Unlike Rudy, JVG is deemed as a micro-manager. I remember that Yao has described the difference of two coached. According to him, JVG likes to design every detail and ask you to follow it exactly. What bothers me is that what happened to our offense design? Does JVG have a set of specific tactics design that asks players to run repeatedly in the practice? From the game, I didn't see any. Basically what we are doing is to dump the ball in the hands of t-mac in 90% of time, and let him create. For example, when Yao is in the low post, I never see any player running a cut to the basket this season except JJ did it once in my memory. Also, when Yao is in the low post, we are doing some re-post or switch the ball from side to the top, and dump inside. When the players like Sura, JH, and Barry do these things, they do them hesitantly, often staring at receiver for a while and making their decisions. I understand that sometimes they are afraid of turnovers. But if we run this kind of plays over and over, they are supposed to do it sort of mechanically within the system, and more quicker they make their pass, less likely a turnover is intrigued. When T-mac wants a screen to shoot open, we have some plays to run, but it is not enough imo. Also, our two big stars haven't got more chemistry after two months, even a little bit more. The only play that involves both T-mac and Yao are pick-and-roll. it is a very basic and fundamental play. But there are still a lot of details about the play we can work on to improve its efficiency. I understand that players have to find chemistry and play with the situation on the court. I also understand that what JVG said, great players have to find their own ways to play. HOWEVER, I still think our offense design is far from enough. Many people said spurs used to play mechanically and boring. In the contrary, I hope one day rox may play some smooth plays within a mechanical system. -Littlefish
Yeah I noticed a huge contrast in how smooth the offences were between the pacers and the rockets last night. The pacers were swinging the ball around the perimeter and finding the open man. They would pass it in quickly to the posting player and swing it around if the defenses shifted. The rockets were many times hesitant in their passing and were not looking smooth at all. It really was obvious to me watching the game.
I think that only applies to defense. Van Gundy isn't offensive-minded enough to micro-manage on that end.
Wow. Ya think might have anything to do with the fact that only ONE of those Rockets was on the team last year while MOST of the Pacers have been together a while? Just sayin'...
