What would have happened if we kept Stephen Silas?

The Rockets have young talent, but the fact is their young talent is not consistent enough on a nightly basis to beat teams with multiple, well-established stars. In the West alone, Denver, Minnesota, OKC, Dallas, New Orleans, both LA teams, Sacramento, Phoenix, Golden State and a healthy Memphis team have better top-end talent than the Rockets and more of it.

One starter on the entire team has a positive on/off rating for the season (VanVleet), and he’s not a top 50 player in the NBA. That’s a big problem. Sengun is considered the team’s best building block and he is a -.2 for the season (113.5 - 113.7).

The player with the best net on/off rating and their best defender, Tari Eason, has only played in 22 games.

The Rockets are 17-18 against the Western Conference and 20-10 at home. I highly doubt either of those records are better under Stephen Silas, and I’d bet they are much worse.

Right now, the Rockets aren’t quite ready to be a playoff team in the Western Conference.

 

We'd 100% be worse under Silas. And the reason we suck despite the defense is our offense is absolute pure trash. Some of that is on players (Green especially more than others, but there's nobody actually putting up big offensive numbers either) and some of that is on the coach not being **** when it comes to attacking. Ime's almost the anti-D'antoni, all defense, absolute trash offense.

 

Silas would have challenged the foul on Sengun last night and won.

 

Obviously, it's 100% Jalen's fault. Probably something to do with the painted fingernails.

 

Or Silas would have benched Sengün altogether and never had the chance to challenge.

Lob threat and his sweetheart guards.

 

Udoka isn't out there missing open 3 point shots or missing lay-ups.
We rank #28 in 3pt % and Sengun is our primary player on Offense...easy game plan for our opponents: crowd the lanes, force Sengun into difficult shot and force kickout to 3 where statistics shows that's our weakness.
The End.

 

Can’t believe we got people even entertaining this idea.

 

We’d still be 12th in the West.

 

If Stone would've kept Silas.....we'd be State Champs!!!


Go Rockets!!!
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I'm loving all the counterfactual threads these days.

What would happen if we ended getting Victor...


..... Oladipo?

There's still a chance Daryl. Do something!

 

Stupidest idea I've heard in this forum, and it's a lot of them. I would trade anyone on this team before bringing back the worst coach in Rockets history. And I mean anyone.

 

Sengun would be coming off the bench, probably over Jock.

Jalen would be getting 40 minutes a night to average 25 on 45%TS.

 

Who ****ing cares?

DD

 

I think Udoka is a clear step above Silas as a coach.

But, if we had kept Silas the organization would have just done what they wanted instead of cater to the coach and his plan. They would have signed Harden to a 4 year near max and probably signed a young wing that can shoot. I think that would have resulted in a far worse defense, a better offense, and a better overall record.

The issue is that eventually Harden would decline (and so would our offense) and we still would be terrible defensively. Then, as our young players are improving we would be a mediocre team.

Udoka has instilled more discipline around effort, that's why the team has improved defensively. If we're honest, no one pegged this roster to be great on either side of the ball, that's why predictions were really low before the season started. A coach can't just will a team to a great offense when the talent just isn't there.

That being said, Udoka has plenty of room to improve his offense. It's just not the reason the team sucks.

Imagine we have the best coach in the nba, where would we be with this roster? Maybe we move up to 10th at best? When you start comparing us against the rosters of these other western conference teams it's very tough to credibly place us much higher than we are in the standings.

 

I wouldn't trust him to take out our trash.