"Something's seriously wrong with them" - Bill Simmons

The Keven Durant Experience

 

That's fine. It will impact the room less when they get traded.

 

When we traded Brooks, Green and FVV got injured the commadarie kinda died

 

They seemed to have good chemistry initially... they were all happy jalappy hugging each other after wins and stuff....

Then guys kept making mistakes (ie Bari fouling 3 pt shooter - and KD throws water bottle, etc...) and guys got selfish wanting to get theirs (Sengun) while minutes got longer and longer.... and frustrations mounted....

Then the Dickerson posts created further tensions.... and prob never did get talked out and the air cleared...

Prob is that we have no leader... we have nobody mending fences and bringing guys back together...

Ime is an authoritarian - not a soothsayer.... "Get up, rub some dirt on it and walk it off!"

KD is a superstar - but he is not a vocal leader... I feel like he will tell u what u need to do and if u dont, then he's like "well fu then..."

Having someone like Adams on the court would really help for camaraderie... plus u cant watch that dude hustle and not respond in kind.

Having someone like FVV on the court to direct traffic would be great - as opposed to Sengun and KD fighting over who should get the last shot...

Sengun comes off as a complainer... KD is a mercenary... Amen is quiet... Bari aint gonna say nothin... Reed cant... Tari is focused on his next contract... anybody else is just keeping their head down and trying to be part of the rotation...

Lack of communication... and inability to work through problems together...

Chemistry is important...

 

with Ime expansion pack.

 

This and he is TREATED differently, taking the shine away from others, and has no accountability.

Getting him without a PROPER plan or buy in on how he was to be used was a mistake.

DD

 

They have Steve-o and VanVleet at the sidelines, it is not like they are disappearing in thin air......

I think they know deep down that they are not a Top 3 team, just in name and record ........

A lot of ugly wins......which did not cure everything.

It is ugly unwatchable basketball......do you think players are enjoying playing basketball??!!

The owner is not there, the GM was throwing the towel before ASB... miniature front office......
Right now I do not see anything remotely positive towards the future.
Ah yeah, Tari hit shots early, Reed hit shots after that, then Jabari hit shots. In a nutshell.

 

Kevin Durant for his entire career has shown that he needs playmaking guards. His most successful OKC season had Harden and Westbrook as playmakers. He was successful on the Warriors with Curry and Draymond being initiators. He was successful as a Net when Harden got there and before Kyrie started anti vaxing. He stopped being successful on the Suns when they paired him with two SGs in Booker and Beal. And so what do the Rockets do? Make sure there's only one established PG on the team then give up when that PG got injured.

The Rockets really tanked 3 years and made 4 high lottery picks, only to pin the entire success of their season on a 31yr old FVV.

 

Play Uncle Jeff dammit. Spread the floor, spread the joy.

 

Theres a diff between talking to a guy on the sideline and being out there amidst the struggle... walking up bumping shoulders, sayin "shake it off, man, you got this!" Call it an emotional glue guy.... lol! FVV seeing your frustration and trying to get you shots... Steve seeing your struggling on D and helping out... bringing down tensions,,,
Take that game (denver?) where KD and Sengun quibbled over last shots... if FVV were out there - he'd be running things...

No... i dont think they are enjoying themselves - prob tense af... thats the prob...

 

Amen. Release the Jeff. Give him 5 of every single position's minutes. Heck lets see him bring the ball up the floor.

 

We went from "Sometimes you, sometimes me, always us" to calling people r****ds and non-stop finger twirling because you can't hit a bucket from our 2 stars

 

They miss FVV, for various reasons, waaaaaaay more than anybody initially thought.

 

Lakers beat us B2B on national TV and now all the pundits are getting their shots in

we’re getting 10 minute videos on youtube breaking down our ineptitude

we’re getting dudes like Melo and T-Mac laughing at us

Spurs straight up clowned us post-game after they beat us letting it be known how they ran the same play 15 times against us

Why can’t we just suck and embarrass ourselves in peace?

this is like your teacher blurting out that you bombed the exam in front of the entire class and then putting your answers up on the screen

 

KD and Ime ladies and gentlemen.

 

Something is off but it should not have served as an excuse for losing to the Jazz, New Orleans, Kings, Portland etc. etc.

Ime is known as a high floor - lower ceiling type coach, the floor this year was not that high raised.

 

better living through chemistry

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