https://theathletic.com/4399192/2023/04/11/rockets-offseason-future/ This season was supposed to be about taking a meaningful step towards development and charting a path back to winning ways. In your opinion, was that achieved? Hollinger: I think Eric Gordon already answered this for me. In all seriousness, I don’t think the Rockets made much progress this year. They once gave the whiff of being an AAU team, just kinda rolling the balls out and seeing what happens. They were great at offensive rebounding and bad at basically anything that involves discipline, skill or strategy, highlighted by jaw-dropping failures in transition defense. Probably the one notable exception would be the progress Alperen Şengün made in his second season; let’s just say I don’t think he’ll ever begin another season as Bruno Fernando’s backup. I’ll also note that late in the year, Usman Garuba finally began delivering enough offense to justify keeping him on the court for his defense, and Jabari Smith Jr., showed more verve off the dribble. Bigger picture, however, the disappointment of this season isn’t just the win-loss record; it’s the near-complete lack of any meaningful progress toward becoming a real basketball team.
Nothing in that instance lol I thought he was a free agent for some reason. What do we have that would entice Boston?? Sengun?
I find it funny that is such a meh thread. Goes to show how well thought of Silas was and how his firing was so predictable. If he had been retained, we'd be at 40-50 pages of rage by now.
Wondering if any assistants keep their jobs or if they interview Hollins for the position. Thinking both him and Lucas will get first crack in the interview process.
Wondering if any assistants keep their jobs or if they interview Hollins for the position. Thinking both him and Lucas will get first crack in the interview process.
I’m fine with them cleaning house of all the assistants and having the new coach bring in his own guys. If he wants to keep some of them, fine, but hopefully they let him do his own thing.
Josh Christopher went live on Instagram and I joined his stream. He said he could answer questions now. I asked rapid fire questions about his reaction to Silas being fired. He laughed when he read it. I started typing “Do you know @Williamson ?” and he stopped the stream. I don’t think he wanted to share that reaction. But he laughed. At Silas. Not Williamson.
Silas second on coach you would least like to play for: https://theathletic.com/4421645/2023/04/18/nba-players-poll/?source=twitterhq
If we didn't beat up on tanking teams in the last month of the season to inflate our record, it more clearly shows we literally made zero progress.
I think we showed a little progress, given that we got rid of Wood and Gordon and still improved our record (by 1 whole win, lol). That doesn't happen if the young players aren't improving. It was very little progress though, and was despite Silas, not because of him.
As has been stated, the progress made was by individuals, not the team. It's like Silas had no clue and his assistants were hamstrung because of him. A Fire buddy and I were talking during the season--no way would we allow him to lead a crew anywhere near an active flamefront.
So 8 out of 55 players picked Silas on this unscientific poll. Also, these players were on other teams so may have never even played for Silas or met him. More evidence that Silas is a bum coach...i guess.
The top two are not surprising at all, but it is interesting that they are the top two for entirely different reasons.
I remember people tried to say the Rockets weren't as bad as people were saying, because they had a similar record to the Spurs. ArE tHe SpUrS a DuMpStEr FiRe ToO?!?!?!? It's actually quite hilarious to think you could go back two years and the Rockets did not improve at all from that point.
There is a thing called credibility, there is no doubt who got more. People shouldn't even think of the Spurs.
