Ime Udoka after Rockets crazy collapse to Timberwolves 12/27/2024

Sengun has put the team on his back multiple times this season in the second half. FVV should have been 3 steps closer, he would've still been open. He took two logo shots in a row, because he always plays hero ball down the stretch, because Ime always has him in during crunch time no matter how he is playing or how tired he might be. He is playing 35+ minutes every game and has been sucking for most of the year. That's on the coach. We are 21-10 because of a weak schedule and a great defense. The tide is going to turn quickly if Ime sticks with walk-it-up and chunk-it-up FVV the rest of the year.

 

Jabari screwed up big time and it’s weird how he tends to be great or garbage. His passing too.

 

if the Rockets go 26-25 in their remaining 51 games, they would finish the season at 47-35

 

That was probably the most deflating play - giving up on securing a rebound just in case Naz Reid missed from 22 feet away. IME should have called a TO and yanked him for falling asleep there.

 

Having Tari would have helped on that

 

This team lost because they got too cocky. We've been beating up bad teams the last couple games so they thought this game would end the same once we had the momentum but they forgot Wolves have a real superstar who can suddenly go hot in crunch time.

It was a good reminder that nothing is free in this league and will be important in our January schedule where we face playoff team after playoff team.

I'm not going to blame it on a single player, I felt like everyone collectively lost that one, including Ime, who failed to recognize we are on a b2b and the guys he put on the court at the end had played all 4th quarter and had no gas left. That challenge by Ime was a mismanagement in timeouts. We desperately needed one to be called but Ime kept saving his last one for a final possession because his challenge failed and costed us one of the two we had left. We would've won that game if Ime just burned the timeout and rotated in players who weren't exhausted.

 

Why did Ime Udoka allow Alperen Sengun overused and burned out in the end. Get everyone involved in the First Place.

Cam Whitmore as a lob threat should be plays that should be implemented.

Not benching Fred VanVleet terrible shooting, while Aaron Holiday is a better shooter. Ime Udoka favoritism towards Fred is ridiculous.

 

If you barely lose a back to back game against one of the league's best teams, you are in great shape.

 

Tari been underwhelming compared to how he started the season with the terror twin act. I kinda felt like he was in his way to some load management. His energy was lacking to defense. Was starting to hack more and get less turnovers. His stocks was falling off

 

I'm not one that's always quick to blame the coach, but doing defense/offense substitutions and not calling a timeout to get said offense subs back on the court for the last possession was pretty idiotic.