This team again lacks an identity. They don't know their roles. Is it Tmac's team? Yao's team, Ron's team, or is it Adelman's team. Personally, I think management (The eye of Sauron is on you Rick and Morey) needs to do a better job of defining each player's role. This should be Yao's team, period, everyone else should play off of him. The reason they won all those games with Wafer is that everyone KNEW their role, it was to get the ball to Yao and play off of him. Now, when it hits crunch time, we have no identity, we have a bunch of guys trying to impose their will, when it should be the TEAM imposing their will. We need more Von Wafer hitting the corner 3 ball type of plays, where it is set up from the inside out. That is this team's identity, Rick Adelman and D. Morey need to emphasize it....and I am not talking about just TALKING about it. When someone goes off the reservation and out of their role, BENCH EM...put in someone else.... This has to be emphasized that THIS is the way the team is going to play, my way or the highway. Identity, it is up to the Coach and management to give this team one, because the players are looking for it, and they are not good enough to find it themselves. Please....give them an ID. DD
That was certainly a more exciting group to watch.. (Without T-Mac/Ron). However, there's no reason that having T-Mac/Ron can't be just as exciting if they just play together. (Meaning the whole team.)
its identity, its coaching, its effort, its gameplanning, its injuries, its a lack of leadership, a lack of accountability, a poor culture of performance . . . its everything. its broken. its like when your car starts making really bad noises, and youre damn sure that grinding is coming from the transmission, and what the hell is that fluid coming out of the engine . . . but maybe if i close my eyes and pretend its not there, tomorrow it'll all fix itself. yeah . . . no.
Can't define roles with people in and out of the line up. Wait till they get some more games before you start benching people.
I think the team needs to be defined, and it starts with those two, they need to be held accountable, play their role and the team can thrive. That means not just running the offensive system but playing good team defense too. Again, it starts at the top, to me, Adelman has been a major contributor to this problem. Why not? You just have the guys that are still playing doing the same role and you plug in the next guy into the role that was vacated, that way at least the main guys are still playing to their comfort level. Defining roles is not that hard, but someone has to take the reins and do it. LOL - 3 stars already...heheh....people are afraid of talking about fixing a team.....such haters....lol. DD
agreed. we're a lost team. i mean, we even had an identity when our offense was to purely run through yao in the low post. our identity was so clear that even all the other teams knew what we were going to do. now, i dont know what the hell were running.
once again (1,001st time) - yao needs to be established early and often. if we can't do that, might as well ship him.
Questions: Are the Boston Celtics KG's team, Paul Pierce's team, Ray Allen's team, Doc Rivers' team or Danny Ainge's team? LeBron is still the recognized leader...but did he "share" some of the team with Mo Williams? Did Mike Brown moderate on becoming the "Spurs Midwest"? What is the "ID" of the ORL Magic? What is the "ID" of the current Lakers?
the thing is, adelmans offense has never been run with 3 superstars, its a ROLE players offense and tmac and ron dnt want to be just Role players they wanna dominate the ball and kill the rotation on offense
That's been the problem you can't really define roles until you get a solid and consistent rotation. Everybody is back now and we can really take a look at what we have. Now will be the time for making assesments on who should play what role.
The Boston Celtics have clearly defined roles, Gater you are being disingenious, it is not about WHOSE team per se, it is about having a team hierchy..... Boston - Pierce is option 1, Garnet Option 2, Allen option 3. All of those teams have clear hierachy......the Rockets do not. I know you don't want it to be YAO's team and think that we should have athletes running all over the floor like Philly and Atlanta..... Whether or not I agree with that, we could at least agree that their needs to be a clearly defined set of roles for everyone on the team. DD
you know, if every forward did what it needed to do and every guard did what it needed to do, etc....and with our 2 units, everyone would have a damn role.
Yes you can, as someone that has run companies, and built numerous teams, it is not that hard to define roles. I don't see why the team could not have done that from the get go, but they didn't and now, look what happens in the 4th, no identity, everyone trying to do too much. I agree practice will help, but you can't fit a square peg into a round hole, Artest does not fit with Tmac and Yao.... Define their roles, trade Artest and away you go. Does it equal championship? Who knows...but it would be better to watch and the team would be more competitive night in and night out. DD
Can't figure out your role if everbody is hurt and in and out of the line up all the time. If you want to trade Artest you should of just said that from the start.
The issue is that Rockets have chosen Yao as their identity, but Yao just could not play like an identity. Yao is limited by his capability. It is not his fault. Bottom line, find a better identity better than Yao or the team will not win.
LOL - taking a post out of context again Sam...tsk tsk. Here is what I was responding to. And I said JVG's approach did not work with him.....lol..... Not sure what any of that has to do with THIS current situation, on this current Rocket's team, and why taking posts out of context to take a pot shot is doing in this excellent thread about defining roles. DD
