What do you all believe to be the root of our problems executing at the end of games? Poor coaching? No player movement? No ball movement? This team needs to find the answer to this question, and quick.
IMO, it's coaching.. Rick isn't putting the right players. He did a good job last year, but he has done that this year.
One huge thing i can't possibly fathom is why RON fricking ARTEST gets a free pass when the rest of the board is so eager to jump on every single mistake by T-Mac. If Von Wafer had played instead of Artest we would have had this one in the bag. Also Rick was eager to let the starters play it out and work out the comeback but they just couldn't stop it. Poor recognition by the coach that he needed to make some changes. Landry was on fire all night but he was still warming the pine. Seriously. I thought T-Mac really played very decently (7-20 had several end of shotclock or what I believed were excusable misses.) sure he missed the game-tying bucket but that happens. Artest is the problem at the moment. let him sit and bring out a real shooter like barry.
Artest or McGrady has to go, either one of them, they dont fit the system especially when there both in there clutch time. We need a Ray Allen type player that can shoot the ball.
POOR POOR POOR COACHING WHEN OUR STARTERS CAN HIT NOTHING SHOUDN'T HE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN HIS BENCH WE WHERE GREAT TONITE I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF OUR BENCH IN THE SECOND HALF FOR MORE THAN 5 MINS I DON'T UNDERSTAND WE WILL NEVER WIN A RING WITH THIS GUY I PUT MY HOUSE ON IT.
As much as it pains me to say it, I kinda agree with this. Not that they refuse, but they are not committed to it
not finishing 4th quarters....the story of our season. i really can't wait till what this team can TRULY do with yao, tmac, artest, and our full line up. i think this team definitely needs both yao and tmac to win the majority of our games. i like artest but hes not bringing what i thought he would bring to the team. he's just another shane battier that shoots threes in the perimeter and maybe better d.
Artest still plays better def and the offense was the same from both of them, sucky same could be said with wafer playing in tmac shoes but now you got better defense form artest, just dont pass him the ball
Exactly, bench TMac, he is too slow and ball hogs late.....IT DOESN'T WORK....... We have 11 years of data that it DOESN'T WORK....... Move your body, move the ball, play together...you know...like the KNICKS did tonight.... A lesser team won because they played as a team.....it has happened FAR too often this year. And it is FLIPPING disgusting. DD
The problem now is we have a fat Tmac with no strong legs. If Tmac at least can stay with his man, we will be fine.
That's just blind. Who cares if Yao, T-Mac and Artest are finally all on the floor on the same time if two out of the three just dribble, dribble, dribble, jack up a shot, dribble, dribble, dribble jack up a shot? There's an issue with T-Mac and Artest not playing the offense. The Rockets are going to have problems until they get that issue worked out.
Adelman's rotations suck <br> Ron Artest sucks <br> Rafer Alston sucked this game <br> I swear everytime I see battier do his little hand over the eye defense, the player scores.. <br> 70% of this loss is on Ron and Rick 5% on Rafer 25% on lack of D
