[Chron]At 0-4, Rockets face possibility that they are what they record says they are.

Lack of defense is what's killing us. Didn't see any double team, or full court pressure.

 

Not at all.......

It is the mix we are putting on the floor that is killling us, not the roster, the mix of who plays with whom.

DD

 

I want WINNERS!!! I want to WIN!!

 

I said it all along. Rockets is a lottery team. This team simply do not have qualities players.

 

KG is a great player, and a punk.

 

This is what happens when you start to over hype a team (mainly rockets fans). All that talk about being contenders, too deep, ect. Now the BBS explodes because we set the expectations way too high. At the end of the day, its a superstar driven league and we're one player short of being elite. Either that or about 8 or 9 minutes short of Yao.

 

I feel the same way. I felt 0-3 didn't represent our team. Now I'm feeling like we can go 0-6..

 

Exactly right. People overrated this team all summer. Kevin Martin is not a superstar, he was a one-dimensional scorer on a bad team who has never played defense. Now you're seeing that. Aaron Brooks was a one-dimensional scorer on a non-playoff team last year that couldn't play defense. Now you're seeing that. Battier is declining quickly and is a major negative on offense. Jordan Hill has a very low basketball IQ and makes tons of mistakes. Yao is a part-time player. Luis Scola can't guard a power forward who has any sort of jumpshot because he never wants to go out and guard him.

The team is what it is. I never thought they'd be very good, maybe a 7th or 8th seed, and so far they're exactly what I thought.

The people blaming Adelman are pretty silly. This is the same coach we've had for years. I don't recall people letting the players off and blaming schemes in the past. The reason was because we had better defenders to execute those schemes, like a better Battier, Artest, Ariza, healthy Yao, etc. That was enough to make up for Brooks and Scola's defensive lapses. Now we have a starting lineup where three of the five are below average defenders and the other two are, at best, average. You can't hide anybody's defensive flaws in a lineup like that.

 

A closer! If you still cannot see what the rockets really need, you are a blind homer or lack of basic basketball knowlede.

 

I have the perfect solution! We bring back Jeff Van Gundy and make him a "co-head coach". When the Rockets have the ball on offense, Adelman will stand up and yell the plays to Brooks and Martin to run. As soon as the Rockets have to go on defense, Adelman will sit down and then Van Gundy will stand up and yell what defense for them to run. Problems solved and the Rockets rip off a winning streak of 35 games to set the all-time NBA record.

 

It is surprising to me that actually Brad Miller once said "Elston [Turner] is running the defense, just like he did back then, and Rick is in charge of the offense." Our head coach doesn't run defense. He leaves it to Assistant Coach to do it. I understand you should have your focus, but to see it was separated so clearly between the two is shocking.

 

Bottom line this team is just not good, Brooks is mo Williams, Martin is a volume scorer and nothing else his ft's keep us in games, barrier is the worst starter in the leauge, he's playing Ryan Bowenesque this year, scola does what he does interior scoring and rebounding, and Yao is never going to get a rhythm getting subbed out all the time. It hit me when we started clamoring for Jordan Hill... JORDAN HILL think about it We are prasing JORDAN HILL for rebounding... Really? We have to start rebuilding the window is shut we have to start to realize. We need a star we need to draft a star we

 

battier is washed up, the lee trade was an epic fail, we trade our best 2/3 defender when we already have the worse defensive backcourt in the entire league. we had no need for lee, why was he brought here? because the staff figures martin will break down eventually? why would we gamble of someone the staff does not feel can remain healthy, if they felt he could remain healthy all season, then when would lee really play? lowry played great alongside brooks, and could back up martin or brooks, then bring in chase to play the 2 or 3 when brooks and martin were out. this 12 player deep roster sucks. i bet every night when trevor, landry and mcgrady take a look at the boxscore they get a good laugh.

 

i am prepared to go 0-5 if that's what it takes for a turnaround.

I'll take losses to the Hornets, Spurs, and Lakers.

I'll take a back to back loss against GSW. (without yao)

but after San Antonio, there are no excuses.

we will be playing catch-up all year long if we don't right this ship by December.

 

I agree, I think it may in fact be time to move Brooks to the bench. He's a fantastically gifted offensive player, but we really need that d to start the game and with brooks, martin, and scola in the starting line up, our defense is just not good enough.

However, what is strange is that we are winning the first quarter most of the time, we are winning the second as well. It's the third and the 4th that we need to work on. I don't know how we should deal with Yao, but I agree that our current lineups are just not balanced enough.

btw we can still go 78-4 so stop whining people 4 games shows us that we have a lot of work, but we've seen what this team is capable of, just give it some time. we'll beat the spurs sat. i can guarantee that.

 

maybe they gave up on trevor, but i would have liked to see him play with Yao, i think he would have settled down this year, as he did at the end of last year. courtney jacks up way too many jumpers, even though he is supposed to be a better shooter than ariza.

 

Yeah great point on the Courtney lee trade, really what was the point in that, I mean yeah I wanted ariza out of here but why for courtney lee what a waste, Patrick Patterson as well it's like WTF do we strive for mediocrity. I'm tired of SOLID players I want to see players that can excel on the court and make me say wow. We haven't had one like that since Tracy McGrady. I wish that Amare stoudimre trade would have went through last year because he's leading NY to wins and playing out of his mind. Face it our players are not that good

 

This is so depressing... When the Rockets aren't competing it's tough for me to watch Basketball in general. Rockets are destroying my fanhood.