[VIDEO] IME UDOKA: The Coach Who Can't Run An Offense

We should’ve seen it coming when he went to a double-big lineup just to crash the boards after every brick.
I don’t get why we don’t run Bari at the 5 more often—we have the size, and it would give us way better spacing and versatility.

 

Jabari has always been soft / played small on offense. It was the biggest knock on his scouting report during his draft, lack of FTs and paint points, low rim FG%

 

I mean there were time when he was at the 5 the team looked pretty good.

Its kind of sad how he looked in college vs how he is in the NBA (Role player)

 

Funniest thing about these kinds of videos is the dumbest mother****ers will still come up here and say **** like "fans dont know more than coaches or gms"

 

Making Ime the scapegoat for the state of the offense is copium for the fact that the so called "young core" is overrated.

 

I get social media makes people have binary thinking now where it has to be either/or

But you do realize MULTIPLE things can be true right?

its d) all of the above

Bad GM / team management
Bad coaching
Bad players not doing their job or role

Hence why this whole organization needs an overhaul

 

I agree with you, but I dont think that's in Bari's bag. Have you seen him in the paint? He's extra soft. Thats going to take Bari working on his game.

 

Not in this case. It doesn't make sense that a coach that had the team trending in the right direction the past two seasons should be fired after one disappointing season given that this season you had injuries to two important players, KD and his burner accounts added to the roster and all the toxicity that came with it, and then KD injured for the playoffs....

Despite those adversities you still had a team that won 52 games, came in top 10 in offensive and defensive rating, and still had some fight in it after being down 0-3 coming back to win two games without KD.

If anything the "young core" got exposed and that's an indictment on Stone. Ime had this team punching above its weight class.

 

The problem is while Udoka is good at culture building and defense, he’s HORRIBLE at in game adjustments and even an average offensive scheme or even wanting players who fit the modern NBA system.

again two things can be true. He definitely turned our organization around, but now he’s hindering it where it can’t grow or improve.
There are MULTIPLE videos/ think pieces showing how he is really bad at offense and adjustments. Sometimes a coach can lift up the organization, but they can’t get you over the hump. See mark Jackson’s warriors, and Ime’s Celtic team. And I’m sure there’s more examples if I cared enough to look.

if you want to say get Ime an offensive coordinator, that’s fine. But the position he put some players in is just as bad as the players not even looking like an average pro NBA player.

once again, they all are responsible for the team play.

if you can’t see that then I guess we just agree to disagree that Ime has a responsible part just like the players and GM too

 

It's a combination of both. Ime sucks and the core isn't nearly as good as Clutchfans thinks

 

I tried to tell him that, but he doesn’t want to hear it lol

 

The only thing hindering this team is the inability of the young core to consistently hit 3 point shots. The YouTube videos assume that what happened on the court is what Ime told them to do. It doesn't account for the fact that the players deviated from the game plan. Ime said this in multiple post game interviews after losses. The players even admitted at times that they deviated from the game plan. This YouTube video in particular even acknowledges that Ime has a roster full of non-shooters that the defense doesn't even bother guarding on the perimeter.

What annoys me the most is that people got plenty of hate for Ime but don't quite have the same energy for Stone who has been here the longest and is responsible for the state of the roster. Even if you think highly of the Rockets roster, you'd be insane to say we have the same tier of talent as San Antonio, OKC, Boston, or even Detroit. There's no way this roster would win a playoff series against those teams even if we had a Phil Jackson level type coach.

This is a player driven league and it comes down to who has the best players on the court, not the best coach.

 

There is this thing called development that the Rockets don’t do

 

Ime is that you?!

and clearly you haven’t seen my posts because I want Stone fired more than any other change this organization can do.

and I also think no less than half this roster should be traded or cut

but once again, that doesn’t mean Ime doesn’t have flaws.

Ime is like the girl who is a 9 and everyone thinks your lucky to have but about once a week she is a complete b**** to deal with.
It’s OK to acknowledge she’s a complete b**** sometimes but you still feel she’s worth the headache because how often are you going to get a 9?

Some people feel she’s not worth those moments of her being a b**** even if she is 9.
They would rather have a 7 that doesn’t give them any issues.

Perfect 7 > Flawed 9

That’s pretty much the thinking on both sides

 

Go and look at the Boston Celtic chatter tonight about Mazzulla after losing the series to the Sixers. That's who Ime haters like to use as a comparison for their nonsensical argument that Ime is like Mark Jackson.

 

Ok I like how you completely ignored all my other points.

I actually gave Ime credit and said he’s the equivalent of 9 with flaws.

You just want to debate, which is fine because it used to be my favorite past time

 

Scapegoat? it's literally his offense. Did you just start watching basketball? Do you not understand what a coach does and is responsible for?