Are the "defensive" subs ever worth it? This dumbass coach is addicted to these late game blunders

What are the odds of this one singular individual player hitting a 3 or 2 or him making a mistake on offense or missing his assignment on defense considering his history and experience?

It’s s tough decision but these are the difficult decisions coaches have to make. I still can’t believe you all are going nuts about one player not being in the game and arguing that one player would somehow be guaranteed to stop and counter 2 furious warrior runs.

One play that sums up my point is Sheppard hit a three then ran back the other end. He was playing too far behind the 3 pt line and wasn’t set. Podz dribbled Sheppard over committed on the drive and he simply stepped back for a wide open 3. Trading baskets isn’t winning basketball.

 

it is when you are up 10.

DD

 

Ime Udoka not realizing that "defense players" on the bench are not warmed up or cold most of 3 quarters and you need only 2 stops. It is a joke to watch.

 

u do realize that Holiday and Okogie have higher scoring efficiencies than Reed, right? and all 3 are shooting the 3 in the 39% range... so im not seeing the offensive drop off...

scoring efficiency....
JO 1.234
holiday 1.207
Reed 1.179
tate 1.15

shooting efficiency
reed .55
jo .55
tate .54
holiday .54

3pt%
jp 39.7
reed 39.7
holiday 39.0
tate 30.0


did u want to debate if any of these guys are worse defenders than Reed?

 

Indeed. It is not only the scoring that Reed brings to the offense, but just the threat of him making his threes opens up the space for the whole offense. It is not a coincidence that we don't often see the blitz against Alpi and KD anymore. Amen's scoring around the basket, and his drives are now more often than they used to be because there is space for everybody to operate. It is quite noticeable that a defensive man is always hounding Reed and does not leave him to double KD or Alpi whenever Reed is in the game. He also takes his shots in the flow of the offense, and it is difficult for the defense to anticipate when he decides to shoot.

On the defensive side, Ime might look back at the Knicks game in NYC when Amen and Reed combined to harass and neutralize Brunson with their blitzes. It was very effective, and Ime could use Reed in that scheme to stop opponents who get hot at certain moments of the game. As the saying goes, there are different ways to skin a cat. My sincere apologies to cats. It wasn't meant to be literal. I love pets.

 

I love how you describe you-know-who. LOL.

 

This is one of the best points I’ve ever heard you make.

 

Is this a joke?

 

The best time to delete this was right after you posted it.

 

No joke. That's how our lineup decisions are made. Never believed them for a second when they said they didn't do analytics.

 

I try and use his real name as little as possible. If I ever need to angry to focus, I just picture his little gremlin face shimmying with that mouthguard hanging out the side of his mouth and visualise punching through it as hard as I possibly can lmao. The only person in sports I hate more is his pet Donkey.

 

GOT EM haha

 

I think players have defensive gravity, just like offensive gravity. I dont want to hear plus minus, because those numbers are skewed. Podz had a plus, during the 4th quarter, because the Warriors outscored the Rockets in the 4th quarter and he happened to be on the floor, in that final run. His minus should have been way higher.
I will also say, yes it was a dumb move by Ime to have Aaron Holiday or Tate out there.

 

His bad decisions are getting us back to back 50+ win seasons. He had three issues: 1) Played lineups with no outside threat (other than Durant) 2) Team didn’t know how to make an inbounds pass at clutch time 3) Used his challenges in the first half and usually first quarter. Udoka fixed 1&2 and is still inexplicably failing at 3. He ALWAYS now has either Reed or Holiday in at all times, thus alleviating the outside shooting droughts and resulting in a 100% win percentage since the chane was made 6 games ago. He also quit playing DFS and has removed low iq Eason in the final two minutes of close games. Udoka figured most of this out and the results are showing. We still lose in the playoffs as Stone has not provided Udoka with enough firepower to win the West.

 

that’s a losing mentality. Trading baskets isn’t winning basketball. You’re not going up points. You’re not creating a deficit for the other team. You’re scoring and immediately playing poor defense. That’s the Christian Wood, KPJ style all over again.

 

hopefully this is is sarcasm.

 

got what? Are you saying it’s ok to not play defense when your team is up and to simply trade baskets? This is what this team have been doing in several games they lost. Score play poor defense and the other team scores. Then they go on a run on us. Every basket counts. Every play is important.

It’s about a mindset and being consistent.

 

Winning the game by 10 is a losing mentality?

Boy, we are in strange times. I've never seen more vitriol around here than after the Rockets won the game against Golden State.
It used to be that people yelled "score board" after a win. Now the score doesn't matter cause winning alone isn't good enough. It's a strange world.

I'm gonna go for a walk outside and look at birds or something.