Yes, that is why Utah is now allowed to score 100+ points a game against GS. Come on, Houston did an amazing job on defense, but there is no way you can hold a team to 60-70 points a game consistently. We need offense in combo with defense i.e. San Antonio.
I hate how this is taking so long. Just give him the boot already. JVG leaving the rockets is as bad of a secret as dirk winning the mvp is.
I manage people with PHDs from MIT and the likes. We use stats to trade. MBA from MIT is nothing. PHD from MIT is something.
Be that as it may, it's still very likely that Morey and his team has enough time on their hands to break down stats by types of opponents.
JVG said it himself he uses only 6-7 man rotation. That means he highly depends on his star players. If Rockets are playing without Tmac n Yao...our team prolly will never win a single game. Thats not good coaching imo. JVG needs to go!! Rockets clearly need a different direction and a coach willing to develop rookies and role players that can help the stars and take some load off them. I dont see JVG doing that at all. Clearly Yao has fatigue issues and Tmac has back problems so you just cant expect them to play so many minutes....JVG should have taken that into consideration and developed other players to contribute but he didnt. Its ok if it takes 2-3 years to develop solid role players n bench but since past 2-3 yrs of him coaching i have not seen any role players or rookies that has made a huge impact. Head was ok but he too was inconsistent. Not all is coaches fault but to see a change in players performance and change in playing style, which i think most of us agree here that we do, Rockets just need a new coach. This year rockets had great talent but the coach just did not know how to use them. Wasted players that could have helped Rockets alot : Bonzi, Novak n Span. JVG's win now attitude caused him first round exit and zero bench and minimal role players production
"I don't really need the people saying, 'Hey you're doing a good job.' The people saying you're doing a good job maybe later will say you're doing a bad job. I don't think some of those people will necessarily know what a good job is or what a bad job is." ~JVG
I hate to say it, in this league, doing a good or bad job is pretty quantized, either we win a championship or we don't. Or is that not the goal of an NBA team? Bad thing to say Jeff, bad thing indeed.
True, if JVG reads the board (of which I am highly doubtful), I just figured he was talking about DD.
He was in operations in boston - most of his job was on the business side. His involvement in basketball was limited to developing indices & that sort of thing. But anyway since you are the expert - what numbers should he look at?
Just because that's the goal, you can't measure success by that. It's just illogical. Otherwise, we should just have a fantasy draft and rehire coaches every year. Only 1/30 of the coaches and players when a championship a year. For two teams, the measure of success in a year is winning the championship: the two teams that played for the championship the previous year. For everyone else, the measure of success is progress toward that goal. And the Rockets have certainly had that progress since Van Gundy has been here.
Fine, but remind us who Rafer's head coach is next time you complain about Rockets' starting point guard. Limited? Hardly so. From wikipedia: "While with the Celtics, basketball operations was a key part of his [Morey's] responsibilities, including the development of analytical methods and technology to enhance basketball decisions, such as the draft, trades, free agency and statistical advance scouting for the coaching staff." What moves have benefited the Celtics during Morey's tenure in Boston?
Danny Ainge is the GM in Boston. Are you reading this right? that's exactly what I said - he developed indices. Whehter they were used is anybody's guess. What the wikipedia article does not point out is that his involvement was mostly on the business side (ticket sales, insurance,etc.). LOL, the fact that you are willing to assign the Danny Ainge/Doc Rivers train wreck to the guy who negotiates their workers comp policies shows that you've got a witchhunt in mind so what would be the point? Anyway what information to you have as to which moves were his and which weren't? The only thing I've even heard speculation on being his the Sclabrine move - which KellyDwyer, I believe, has posted that such a move wasn't even MOrey's idea and that they tried to pin it on him.
No, but there are 29 other coaches who failed, who didn't do what it took, good or bad, right or wrong is immaterial, at the end of the day one team succeeded in their goal. I really hate it when teams say our season is a success because we made it out of the first round, and then lost to a good team. It's not a success, it's less of a failure.
The goals of teams are not winning championships, it's making money. Winning championships, or the fiction that they are trying to win championships, is simply the story they tell fans to keep it interesting. Believe me, Donald Sterling considers his seasons big successes when his team goes 30-52 and takes in $35 million in profit.
I'll just say that moneyball doesn't win championships - it only gets you to the playoffs. They assumptions of moneyball are flawed.
