He doesn’t need to obsess over the mistakes. We don’t want him to get hesitant. One pretty easy fix is to just quit with the passes from sideline to sideline. It’s cool when it works and disastrous when it doesn’t. He has plenty of chances to shine with short crisp passes. Same on defense; quit trying the wow plays and just make the obvious ones. His elite skill is shooting. That is wow enough for this team.
"Excuse me Mr. Okogi and Mr. Segun, I'm just going to drive by the both of you and score. If that's ok. "
Everything worthwhile requires an investment and trade off. The rockets need to continue to invest in him, he has shown flashes of brilliance of exactly the player we need
Slow and steady wins with investments. It takes discipline to not go for the Homerun. Stone seems to have it. Do Tito, Ime, and the fans? Reed is being brought along at about the right pace in my opinion. Treat him like Jalen and you will probably get Jalen results.
He’s not being treated insanely unfairly, no I don’t believe that. He was given a chance to start after all. But no he’s not being treated like Jalen. Jalen was given the keys. I think Udoka needs to calibrate by 20-30% and spend more time teaching/coaching. It also falls on Reed not to do stupid **** and go with what’s working
I agree with most of this. I don’t know anything about Ime’s time spent teaching and coaching. My intuition is that he does plenty of that, especially during the game. I think it is more about whether Ime has the offensive acumen to teach what needs to be taught. His rotations and game time decisions may get better with more head coaching experience. I’m not sure his ego will allow him to step back and recognize and improve on his weaknesses on the offensive side of the ball. Hope springs eternal. We have the horses already.
Agree with that, and I think the evidence Ime might need to calibrate a bit more is how Reed is making a lot of the same mistakes on basic fundamental stuff. I assume they have deep film sessions where he gets called out in some way and you’d think he’d get the point when he gets pulled and sits the whole 4th quarter, but I wonder if Ime’s mantra is “he’s a grown man. He can figure it out himself.” Maybe Ime and co should be holding his hand and getting back to the basics of coaching someone who might show the maturity socially but basketball wise still needs that guidance that you’d give a college kid. Maybe Ime needs to better realize that just because you have a hall of famer on your team doesn’t mean that half your team is still barely old enough to order a beer and might have sort of sped read through the camps etc where you got constantly drilled over the basics… like staying low and not letting your butt get blown by.
