It means give Asik the ball and let him become the offensive jaggernaut we so desperately need in the post, that or shoot more threes.
"Do not repeat the tactics that have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances." -- Sun Tzu Mchale's strategy to keep his job: Call an isolation play out of a timeout. When it fails, act like it wasn't the play called but its what ends up happening.
Variance in tempo and distance. Tempo: for defense, we want them to slow down the ball; for offense, we need to push the ball fast. Our game is transition game. Don't let them slow us down. Distance: Need to spread the floor and make 3s. Harden and Lin need defense to be stretched out to operate. Spread out their defense, it will be dribble penetration and kick out for 3 all day long.
change it up, less predictability. if you're predictable in the regular season (ISO ball, small ball), you may get away with it from time to time since you face different teams night in and night out; it does seem that teams, reporters and CF posters have figured the Rockets basic plays quite easily though. More so in the playoffs when you face the same team for a whole series. won't hurt to add variations to their O and D. maybe a zone? more post ups like in the Clippers game?
You can expand the final statement by: =E(X^2)-E(X)^2 Now do we understand, we need to score 2 pointers inside the arc and not score 2 pointers outside the arc. In other words Jeremy needs to make sure he is not shooting threes with his foot on the line.
I could be wrong here, but taking variance as the variations from the mean, where the means is the expected points from the average of the rocket's games, increasing the variance basically means to take on more risky plays (ie jack up more 3's etc).
Not necessarily. I would think letting Westbrook go off would increase our variance. He can be great..but he can also be awful. And Lin is at least big enough to bother his jumpers.
You can also expand the final statement by adding a few spaces: = E ( X ^ 2 ) - E ( X ) ^ 2 = E ( X ^ 2 ) - E ( X ) ^ 2 = E ( X ^ 2 ) - E ( X ) ^ 2
When he talks about variance I'm pretty sure he means more like high risk/high reward plays. Expect the Rockets to be running like crazy and risking a bunch of turnovers.
I agree. Exploit Perkins and Ibaka by pulling them out of the lane. That's exactly what the Heat did. Of course, the Heat have this freak of nature small forward that can make up for the loss in rebounding. Parsons better step it up. Morey is undoubtedly talking about launching the threes when he talks about variance. They're going to try to live by the three, because it's their only chance to win this thing.
