Rockets name Kelvin Sampson as lead assistant, hire J.B. Bickerstaff as assistant.

That future shiny HC position could blind a lot of common sense.

 

I think a lot of people think of NFL coordinators. In which they take complete control of a side of the field. They hire their own position coaches, they call the plays. The Head Coach usually just oversees this stuff and okays it.

In the NBA don't think it works like that. I think the d-coordinators are more like advisers really. For example Phil is known for his love of the triangle, and thanks to Tex Winter. Phil seems to be the one that calls all the plays but it is mostly thanks to Tex's advice that he knows so much about it.

 

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Rockets to make staff hirings -- Sampson, J.B. Bickerstaff -- official today. Brett Gunning will be promoted to assistant coach. #hounews

 

Congrats to Brett Gunning, no more slumming in the back seat and "player development" duties with scrubs!

 

We're a d league squad with the softest front line in Rocket history... Expect to hear basketball bouncing in the empty Toyota Center as the Rockets lose the largest Chinese population in basketball.

 

how many players from those teams are top 8 in rockets rotation? lowery, martin? and just bc they are from bad teams doesnt mean it is a bad thing that we have them.. good teams usually dont let go of their talent so chances are you have to get them off of bad teams

 

Then go root for another team like the Heat. Its going to be a rough couple of years before they might be contenders, but I still find it enjoyable that they can be a competitive team while still being in the rebuilding process. If you cant enjoy that and need the instant gratification of jumping on the bandwagon just so you can say your team is a winner, then go ahead. Root for the Heat, or the Lakers.

Look at the Chicago Cubs. You realize how loyal their fanbase is and how long they have suffered up there? Yes they b**** about it too, but you wont find too many sports franchises that still have that loyal of a fanbase in a city that is that hardcore about its sports.

Houston is not that much smaller of a city then Chicago, so where's the pride that comes from being a fan?

So go ahead, join the bandwagon. If you have anything insightful and interesting to add to this forum then keep on posting but so called "fans" like you are really making this forum seem like clutchhaters.com

 

So you looked up the numbers on team transition defense.

I did not know that was possible.

I say this facetiously.

Do you honestly believe there is a stat to say what a transition basket is? There isn't. If you believe there is, then cite it.

Fact of the matter is, they were a great defensive team...championship caliber,,,but their offense wasn't good enough and created too many turnovers, hence why Thibodeaux slowed it down in the playoffs.

Didn't I already say that one key component of every great defense was limiting easy buckets. Didn't you just agree with me. no?

 

Surprised to see the Bulls do that well in offensive rebounding, since a hallmark of JVG's teams here was to concede the offensive rebound in order to get back on transition D.

 

This is another misnomer.

JVG does not concede rebounds in any way shape or form. You don't need to gang rebound with 5 players...3 is enough.

JVG's offensive rebounding efficiency is directly related to his primary scorer and best rebounder being out of position to get off rebounds:

Ewing
Hakeem
Yao

look it up. NY and Hou were very low on Offense rebound teams, because the primary scorer was also the primary rebounder who had the ball and a defender or double team between him and the 2nd opportunity rebound.

do I really need to explain this more? Do you see how an offense predicated on Ewing, Hakeem and Yao might have above average TOs (predicable offense) and low Offensive rebounds but are indisputably a top defense. And if they played motion, they'd win less games?

 

The Rockets made Kevin McHale's coaching staff selections official on Friday, with Kelvin Sampson named his lead assistant.

J.B. Bickerstaff was hired as an assistant coach with Rockets director of player development Brett Gunning promoted to an assistant coach position. Chris Finch had been promoted from the head coaching position with the Rockets NBA Development League team and worked with the Rockets prior to the draft and with players following the draft.

Sampson had been an assistant with the Bucks for three seasons and Bickerstaff had been an assistant with the Timberwolves for four seasons, including during McHale's second stint as Timberwolves coach.

"I'm thrilled to have these men on my coaching staff," McHale said in a statement. "We are fortunate to have a very qualified and well-respected group of coaches on staff who will be committed to winning and helping our players reach their full potential.

"Kelvin Sampson has an established track record as a very successful college and NBA coach and will be a valuable addition to my staff. I have known J.B. Bickerstaff since our days together in Minnesota, and he has developed into one of the league's best young coaches. I had an opportunity to work with Chris Finch for a few weeks leading up to the draft and I am very impressed with his success in the D-League and internationally. Brett Gunning has been here for the past three seasons in a player development role, but he has a very good feel for our players and the system we plan to implement."



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/7655435.html#ixzz1SDme2Egg

 

Yes, I do agree that's it's important to limit transition plays. I'm just saying that it doesn't appear to be a necessity, as it doesn't seem to correlate with Defensive Effeciency as much as other stats (OPPeFG% & DefRebRate). As a coach I'd stress taking care of the ball and not crashing the offensive glass too much, but it appears that the Bulls did just fine, doing the opposite.

And yes, there are stats for transition defense. Synergy has them. I don't have a Synergy account, but you can look up the team stats for all playoff teams for both the regular season and playoffs at gttp://www.mysynergysports.com. If you're PC is as slow as mine and the site takes a gazillion years to load, here's a screeshot:

Spoiler

 

So JVG and Adelman crashed the offensive boards with the same amount of players? On free throws?

 

Sorry it's http://www.mysynergysports.com and looking at it now, I'm not so sure whether the numbers are based on the full regular season or rather just the head2head matchup during the regular season.

Googleing it though, it appears to be that the Bulls indeed were 17th in PPP allowed in transition situations during the regular season.

It's too bad there's those stats aren't public and we don't see about how many transition opportunities we're talking here.

Again though, I absolutely agree that it's important to limit the transition opportunites, I'm just not sure how important it is and if you perhaps can make 'up for it' by doing well in other areas, that may or may not hurt your transition d.

Anybody here got a Synergy account by any chance?