When Mike D'Antoni was brought along in 2017, it was obvious that he cared little about coaching defense from his extensive career. Instead of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, the team simply hired an assistant who's job it was to manage the other half of the court, Jeff Bzdelik. The result was an inspired offense with a defense that ranged from mediocre to elite, depending on personnel. Ime's work on defense has been likewise inspired, setting a though identity for the team. However, it's obvious that the #1 offense he had in the second half of his first season in Boston wasn't his work, and that offense simply isn't his priority. The front office needs to consider bringing along someone who can straighten out the offense while not messing with the identity Ime's established. I've had enough of the Rockets wasting 20 shots a game in the mid-range (8'-3PT), which is currently 5th most in the NBA, while shooting less than 40% from there as a team, which is in the bottom 8 leaguewide. This team desperately needs a smarter offense, or at least an infusion of Moreyball back into the playbook. No team in the last 20 years has won the title without a top 10 offense, and while I understand that personnel is an issue, playing stupid basketball doesn't help.
the rox need a jvg sitting next to sudoku. imagine teams scoring 65-75 ppg against us on a nightly basis.
You need better shooters. We been going through an extra horrible stretch recently which is why we lost a few winnable games on the road (Sac and Warriors). We've also been turning the ball over more, which is hurting us even more. We can't rely on being a great offensive rebounding team forever. We need at least one good shooter. Maybe they will consider trying to acquire Bojan Bogdanović. He is old now but can still shoot well.
At a certain point the players have to just hit some of these wide open shots and stop smoking bunnies.
They need Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Derrick White and the Jru Holiday. And Teroya Eason will be on board much more.
Most shooters are not elite defenders, they probably give up a little Defense .....and in Houston those shooters do not shoot their numbers. It is a curse to be honest. Remember Garrison Mathews? Dude shot 36% here and he shot 41% with the Hawks, you tell me. Players go somewhere else and suddenly shoot better percentages.
They're not going to start hitting the same shots they've been missing. So the question is how long are you going to do nothing about it? Whether that's tactical changes or trades. Of course we need an offensive assistant. Udoka needs some help in this area and struggles to ask for it. This is going to be his 3rd straight season of his offense only picking up at mid season. No trades, he just figures it out late with the same players. He's a great coach and I fear his ego is preventing him from improving on the offensive side. We should insist. In the long term Udoka will benefit from it as well. People watch us one time and can immediately tell our offense is not just shooting poorly but also the players execute the plays poorly/slowly, lineups are imbalanced, our shot selection as a team is horrible. This team needs serious help in this area. Hire an assistant Ime. Doesn't stop us from acquiring a shooter either so poor shooting is not an excuse to not get an offensive assistant. In fact it's a great reason to bring in someone with new ideas.
Rockets do nothing to keep rhythm players in rhythm - we don’t feed hot hand, and even then Ime holds tight to his rotations and sits him Jalen and Bari touches in half court is very sporadic our whole team plays better faster when we running - FVV doesn’t fit that … I’ll take a few more turnovers for better offense
I agree, his ego is clearly pushing back on him changing the offense or hiring help. But I don’t think he’s completely wrong either. He’s letting them play more free which I think is by design and he’s mentioned this. Defense first, and play free on offense. I think that’s helping this team a lot to be honest. And the reality is, we are just not an offensively talented team. Yeah we could have Bari running off screens like Klay, but that **** wouldn’t work. We need someone like Duncan Robinson or Klay to really unlock Sengun in the post and open up optionality on offense. Even then we still need a true alpha scorer. Still ways away roster wise IMO.
Lol for real. Bari was 50% from three tonight, sure, that might be because of small sample size, but the dude drains a three and he won't get to shoot another until 15 minutes later. I've seen so many games where he'll hit 2 or 3 threes in Q1 then the won't get another shot until the 2nd half. To answer the question though, yes, yes he does. Because I do feel like Bari, Cam, and Reed are not utilized. I know Cam and Reed have defensive issues, but MFer sometimes you have to sacrifice that to get the score moving and get your offense going. Some players suck defensively, it is what it is, if we had Trey do we sit him because his defense sucks or do we just realize that he's bringing something the team needs? I think Cam and Reed can do that. I know they can, they can hit open shots at least. As for Bari, I still stand by he's not getting used properly and he's been playing a lot better. If anything I think he should move up the list ahead of Jalen. I feel far more comfortable with Bari taking a shot over Jalen right now, hell I feel much better with the ball in Bari's hands than Jalen right now because most times he doesn't try to do too much. People keep looking at Jalen but maybe he's just not good enough? Maybe its time to move his usage down and see what Amen or Bari can do with more usage? They are both top 5 picks. What do we even have to lose at this point, the offense is garbage. Jalen Green has the 2nd highest usage on the team despite things like having low Win Share, Amen is 2nd in win shares on the team. Amen should be playing 30+ minutes per night and should, moving forward, be treated like the 2nd guy now, not Jalen. AMEN does help offense because his stops leads to easy offense and actually he's shown he can score...OH and btw, his shot has DRASTICALLY improved. He hits his FTs and usually can knock down a three per game. It really is time to give him more responsibility. I think the reason the offense sucks, and sorry Jalen fans, is because Jalen just isn't efficient with how much we use him. It really is time to demote him to more of a catch and shoot guy or an emergency guy like how the nuggets treat MPJ. End Rant.
It is not just garbage, it is not creative enough to the point that the coach has to play fight videos to get the morale up....... I just feel before Udoka is using unorthodox methods to get the team going, might as well hire someone to fix the Offense.
Ime gets the credit for the defence. All the credit don’t go to the players. Then, he needs to take the L on offence. Equal opportunity my ass. If Dillon is taking the most shots, clearly something is off. We should do better with what we have.
It's not so much about that, we need to do both. You can bring Ryan Anderson over here and he can have the worst shooting season of his career. The offense is bad. It's bad at everything. Ranking bottom 5 in FG%, TS%, FT%, 3PT%. We're not supposed to be that bad with our talent. It's really ridiculous to concede that right now we don't have the offensive talent to have a higher ranked TS% than the Silas years. Something has to be done about this.
