The number of rebounds for houston dropped from the ranked of 12 to 27 for the last 10 matches. When capela was injured, houston grabbed many rebounds. When he was back, teammates became lazy. There is no offensive problem for Houston. It is mainly on defence and rebound. After Lou williams back, the team height becomes short. The coach needs to make a balance on it. Hope houston can sign a good rebounder for houston. Can Houston invite Jeff Van Gundy as assistant coach for training their defence. Houston has very good defence in T mac era.
Surprisingly, all the Corey Brewer flailing hustle is missed because opponents were worried about injury so rebounds were easier to come by back then. Really though, dude hustled for tip outs and rebounds to keep the ball alive. Other than that, he was a negative.
You may want to make a collect call to Reggie "The Collector" Evans, a.k.a. the chairman of the boards. He has a ton in his garage.
This is nothing new. It is a trade off for having so many perimeter shooters AND running a 3 guard offense. None of it matters if the Rockets hit their 3 point shots and that is what all this comes down to. Draw fouls, hit 37-38% from 3 and create turnovers.
I actually wonder if this will make Harden put a big emphasis on his rebounding and getting more rebounds. all in all though, the whole team just needs to go back to the real basics. Grab your man, Box him out and then go for the ball. I have a funny feeling though you will see a better rebounding team today against Clippers
We should get rebounds when Speights is at center, but Blake and DJ will have seen the film of our last few games and know to be aggressive on the boards.
