Basketball is a game of offense and defense. If you spend most of your energy on defense, naturally the offense will suffer. Emphasizing defense and toughness is important, but without a clear offensive game plan and adjustments, it eventually limits this team’s ceiling. Clap Clap play harder will not work in the playoffs, last game is a perfect example, the harder they go for offensive boards and defensive traps, the less accurate they shoot the ball without an offesnsive schema Right now the numbers kind of show that imbalance. The Rockets are solid overall (around top 8–10 in offensive rating this season at ~118.6), but a lot of that comes from talent, not consistent offensive structure. [statmuse.com] In clutch situations, the offense drops to ~108 offensive rating with a negative net rating, which shows struggles when games slow down. [fantasytea...advice.com] In half-court-heavy situations like isolation and pick-and-roll ball handler, efficiency is only around ~0.87–0.92 PPP, which is average or below. [cleaningtheglass.com] Last season they were only 13th in offensive rating, despite elite defense (top 5), showing the same pattern. [teamrankings.com] This team clearly has talent (Sengun playmaking, perimeter scorers, etc.), but when defenses tighten up, we don’t have enough structured actions or adjustments. That’s why adding a dedicated offensive-minded coach could really help — not to replace Udoka’s identity, but to balance it. Defense got us here, but offense is what takes you to the next level. Maybe if we shout out loud enough, Clutch can help us get the voice to the upper management and get this team some help ,
The funny thing is that even under an offensive coach with little emphasis on defense Amen, KD and Tari will still work their asses off on that end because that's just who they are. Do people really think they're good defenders because of Ime? If you say our defense is 8/10 and our offense is 4/10 then with an offensive coach the defense might drop slightly to 7/10, while the offense could improve to around 7/10. Ime's influence on offense is SEVERELY overestimated. Get an offensince coach.
For the record Udoka is using the Pop model of committee approach to offensive concepts. A: I don’t use an offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator thing. The way I learned and what helped me become more well rounded is to do a little bit of everything. That’s the way I learned for seven years under Pop. We have guys who scout (opposing) teams. We have a game plan for how we’re going to defend these guys and what offensive concepts work against them. I think it helps (coaches) grow, which I’m big on. For me, I like to hear different voices. I want the players to hear different voices, not just the same guy talking about defense. I think it works for the team. Pop is well-rounded and he wanted us to be focused on everything, player development, relationships, offense, defense, game plans, everything.
Like pick and roll, some pistal actions, can we run them consistently, do u remember seeing Reed and shengun run a clean pick and roll where shengun gets an easy layup?
The Rockets were spamming Reed/Sengun pick and rolls last game. It’s what the Reed fans on this board wanted. It didn’t work but once. The Lakers just switched and Reed was unable to pass or score over the height and strength of the defenders rotating to him. Reed is not ready to be the initiator on offense. Everybody says we need to take more 3’s and having Reed initiate takes your best shooter off the perimeter and puts Amen in the corner. It makes no sense. Amen or Sengun should initiate the action with the shooters spotting up or cutting from the perimeter. Reed creates space with his shot, not his handles.
Because pro sports organizations have such a rich history of listening to their fans’ wishes and acting accordingly.
The biggest issue is that Amen is so limited offensively, he's a complete joke in the half court if he's further than a few feet from the rim. It's just difficult to have someone that terrible offensively on the court because he makes things so much more difficult for everyone else. This problem is exacerbated by a head coach that is completely incompetent leading to no offensive strategy whatsoever outside of Iso ball and going to get all of the rebounds until the ball miracles it's way through the hoop. When defenses can laugh at a player while they airball 3's with no defender within 15 feet, they better be a center. At this point in his career, Amen has basically the scoring range of Clint Capela. That has to change.
Honestly it should just be time to move on from Ime and probably Stone as well after what we've seen this season, but I don't really expect that to happen. So shaking up Ime's staff with a prominent assistant hire is probably the best we can hope for, and I hope we do at least see that happen.
I LOVE petitions! They always work. OUR VOICES WILL BE HEARD BY FERTITTA AND SON! And then our very powerful petition will be tossed in the trash. Laughter will then ensue.
Smarter posters than me have pointed out that we do run plays and it’s not true that we go ISO all the time. However after years, the execution is still terrible, the players seem confused and the personnel hasn’t been recruited for what’s needed. An assistant who can be a credible voice and a good teacher would be great.
Bring Back former Houston Rockets Coaching legend, Tex WINTERS! Creator of the triangle offense. Morice Fredrick "Tex" Winter (February 25, 1922 – October 10, 2018) was an American basketball coach and innovator of the triangle offense, an offensive system that became the dominant force in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and resulted in 11 NBA Championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s and the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2000s.
I wonder if IME is being stubborn about not bring an extra assistent in, because even regular basketball fans with not that much bball knowledge can see this team is struggling with offense without any schemas, why the hell does the management team do nothing about it
