It's been debated on the board about who's the Go To Man of this team and last night again showed it's by committe and I love it. Personally I feel that a Go To Man is a bad thing.... Look at the Cavs last night.. You stop Lebron and the entire show stops.. This is true with a lot of teams with a so called Go To Guy.. You stop the main guy and the ship sinks. Unlike most teams the Rockets don't have a designated Go To Man, it's all about who's hot and that makes them a very dangerous team to play. It's very hard to scout a team that plays like the Rockets, because there's no one person that stops the entire show. Now there's going to be growing pains in the beginning but the benefits will show later in the season and in the playoffs this year or next year. I truly love this team win, lose or draw... This team is as close to an Old School team as you can get... They play as a unit, with heart, desire and fire as a TEAM.... T-Man
A go to man is not a bad thing. A superstar is a bad thing, when the other players on the floor set back and watch. That is the issue with the Cavs. Every play is Lebron doing his thing and everone else watching. When Tracy comes back he will become another peice, but in the clutch we hopefully can put the ball in his hadns and he will make the right plays for us.
I love what the Rox are doing right now. They are running RA's offense and the open man shoots the ball. Superstars try to force the action too much sometimes. An open shot by an above average NBA player is a much better shot than a forced shot by a "superstar" Our go to guy varies game to game depending on who has the most favorable match up.
Sorry... But I can't agree with that... The main person last night was Brooks, but the main shot came from Trevor. So it's all about committe... Now Carl is going to bring you that pure hard energy off the bench, but I cannot say he's our go to man. T-Man
I think if Tracy comes back he needs to play within the system and hopefully he will not try to control the flow, but play with the flow of the team.
Aaron Brooks is our go to guy, and Carl Landry is the best finisher... AB sets the table it is up to the other guys to eat. DD
It's cool. Just my opinion. Everytime he puts up a shot I feel like it's always going in. You have to admit that he's been the most consistent of the bunch so far.
T_Man, all the great championship teams had a closer, regardless of whether that player is the best player or not. tell me you wouldn't prefer lebron right now over closing by committee? it's great to witness what we saw last night. if we can do that consistently, then sure, we might not need an all-star closer. but historically, closing by committee isn't very successful. this is what we have to do for now. we'll be successful in stretches like last night. all i want to see is for them to be confident down the stretch and just take shots when they are there. if they miss, keep shooting. but AB was definitely the key last night. he didn't shoot well, but he continually attack the paint and put pressure on their defense. everybody benefited from that.
Yeah, well too bad he often forgets the table. Carl Landry is our closest go-to-guy, but RA's philosophy is to go to the hot hands.
Actually I would not want Lebron.... Lebron is a good player, but to me he's not a SuperStar.. He's a selfish player and is only looking out for himself... Just my opinion... A look at a Superstar as Magic, Bird, Bob Cousy, The Big 'O',Walt Frazier... A superstar is a player that makes others around him better. When Lebron can do that then I will consider him in that category. Now if you look at this game on paper, there is no way that the Rockets should have won that game and definetly not by that margin. Now when you say historically or you speaking of the 90's or do we start back to the 60's and move forward. So since i'm old school I will start from the 60's, look at the teams that won the Championship. Now Boston, won the majority of the Championship games back then from 58 to 66 and take in mind that most people thought that Philadelphia would beat Boston because of Wilt... But the difference was Wilt played like Lebron plays now.. He only thought about himself, where as Boston played as a team. Now if you look at the teams who won from 1970 to 1990, they all played team ball and you never knew who was going to step up on any particular night. Now I like how DD put it...
As DD stated... He's our best finisher... Carl brings that energy and hunger to win by any means necessary every single night.
since when did lebron give off this perception? don't tell me b/c he's a "ball-stopper." lebron has achieved a lot at such a young age already, both team and individual accomplishments, outside of an NBA ring. mind you, the team played an OT game on the road last night and lebron played 45 minutes. there is a thing called "fatigue" while we had 3 days to fully prepare for them.
Right HE HAS ACHIEVED a lot at such a young age.... You ask me if I would want Lebron and I gave you my answer... If Lebron is the so called CHOSEN one then his team would not be struggling when he's in or out of the game... I think Lebron is a very good player, but also think that a lot has been given to him and not earned... I like how Rasheed called it.. The Golden Child.. David Stern is all about Marketing and if you look at his history as the Commishner he's always looking for that image to market the NBA... When he took over the NBA in 1984, the league was struggling and he used MJ to market the NBA and every since then he's had someone to market the NBA.. He groomed Kobe and when Kobe got in trouble he groomed Lebron.
i completely disagree with that statement. his team struggles with him out of the game is b/c his teammates aren't very good outside of 1-2 players (mo will specifically). look at kobe bryant right now. his team sucked when he was out of the lineup before pau came. now they don't even miss a beat. the same thing applies to wade. whenever wade is out of the lineup, his team struggles offensively (albeit still as good defensively). that's not wade's fault isn't it? i mean, he DID win a championship. the same thing could be said for jordan before scottie/horace/phil jackson came along. i guess you prefer kevin martin then. his team plays BETTER when he's not playing, even when he's healthy let's agree to disagree.
Carl Landry is our go to guy, as in go to guy in the fourth. Kobe can beat both Memphis and Houston in OT back-to-back.
AB is our go-to guy on the perimeter (but usually only when he scores well like he did last night). landry is our go-to guy in the post. but usually, it's whoever is scoring well that night. and landry has been our most consistent offensive player. he's going to be a 35 minute starter in this league real soon, if not next year. well, that's the only thing lebron still trails kobe in: closing out games.
Actually, watching the game last night, LeBron like Kobe tries to do early on tried to set up a lot of his teammates but few converted. There is a reason why he usually has more assists, then his team's actual point guard. It is kind of like what we had here in Houston and what the Lakers were like before Bynum developed and they stole Gasol. No one other then LeBron is consistent on the Cavs, thus they constantly give him the ball hoping he creates. Mo Williams and Shaq are close but Williams himself isn't potent enough to be considered an All-Star and Shaq really is at the 'End of Days' as far as his career goes. But on the 'Go to' man debate, it is very much a committee thing. We start the game feeding Ariza and Scola, with Brooks getting his shot when its available, we close out the game depending on how well the bench plays, lately Landry has been hot thus with Scola in foul trouble and playing coldly they stuck with Landry. But it was Ariza and Brooks that were taking the shots and creating the offense. Adelman will put whoever is hot on the court, although if someone has to take a shot, it will probably be either AB or Ariza because of their speed and ability to create their own shot.
So let me look at it from this view... The Rockets have no Lebron and Kobe, but they are still doing great... So Kobe needs Gasol, Wade needs Shaq and Lebron needs someone also... But all the Rockets have are 5 guys with NO SUPERSTAR playing as one UNIT and no Go To Man and beating them... You are correct sir... We will agree to disagree..
