I wouldn't use Luther Head for sure, now with Rafer Alston back in the lineup I'd better put Bobby at SG and Aaron at PG. I would tell them to practice free throws. I would put Landry in the starting 5 instead of Mutombo and I would tell McGrady to be a little bit more selfish at times
I did not have to click on this thread to know that it was going to be pages and pages of DD saying "hey let's play the rookies & novak!"
Do you want me to dig up old posts about how losing in the first round to Utah = failure and how the problem with JVG's teams are that they peaked too early in the regular season? That would be amusing....
Sure go ahead.....waste your time.....lol I doubt I talked about peaking but I am sure that I talked about JVG not making adequate adjustments.....and thus failing miserably.... As for now, we all know that the team is short handed without Yao...and would probably be the number 1 seed if he was healthy..... DD
As others have said, with Rafer back in the starting lineup, go with a small backcourt of B. Jackson and Brooks and run like hell. Bringing the ball up quickly will put the Jazz defense on their heels which will hopefully give us some room to maneuver. Give this second unit backcourt a lot of time with McGrady but also see if they can play with Battier or whoever on SF and give McGrady some rest before the 4th quarter. Instead of putting the ball in McGrady's hands, look to give him quick shots off multiple screens, something we were successful at during the regular season. This is all, of course, easier said than done.
Guess what boyo - if Yao/Tracy are healthy all through 2007 the Rockets can make the same "woulda,coulda,shoulda" excuse. That wasn't what you were singing last year. This year we have better players, same injuries, same result. IF last year was a miserable failure - as you defined it several thousand times then so is this year. It's the coaches fault in the playoffs - as you sarcastically informed us last year: Please reply - basically you can't say anything that you haven't directly repudiated at some point in the recent past.
I gave JVG 4 years, and even a pass during the injury plagued year too.....I am willing to give Adelman time to build his type of team too. And, I think Adelman winning 55 games this year in a tougher Western Conference was a better job than JVG did last year. The difference in the playoffs this year versus last, is that we were pretty much healthy and an even match for Utah last year, wheras this year without Yao we are toast. Also, I like Adelman's ability to try different lineups and players, and to make adjustments. IMO...Adelman > JVG..... DD
This is not true. Last year you said that we would probably lose in the first round of the playoffs and that we weren't good enough to contend for a title - you said this late in the season right before the playoffs. When it happened you pronounced the entire affair a miserable failure of coaching - due entirely to the playoffs. The subtext of this of course is that you said this in large part because your pet project player didn't play. Your pet project player was a miserable failure - that much is certain by any reasonable definition. This year the scenario is repeating itself yet the miserable failure call is absent. Of course you are bleating about playing your pet project players more once again, so that is consistent.
No, you are taking it out of context, I thought we were no threat to win it all last year, and thus wanted V-Span to be tried to see if he were part of the solution for the future, because I knew that Rafer was seriously flawed, and wanted the team to find out what we had in V-Span before the off season. I thought we could get past Utah, especially once we got homecourt.....and consider losing game 7 at home a serious failure... on the players and coaching staff... The scenario this year is not the same because Yao is OUT, and Rick Adelman HAS been developing players for the future while winning in the present, something you said would not happen. If I recall you were the one saying playing V-Span or other rookies meant the team would be tanking or losing games, and I was the one that said just getting players some time to develop does not mean that they necessarily lose the game. Well, guess what...we won 55 games this year with Scola, Landry, Brooks and Novak all playing and developing. DD
^ guess what, you told us that winning 50 games in the regular season is meaningless. You told us this repeatedly. ^^ guess what, you are now crowing about it, repeatedly. ^^^ guess what again: V-Can't is not an NBA player right now, and proved that he never could be last year. You still haven't been able to fathom how badly he performed last year ^^^^ guess what again again: next year there will be a whole new crop of rookies for you to salivate over and you will be making the same arguments. ^^^^^guess what at last: your old arguments will be used against you again
It is meaningless, as for reaching the goal of winning it all...that is meaningful. Oh hogwash, I am just trying to put it into language in which you will understand...winning in the playoffs is all that matters....and right now..Rick Adelman doesn't have Yao.... Some games he stunk it up, some games he was nails (even your boy JVG loved him in the Wizards game last year) that is what happens with rookies, you have to keep running them out there until they find their way...Scola is a heck of a lot better now than he was in November, aren't you glad that Rick Adelman kept playing him? And again, V-Span was being played as a spot up shooter, and he is an attacking player....don't you find it funny that he had a better 2pt FG% than Rafer Alston? I like young players at positions of need.....yep. Yeah, you like to come into a thread and snipe, and not make any real contributions...everyone knows it. Glad you disappeared from the GARM after JVG left though, guess you were never a Rockets fan to begin with. DD
Looking at our PG situation, I'd be willing to give him another shot next season. I mean, what's the worst that can happen, he doesn't make the team next year?
My opinion on V-Span is the same. I wanted the team to try him out to find out if he was part of the solution going forward...PERIOD. Because I felt Rafer was not the answer, and guess what? He still isn't.. It is the same reason I want the team to try Brooks..... The problem is that people have taken my number of posts about V-Span and extrapolated it out into me saying he was our savior....which is 100% incorrect. DD
