[Chron] Solomon: Rockets will score more under Adelman

I can't wait for October, it can't get here fast enough.

DD

 

This needs to cut and pasted on every messageboard that has anything to do with the Rockets so people will stop spouting out this "Phoenix-style" stuff.

 

damn. i really wanted carill to be RA's lead assistant here.

oh well. adleman has learned enough from him over the years. time to bring in a good defensive assitant to balance the game.

 

I've said it over and over again. It's not about fast paced, it's not even necessarily about a lot of points per game. It's about fluid offense.

 

fluid defense, fluid offense and players playing their full potential

JVG unfortunately only got one right and did not want to adjust, **** cost him his job and us another year of being called out by Barkley and the rest

 

just saying...it's nice and all to support a marquee player, but I don't even care if Yao's on this team or not next year. Or Tracy. Or anybody.

I've been going to Rockets games regularly for the last 15 years. I went to 2 playoff games this year, including game 7....

I'm tired of walking into the arena knowing that I'm going to feel a lot worse later to have the team prove me right.

I don't care how Adelman uses anybody, who he uses, or what he preaches.

Wins, playoff wins, championship....that's all that matters.

 

UCLA cut. Yao is an enormous screen for the cutter.

That's not high post. Just one variation, off high-low. Yao and Tmac run that, they can't stop it. All inside the free-throw line.

Coach Wooden has so many variations in his book for centers - dominant low post, high-low, high - it's just a matter of adjustments. Yao can do so much more than bang in the low post or set stupid screens out at the three point line.

 

"Fluidity" doesn't mean **** if your team doesn't have shooters capable of making the shots.

 

Exactly. How many people ere have screamed at Yao for getting taking out of games by fronting defenses, or be completely repulsed by our guard passig into the low post?

Yao has skills, but so many here want him to be Shaq. His versatility may be his greatest strength (Dream's was) but how would we know? Someone decided that was not the case four years ago...

 

But it helps in that it just may allow some of your other players to score in the paint via back-cut layups and the like as well...instead of just waiting for T-Mac to create or Yao to post up (or, shudder, for Rafer to throw up a runner in the lane).

When you think about Head's strong ability to finish around the basket, Snyder's aggressive attacking mentality and Shane and Chucky's intuitive senses of how to play the game, fluidity would be an enormous benefit to the team....

...even to the extent that your lessened reliance on outside shots may make you more likely to hit a higher % of them.

 

no fluidity, no chemistry, no scored shots

pretty simple

the team has to work as a whole, everyone needs to play to their potential, everyone needs to be used right and then even the shots that should not go in, go in....

 

luther head? he's improved a lot from his rook season but i wouldnt call it a strong ability to finish just yet

 

Thank you- very good post. There is no worse feeling than futility. Being a season ticket holder going back to '-99-there is no worse feeling than driving from Beaumont and consistently losing. In bad yearws the best you can hope for is steady improvement.

this last 3 years have beeen good as we saw improvement when the players were healthy

 

Streaky shooter- disappointing playoffs-crunch time yips...inconsistent

 

So yes, now that Van Gundy is no longer the Rockets' head coach, maybe more of the entertainment at Toyota Center will come from the wondrous athletes on the court rather than the T-shirt-tossing teens accompanied by all that irritating noise during nearly every timeout.

 

never. even in phx, who actually has "wonderous" athletes, the side acts get the big ovations.

 

not even. luther head is arguably the worst finisher i've ever seen play nba basketball. no hyperbole.

sorry i know this thread isn't about that.

anyways, i hope adelman does find a right mix but i also think yao can be flat-out dominant as van gundy was using him. he just needs to be freaking healthy.

 

well, on our team, he is one of the best finishers around the basket. he's got hops, can throw down occasionally, and is usually good coming off those Yao baseline screens after the entry pass.

I could envision Luther being a very good offensive player in a Rick Adelman system. He needs to continue to be a deadly 3 point shooter (and hopefully in the post-season, too, next time), then make use of people overplaying him in a fluid offensive system to get easier baskets around the hoop.

 

he has 2 dunks last year that prove otherwise. And then a number of layup hand-offs from Yao.

Luther's problem isn't finishing, it's getting there. He is not a capable enough ballhandler to create for himself. He would flourish in an offensive system that did that for him, though.

I think you're confusing Luther with Rafer, who can get to the lane, he's just horrible when there...

 

luther is already a pretty decent offensive player, from a shooting standpoint. Thus far in his career he is best served as a spot up shooter, which is exactly what he was for the rockets. He's still developing the rest of his game, (ball handling, entry passing, penetration, etc) but those areas are still not really something you have faith in during game time.

Sad thing is, luther is one of the best finishers on the team. And thats really sad and very telling about how poor this team is when it comes to guys who can get to the rim. they just dont have them. Synder has the talent to but has yet to use it effectively and consistantly. vspan is in the same boat with snyder.

luther still has a long road ahead of him to become a real good nba player, but the positive is that he has shown strong improvement his first 2 years and he is obviously commited to working on improvement. That being said, he is still an undersized sg.