Ime: The double big lineup works. We're gonna stick with it. Assistant: But we've been using it for 6 straight games. Kerr will probably figure out how to counter it by now. Ime: Nah, he's not that bright. Assistant: Anyway, how are we going to score when they know 3 of the 5 guys on the floor can't shoot from 3? Ime: **** 3pt shooting. We can always get offensive rebounds with those guys if we shoot closer to the basket.
Lived and died with the double bigs. When it obviously wasn't going to work tonight, Ime should have adjusted his rotations. He should have made those changes at the half but for whatever reason he didnt do it. Not his finest coaching effort tonight. Love him as a coach, but he's one stubborn son of a b****!
Only 2 times all season, did a team attempt fewer 3's in game [link] It seemed 2 things, that Rockets had too much buy-in with double big approach. AND the team didnt play loose, was too tense to even shoot from long distance. Scared of missing more than letting it fly like normal Jalen Green attempted 8 shots the entire game. He averaged 8 three ptr attempts alone each game. Meaning some games Jalen takes MORE 3 attempts than he did entire game 7 attempts. Certainly missing the 3 in the reportoire
Or they were fouled on the shot Actually missing then and getting the rebound was what we do. Rocket River
Yeah I noticed this. A lot of passed up 3 point opportunities. Our boys need to get into the gym and practice hundreds of shots a day, including free throws.
No shooters around Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun. Zone Defense shifts towards Jalen Green blocking Jalen Green open driving lane layup. Aaron Holiday, Reed Sheppard, Jack McVeigh, Jabari Smith all sitting the bench would've helped the Team. Ime Udoka is far from a Good Coach, Overrated and Terrible on Offense, Horrific on Defense.
I hope one of the "bball breakdown" or whatever film guys breaks down how thoroughly Coach Ime Udoka got played tactically in this game. I see lots of people blaming Brooks and Green and Smith and our C&S guys (and the best one, Aaron Holiday, who was nailed to the bench) But, there was not really much attempt to find or create shots in the perimeter, Sengun and Adams were derailing everything and Fred and Jalen had no idea what to do except throw the ball back & forth up top. And they kept going to this again and again. I'm not a tactical genius or anything but even I could see this happening!
@SamFisher we lack a perimeter penetrator - the only one available was Holiday, he would have made a massive difference with his floater game. Ime for some reason, just won't play Holiday, who shot what like 48% after January from 3? ****ING IME. DD
Even with mediocre (33%) shooting, that shot diet was basically conceding 4-5 points to Golden State up front.
I've gotta give Udoka credit for thinking out of the box this series. You have a team full of athletic young guys who can run almost any opponent out of the building, and you're playing a bunch of guys who once owned Hootie and the LL Cool J and Blowfish CDs. So what's your strategy? Try to slow things down and out-muscle them. Brilliant!
OP needs to fix the title, and it was already pointed out…the team didn’t attempt 18… THEY ATTEMPTED 8 The last 10 or so were in garbage time. it’s impossible to win a game like that
