What would have happened if we kept Stephen Silas?

Nothing good, a year later he would still be fired or he has a nervous breakdown.

 

This might be the lowest ranking a Top 8 defense has ever achieved. (At least, since the lates 1900s)

 

But for me, it’s hard to do this thought exercise, because I’m too confident FVV doesn’t come here without Udoka.

 

Jalen Green would have shot .274 on uncontested 3 point shots .... Just like he has with Udoka as coach.


It's not a coaching problem, its a talent problem.

 

I would’ve canceled my league pass, and would probably be getting to bed earlier

 

At least we would have some optimism for the next coach.

Now, we stuck with a poor coach. The surprise is 92%+ of clutchfans are happy with the current coach (the latest poll, 72 approval, 6 not). I am not sure whether 3 or more coaches in NBA might get a 92%+ approval rate including reigning COTY Mike Brown of the Kings.

Silas era was having talent, having cap space, no coaching, Udoka era is no talent, no cap space, no coaching.

Unbelievable.

 

Sil@ss is the historically worst coach the Rockets have ever had and people are pining for him?

We would be the crappiest team in the league again is what would happen and all our players wold be playing loser AAU bball, just like the last 3 years.

 

We would would rank in bottom 3 both offensively and defensively. Would be battling with Detroit for the worst record. Stone would be running practices. No one would be getting back on defense. Sengun would be coming off the bench and never allowed to shoot 3's. No one would be held accountable. Would still be the laughing stock of the league.

But maybe, just maybe Jalen would be averaging an extra 3-4 ppg with remarkably low efficiency. So I guess there's that.

 

I don’t think there would be much difference, but Silas got a raw deal. He has the worst record, but he also had the worst rosters for 3 consecutive seasons in franchise history.

I think the better question is whether we would be better off if we didn’t have a GM that put all his eggs in the draft lottery basket and tanking, and instead focused on making moves to add talented players through other avenues (trade, free agency).

 

If we kept Silas our defense would be much worse and offense about the same meaning we would be on a pace to match last years record or worse.

 

Silas was a patsy from the get go. Was told to go be a "loser" and he did it with a smile on his face and sometimes with tears in his eyes. This team actually ran MORE PNR with Silas than with Udoka interestingly enough and yet here we are still languishing below mediocrity - the definition of NBA hell. Hard to run a modern offense when your best player is a dud outside of 10 feet and is surrounded by poor shooting, but further than that its just an antiquated offense all around.

https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2024/1...ion-pick-and-rolls-stats-adjustments-counters

 

We had a -7.9 point differential last season and are -.4 this season. We are much, much better.

Swapping out KPJ, EG, KJ, Christopher, Eason for a good chunck of the season and replacing with Brooks, FVV, Jeff, Holiday, and the rookies with Silas as coach isn’t coming close to making up being nearly 8 points better a game. We might be the worst team in the West if he was still coach. I guess we’d have a better shot to keep our pick though. Also maybe Jalen would have more perceived value around the league based on potential but that probably just means a terrible extension rather than flipping him for value in the off-season.

Silas was awful. Ime needs to improve but is so much better.

 

Silas is probably the worst coach in the history of the league. No hyperbole. He's a nice man, and maybe he could lead a veteran team that didn't need any coaching or development, but he wasn't going to bring anything positive to this group at all. Although Jalen would probably have scored more? That's about it.

 

Difficult for Udoka to transform culture in 1 year when 3 years of bad losing has imbed itself

 

I don't think the team is quite as bad as their record suggests. They aren't good, but they play significantly more competitive games than last season. Our offensive rating is improved slightly, and our defensive rating has jumped from 29th to 6th. I have no reason to believe chucklef**k would have had the young players playing defense.

We'll see how bad this team truly is coming up. We've got one more game @ Phoenix that will be pretty tough, then they go into a stretch of 11 games mostly very winnable on paper. I still think this team will be up around 35 wins by years end, which is a significant improvement. Everybody knew this stretch out of the break had a lot of L's written all over it.

It's still a deeply flawed and extremely young roster. This season is about breaking bad habits as much as winning games. I never thought we were as good as our hot start, and don't think we're as bad as our results recently.

 

Sengun would be the worst defender in the league and Silas would extend his records.

 

Sure but the Offensive lows are too low and highs are relatively high......so hard to get that consensus median.

 

https://www.mavsmoneyball.com/2021/...uka-doncic-jenny-boucek-mike-weinar-porzingis

 

I legit think Dillon Brooks would have punched or choked him out by now.

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I don't know why but I can just see Dillon completely punking Silas