Adelman mentioned our QUICKNESS. Can or will we use this as a weapon for the series?

maybe maybe no

 

more PT for AB...

 

When you're undersized the inclination is to say you have a "quickness" advantage. That doesnt mean run up and down the floor with Utah. The Jazz averaged 106 points a game so they're more used to the pace than the Rockets. Use whatever quickness the Rockets have in the existing offense I guess...

 

hayes/scola/landry ARE quicker than boozer and okur (if you exclude deke). i think he means we gotta use our quickness to get rebounds more and finish around the paint.

 

small ball, small ball!

 

^^^^^

No no no, don't let Jazz offensive rebound rape us.

 

Anyway, the rockets are undersized already. They need to play fast pace ball.

 

IMO that's simply RA playing to the team trying to get them to go harder for loose balls.

Maybe Landry and brooks have a clear speed advantage over Utah. scola, deke, hayes, battier certainly do not. Utah is probably as good as any team in the league in uncannily coming down with loose balls, that's what RA is trying to give his team confidence against. Give them more confidence to be more active instead of being pushed aside by physical play.

 

I think that Adelman reads my posts...

Been saying that since day one.

DD

 

So, Adelman says we showed our quickness and you don't think that means we used it as a weapon in the game in question? What? He meant, well we showed our quickness but didn't use it as a weapon. Obviously, its a defensive thing, hustle thing, because it was a mid-90s typical Rox game.

They asked Sloan at halftime about the Utah 37pt second quarter, he said,"well we upped the tempo and got some easy baskets. ... Like to keep doing it."

Sloan upped the tempo for the 2nd quarter and part of the 3rd, but we slowed them down eventually. It was our defensive quickness.

We are not a running team on the level of Utah. If we were, we would have already seen it. It's not like anyone has to teach Adelman to run.

 

Early offense, that is what we need, first good shot.........if it is there, if not bring it out and set it up.

Rafer is the only player on the team that can wave off Tmac and that alone makes him very valuable.

HP...shouldn't you be on a flight?



DD

 

Adelman was referring to Landry's quickness

 

a quote or a link would have been nice to know exactly what Adelman said, but we get it for the most part...

Thinking more how McGrady and Rafer have things in common, maybe its what makes them a close pair.
They both are a bit sensitive to pressure, they are good at handling the ball, both are known as good passers and facilitators, they both keep their turnovers low, they both shout outside shots at an inefficient rate, they both need to drive in more and with more aggression, and they both can stand to shoot thier free throws better.


Posted to say I wouldnt mind seeing Aaron Brooks sent in with the sole purpose of PENTRATING to score, then penetrating to dish. Through in some old Rudy T iso ball but just for Aaron Brooks. He's a rookie but thats all he was doing anyways in game 2 and it was working. Rudy T would have kept going to that over and over again

 

AB can get to the rack at will
DWill *cannot* stay in front of them

Dallas basically had JKidd bully CP3 all last nite
we should have AB run the dogcrap out of Dwill .. .
tire him out that way

Rocket River

 

as a team we're not that quick.

It helps to get easy shots but i think having other players that are agressive offensively helps. Rafer can waive off tmac because he is the only person who can competently run the offense himself. Bjax is less of a PG than tracy and AB is still a rookie and makes too many mistakes.

Its funny but Adleman's offense is supposed to be set up where everyone makes good passes. Unfortunately, only tmac, rafer, AB and Hayes have showed that they can make good passes on a consistent basis. Three of those 4 I would like to see finishing plays when their in the plays but since they are the only ones who can make them they end up taking bad shots because nothing ever develops.

I've seen it happen alot with all 3 of them, they try hard to find someone open after they come off the PnR but it just ends up being a broken play and they have to shoot it at the end of the shot clock. AB's bad shooting nights are rarely his fault, i notice he ends up taking alot of bad shots because of bad offense.