James Harden: “I’ve done everything for the city, but I don’t think it can be fixed”

14/10/5 in 1st game against Lakers is not really garbage but Wall did struggle tonight. But at least he is not pointing fingers at his teammates and wants to continue competing.

 

Yeah, I’m not even mad. This was a kick in the pants to the Rockets — “Trade me already.”

I expect the Rockets to play better without this cloud hanging over the franchise.

 

This is what I am seeing
and
I don't know what the Offense is SUPPOSE TO LOOK LIKE
What are they SUPPOSE to be doing?

We talk about Harden not cutting . .. . WHO IS CUTTING?!?!?!? I DON'T SEE MUCH F*CKING CUTTING AT ALL!!!
I see moving through the lane some just to go to the 3 pt line on the other side.
It is not TOWARD the basket . . . it is more east/west than north/south

Rocket River

 

"Balled out for them and pulled them as far as they could go" is the perfect description of most of James time as a Rocket.

 

I agree...except for this one time when he's actually coming out and saying that he's quitting.

 

The only legit option there would be Golden State with Wiseman and Wiggins/Klay + FRP (from Minn) + way off in the future FRPs. They'd probably want Tucker too.

 

That's what people are not getting. Everyone seems to be confused on the offense.

I don't care what anyone says.... Wall is an even worse fit than Westbrook was. Westbrook is a terrible shooter, but at least he wasn't afraid to pass it or attack the rim. Wall tends to slow it down an awful lot.

I'm not just blaming Wall because I do feel it's down to Silas for the most part. I do feel that most of the players on the offense are confused as hell.

 

Have you watched the games lately? delusional.

 

There is no plan. That's the main problem. It's a mess from top to bottom.

 

Yes... and this is obvious to most fairly well informed basketball fans... yet it apparently isn’t so obvious to the Rockets head coach that continues to bash his head on the wall over and over and wonder why he has a headache...and that is a MAJOR red flag for a head coach.

Harden will eventually be traded and the team will likely run what Silas wants more smoothly, but it won’t be great as the players won’t be great... and really good coaches make adjustments to fit their players and so far Silas hasn’t shown any ability to do that.

 

Agreed 100%

 

Agreed. And it sucks but remember it is after back to back horrible blowout losses; obviously frustrated. And he did it without calling any of teammates out. He really thought this team could be a top 3 seed.

 

Rockets would be top 4 with MDA coaching.

Coaching and making system fit players instead of forcing players to fit a system is the difference.

 

Yes. There is no plan and there is no identity with this team and there is no marker for what they are supposed to strive to be... it is mindless with no real rhyme or reason to what they are doing.

 

He was 5/14 and -28. I'm pretty certain he only had 2 assists in the first 3 quarters. The only reason he got to 5 is that the Lakers were playing their scrubs at that point.

He played completely garbage that game.

 

It also needed to be said... someone needed to say something because the status quo isn’t going to work and the tension with the entire team was thick.... so it was inevitable and better said now than a month from now... maybe they talk about it and it galvanizes the team... maybe it motivates Stone to leave his dungeon and trade Harden... maybe everyone rallies behind Wall... who knows but at least it isn’t the standard quo.

 

Top 4 and yet another 2-1 series lead loss in the playoffs due to the other team adjusting.

The Rockets were one of the best regular season teams over the last several years, but come playoff time they could never adjust to move the ball away from Harden when they needed and Harden would always look like he was giving up when they clamped down on him in game #4-whatever.

 

D'Antoni had epically bad results against the Lakers in the playoffs... and made no adjustments whatsoever. That's 80% of why these two losses are so upsetting.

#1 - Silas is trying something different than D'Antoni, which seems smart given what D'Antoni accomplished.
#2 - Silas is a new HC, with multiple new players that are critical to the success of the team. There is going to be a period of time transition and learning. The most likely hardships during this transition are going to be against the best team... and the Lakers are the best team right now.

Don't blame Silas during the infancy of his HC career for any of this.

 

The first time around, LeBron quit on the Cavs and they burned his jersey. While he was off winning championships and going to 4 straight finals with his friends in Miami, Cleveland sucked so hard that they were able to get Kyrie and young talent. They then flipped talent for Love when LeBron decided to return.