Adelman has never and will never cut his starters minutes unless they're usually not the starter, young and inexperienced, or they're only allowed a certain amount of minutes (Yao). We need to get used to it.
If you can somehow put Miller and Scola in that deal and take Hill out, do it. I know the money does not add up but Scola and Miller need to go.
No we don't, not more than Utah or other good teams. We have no star, we are 16-21. We have no inside presence or rim protector. We have are soft on defense as a whole and can't finish games because of those two things. We had a top 10 defense for most of the time Yao played with us (and Rick was still the coach). I understand the frustration, but we haven't been the same team talent wise for years.
I want to agree. Does this guy care about getting rehired? Why was Miller in the game? No D and no offense in the clutch.
I was wondering why the heck the starters were playing for so long in the 3rd quarter. I was waiting for the bench to come in after we couldn't score. So disappointing...
Without asking for change of players, just tonight: We could have gone longer with Ish Smith in the 4th. We could have used PP against the Utah frontline. Scola was scoring but was gassed in the end. We could have used CBud's scoring and CLee's defense in the endgame. Lowry and BAttier put up too many shots. Once more, poor game management by the coaches. But again, long-term: This may be what we need to finally force changes in the team composition and coaching.
Who ever is Blaming this on Scola wasn't watching the game Scola was the one who Kept us in the game. Adelman thought it was OK to play him until dawn. No one noticed Milsap was struggling in the beginning? It was because Scola was rested and our bench was helping too. Adelman thought it OK to go away from what got us that 16 point lead. Forgot about the bench and had no answer for a Scola double team. Luis isn't going to say he is tired.. The coach is the manager of minutes; Adelman failed. Scola and Brad Played too much C Lee, Ish, Pat and Hill didn't play enough.
It doesn't matter. This team is not making the playoffs anyway. Might as well let the starters pat their stats so they have higher trade value before the deadline. I look forward to the trade deadline BTW.
Yeah, Miller didnt do that poorly. At least he gets a body on the shooters, he even threw millsap off balanced on a jumper late and he missed, but scola isn't even in the same country as the shooter. PP needed to be out there sooner, at least to give him a break. Or even Hill. Time and time again you 6 players jumping for a rebound and none of them could get it because they were all 6'9 with no hops or length. They played volleyball and the tipped the ball out. Hill or PP would have had a better shot at those missed boards.
Interesting stat. I will say, though, that we may want to just focus on the teams immediately ahead of the Rockets in the standings: --Denver: will inevitably trade their best player(s) and fall in the standings --Portland: might possibly put Brandon Roy on the shelf for the remainder of the season --Memphis: the Rockets are just better than them (and I refuse to believe otherwise) --Phoenix: that team is heading south like they're running from the law Look, it doesn't look great now. In fact, it freakin' sucks. I hate it. But there is definitely still hope for the playoffs. We just have to get Aaron Brooks (one of our top 2-3 scorers when healthy) and Chuck Hayes (our best post defender) healthy and make a hard push in the last couple of months. I'm not giving up on the playoffs, especially because (1) they've still got a legit chance to grab the #8 seed and (2) their lottery pick would only be a small handful of spots better than their pick if they make the playoffs (the most depressing part of not winning these games).
They shot almost 50% from the floor to our 37% and we almost won the game. They got Jefferson and Millsap quality looks because Williams was getting them going.That was the only legit difference.
No it isn't. It's just making further confirming what I had initially thought: Rick is an easy scapegoat for a lot of you guys. Would you rather have had a worse Jordan Hill or Patrick Patterson on Millsap instead? Bottom line is, Millsap went off and single handedly won the game for Utah, and Scola didn't have the balls to guard him.
LOL. I really don't give a fu.ck. anymore.. I'm gonna go watch SNL with Jim Carrey to lower my blood pressure.
I think it's more than incompetence, it's a calculated move on Adelman's part to suck. He knows the rockets organization isn't going to improve talent-wise, Yao is perenially injured, so he's trying to get himself fired so he doesn't have to endure this rebuilding fiasco.
So? Roy is already on the shelf, and they kicked Houston's ass twice in one week, right after kicking Utah's ass twice in the week before.
