[I'm ignorant] Educate me on Silas' offensive system

There are no courses

 

It's preseason. Wood, Seguin, Tate are all a lock to make the team. Why do we need to see them more? You realize preseason records don't count right?

 

I am not looking at records, just looking at where people are on the floor, and if they have a clue of what they are trying to accomplish, to me, it looks like a bad pickup game - where people don't mix well - and lose because of it.

DD

 

it looks worse than that actually. I’ve played many pickup games. Simply passing to an open dude isn’t that hard.

Pre-season isnt to mess around and good off. It’s practice for the real thing. The real thing is coming fast. The goal - typically - for the real thing is to win games. Maybe for this Rockets team that doesn’t matter much but that aside that’s the usual goal. You don’t go from this crap to being remotely competitive just by saying ok time to stop messing around.

But it is true I don’t really care about w/l that much. Heck the Sonics/Thunder won like 20, 23 games before catapulting to 50 in KDs 3rd year. The Warriors were in their 20s more or less Stephs first 3 ears before winning 47 his 4th year. The Sixers won 28 games the firs year Embiid player and 52 the next. Lots of times these teams that are accumulating high end talent suck until making a BIG jump.

so it’s not really about wins/losses. It’s more about player development. And there’s not a single player out there - outside MAYBE Sengun and Jaygup - that I would say looks to be where they should be.

it’d be one thing if just the rookies were struggling. Wood doesn’t look good. KPJr looks confused. Etc.

It’s just three games and they’ve had bright spots too. KPJr was great game one. Jalen was decent game 2. Sengun has been solid throughout - though perplexingly barely ever gets decent playing time. Etc.

But it looks awful out there so far from a coaching perspective. If you’re not going to have any plays… at least give them a framework of a system and hold them accountable for things like turnovers and rebounding.

 

They need to play equal opportunity offense until they get an identity and some leadership. On defense they are clueless and disjointed. They should be better but I think it will come. They just need to play more

 

I hope Silas learn from the lecture Nick Nurse just gave him for free!

 

Theis is a wasted signing....we need a point guard who can give the ball to Wood like Walls did last year....we need Gordon or we are going to get embarrassed on away games. The lineup should be:

PG: Wall
SG: Green
SF: Porter
PF: Wood
C: Sengun

Bench: Gordon, Tate, Theis, Brook Nwaba

 

Our starters played like complete garbage tonight, no way around it. Green isn't Harden, not even close. You can't just throw the ball to him and expect offense to happen.

DT shouldn't be on the court at all. Terrible signing. You could have gotten an SF to fill out that salary and to actually play solid minutes.

Tate isn't an SF. If he can't learn to play another position, his days are limited in the NBA.

Wood was the best starter. Unpopular opinion, but he's already shifting defenses just by being on the court.

KPJ is fine. Off game, but he's capable of playing PG at a high level. It's tough to learn that position, and it takes time regardless.

 

I apologized in the game thread, but im going to apologize here too.

You guys were right, there is no offense, lol.

 

I mean, it's a bad team - you have a lot of raw young players who have never played together. These aren't NBA vets who understand pro-offensive schemes. I just don't get how you think 19-21 year olds are supposed to magically look fluid after a few days of playing together.

 

I hated this thread too out of pride but I knew mentally it was a valid concern.

 

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!

 

Apology will be accepted only if you start the thread for the defense

 

did this really happen?
as long as i was watching wall never wanted to pass to wood...

 

yeah, I was ready to jump on "clutchfans just being mean again" train, but yeah.. uh oh..