LOL we're not a lock on winning anything with an 8-9 man rotation in the regular season. Cp3 has been injured twice, Harden, LMM, and Capela once this season. We're so close to GSW but we're still lagging in terms of coaching and rotation. If Steve Kerr can find minutes for Nick Young, MDA should be able to find minutes for Green.
man who cares what another team does really. you are way too concerned with that and for the wrong reasons they do what they think is best for them and mda and the personnel here do what they believe is best for this team. its obviously working in their favor. they have absolutely no reason to be some copycat version of steve kerr's "rotation and coaching"
MDA already admits its the right thing to have a 10-man rotation and play green it's not only about kerr all contenders have a 10-man rotation - gsw, spurs, boston, toronto, cavs
Green earned minutes. Playing Garbage mamba was never really an option in a close game, but green is definetely serviceable. Infuriating.
yep Pops can win without Kawhi Kerr can win without his 3 starters while MDA needs Harden, Cp3, & Capela to win
You're "infuriated" over whether or 10th man gets minutes in the first game of the season when all our players were healthy? Good lord, I'd hate to hear how you feel when we're not in 2nd place and aren't playing over .700 ball. It's so crazy to me how invested fans get in their local team's 10th or 12th man, like they will make every difference, when we're in incredible shape already. And after ONE game? The ONLY game when our whole team was healthy? Come on, man. Here's a trick I sometimes use to manage anger (because boy do I need it). When I get cut off in traffic or something I try to think of how long I will even REMEMBER that the upsetting thing (in this case, road rage) even happened. When it's a traffic thing, I know I'll probably forget the whole thing in 1-2 days max and decide then and there it's not worth getting my back up over. So how long are you guys going to remember that Gerald Green didn't get 5-10 minutes in our win over Miami, in the first game our team was entirely healthy, MDA's first chance to play the rotation he's wanted to play all year long? Are you going to remember that in a month? If not, I'd say it's not worth getting "infuriated" by. And if you will remember that he didn't get minutes against MIA in a month, I can recommend an excellent therapist. (I think everyone should have one.) Because forgive my language but that is nutso cukoo. Anybody checked the standings lately? We're winning. We're more than winning. And you guys are "infuriated" over Gerald Green? Why? He isn't. At all. This is some DaDakota-style stuff. If only we could bring over that white player from Europe that doesn't even want to come here (any of them will do) we could do something about our problem with having so many wins! Wait. What? Oh yeah, we don't HAVE a problem. You had me going there for a minute.
Im sorry that i care about any player on our team, especially the one that saved our ass in a couple of games where everyone was injured. It’s just not something you do as a good team. If players can contribute and take minutes off your stars, you do it. MDA is known to put players that are able to contribute in the doghouse and to run his players into the ground, so longterm, yes that’s infuriating to me. And it’s not about this miami game. Im sure he won’t get any playing time ( minus garbage time) soon. He deserves to get minutes. He loves H-town. He loves playing for the rockets. He is a good fit for the system. And again, he just deserves minutes with the way he played.
Everyone who totally okay with MDA running his usual instead of finding less minutes for Harden, Paul, Ariza ( That is the biggest need for playing more people ) are going to be the first clamoring for MDA's head when they all run out of gas at some point in the playoffs. Golden State and SAS develop their bench and go deep during the regular season to keep the guys fresh
I mean green was scoring 20-30 points, he had a few slump games but idk to me you play a guy that’s been hot like that, who knows it can be like star potential or at least a good consistent scorer like Gordon. At the end of the day that’s better then Ariza, Mbah or Tucker. Obviously they bring more defense, hustle and rebounding but I can’t see why you would bench somebody who was putting up those numbers without taking a look further and seeing what becomes of it. In general though I feel like they could cut more minutes from Ariza, Tucker, mbah and even Anderson for green. Ariza to me is way overplayed for his production but mda gives respect to his starters
There is no star potential left in green. However, i agree. He should get minutes. Since he’s a SF, he can definetely take some of Ryno‘s minutes (play Luc at PF more)
I'm all for Gerald Green. I freaking love the guy and I think he'll be a big part of our playoff run. But I'm going to go ahead and keep judging whether we're a "good team" the way I always have, by our record. You should check it out. It's really good.
So why exactly are you arguing with me then? I think we both agree that Green should get PT. I know our record very well, i have not missed a single game yet. Regardless of our record, which obviously suggests we are a good team, which we definetely are, you still don't do that as a good team. That has nothing to do with our record. Golden state and San Antonio, even Boston are using every player that is able to contribute - so why wouldn't the rockets do the same? It's just smart. And if we are all about the playoffs which i think we are, it will only help to give him as many minutes as we can, especially if he, to use your words, will be "a big part of our playoff run". We were lacking effort and fire in the Miami game - exactly the fire that a couple of Green threes could have provided. So i think if he's not playing in that game, he will only play in blowouts/garbage time
So not the same as to be almost entirely different. KJ isn't in the NBA anymore. Green impressed the heck out of Rockets staff when he got his chance (KJ never did) and he will get minutes. It only takes one injury and we will have injuries. Injuries are part of the NBA. And I fully expect MDA to find Green 5-10 minutes a night and will ride him if he's rolling. All this hoopla is over ONE game, again the first one this year in which we have had a fully healthy team. How many games do you (or anyone) think we're going to be without ANY injuries? So what we're arguing over is 5-10 minutes on the RARE occasions that we don't have a single injury. I agree MDA should find him minutes even in games when we're fully healthy. He's been a revelation and he's obviously worked really hard and it's really been a help to us. So I see him getting those minutes even if he didn't in that ONE game. And even if he doesn't in our next game. MDA has an embarrassment of riches right now with a fully healthy squad but he still has to work out new minutes and a new rotation. That he didn't do that in time for Miami, again one game, has the whole board in a tizzy. What's the word for overreacting times a thousand? Because that's what's going on here. Green will get minutes and I fully expect him to contribute a lot during our playoff run.
