I agree and I been saying for the longest time. We need 3-4 set plays the Rockets can run to get a good open shot. Read and React crap in the 4th quarter is great for a Kings team that knew how to do it, not for this Rocket team.
yeah, the coaches should take the blame They are trying to run fast breaks before the rebounds are secured when the other team got the rebound they try to gamble to knock the ball out. Guys are overreacting to certain offensive moves and leaves people wide open for jumpers, Our defense has got to be better, Fire RA, i want him go
I highly doubt that Adelman will the balls or brains to make a change to the starting lineup within the next 10 games.
Good point. With All star point guards like Nash and CP3, the best plan of action is make them into shooters. By making them into the primary scorers of the team instead of facilitators you are actually taking them out of their comfort zone early on. Should have been tactics 101.
We arent even giving Patrick Patterson a chance and he is the most athleticly gifted guy besides Hill out there. We could have him at SF or PF shooting open threes. Rick wont take any chance on young guys until they are old or its proven that he has no other choice. What the heck did we trade for Hill and then draft Patterson for?
I mean look at this. This would be very interesting lineup here. Yao Hill Patterson Martin Lowry Why isthis old coot not putting out there the most interesting lineups he has at his disposal of almost any coach in the league? Hill Patterson Budinger Battier Brooks
We had this talk in the chat. AB and Lowry were going under the pick every time and CP3 was killing us from midrange. We weren't double teaming him. We haven't double teamed anyone all season long. Those three jumpers from Jason Smith were created when Paul was out of the game, where Scola and Hill finally started showing on the picks. We made Paul a shooter tonight, and he shot us right out of the game down the stretch. Did you not watch?
Actually, the talent is there, the "team" has not emerged. These games look like "try outs." Didn't Adelman have the pre-season to tweak the lineup? Anyway, defense is really bad, defensive rebounding is even worse, Yao can't jump, the minutes thing is a real distraction, Battier needs more bench time, and did I mention how bad the defense is. The are making role players look like superstars. On a positive note, Hill was impressive, C-Bud needs more minutes, and, overall, I think they will eventually get it together. The problem is that by then they may be in such a hole that they can't get out. Remember, continuity is unknown to the Houston Rockets, they assemble a new team every year and have been doing so for the last 15 years. Others tweak, Rockets overhaul. There is no identity out there at all. Looks like a pick-up game.
Very frustrating. We just don't have the chemistry we need to consistantly win games. We're not meshing.
He doesn't need to make changes in the starting lineup, the starting lineup has been great. In fact most of the time we enter the half with a lead or a close game. The problem is RA treats the entire game like it'll be the same as the first quarter. He writes some sort of rotation before the game then sticks with it even if the opponent's game plan has already changed. Theoretically the best lineup would be Yao, Scola, Battier, Brooks and Martin. But in the real game when Scola is firing blanks or when Brooks is not defending anyone or when Battier's shot isn't falling you switch them up for other guys, not stick to your prescribed 30mins of PT for your starters. Nobody on this ******* coaching staff knows how to manage rotations. They take too long to make timeouts, and sit players at the wrong time. You aren't there to sip iced-tea and watch the game. You're supposed to look at the flow of the game and play the hot guys and bench the cold guys. 0-4, I wonder how many more losses DM will take before he does something about it.
This is actually the perfect rebuttal to my Battier rants. The most perfect illustration of whats going on here. Adelman is sticking to a minutes regiment like its religious and not a flowing situation and constantly chnging according to matchups and situations. He doesnt adjust as much as he just changes the roatation to the guys he was gonna put in anyways no matter how the game is going.
Yeah, another freakin' boneheaded decision. 4 games and your lottery pick has 4 DNP-CDs? I'm still waiting for the "Rick is right" crowd to come up with the list of other coaches who've done this.
Too late at that point, got to do it early in the game...and our guards were being picked......all night long....they can not go HIGH on that pick it is a foul. They can recover though .....and make him a shoooter......and force the rest of the team to watch. You stop West, and the rest and they will become wall flowers.... DD
Calm down people, there are 78 games left. We will get on track, we'll win like 6 or 7 in a row soon, and all will be right on the Rocket world.
Lmao...Fire Adelman. Am I the only one who thinks we actually played pretty good. West hit an incredible shot at the end. Defense was better. A few phantom calls, like the one on Yao when West went baseline. I think the Rockets are gonna be alright
