Being a Control Freak, JVG Leads Rockets to Nowhere

terrible coaching. never called a timeout to try and stop the Spurs momentum. He usually calls timeouts when teams score twice in a row but he doesn't call it when they are scoring every play...

 

Man do I agree with this...JVG did not help the team tonight at all.

DD

 

Raped and abused in front of his Rockets Rowdies.

Keep playing Yao and Tmac heavy minutes..at this rate they will break down by 3/4 of season.

Nice time out management there!! LOL!

Spurs scrubs basically vanished his 20 point lead in 2 minutes, and all Gundy did was stand and watch, instead of calling a timeout and making adjustment. That was the game right there.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

This will hit 300 replies by 11:30est!

Gotta love it.

You guys are SO STUPID! JVG is trying to get fired and you guys just don't catch on.

When he outcoaches the NBA Coach of the Year last week...or the Coach of the NBA Champs...but loses this week...

IDIOTS. Wake up people. Its called a CONUNDRUM for you morons out in left field!

 

And well deserved I must say!!!

Sit back and enjoy!

 

I don't know what is bad coaching. Tonight JVG's performance definitely is one of them

 

JVG is no good for the rockets team, did u guys see the game today. Why he didn't call a time out at the end of 3rdQ. He is the wrost coach ever...

 

HAHAHAHAHA!

 

There ya go....

see how relaxing it is when you get it!!

You just needed to see the light!

 

in before the lock

 

Yeah riiiiiiighhhhhtttt!

This thread is a keeper!

 

Over all this season I have to give JVG a B-. I think he has done a reasonable job considering the amount of new players and time together they have had albeit they are very talented. But tonight he showed more than one of his most serious weaknesses. I believe JVG has an above average Basketball IQ and I agree that defensive coaching is also above average but where he seems to be lacking is in his ability to make adjustments on the fly. It's as if it takes him hours and hours of study to determine the best offensive and defensive strategies to use but when a team suddenly finds a way to break down Jeffy's best laid plans his adjusting is slow to nonexistent.

San Antonio's game tonight was a perfect example of that. It was their obvious focus to stop Yao and they were using Bowen off of Tmac to do that. But when Tmac started tearing up the spurs Pop called a timeout to adjust the defensive strategy to try and stop Tmac's drives as well. It helped moderately in the first half and over the halftime he was able to refine their defensive strategy to flood the paint and make the Rockets beat them from the perimeter.

Where was Houston's offensive adjustment. Clearly they needed to move the ball around and inside out more to make them pay for clogging the middle. They also needed a shooter like Novak to make SA pay as well.

I am not here to say play the rookies because I like to see the rookies. But there are certain times when you need certain type of players to execute your offense or defense. And I do believe an efficient 3-point shooter would have really helped. Which brings up another JVG defect and that is his fear of takingrisks.Sometimes you have to take chances in this league. You have to have a strong gut as to what is best for your team and then go with that to compete on that night. And it's always not the same adjustments on every night.

 

A big lesson for JVG. Victories against teams like spurs are ground out, not blown out!!!

No way you can SECURE the win with exhausted starters facing their well practised bench players with 2:00 left in the third. I was with you on not using V-span and Novac in other situations but not this time. It was crystal clear that our starters were over-stretched even by the first half already. The 19 point the lead was the last drop of oil in there tank, yet JVG was obssessed with the first unit when Udrich, Horry and Finley's alike were running like crazy at them.

Coach's initial idea of practising the core of the team more at the begginning of the season was right strategically for a 5-2 record. Any how this was definitely the tactically dead-wrong moment to squeez the last juice from them. Imagine if we had had Vspan in the face of Udrich instead of 100% play-time Rafer; and Novac in front of Horry. The outcome couldn't have been any worse then what happend. Well, when the momentum was turned up-side, there was no way to turn it back in the 4th. The last TWO minutes of the 3rd qtr literally burried us.

I really hope Gundy could study the tape 10 times and figure out the balance between the right tactics in crucial short span of game and the season-long strategy. It's a test on his wisdom and attitude. If he 's not as stubborn as some of us think, there's still plenty of time to correct the course and mind-set.

My longest post so far I guess. I just can't help dumping it out on the most critical point of this team's success - Mr. Van Gundy's coaching.

 

Couldnt agree more Old Man Rock.

 

and why would it be locked? how long can Grundy go without taking responsibility for his ineptitudes?

 

JVG is a quality coach. Almost everyone agrees with that. But is he the right person who can lead Rox to Championship? Maybe not.

Coaches like Phil Jackson, Pop, Pat Raily are one level above him. But out of these three, it is hard to tell who is clearly better than him. So it will be a tough decision if Rox doesn't do well in the playoffs this year and these three are not available.

 

Well how can you argue with such sound logic?

 

And some people seem to think Yao doesn't need a face up game because he can score some on the block.

The game is about adjustment and counter adjustment. Against teams that know how to defend Yao and the Rockets with fronting and double teams, like the SA Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies, Yao needs to diversify his attack. 7-22 is what you get by running Yao into well adjusted defense. On the off night Yao needs some easy points.

 

I'll also throw in Jerry Sloan.