Something I have to admit is we are good team,but not enough.Although we are 4th rank in the western league.Below are some things I list we need badly: 1.Unity.We are a good union,but need to be more unity,take Utah Jazz as a example,they missed Deron Williams(left ankle area sprains the joint dislocation)and Mehmet Okur(went to see his sick father),having watched so many games of Utah,but now their starters I can hardly speak out their names.While looking at their ranking,8-4,2nd in the western league. 2.Defence.When Jeff Van Gundy coaching us,we were known for our good defence,but now only Yao,Tracy,Alston,Hayes,Battier have be coached by JVG,others are newcomers,and Battier is still out,some good news is he will back in one week,Artest is a good defender,but he can defend when there is no enough space,in other words,his defence is much for his body,not defence skill.Though latest several games,our good defence is running out,so I really want Adelman can remind our players much how important defence is. 3.Offense.Adelman is famous for his Princeton system,but so far,where it is,I cant see.Our offense is still like JVG's.Also our offense is too much rely on stars,last game Yao was absent,we only got 86 pts.Tracy and Ron both did not very,especially Tracy.A lot of movements when without ball. 4.Healthy.I have heard too many times,just like we can past the 1st round,even meet Lakers at western Finals if we can keep healthy,healthy,and still healthy.Keeping healthy is a challenging task for us,especially our big 3. 5.Atmosphere.Vs Thunder our big 3 all get injured,that broken my heart,but have one thing digusted me more,looking at our other players,there are fear of getting injured,what I can see on their faces told me that,there are lack of fighting spirit,so lose the game last night was predictable.
Offense should be our number one concern. The 5 losses so far on the season have resulted all because of offensive droughts.. they were all winnable games. We could have been perfect or a team with just 1 loss if just knew how to score the ball.
lol... you say chemistry, defense, and offense.... does anyone else find this amusing? you just pretty much named everything an effective team needs to win. so basically you said the rockets have jack squat. it's ok, i agree too, i just found it humorous.
I think one thing that would help is for us to get our shooting back. Tmac isn't a known shooter, but Artest is supposed to have a solid FG%, Brooks is playing about where he should be, Barry has been a no-show. Alston is Alston. Battier is injured. I think if we can get more shots from free throw range we can make those. Obviously if the 3 point shooters are open from 3 they need to shoot too. But it all starts with getting Tmac, Ron and Yao on the same page. They need to draw double teams, that gets open shots, thats how our offense gets better.
I was about to post something similar but you took care of it. Yes, I found it sad (because it's true) and humorous.
I think this is a good way of looking at the season. Although don't go too low obviously. And its not like the season is over. We came back from a 17-17 record and were two wins late in the season away from winning the west. Still plenty of time to go on a run and rise in the rankings.
I donot even read what you wrote in your thread but title. The answer is plain and simple for me. Apparently we need calm fans here. too much hater here whomever they hate to, just too much.
