......the motto of our Rockets. Resort to jacking it up when you're down and forget about stopping the opponent. This isn't just about tonight's game....it's the same in all games.
when you have a great center, there is nothing wrong to shoot a bunch of 3's. but the team has gotta to add the other half of the motto - live by the d, die by the d. i think, at least this season, the horrid defense has lost us way more games than the 3's that weren't falling.
The Rockets play inconsistent defense, thats one of the reasons we are seeing a jeckyl and hyde team. They need to focus on lock down defending in all quarters and also work on the scoring in the second half.
Yeah I think this ones on Adelman, when we were down by 4, he should have either: A. Pounded it to Yao down low B. Had Wafer/Artest/Mcgrady Slash C. Just let Scola/Landry work around the paint. But no...Joker choose D. He choose D about 4-5 times. WTF! I can understand once, heck maybe twice....but really, statistically, it was a ignorant game plan that got out of control.
SO the rockets copied the magic offensive set or the magic copied the rockets? Seriously can we hire JVG as defensive consultant?
I usually tend not to call for rash coaching changes, but if things don't improve by the deadline there might be a need for a change with both the players and the head coach.
Rockets have shot a total of 985 three pointer thi s season so far, the Spurs have shot 983. The difference is they're shooting them at a .392 rate and playing much better defense by far.
I have no problem with the 3s taken in the 4th quarter. They were all within the flow of the offense and were WIDE OPEN. If a team did nothing but take WIDE OPEN 3 pters all game long, they would probably avg 120 pts a game. They just didn't fall. 3 times out of 4 we would be posting in ecstasy about how our 3pters won the game for us right about now. Variance within a small sample size people. We normally shoot a much higher % on 3s than we did in the 4th quarter.
i am not disagreeing with what you said. but if what worrell said was true that we took 12 3's out of the last 18 shots (too lazy to go to my dvr right now), then it's a bit problematic. gotta be one of the reasons we lost.
It is, shot selection is horrible. The good teams understand you don't get the lead back all at once.
What? A wide open three is one of the best shots you can get in basketball. You CANNOT pass those up and expect to win basketball games. Let's say ur chances of making a wide open 3 is 40%. So the expected value of each shot would be 1.2 pts (3x.4). In order for us to have as high expected value as a wide open 3, we need a two point shot percentage greater than 60% (2x.6). Now on our team, that's the equivalent of about a 10 ft hook shot from Yao, which is one of our most optimal shots. You're telling me that in those possessions we could find better shots than a 10 ft hook shot from Yao, after we disrupt the rhythm of our offense by not taking a wide open 3?
Memphis was either playing horrible defense or was told by the coach to not let Yao beat them and pack the paint. How could you pass up wide open 3s to drive into 5 defenders? We just took what the defense gave us.
Rox is a defensive team, but this word is not fit Rox, now no offense we surely lose, and no defense we always lose.
It's more of a defensive issue for me this night. We weren't shooting contested 3's, most of them were open 3's for us to hit but we missed most of it. The Grizzlies was challenging us to take those shots all game long because they know we would kill them in the paint. Until the end they didn't change their gameplan because we still can't hit a 3 until the end and Yao was getting in a roll. It's our fault to blame really If just we did more good defensively, we would have halt their run better and keep us in the game for some stretch.
That's depends on who's shooting it and how "Wide open" the three was. hey I'f I'm scouting the Rockets I'm giving Rafer and Shane that look. If it was Brent alone or on a late close out of course it's a good look, but you can't tell me shooting three 3's in a row when you're only down 6 makes sense. How about stop settling for jumshots at the end of games? getting to the basket? Drawing fouls? Get what I'm saying?
