Your right I never seen or heard this, but it more than explains every one of Silas actions as the head coach. It also explains why upper management doesn’t want to be judged for another 7 years. It explains the owner saying trust the processes interviews. I am just trying to put logic to chaos that is our team right now.
Come on OP - it's the holidays! No one is expected to be anything other than subpar during the holiday season.
Even worse. I think both him and Stone are bad communicators. They don't like telling people things they don't want to hear which doesn't really work in that type of setting. Silas strikes me as the type of guy that a player will give the cold shoulder to in passing and he'll reward him with 25 minutes the next game so he's not mad at him anymore.
It's easy to explain because 20 year olds have a lot of energy but 20 year olds are also bad at managing their energy, motivation and appreciation for life. Just because you understand that playing basketball and being young is a blessing (now that you're old) doesn't mean they must understand it when they're young. Also people who have never been rich will certainly not understand the psychology of a rich 20 year old (and vice versa, a born-rich kid will not understand a non-rich kid's motivations). When you're young and rich, there are "invisible" things that paralyze your motivation and reduce your resilience if you don't get externally challenged regularly. It's not woo-woo, it's real. You think you would do it different, but you wouldn't. You only believe you would do it better because you've been dreaming a narrative where you get rich but your internal state remains constant which is a mythological state. A team is not just the sum of its skills and talent. Think of all the people in class with you when you were 20. Are those guys leading a serious organizational unit to something without predictable problems against the best senior professionals in the world? No they're not. They are actually 20-21 years old. They're not a different 20 year old (psychologically) than the ones you know in your life just because the TV makes them seem older. Being more talented at basketball doesn't make you smarter at life. They will make dumb mistakes, individually and collectively. When you understand that this is a part of the process - like grill marks on a steak - then the ugly becomes beautiful. I feel like they were really motivated to win for Silas' father, and then they just relaxed because they're home after not being home for a long time. It might be just every day things like getting their relationships in order, making sure their house is ok, hearing what Houstonians have to say about them, etc. A stupid mistake, but an expected one. If they figure it out in the first half of the season, that would be rapid progress.
They are entertainers first and foremost. The show / game is the most important thing. Not a one of us truly care about them as individuals. They play to entertain us not be our friends. There lack of effort is not appealing and will not keep our interest long. The organization has a responsibility to put a team together that will keep us wanting more. Half interested people just going through the steps has zero appeal. These kids careers will be over before they start if they don’t show up for every game.
Oh they don't care about that and thank god. They should just be focused on getting better each game and each practice, regardless of the fans. Most likely at this young age though, they are overthinking the importance of how they're perceived, that's way more common. It's a total myth that this team hasn't played hard this whole season, so there's nothing to worry about except a bunch of kids had 2 bad games and no one's career was ever over because of that.
Whatever. There are lots of issues that need to be addressed but at least they have Smith, Green, Tari and Sengun. Coaching 18-22 year olds isn’t easy, and couple that with the lack of a head coach and I’m not surprised there are issues. The good news is I don’t think Smith or Tari is going to allow a lack of pride long term to emerge on this team.
Great speech, except there are plenty of rich 20 year olds that do bring it every single night, which sort of invalidates your entire hypothesis. "Invisible things paralyzing your motivation" IS complete woo woo, and won't be found in any medical textbook. If the team is leaving underlying medical/psychological issues, it's on the Rockets if they aren't being treated. The Spurs have arguably the best psychology staff in the NBA, and every player on that team hustles every minute they're on the floor. Do you think they blame poor effort on "woo woo?"
I agree with you. It’s the interest level that is questionable not a bad game here or there. As a consumer going to the games is a lot of money. It’s harder and harder to justify the experience of seating in traffic pissed off feeling ripped off. Yes it’s just another night for everyone there but l am done for a while. Maybe it’s just a person thing. I was hoping embarrassment was an emotion I was paying for. Hell I can do that on my own with post like this.
No, there are not plenty. I know it's not your world view, but it's how the world is so you're frustrating yourself for nothing. Most rich kids are not as incentivized as you to prove that they're hard workers. Go to a Spurs board and see if the Spurs fans agree with you. They think their team sucks, make too many mistakes and are disorganized. You just think they're way better than us because you watched a slice of the games.
You're right, when the team is tanking the product suffers so it's not really as worth it to pay for a game. However, going to the game is optional and the Rockets make money even if the arena is not full so I'm not sure what the solution is.
I have never been to a Rockets practice or sat in on a team meeting or listened to what Silas has told the team so I am not going to comment on whether or not he is saying things that are tough or not. . . . . . but rolling Nix out there for 20 min a game is enough for me to know he has his head up his ass.
probably low energy because he's been sucking ass shooting wise and missing layups. Green seems like the biggest confidence player ever, his level of play is driven by shots falling, but when he sucks, he just goes down a blackhole of sucking
It is like a psychological rookie wall for a sophomore superstar candidate. He worked hard over the summer, started season with big expectations and probably thought that things would be much better. Now, he has a better understanding of how good/bad Silas is at his job. He doesn't have one decent guard to play with: a failed pg project who does not put in the effort or does not play team ball, a vet who lives in another world, a backup guard that hardly belongs to the league. And he plays worse. Facing reality is not easy. He'll pull it together.
It would be nice during the holidays from a fans’ perspective to see some effort and not have to watch slow, unathletic Nix play the same amount of minutes as Sengun. Owner who allows a coach to play Nix as much as Sengun clearly doesn’t give a rat’s $&@ about his team!!!
Silas reminds me of Del Harris benching Kobe Bryant his first two seasons. As I’ve said many many times, we possibly have the worst coach in NBA history and it’s unbelievable that you don’t hear one peep in league circles that he’s on the “hot seat”.
