Rockets curiously poised for GSish offense style future?

No

however , if we manage to draft Jabari smith then we will be in a position to follow in GS’s footsteps as a jump shooting team

 

Thank you. Exactly my sentiments. Glad we are seeing eye to eye on this. The best way to maximize Green and KPJ is off ball and having a playmaking forward. The rebuild is so early and there are infinite blueprints. A lot of CF posters are very smart, we just all have different ideas for how the team can function. That seems to take precedence over even the prospects themselves. It’s a beautiful thing to discuss. A lot of good ideas but I’m with you. It’s intriguing as hell, would put our guys in clear positions of strength and there is a clear blueprint here for success in the modern NBA. Great post.

 

Could also be what the Celtics are rn.

This Finals(GS vs Celts) could be a good gauge/preview on what our young core of Green/Banchero could be at.

 

I'm all for it - as soon as we get 2 of the best 5 shooters in the history of mankind to fuel that system.

Let's just focus on playing hard the whole game and staying in front of our man first. Maybe even win more than 20 games...

 

Draymond did most of his damage getting the ball in situations where Curry had two defenders and Draymond was making quick passes to find the advantage while the rest of GS’s offense was trying to free up Klay or slipping screens to get easy rolls. That advantage only existed because defenses had to double Curry out to the timeline. That’s why Curry is so special because he forced the defense to extend coverage 40’+ from the hoop while the average defense only covers 24’. A team of long defenders can cover plays much easier in a 24’ radius vs a 40’ one….in other words - it wasn’t off ball play that created a juggernaut - it was having two accurate shooters with range between 30-40’ that made that off ball play particularly deadly.

…so my advice to Houston is really work on Green’s deep ball. He seems like he could extend his range and with his quickness he would be deadly out there but simply running Green off screens isn’t going to unlock beast mode by itself.

And oh yeah - everyone has to play defense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Kpj lacks the fast twitch neurons to react fast and he's ball dominant

 

The biggest hurdle IMO is lack of ref support.

 

Green works out with Curry, and I think silas is also coaching green on how to be effective without the ball like Curry, I remember so many times thought the season in game threads we would want green to be ball dominant and let him Create while everyone else clear out or set a pick... But curry is dangerous because all of his off ball movement to try to get open. If green can be dangerous off the ball like Curry and Banchero can become our playmaking forward.. we might have something.

 

LOL!

 

wishful thinking

Curry and Klay is the best shooting backcourt in NBA history

GS is full of high BBIQ players

KPJr is not a high BBIQ player, and he plays more like a bootleg James Harden starter kit

GS is also elite defensively, but defense always gets glossed over on here…a Paolo-Sengun frontcourt will be absolute cheeks defensively

GS was ranked 2nd defensively this year, and they have been elite throughout their championship runs

if GS was some average-below average defense, we wouldn’t even be talking about them

 

I like your post a lot bro.

But I do want to say one thing, we should make a system that fits our players the best, not the other way around. I hate how GS has led people to believe you can only play basketball one way, its not true.

There are multiple ways to win in this league.

When Curry is gone, Kerr wont be seen as that good because the fact is his system ONLY works because of Curry.

 

Boston was 14th in assist percentage and 6th in Isolation frequency, and yet here they are in the finals

Milwaukee was 3rd in ISO frequency and 25th in assist percentage last year

people need to stop acting like there’s only 1 way, or 1 right way, to play offense

Boston is the #1 rated defense, GS is 2nd

GS was ranked 16th offensively and Boston 9th

Rockets were highly ranked offensively all those years with Harden, but almost made it to the finals the year we were elite defensively

so it doesn’t matter to me if you’re running around like the 02 Kings or playing ISO ball, if you’re not also elite defensively you’re most likely going home unless you’re something ridiculous like last year’s Nets when healthy

it is hard to replicate GS when u do not have that level of shooting or BBIQ…those off-ball actions don’t hit the same when it’s not Curry or Klay running it

 

That's on 1.9 attempts per game. It's just noise. So no, we absolutely cannot say he is already elite and catch and shoot.

 

for one I think you’re underselling Green a fair amount. The improvements he made were indeed leaps and bounds. He was SO SO good the last ten games. 25/4/4 basically over 10 games with really good efficiency, low turnovers … he had just turned 20. I understand why you’re more hyper focused on stuff like “elite” handles. But that’s because of the leagues infatuation with PGs or “do everything” heliocentric guys (which always ultimately fails). JG is not that - his crazy curling is a game more like Kobe. And he made crazy strides that way the last 30 games.

for two, that being the case, and your comment about KPJ being true, and the idea of Sengun and Paolo…

it’s not GSW offense exactly but it absolutely SHOULD be a fun, exciting, forward passing heavy, mix of movement, PNR and lots of cutting. So not exactly the same but the overall premise absolutely makes sense.

my heavy concern is the coaching. Not sure they are capable of implementing it. I still have ZERO clue after 2 years of Silas what his idea of offense is. Sidebar - same on defense. But ignoring coaching… the excitement among Rockets fans with Paolo (or the other two guys) is there is starting to be a solid collection of talent, hopefully, that some competent coach could mold into a good team.