I hope that the game will somehow mean something to suns, instead of resting up guys with small nicks here and there. maybe suns will be battling mavs for that first spot? i hope that is the case.
Controlling Suns' offense flow equals controlling Nash's passes. Controlling Nash's passes equals guarding him before he passes the ball. Who can guard him so hard??? The first candidate is Kirk, and the second one is V-span. Neither Alston nor Head can do it, I think.
Again Rockets lost to a team shooting 3-pt very well. JVG's defense is all about protecting the paint, and he has no good plans in his offense pocket. In tonight's game with Warriors, there were a lot of substitutions on each team. Although there were a few good moves by JVG, he was overall out-coached. Too sad that Rockets do not seem to go very far in the playoff. We're not elite yet.
I do think JVG is a great coach, but I also agree that he is a little too obsessed with packing it into the paint. There are teams (please see Suns, Warriors, Wizards and Raptors) that aren't trying to get the ball inside as a first option. In a sense, our defense is geared to stop what they aren't trying to do and by definition we don't stop what they are trying to do - open their wings and guards on the perimeter. JVG seems too stubborn to adjust and as a result we struggle against all of those teams.
I think JVG gets outcoached by more innovative coaches......like Nelson, and like Avery, and Popovich etc. When the situation calls for plan B, it just doesn't look like the Rockets have a plan B, especially concerning Yao. DD
I would hope he was just obsessed. Unfortunately, I didn't remember he had games defending perimeter well.
Exactly. When Rockets were trailing, most of his substitutions did not change the game to favor Rockets. When coming to plan B involving Yao in offense more effectively, he doesn't have one. I just couldn't understand why a NBA coach can not design a plan to take advantages of double/triple team on Yao, besides let other players shooting 3s.
Move Yao to the High post, or run more PNR with him at the top and on the wings..... Maybe by the playoffs JVG will have a plan for it, because we are going to see a LOT of it..... However, if Tmac can go off...like normal......the defense backfires. DD
The defensive strategy is where we need to look at. We hit enough of the threes created by the constant double team to make them pay...99 pts is going to win us most games. Don't have the sched. in front of me but i doubt we've lost more than a couple games at home when we've scored that many points. While the strategy to free Yao is non existent, most the time we don't need it to be, it may actually play to our advantage if our role players step up and knock down shots as well as TMac. The D troubles me...waaay to many good looks from deep when thats all they wanna shoot. I believe alot of it comes from a lack of quickness from our part out on the court but there's only so much you can do about that, I'm sure thats why he tried to run our 2 headed backup PG monster out there.
D paint: great. D premiter: bad; O average; He still do not figure out how to panish teams that front yao. He lacks develop players. His rotation in the game is lack flexible when some players have an off night. So jvg sucks. I don't like him. When we play teams like suns, maves, gloden state, I feel Yao is useless and his hight is bad for basketball. why? coach's game plan.
Come on now, your gettin a lil outta control. They have the best strategy in the L if you ask me, give the ball to the big man. Its that simple, give him the ball in the post and good things happen. There is no need to run him ragged off cross screens, he's a stud, give him the ball. JVG might have a couple other tricks up his sleeve as well, I seem to remember us having a pretty good stretch this year when we couldn't use our drop it down to Yao favorite.
They didn't stop us haha...we put up 99, with the rockets D that should be enough to win every night. Never mind the fact we're missing our best offensive weapon...the offense was NOT the problem tonight. Complaining about GSW exploiting our D is a much more pressing issue.
Look at the suns, they are build around Nash, but Nash has some very obvious weakness just like Yao dose, have you ever seen other teams made Nash useless?
Well, Nash's weaknesses on O...don't really exist. However, his defense...yeah, I've seen tons of teams exploit his D. I find teams just love to force some D out of Nash. In fact, I forgot which team did this, but they pick and rolled, switched and did all sorts of motion just to get Nash ISOed, one-on-one with one of thier premier guys, and the guy torched him. That's not even mentioning the natural matchups problems he's had with AI, Jason Kidd...pretty much any competent offensive PG.
