The Rockets are actually pretty okay despite injuries, the thing is some others are just better constructed..... People are coping with that, blud.
I want to get younger, that includes getting younger at the GM position. I did not expect Fertitta to install all his nepo babies and his Yes men here and call it the Houston Italians. Give a thank you to Ime for his services and send him on his way.
Funny the OP's only argument (and he keeps repeating with one-line posts) is the we are 3rd in the West. Well, we are within 2 games of four other teams. It's conceivable that the Rockets could drop to 7th into play-in territory within a few days. If that happens, I wonder where the goal post will be moved.
I still think Ime's a good coach when you look at his entire body of work. A lot of the Ime hatred is because the fans still think that the young core are future stars, but it should be abundantly clear by now that this is not the case. Silas too was hated with accusations that he was misusing players on the roster and didn't enforce accountability, but Stone hung him out to dry with the roster assembled for him. Not many of those players during the Silas era are on the roster anymore (e.g., Jalen Green, Josh Christopher, Usman Garuba, TyTy Washington, etc.). Shout out to Jae'Sean Tate who for some reason managed to survive this long on the roster. The bottom line is that the common denominator in both the Silas and Udoka era is Rafael Stone. I'm not saying Udoka is flawless, but the ideal scenario is for a new GM to take over with a fresh perspective that can make tough calls that are in the best long-term interests of the team. A new GM would also be in a better position to challenge Udoka on player acquisitions and influence him to make changes on the assistant coaching staff to improve the offense. We need to change the GM first before we change the coach. Then see how things play out and go from there.
You're projecting. We are what we are, 3rd seed in a brutal western conference. All your whining doesn't change our record in which Ime deserves credit for
KD's out there by himself with nobody helping. His usage reflects his turnovers. Reed's are low IQ. I like Reed though
Ime Udoka can't coach his way out of a wet paper bag and those of you jock riding need to get off that train and pay attention. We have a 37 year old trying to be lead dog, and we fail consistently with that against quality teams because when they double him off of Amen, we lose. Ime NEVER...repeat ...NEVER counters by removing Amen, or switching up actions it is always the same predictable mess. If Ime knew how to coach, we would not have KD as the main creator, he would be moving off the ball around screens to catch and finish. When Amen isn't guarded, he would be taken out or put in the dunkers spot to finish underneath, Alpi would not be at the top block he would be at the low block. Reed would have been in finishing games so we wouldn't have all those collapses (With Ime as coach) against horrible teams, we have lost to every terrible team in the Western conference. Ime is the single most overrated coach this organization has ever had, he is a TRY HARD, a SWEATY....a guy who thinks it is about toughness and he doesn't have the BBall IQ to fix it. Time to move on, tired of watching every coach outcoach ours - with proper adjustments....his day is over, fake tough guy, fake integrity, got himself a payday, now move on so we can get a coach that understands the game more than just CLAP CLAP work harder. DD
Stone committed $55 MILLION in salary doing very little to help the team this year - are YOU paying attention?
Ime had the exact same issues in boston: 1. Blown Fourth Qaurter Leads 2. Terrible clutch record 3. 7 game series’ with beat up and banged up and inferior teams We have the worst OT and clutch record in the league. All of that is coaching. It’s a coaches job to run plays in these moments, not the players. Unfortunately, when your coach has no other game plan aside from iso ball, you end up with such records
They are a 4-5 seed currently. They are tied with Denver and Denver holds the tie breaker and the Lakers have passed the Rockets for #3. Be honest: do they have even a remote chance of winning a series against one of OKC, or SA? (without a catastrophic injury). I don't think so. OKC and SA probably win 4-1. I wouldn't favor them in a matchup with the Lakers or Denver either. Minnesota is a half a game back and PHX only a game and a half. That's a game and a half out of the play in spot and the way they have played recently, it wouldn't shock me if they fell to #7.
I do think it was better positioned prior to the FVV injury, that team may have had a chance to knock off OKC or SA had they made some better choices.
