Freedom man could never have an offense flow through him. That's why almost everyone outside of Rockets' staff marvels at what he can do at such an early age for that position. But we have people that have already given up on Green and Jabari and they can't drink beer yet.
There have been a ton of ridiculous moments with the coaches and this topic, but last night was one of the wilder ones. Both Lyles and Fox start going nuts, draining threes, like most guards and sfs do to us, then he subs in Bruno. Garuba is the only one that can cover the three line. He would make somewhat the most sense. Maybe Green can hit a couple of threes while Garuba disrupts the long distance shooters. I could understand Silas there. But Bruno? It was so asinine that people think it's a tanking strategy. If so, then these guys are really the greatest chess players. I just think they're overwhelmed with so many young players that they don't know what is what trying to put square pegs into triangular holes, hey oh. And add one more top pick. Should be just as fun next season,
Is the irrational hate towards the foreigners and SOFs here also a part of the tanking strategy? I dont think so.
It's the oldest excuse in the book, we really weren't even trying that hard...its not important to us to win...
https://www.nba.com/rockets/videos/postgame-interview-coach-silas-1-11-23 of course it could be interpreted he was upset when his boy being hurt was brought up
Perhaps I am adding some bias to my interpretation of how the end of the interview went. Maybe all of his post game interviews are like this. I rarely care to listen to what he says post game when we lose although I was curious after the triple double. I was also tired when I saw it since my day started at 3 AM yesterday. I rewatched it after posting the link and went back and added the part about perhaps he was upset about the KPJ injury question.
Yeah the only difference I've noticed this year is that the team is overly aggressive with help defense. We are still just as bad at defending the perimeter and protecting the paint, it's just that we have the whole team collapse into the paint any time someone gets through, and that leaves multiple three point shooters wide open for easy kickouts. We aren't really any better, we just shifted the thing we're really bad at, now it's a different thing that we're really bad at.
Agree with this entirely, the over-helping drives me absolutely crazy, and the entire team is doing it.
This is a stretch. Just watched it and he was very complimentary of Sengun. He seemed bummed that we threw away the game and was dejected throughout the interview. The ending wasn't abrupt either, just seemed totally normal to me.
I don't know whether Silas is dumb enough to be "D List" member or not but it is certain that he is not keen on Sengun. He never wants to say anything good about Sengun in press conferences. I guess he expected "Zach Collins-Drew Eubanks" type of performances from Alperen and did not like what he found at him. He tried to limit him whenever possible (Last year's Theis preference and this year's Bruno over Sengun) but all of his ill-fated plans backfired. He might blame Sengun for his forced Rockets departure in his memoir.
Facts. Silas frowns every single time he is brought up. It is really weird. RAF forcing Silas’s hand?
Selective perception. He was not comfortable with Sengun's success and KPJ's injury. Hope you are right, he is not that bad and it is our selective perception. Really hope.
I will admit that the way he treats Sengun is bizarre. His body language and approach to him is like...polar opposite to KPj. The word "Sengun" is like nails on a chalkboard to Silas. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt (which is foolhardy of me I know) that he's been told to tank and neglecting Sengun is a good way of ensuring a high draft pick. But it would also be dishonest of me to say that even reading between the lines....Silas hasn't given me any reason to believe that even deep down, he likes Sengun at all. And he doesn't strike me as an amazing actor that can deadpan that sort of thing. Whatever way this ends, it's truly one of the most bizarre periods in Rockets history. Much stranger than anything I've ever seen and I've been watching since the 90s. I truthfully didn't watch much Astros during their 100 loss seasons so wondering if anyone who was more plugged in can comment on how that rebuilt felt and if it was weird like this one's felt.
This is the most underrated and overlooked aspect of his game in my opinion. Since he is so good with his foot-work and post-up moves, people only imagined him to be a very good post-up player and nothing else. We are starting to see what he is capable of. In that respect, a lot of opportunities are missed in terms of development in favor of Green and KPj who also showed little improvement. Especially Green is given the ball, and is expected to create something from scratch and this supposedly is going to develop him. So sad!
@AlperenSengun what happens when you sag off of him at 3pt line even a little... hes spaces the floor by means of rim pressure you either gonna guard him tight at 3pt line or double him, or hes gonna be at the rim in 2 dribbles and 1 spin...
