2016 Houston Rockets Pre-Season Thread - Preseason Finale vs Spurs

Statis22 said:
Well as of foday what are our strengths? What do we do well?
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Have plenty of talent...dominant defensive big man when his head is in the game...have a top 10 player in the league.

The Rockets do nothing well at this point besides getting down by double digits.

You want to be GSW but they have a team full of complimentary pieces not to mention they actually play defense. This is a bad team across the board thru the first month of the season.
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This team doesn't need to be GSW nor should they try. Any team trying to duplicate that is foolish. Steph is the main reason that team is so good an nobody can duplicate him. The guy is deadly from 40 feet in...is a great ball handler and passer...can finish at the rim...nobody in NBA history has presented that kind of challenge to NBA defenses. You can take a lot from GSW but you can't take him.

IMO when DMo get back make him the center of the offense and you play inside out. Dwight's main job becomes defense and rebounding...James attacks the rim to set up his 3's not the other way around. Start Pat Bev...Ty achors the second unit and when he comes in you push the ball constantly.
 
I'm not speaking to our strength as a unit. We haven't seen that in any form of consistency....hence why you hear the argument for new system/coach/approach.

I'm saying isolate each player, and itemize their strengths and weaknesses. We have guys with some very utilizable strengths. (no way im going to do this for all the Rox players) and we need a coach to pull that together.



For starters, we chuck 3s without any consistently lethal 3 point shooters. We have guys that can hit 3s, just not at the rate we shoot them or in the manner we shoot them. We have a whole front line of flying bigs. We should be pNrolling to get guys crashing to the lane, cutting, etc.. We also have DMO in the cusp, which imo, is the only player who should legitimately get consistent back-to basket touches. Dwight should be setting screens and diving to the rim THE ENTIRE GAME. Unless there's a non-big man on him.

James is our facilitator and I'd say his strength is actually passing as a scorer. We live/die by his scoring in iso/simple pNR which is silly when we can be utilizing his attention to get other guys open. That happens through motion/chess moves on the court. Not just standing and watching him and being ready. This man is not Michael Jordan :lol:

We don't even need like an overhaul system wise. We need additions/tweaks that give guys better opportunities to contribute
 
JinKazama said:
Have plenty of talent...dominant defensive big man when his head is in the game...have a top 10 player in the league.

The Rockets do nothing well at this point besides getting down by double digits.
This team doesn't need to be GSW nor should they try. Any team trying to duplicate that is foolish. Steph is the main reason that team is so good an nobody can duplicate him. The guy is deadly from 40 feet in...is a great ball handler and passer...can finish at the rim...nobody in NBA history has presented that kind of challenge to NBA defenses. You can take a lot from GSW but you can't take him.

IMO when DMo get back make him the center of the offense and you play inside out. Dwight's main job becomes defense and rebounding...James attacks the rim to set up his 3's not the other way around. Start Pat Bev...Ty achors the second unit and when he comes in you push the ball constantly.
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literally every team in the NBA can take some sort of pieces away from the GSW system
 
Peep Game said:
Our strengths are nothing, unless showing minimal effort is a strength.

:lol: and McHale being a scapegoat. He was definitely part of the problem. Part of the problem. What we probably missed out on though is the it's probably a joint thing, cause JB and other assistants haven't really differentiated themselves from when McHale was here. There's only been minor differences, very minor. The effort from the players has been the same, which is sad.
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im ok with yall saying we have no apparent strengths as a unit. I agree. That's the obvious problem at hand. But to say we don't have utilizable strengths in our individual players is crazy to me.
 
bonafide hustla said:
literally every team in the NBA can take some sort of pieces away from the GSW system
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Golden State doesn't do anything particularly revolutionary from an X's and O's standpoint. Every team does what GSW does in some form. Curry just stretches your defense out so far it negates the helpside defender form being able to get over and opens passing lanes. That why that small lineup is so deadly, its damn near impossible for someone to get out to the 3 point line once the on-ball defender is beat. If they try it opens up a driving lane.


Their defense is so good because you have long athletic guys who WANT to play defense (except Curry :lol:)
 
jinkazama jinkazama you're right on a lot of that previous post, but when it comes to the playoffs, Dwight is the very last guy who needs to be looked at. He's brought it every series since he's been here. He is what he is at almost 30, and I'll take Dwight in the playoffs like that any day. The problem (well, one of many problems) is that we were probably assuming we could simply play Dwight every other game or whatever and be good. I don't think any bit of the fanbase thought the team as a collective was gonna terribly underachieve like they have, from top to bottom. That underachieving has basically brought to light a whole bunch of problems.

markangelo markangelo I'm pretty curious to what he would've done with an extension in 2011 and having Lin, Parsons, Howard, Harden, etc.
 
This team sucks. We're straight up getting out-hustled by some of the sorriest teams in the NBA.
 
#LoseToSayHelloToMelo (Trimble)
Time to start these mottos for the players to draft.



I kid.


But not really.
 
I don't get why this team makes things so difficult. They went through stretches where they played excellent defense, leading to easy buckets....only to not play defense and give up easy buckets.
 
JinKazama said:
Golden State doesn't do anything particularly revolutionary from an X's and O's standpoint. Every team does what GSW does in some form. Curry just stretches your defense out so far it negates the helpside defender form being able to get over and opens passing lanes. That why that small lineup is so deadly, its damn near impossible for someone to get out to the 3 point line once the on-ball defender is beat. If they try it opens up a driving lane.


Their defense is so good because you have long athletic guys who WANT to play defense (except Curry :lol:)
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I hope I haven't insinuated I thought what they're doing is revolutionary. Nothing revolutionary about adding some more clever off ball screens and extra motion. It's mostly all of the in-between stuff. Curry enhances that system to another level yes, but they kill guys with any unit in the game. James can't be Curry, but he quite obviously can be very impactfull downhill, outside, and passing
 
What's this I hear about the cheerleaders getting a T during the Pelicans game..? :nerd:

Did one of the RPD go ham on the refs :lol:
 
JinKazama said:
What's this I hear about the cheerleaders getting a T during the Pelicans game..? :nerd:

Did one of the RPD go ham on the refs :lol:
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lmaoooo I had posted it in the NBA season thread, if this was what you were referring to
 
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lmaoooo I had posted it in the NBA season thread, if this was what you were referring to
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They got T'd up for that :lol:

I could see if they lined up the chicks from V live along the baseline but come on now. If anything that's a warning from the refs to not do it again...it's not like she busted it wide open or anything.
 
Good win against these Dall********. The defense picked up nicely and was pretty key in sealing this win. What Bev did tonight is exactly what i want to see from him. I hate the games where he's playing like 30 minutes only for him to score 6 points and contribute nothing but techs. Capela didn't have a good scoring night, but he was very active and was grabbing loads of boards. Harden hit clutch shots when we needed, and the bench overall was fairly solid. Got the Kings tomorrow as they're heading back from Mexico, and Dwight will be back in the lineup.

Also, our 45 million dollar man Parsons contributed 9 points and a bunch of bricks, while Ariza was 7/10 with 18 points and defense. Hmph.

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Great, great win. Honestly don't think we'd perform as well if Dwight suited up, Houston played so well defensively because of Capela's ability to move his feet on the perimeter on the switch. The Dallas offense becomes stagnant when their aren't any mis matches in terms of size on the floor
 
good game

Howard beasting

Ariza hitting key shots late in the game

a "meh" game from Harden but still good

Good to see Dmo back

#REDNATION

.500 here we come
 
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