The Perfect Storm to start the season: Adelman trying to figure out his rotations with Yao limited, Brooks coming out Arrogant and not playing a complete game, Battier is rapidly declining, and did I mention Battier declining?
Ok who said we would win during the opener ? People saying we lose the first two because its the fakers and gsw home opener .... Horrible ............. No D whatsoever Jvg jinxed us all over again haha Rox vs Heat dream on We gave up 100 points again ....... so much for deciding to play more D Why is Chuck Hayes getting touches over and over again? Rick Roll help me with these please . When you go for 1-12 3s and in the fourth quarter and down by only 2, stop chucking it please but i guess its live and die by it eh . Adleman felt bad for not playing Hill and admitted it, yeah he sure does after reading CF but he what played him a mere 3 min or less and took him out after he got a nice start oh a block too which Chuck doesnt have even one after playing that many minutes. #11 is there for a reason and use it wisely please during that 24 time limit but no instead they jack 3s up which creates turnover and fastbreak that killed us badly. Omg i could go on and on and the Rockets Organization should pay for my anger issues bodily damage and a few broken HDTV. A very rabid fan here but i cant control my emotion .... Need to trade Battier (useless now) Brooks (poor midget decision maker and meltdown during crunctime) ohh and fire Rick and rehire JVG ( he just need to teach D as our players are mostly able to play O anyways) We need a traditional pg with size and pass first please instead of having midget pg ..... oh how i wish Lowrys 6.3 and a balance sf not like the Teflon Don who always managed to get a basket or two every game and he sure made it looks good. Battier is a waste of space, basically we are on 4 vs 5 everytime hes on the floor or maybe 3 on 5 when Chuck is in there too. New Orleans and Spurs next ...... both are division rivals ...... heck we are now last in the SW division yes even the Grizzlies are ahead of us. Will watch all 82 games no matter what but these past 3 games sure hard to watch and get by . After all the hight great expectations that i have for the Rox being 2 deep, having insurance and no more players like Matt Maloney, Moochie, Ryan Bowen, Reefer and etc on the starting lineup and roster End of rant
I know it's a cliche, but a defeat in Oct is the same as a defeat in April. This team needs to stop the bleeding, before they go into a tailspin.
No worries guys.. Player___________was just on fire tonight. Nothing we could do... Oh and JVG said we were going to the finals.
Not that we'd start to play Nellie ball...it's just Don Nelson has had so much success early in his career that he always stuck to what he did...even if it wasn't working. I'm starting to think this is a problem for Adelman. He's had the success of coaching elite teams and such, but at this point he's over-confident of some things. For example, I think a young coach values each and every night more than Adelman. Because he's out to prove something, I think sometimes these extra-experienced coaches don't really have anything to prove. At times it feels like Adelman doesn't even care if we lose and it seems he coaches games with no urgency at all.
bad luck tonight ive watched many knick games, and harrington is a pure chucking scrub, therefore he will play lights out against houston.
Im sick of Hayes and Battier playing. They are such a horrible offensive liability. It seems this team is full of one way players, either all offense and no defense or some defensive skills and no offense. I guess if you are a NBA player that can play defense and offense at a high level, you're are a max player.
You're the type of pea brain fan that only understands basketball from the stat sheet. Scola was part of the reason why we lost tonight. Offense is only half the game...where was Scola's defense? Take a look at the guys who Scola guarded tonight. Yes, your Argentinian idol put up 28, but just one of the guys he guarded scored even more than that-- Harrington with 29.
Yeah. A point guard who doesn't know when to pass the ball to the guy who's hot with the game on the line.
Rockets need dampier off the bench when he gets in shape. Miller is worthless. And a trade of brooks and Budinger to philly for iguodala would be very beneficial to rockets. Iguodala and dampier would improve out D a lot. Just need to try something different. pf. Scola Sf. Iguodala C. Yao SG. Martin PG. lowry Bench PG/SG. Lee SG/SF. Battier PF. Hayes C. Dampier
Scola & Yao was like a combined 18-26. Solid. They kept getting looked off to much by some people in key moments. Defense...same old, same old.
Can we blame on bad luck when Ellis had his career high and scrubs like Blake & Brown killed us with wide open 3's? This team does not know how to play defense.
Fine. I await your simplistic and inaccurate thread explaining why Brooks tossed up a prayer of a three when he should have gone into the offense.
this team is full of players who are either too short, too skinny, too slow or any combination thereof. that's the fundamental problem with the Rockets, is the lack of size and/or athleticism. you can have all the skill in the world, but at the end of the day you're always gonna get outmuscled and outhustled by more athletic teams. its just the basic law of nature. with any type of contact sport, bigger is almost always better.
Deckard, I know you are hot at the game, but to blame Aaron Brooks for this game is just flat out ignorant. Al Harrington goes off for 28 points, and hits wide open shot after wide open shot, right? Who out of all our bigs can guard a big with range? See a weakness there? I do. We did not shoot well, at all....but I was very happy with almost all of the 3pt shots we took, because they were wide open, and our shooters normally make a decent percentage. We missed a lot of wide open shots, too many to win the game..... JVG used to say "It is a make or miss league" right now, we are missing too many shots.....but they are good ones for the most part. DD
Tonight's lost is a combination of Yao limited minutes and bad coaching. Adelman using Chuck Hayes for offense while the team is playing from behind is an absolute failed. When is Chuck known be a great offensive player?? Really stupid on the coaching part even if the playcall didn't go to Chuck Hayes, if i see a play that involve Chuck, it makes me sick. Failing to put the right players on the floor to generate offense is the main reason we lost actually. When you're behind almost double digit...you would have thought that that is a signal for the coach to put the main offensive weapons in the game...but NOPE, not with this coach..he stuck with the same crappy players. Hell, Scola minutes of entering the game is also screwed up.
Brooks plays no defense, everyone lights him up and his defensive mistakes lead to other players making defensive mistakes. The last play where Harrington knocks down the open 3, and the Rockets needed a stop to stay in the game...Billups goes right past Brooks no problem...this causes the defense to collapse naturally, Scola left his man which happened to be Harrington because he's worried about Billups getting an open layup...Billups easily passes the ball out to Harrington who ends the game. When Brooks is not scoring he's not much help out there. No one is convincing me otherwise. Not saying trade Brooks or start Lowry...just that when Brooks is not playing well it's time to go to Lowry and give him more of the mins FOR THAT NIGHT. I thought that was the whole point of our depth? To work with who was bringing it that night? To have the versatility to match up with most teams in the NBA? I'm really disappointed in Rick the most. The coaches put the pieces together to win games...Rick keeps throwing out the wrong pieces.
