Les, if you are listening, if you don't fire Van Gundy now, you gonna loose half of your fans, you can bet on it.
Look how many fans were at the game tonight, I'm sure a lot of people saw TMac's comeback vs. the Spurs and got tickets for tonight. However, after tonight, I'm sure a lot won't be back. Fire JVG.
There is a guy named Bostjan Nachbar that was the 2nd leading 3-point shooter in the league. JVG put him on the IL with no injury.
That's so true, I was almost one of those fans. What a horrible game...I guess JVG didn't listen to Tmac about speeding up the game. I doubt he ever will. I can't ever understand how everyone gets easy fastbreak points on us and we can't get any on them.
Why not? These are his hand-picked players. Maybe they can't shoot because they don't work enough at it in practice?
The Rockets don't play again until Wednesday. Plenty of time to get someone in the interim, and have him get familiar with the team.
What are you talking about? You didn't see us running the court like pros, getting easy buckets like crazy, oh wait, nevermind. 3 FREAK'N Fastbreak points, it is absolutely ridiculous.
Pike doesn't want to play under JVG anymore. He's tired of just doing defensive drills. I think there is a disease on the team and it has spread throughout the roster. It is the bricking disease that JVG has carried with him from the Knicks. Rockets need to get a pencillin shot and expunge JVG.
Overall Nachbar was shooting 35% from the field. Would i like to see him play more? yes, but he's not exactly lighting it up.
Pike was in JVG's doghouse. He's a career 40% 3 point shooter. What a surprise at how he performed last year under JVG.
But he's close to 50 % on 3's. And that's the shot that's always open for the SF whenever t-mac and yao are playing.
Pike injured his ankle pretty badly, it takes about 6-8 months to fully recover from a severe sprain. Pike would be playing well on this team...at least offensively. DD
Cause he sucked. JVG has got to go. The team wins in spite of him, when it does, not because of him. We definitely have some personnel problems, but can you really blame the personel when Dirk scores 50+ on you a few games back and comes out and scores 17 in the first half the next time. It's called a double team, look into it. Fact of the matter is, if you're going to lose, you should at least do it in an entertaining fashion.
I think one has to question what the hell is happening to the falling skills of all the skill players. Who is shooting coach on the Rockets? Is it someone who has had success in the NBA shooting the ball? I'd hire Calvin Murphy. Is it a coincidence that the Rockets' shooting woes have increased with Calvin Murphy busy with legal problems? Maybe Calvin Murphy was giving pointers to the players. Yao is now airballing shots. Mo's once dependable outside shot is now non-existent. Calvin Murphy is probably watching at home. If Calvin is reading the BBS, Calvin needs to tell Les that he can offer his services on a consultant basis so that the team won't have any PR problems. Have Calvin meet with the team tommorrow. It's very sad to see so many once dependable shooters become brickers.
Van Gundy? Enteraining fashion? You know better than this. Last game versus the Mavs, Dirk was unbelievable, when JVG finally decided to double, he doubled with BARRETT, and it worked!!! Dirk passed out of the double team immediately, even though Barrett causes no threat to him what so ever. Ya, we have a personell problem, but we have a bigger problem-coaching. No trade is going to help us that much, we just don't have any pieces that any team wants. The only chance we have at salvaging the season is by a coaching change.
I honestly believe Van Gundy is a fraud. I didn't want to come to this conclusion too early, as some might say it is now, but what evidence is there to show that he isn't? That he almost got the Knicks to win the NBA title, what, 5 years ago, in a lockout shortened season? That he has never been back? That he did it against the pathetic East? That he's from New York, who understands a hard-nosed brand of basketball that us Houstonians have yet to comprehend? To hell with all of that. His brand of basketball is obsolete garbage, it shows every night on the court, and his ass needs to get fired now. The Rockets should pull an Astros and just throw in a manager that can get the team inspired the right way and not having their million dollar players b****ed at like 6th graders. It's getting ridiculous. You know, I hear Larry Brown is getting disillusioned in Detroit. And he likes challenges, right? How about we get a lottery pick, get rid of our 4's, bring in Larry Brown, and see where that takes us.
