you think Dream could be convinced to coach? I highly doubt that considering how devoted he is to his Muslim faith. I'm pretty sure there is a good reason he hasn't been an assitant coach anywhere yet. And someone tell edc that he doesn't have to start his favorite post anymore, the liberty has been taken by someone else. By the way, I'm not in favor of firing a coach mid season, but the question of who is succesfull that is available.......I throw out Paul Silias. Just a thought. I am pro JVG, but he certainly isn't making this easy. what assitant would you like to see be interum coach? NONE of those guys even intrests me. I say if we can him, wait till the end of the year when certainly a high profile name will be available.
(1) Please note whose thread this is. (2) No matter what happens, you are not allowed to change your mind!
Support! Obviously it's coach's fault why ROX is strugging so much. Just look at Pacers last season when theis starters were susppended.
Too late. From the beginning I suggested we have to make a move for Phil Jackson. I couldn't believe Les did nothing when Phil was available. Even worse, he gave JVG one year extension. Nine rings VS zero rings. Come on, it is not even close.
why we get so many old old Nyk old players: ward, w.spoons, Okl, strick.. why MT can not hit after JVG came why we always get players no one want.
Fire JVG!!! Rox will never win a title with him even if Houston were able to load another all-star. He is a just good cook in a buffet, that doesn't mean he can cook in a decent restaurant.
Hindsight is 20/20, but damn..... Could that end up being the second biggest mistake in Rockets history (besides not trading for Jordan in the 84 draft)?
Or the Suns this year without Amare. Granted they've had a much more favorable schedule thus far, but they're 9-5. While it might've been ok back in November to preach patience with this team because of the new faces and T-Mac's injury, the fact is we're 1/5 of the way into the season and dead last in the West. Les needs to decide if he's ok with a high lottery pick or whether he's willing to do whatever it takes to make it back to the playoffs.
He doesn't have enough talent to work with, BUT he and CD are the ones who chose the supporting cast on the floor.Their BIG additions have, thus far, flopped. Now what? Last year is looking more and more like a "special season," and not a foretaste of things to come. The Rockets are a really bad team right now with the exception of TMac having a HOF night. Otherwise, they are going to struggle to beat the bottomdwellers like the Hawks. The "early" excuses are wearing really thin guys. A bad team is still bad, early or late. This was a defining game. They had several days to prepare, in desperate need of a turnaround. Memphis comes in after a back to back. They look fresh, energetic, and in sync, the Rockets look clueless. Explain it to me.
Being short of replacement, I'm not saying fire JVG now. I think Les should consider it though when the chance presents itself. JVG is a good coach, not a great coach. We are becoming the Houston Clowns. Players are clueless. Scoring is as hard as a constipated person taking crap. Examples of clown acts: 1. Anderson using the ref as a teammate for an "inbound" pass. Head received the pass and scored. LMAO. 2. Slomile drove into the teeth of the baseline and defender, had nowhere to go and threw up a pass that was a TO. 3. Slomile thought the baseline was a teammate and Moochie Norris the baseline. 4. Scoring 26 points in TWO quarters. I know T-Mac's injury would be used as an excuse. The fact is when Tim Duncan is out the Spurs can still play as a team and beat some teams, without T-Mac the Rockets are a bunch of constipated chicken running around with their heads off. The Spurs are a TEAM that is enchanced by Tim's individual abilities. The Rockets are a No Team masked by T-Mac's individual abilities. Big difference. And the Rockets are made of seasoned veterans, not NBA newbies that don't know what to do. Players take their share of blame by not making open shots, but how does missing shots make they play disjointed offense? I blame the lack of flow in offense on JVG. Maybe he'd engineer some great trades to rescue his season, maybe players would finally get the system down, but right now JVG is exposed and must take blame.
Mcgrady had a horrible game as did Howard and DA...the Grizz made a FRANCHISE HIGH in 3pters (what coach makes a defense that protects only 3 point shooters??!?!) and we have 3 significant players on the DL...fire Gundy The Grizz are living and dying with the outside shot. Seattle and Sacramento both had this philosophy and they both did great last year, didn't they?....
Emotions aside, if we sack him just for the sake of it, who exactly other is Avaliable out there to be a ready made replacement?
Well, there's still a long way to go, but it's starting to look like last year we just had the right combination of players that Van Gundy could trust and he let them loose a bit. Now we have a few new guys and he wants to fix them on his old ways. Hopefully he'll let them loose once he gets more comfortable with them (if that happens). I really began to trust Van Gundy right around playoff time last year...but like I said, maybe it was because he just had the right combination of players. He's been to the finals once...and I think that team had a good combination of players to fit him too, except they didn't even win a title. If we are lucky enough to get another team that fits him, can we trust Van Gundy to win it? You make some good points, Rockets03. As always, the coach should be the first one to point at when a team is 4-11 with high expectations. As far as players go though, I know it hasn't been long but I have been thouroughly unimpressed with Swift and DA in particular. If we can get any starting PF for Swift I pull the trigger...Harrington, Murphy, P.J. Brown, whoever. His whole career, people have mistaked athleticism with "potential". He can block shots and he can dunk. That's about it...doesn't stay with his defensive assignments much of the time, frequently lost on offense, makes bone-headed plays (like trying to bring the ball up court only to force a TO, or try to crossover his man from damn near the 3 point line and turn it over), and he just is flat out lost out there. A 5th year player shouldn't be that lost after going through a full training camp and 15 games...it's about time for some of it to start clicking. I don't blame Gundy one bit for sitting him. It's time to throw Swift, Wesley, Moochie, and possibly DA in the trading pot and see if we can come out with anything.
Once they started hitting those 3s, you need to make an adjustment, but there was no adjustment. They were playing back to back and rockets had 3 days to rest and prepare, no excuse for that.
