Time will tell! I can't remember how long I have been reading and posting on this board... under a different name back in the day. I started following the Rockets back when I was in high school. Those championships were awesome... just the way they brought the city together... I remember riding up and down Richmond Ave for hours. What an awesome time. I think all of us would like to see that again. If not why are we fans? We all want to relive that. With that being said I would like to go on record and say that we will never see that under JVG. I will take it a step further and say that we won't make it out of the first round. If by some miracle it does happen... (for the simple fact I believe our team is more talented than the Jazz) there is no way we beat San Antonio, Phoenix or Dallas. These teams create matchup problems for us and our Coach lacks the ability to utilize our players to off set this. While it pains me to watch our team struggle as of late, I for one would to usher in a new coach with our new GM! Maybe this (the team's play) will open some eyes!! Go Rox!
that and they could just be better teams. Coaches dont turn water into wine, rafer into an all star...chuck into a world beater and battier into a scorer. the vast majority of the game is decided on the court by the players.
What kinda world do you live in haha...if that was the case Detroit would've never won a 'ship...the Wallace's prob. didn't avg. 15 shots a game. Pretty sure the game is decided by the amount of points you score big guy, regardless of who or how they are scored.
Because he doesn't play his role to its maximum potential. Most people won't dog Shane because he plays decent defense and somewhat scores, but his defense isn't good enough like a Bruce Bowen and, again, he needs to make the one shot that he's counted on to make: that corner 3. I think too much blame has fallen on T-Mac, Luther, Rafer, and JVG, but not enough on Shane even though the guy he's told to guard constantly explodes and is not contained ( at times when we lose ) and the team labors hard for him to get that clear corner 3 ball in, but he clanks it more times than I can remember. I don't think offensively we ask much out of Shane, so he needs to do that because it's part of his role. If he hits that more often, we wouldn't see Rafer jacking up 17 shots a game. Shane is a part of the problem when we lose. I want him to either play better defense ( although he plays pretty good defense ), but moreso, just hit that corner 3 when he's wide open for a good two seconds.
He's hitting 45% on the season from the corners...can't really complain about that. Shane's D is light years ahead of anyone else on the perimeter. If you notice he doesn't try to block any jumpers, does a great job of moving his feet and staying on the ball. Stays close enough to always get a good hand in the face when the jumper is taken...I just wanna scream when I watch Snyder try to block every jumper and get consistently stroked on. If anything to complain about with Shane it would be his agressiveness on offense...he's pretty decent on the block and I think he should get 3-7 chances down there a game depending how things are rolling.
Yao didn't get the shots because they were triple teaming him. You dont give Yao the ball when they are triple teaming him. You give it to the open guy on the outside.
He used to be stubborn, now he's just weird. ...But if he's going to tinker with stuff, I wish he'd get Yao on the high post sometimes.
It's really not JVG's fault, it's all on the players. As he stated many times, winning is hard, but simple in this league. All you need to do is to get the rebound, cut down the TO, stop people, and make your open shots. JVG laid them all on the table, even you and I understand it, how can those million$$ players cannot get it? Oh, every other teams in the league understand this, too.
Well genius, the other side of the same coin says coaching is just as easy. So why the Rockets have to pay JVG million$$?
Agreed. I'd take Yao shooting a 15-17 ft jump shot over any other player we have. He definitely has the skil to play on the high post at least some of the time. It woould also move the double team out of the paint which should open things up for weak side cuts to the basket.
I did not go to Richmond Avenue, but it was indeed awesome. I agree on Dallas, Phoenix or San Antonio, especially Dallas. Unless we play one of them, I think we should win the first round, provided JVG only plays Yao, MOtumbo,, Tracy, (and even Rafer and Battier who despite being work horses and probably overrated are getting tired tooj) just enough to keep them sharp between now and the playoffs.
he was NEVER innovative. his defensive philosophy came from working w/ pat riley, who coached some nasty knicks team w/ patrick ewing. offense, his offense is watchable b/c of tmac and yao. it was unbearable even w/ sprewell and allan houston
