jumped ship a year earlier ensure he didn't sank over there in Dallas.
He also basically got a mulligan. A first year to get used to the grind and a 2nd year to actually get graded.
