Lol...good point someone has to win and it benefits us either way...unless we lose to the Twolves...and if that happens...
Yeah but a win tonight and tomorrow with a Spurs lose tomorrow then you could have had 1st place....The schedule is going to get insane after tomorrow so you have to beat all the scrub teams that you can. I know the Bulls are decent but they are still a scrub team and so is Minny even though they are hot right now !!!!!
Well if you are in the midst of a collapse like this, as a coach, you do something that will completely change the mindset of the players. Whatever offense you had been running, you throw it out, and during a time out (or two) you change up your stratagy. Even if its not as good of a plan as what you had previously constructed, it can help ur team through a lull and change the focus of the players. If certain players want to be selfesh and not run the offense, you find a player who will. As for the 7'6 center, I WISH I HAD THAT PROBLEM! lol But if they are taking him out of the play with fronts, you beat them at their own game. You pull your fronted player to the top of the key and run the offense down from there with high pick and rolls or skip passes and off the ball screens that gets your center in position on the low block. But it isnt always up to the center to stay open. You have to feed him the ball IMMEDIATELY when you get him open because that window will close shortly. And this ROX team isnt doing a good job at getting him the ball when he flashes open. They are about a second too late and its completely screwing up this team in the late game.
I don't know jack about coaching but I do have common sense and why Adelman loves to run the same damn plays in the 4th when Yao is getting fronted is beyond me !
You don't say? I have been saying that for 5 years.....why they don't move Yao out to the top of the elbow at the start of the play and pick his man as he rolls to the whole. Also, AB has got to wave Ron off and beat his man off the dribble...there was FAR too much defering going on out there. Rick Adelman did a poor job of electro-shock therapy there when the lead got under 10.....all he had to do was get them focused and get Yao the ball. Ugh. DD
or having lowry in trying to draw foul while attacking the basket. kinda strange of adelman tonight. when aaron was CLEARLY struggling on both ends, he refused to sub him out; yet on the very last possession when we CLEARLY needed a 3, he didn't switch back to aaron (or barry) and let lowry, who has no 3-range, do the inbound pass with no timeout remaining (almost a turnover that started ron's craze). i'm obviously just a fan, but is adelman really quicker than jvg in on-court adjustments?
I would like to see Yao taking 18 footers ... I mean we all know he can make those. Also regardless if they are scrub teams ... they are still a NBA team. We must play each team with the same mentality.
Just get him up top and open the lane for drives by AB, got to invert the offense some time to give a different look. Put Scola on the block.......put Yao at the High Post, and then back pick Yao's man and rotate scola through....to get Yao post position. Ah...so aggravating, that a JR high play can beat the crap the bulls were running. DD
I really love your upbeat spirit, even after such an embarrassing loss. I may be unrealistic, but for one I always think Brooks is all-star material. His shooting range and quickness to the basket makes him almost unstoppable against most PGs in this league. He just needs to learn how to use his skill set. He folded under pressure in this game, there is no doubt about it. I hope he would learn a good lesson from this loss. That said, a lot of questions cry for answer after this loss. coach Adelman and the players need to provide solutions: 1. How to handle the "chaos" by bad but often althletic teams? After the loss in Houston, one of the Cleveland reporter wrote an article about how to play rockets. His solution: no matter what type of games you are used to play, increase your pace and cause some chaos. I feel that is one of the reasons the bad teams beat rockets. I always feel that coach Adelman should dictate plays under such circumstances, but it seems coach Adelman let the players play no matter what. 2. Who's going to be the play maker at tough times? I saw Artest, Battier, Brooks each brought the ball over the court in a serial of possessions. I would rater Brooks handle the ball or he sit, than the inconsistancy and confusion caused. 3. How to play Yao and Brooks together? Yao is clogging the lane and it hurts Brooks' offense. On the defensive end, Yao is not able to help Brooks out once Brooks loss his man. 4. How to make Ron and Von contribute within the system? Rockets need the score from both players but we can see a lot of times, Ron or Von plays one man game which leads to disruption of the offense. 5. The fronting on Yao. I put this on the end because it seems there is no solution after so many years.
Like I said he should have put Lowry in to guard Rose when he was red hot. But putting Lowry in for the last shot was a bad choice. I don't know what Adelman was thinking.
I think we played hard tonight, just poor coaching at the end and poor execution. Playing hard can only get you so far, you still have to have good execution and coaching. As said right above, we didn't make any adjustments when we needed to. I'm starting to think that teams actually WAIT until late in the 4th to front Yao because they know we won't make any adjustments. I know that Phil will try something out in the first and put it in his pocket and wait until clutch time or a time they really need a run to pull it out. So who knows how many coaches do this. It seemed like all of a sudden they just started fronting Yao and Rick Adelman didn't have any answers.
this sounds like straight out phil jackson's philosophy book. quite impressive. absolutely agree on changing the players' mindset when they're in disarray. i'd prefer a couple of penetration or post plays to at least draw fouls.
At least he made a change Its pretty unfair for Lowry who was just forced to adjust to that frantic pace when he was on the bench for the past 10 minutes. I had no idea what Adelman was thinking, but I was screaming for a substitution since the 9 minute mark. Got to give credit where credit is due though. Rose did make some pretty tough buckets to bring them back.
Lowry forced him into a tough shot on the last play too, Lowry would have made more stops than Brooks and put them away.
Yeah I liked Clutch's post too it actually made me feel better so now I can sleep tonight I think we will be fine its funny how the season is almost over and everyone is just starting to get to no each other ....Well goodnight don't hurt yourself DD
Yeah, 10-2 as a starter is just not getting it done. I doubt AB defers to Ron again.....he should be the one breaking down the D when Yao is fronted. When I am the voice of reason after a frustrating loss something has gone terribly wrong in the world. DD
Dammit, that Phil Jackson stole my basketball philosophy????? I learned that from my dad who was also a coach, my predisesor, a long, long time ago. He could have at least mentioned the family name in the back of the book if he was going to rip pages of our stratagy from our grasp!
