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

Theis is a journeyman scrub.

And only posters with agendas or low IQ would prefer him over Wood.

 

Call Alvin Gentry to help!

 

This is as much of a Silas problem as it is a Wood problem. Wood has several incredibly glaring issues:

1. Every time he grabs the rebound, he either brings the ball up himself (at a snail's pace) or he takes his time to pass it to someone else. He is basically playing transition defense against his own team every time he does this (which is very frequent).
2. He never sets hard screens, it's always a slip screen. Our playmakers cannot really any separation from the defender because whoever is guarding Wood can easily just hedge to quick help on D, then recover on Wood. There are times where this leads to a switch, but Wood's subpar back to the basket game means he whenever a switch occurs, he just runs back out on the perimeter as opposed to staying in the post.
3. Every time he gets the ball, he holds on to it for several seconds. He won't look for a pass, he'll look for a top of the key isolation move. There are numerous occasions where he makes quick passes, but many are bad passes because he's wide open and passing for no reason. Off the top of my head in this game, the shot clock was running down and he had an open 3 that he passed to Green for some reason, leading to an immediate shot clock violation.
4. Wood plays far too much isolation basketball at the top of the key. When it works it works, but more often than not it jeopardizes the entire offense. Whenever Wood has the ball at the top of the key, the play is either an isolation move where he scores, he gets stuck and passes it out to another player and now we have 10 seconds to run a play, or he straight up loses the ball or misses.

If you watch Harden and Wood, there's a night and day difference. Harden can have a bad game but he can still impact wins in more ways that Wood having a good game because of the tremendous amount of pressure that Harden places on defense. With Wood, his numbers look good on paper, but watching him play he just doesn't seem to have any kind of impact on the game at all.

 

Everything you outlined is a COACHING problem.

Silas wants all his players to be 5 tool.

He empowers even House to playmake.

And all the Rockets rebound and try to take it coast to coast, the reason Wood stands out is because he has the most rebounds.

Even scrubs like Theis try this nonsense, you saw it vs DET.

 

Because half decent screens are more important than averaging 20/10 and 38% from 3 AMIRITE?

WTF is wrong with CF?????

 

The system he is trying to play, is far more suited for a more experienced team. Of course fans will go insane when they lose most of their games. Rockets fans are not use to a rebuild that strips it right back.

 

Also missing free throws has nothing to do with the coach

 

It does when everyone is missing them. Something is wrong.

 

This isnt about winning or losing. Its about playing well down the stretch. The Rockets also would look much better with a real system.

 

no it doesn't. The coach can't take them for the player. You can practice all practices on them, but in the games is when they count. That is up to the players to make them. All fans want to do when a team is at the bottom, is blame the coach on everything

 

Well we have been in games. A system only looks good when teams win. We have lost a few close games. Need more experience

 

What are they doing in practice? Do you know? lol The entire team is having trouble this isnt normal. Besides who cares that not everything is SIlas's fault but just because not everything is his fault doesnt mean nothing is.

 

And what about rotations how are you gonna excuse that? Because from where I sit the people that make excuses for SIlas have to boil everything down to where coaching means nothing lol

 

Well everyone here acts like they know what is going on in practice. So many coaches and experts here. No one said nothing is his fault(it is human nature to blame the coach when a team is losing). You got to be openminded that we have a young team and we are going to lose a lot as we rebuild.

 

Well i will focus more on rotations more towards the middle of the season than now. Once we have a near full strentgh team and we are more than a month in to it. I'd like to see Theis come off the bench and Sengun starting, i think with his passing, he adds more to the starting line up

 

Bullshit

 

No one said that.

 

„They got to figure it out” offense and defense, laughable. Now he uses Luka and LeBron and that you cant kill their creativity with structure what a ****ing dumbass… Luka literally had hardnosed coaching up to the point he got into NBA and won everything that there is to win. And guess what he cant win **** in the NBA for now since they just let him vibe and run this bs Silas offense. Its not about Luka Lebron or other top dawgs structure is for everyone else

 

If your objective is to stat pad and make one player look good then „just figure it out” offense may be good. If you want to win and develop a team then guess what its a bad ****ing idea

 

Basketball is a team game, Wood only playing for himself hurts us more than his individual stats help us. Drop the bias just once and be honest with yourself.