More than 20 definitely!!! The stupidest decision JVG had made in this game was calling Lucas III on the third quarter!!!
van gundy was trying to find a spark. I just hope after he saw v-span play in the 4th that he realizes where the spark can come from now. I know he isn't ready and he was playing against scrubs but he actually looked like he cared about not being a chump.
funny how you idiots would make this suggestion about playing v-span when we are losing. but when the rockets win, you fackers would be saying "v-span who????"
that may be true but vspan actually looked like a spark compared to all of our other bench players. do you agree? did anyone else from our bench look even mildly inspiring? again...who knows how he would look against deron but hell the guy can't be worse than lucas.
you have a point. v-span is ass, but at least he would make up his turnovers and bad shooting by getting steals for the easy lay-ups. van gundy dont know what he is doing. he can give sh!tty guards like chris childs, and charlie ward, all kinds of p.t. , but wont even give novak and v span 5 minutes on the floor. van gundy wont even let snyder play until near the end of the second quarter, whats the facking point of even having a bench if your not gonna let your 7th, and 8th, and 9th, man play. im looking at all these other facking play-off teams, and they letting all of their bench players get time on the floor.(i even seen a kurt thomas, and james jones, sighting in pheonix)
Jeff needs to keep his players involved by playing them. He's isolating half of the team from the other half. It does not feel like a team, it feels like "racial segregation ", like dividing players into classes. The Rockets are a divided team.
V-SPAN: 02:49min / 1-2fg / 2-2ft / 4pt / 1rb / 1ast / 0to JL3......: 07:52min / 0-1fg / 0-0ft / 0pt / 0rb / 0ast / 2to HEAD..: 21:15min / 3-7fg / 1-2ft / 8pt / 2rb / 0ast / 2to In general V-Span put up contributed more output in significantly less minutes than the other guard options. He is more efficient, he brings high energy, he drives to the basket, he draws fouls, his size matches up to Deron, he has experience playing in high pressure games, etc.......A BLIND MAN CAN SEE THAT HE IS A BETTER OPTION THAN JL3 AND MAYBE EVEN HEAD. At least for this series and given that Head has seemingly lost his touch/nerve. When V-Span came in with 2:49 left in the game, the Rox were down 22 points. By the end of game, they were only down 13 points. And V-Span was involved in nearly every play during that period, helping to spark that 12-3 run to close the game. I know he played well in garbage time, but I'd rather have that than somebody play garbage in normal time (JL3).
JVG is a great coach. Like any coach, he can only prepare his players so much. When it comes to game prep and planning, there aren't many better. He can't actually play the game.... Spanoulis gets exactly what he deserves. He can't compete in an NBA regular rotation role. That is why he collects splinters on the pine with Tsakalidis, Lucas, and Novak. Give him Lucas's minutes? Right.... Spanoulis has shown little reason to give him more PT. PT is won in practice and sustained by quality in game play.
No player will be a superstar without going through a process of development. If you expect to plug him in and he will play well, it sounds ridiculous. A good coach is able to win in regular season and in the meantime makes preparation for the playoffs. JVG, a big question mark!!
to make things short, our guards have played so horribly that even a thus far horrible spanoulis suddenly becomes an option. that tells you a lot.
Perhaps. There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. But your point is duly noted. Mine is that we need a coach who will play at today's NBA tempo -- not a tempo that's 15 years out of date. I love JVG's defensive schemes, but that is still only 50% of the game. We need a coach who understands the entire game. Oh, yeah, stay the heck away from Larry Brown.
If any of you have noticed my posts throughout the year, you'll know that I'm a massive span fan. The fact I'm greek, living in Greece and joined the board this year is a bit of a giveaway Throughout the year, I havent gone for the "Start V-Span" attitude at every opportunity cause I know he is not ready for it (mentally....I still think he has the skills and his bad play comes from his mental state). I've simply tried to point out things he could bring to the team by knowledge of his game from Europe where he played for the team I support: Panathinaikos. I've also spent time translating Rockets and Span related news from greek media that I thought would be interesting to the board. Also by pointing out cultural/language expression differences tried to defend him from unwarranted criticism (not all criticism...just the stuff that I could see was based on misunderstandings) That being said, I wanted him to be a part of the playoff team and part of the rotation. I think he had a few things to offer. But that's only if he had got there gradually. I don't want him to be thrown in there now...That would burn him out. If he was thrown in there now It would be a desperation move by the coaching team. They've already established they didn't think he could help. And as mentally though as Span is (and he is..and thrives in important games), I think that would be too much for him and would mess up his development/career. I'd rather see him come in for 2-3 minutes in a couple more games and show he can add something and hopefully next year he will do better and be given more time. Ofcourse, being a Span fan and all, I would love it if he was given say 10-12 minutes next game and put up something like a 10pt 3reb 4asst stat-line which would greatly add to the rox game but I think there is a very small chance of that happening if he was given those minutes. Not because he can't but because he hasn't been part of the team and there isnt any plan for him playing those mins I don't think. Maybe if he had got more mins in the season and the team had mastered say a span/Yao PnR play and were used to his drive and dish passes, it would happen. Adding him to the rotation now would be a bad idea for the Rockets and for Span.
That's why I say him not just stubbern but st u pi d right now. When our 3 shooters are cold, when Tmac go to bench, why not let this guy drive to the rim? I did not see Willams shoot that many 3s but his O kill us. It at least will make our O more option. In regular season, when D is not that hard, our 3s shooters and tmac can score a lot, but now, with dirty Jazz, we have to attack rim more and more. I am speechless already, cuz I said this all season. JVG sucks, really really sucks
