Gilbert Arenas: "This (Rockets) team will not be successful"

This season will come down to rebounding no doubt about that.

I’d love to add a true PF to this team.

We always want wings and I get it but if we added a PF even if just backing up Pj. We could run a PJ a little at the 3. He’s a true wing player that was moved to PF on this team to play one team that’s not that one team anymore.

I’d love to see PJ get more minutes at the 3 and have us add a true 6’9-6’10 PF who can rebound.

Serge Ibaka would be really good on this team right about now.

But really like everyone has said it’s all about rebounding for this team. If we can just be middle of the pack on rebounding we’ll
Nab the 1 seed imo.

The actually D I think will be fine, gotta close the possession with a board though.

Offense is going to be fine.

When has a Rockets team with Harden not been a top 5 offense when he’s on the court?

I don’t understand the pessimism with this team.

We won 55 games with no cp3 no Russ no tucker rivers house or green 3 years ago.

It was harden Gordon Ariza Clint bev ryno brewer dekker and nene

3 of those guys couldn’t even get playing time last year for different teams and Nene is I guess retired.

If Hardens playing your winning 50+ games.

Add Russ who won’t miss 20+ games like cp3 with rivers and house playing the whole season.

I find it hard to believe this team won’t win a ton of games.

 

I don’t give a **** what finger guns thinks. All the naysayers will be eating crow soon enough.

 

moreys job is to instill a winning reg season and playoffs philisophy on the coach and team

and trade or fire anyone whos not on the same page

 

Some of his points are true but I don’t get what means by talent drop off that’s always gonna be the case ....some players won’t be as good as others but compliment well

 

basically what I've been sayin about the lack of size... and therefor boxing out and rebounding... points in the paint... rim protection... PJ should be splittin time 50/50 tween pf and sf and add a true pf to the mix...

but i get told it's all about spacing and 3>2 and i dont understand 'today's NBA'....

 

I’d rather have guys that can play then guys that can rebound.

Kenneth Faried is the greatest college rebounder of all time. /Unplayable. The story was the same for Josh Smith against GSW.

Size and length is great, If the guy can actually hang. (And those guys usually make a ton of money...)

 

If only MDA would have noticed all the tall athletic rebounders that are also competent shooters and defenders who were flooding our bench we may have faired a little better last year.


Oh wait..... most NBA teams don’t check EVERY SINGLE box EVERY SINGLE year?

Weird.

 

I guess everyone in the league sucks minus the lakers according to this guy. Arenas went to high school in California.. coincidence?

 

Came here to **** on arenas but as far as the issues he talked about this is straight facts

 

well yea no **** lol. Thats the reason why most nba teams dont win

 

The guy couldn't even put together a solid thought or argument for an hour, but okay. Only thing he said worth mentioning is that Harden should've been MVP last season.

 

its about a balance... the right mixture of various skills being melded together...

I dont believe Faried was unplayable - although thats the fallback narrative to try to explain why we didnt use one of our best energy players in a series where we looked lathargic at times and needed rebounds...

He played 5.22 mins and was +2 in a game we lost by 6 - for the series...
prevoius games vs GSW
3/13 13.20 mins +3 lost by 2
2/23 33.11 mins -2 won by 6

...thats unplayable?

 

I'd have like to have seen Trez after Nene went down a couple years back... but no, better we let Harden defend LMA and Pau...
Last year Nene was underplayed when available...
and yes, I think Faried's energy and rebounding would have outweighed any downside against GSW....

 

Those are fair criticisms, but imo EG should be coming off the bench and House should be starting at the 3. He’s what like 6’7” and athletic, plays solid D and can hit the 3. PJ should also be coming off the bench. Honestly, I wouldn’t mind bringing back Ryno, he can probably be had for cheap at this point. I actually thought he was solid as a stretch 4. He’s got size, range, and was a decent rebounder, especially on offense. Obviously, I prefer someone better but if it comes down to it, Ryno for the vet min isn’t the worst option..

 

I think we could have Faried a little better - with better roster utilization...

 

A great shooting small team totally negates a larger team. We saw this several years in a row with Golden State and ourselves. Why suddenly will this year be any different?

 

Kenneth Faried’s entire career is sample size enough. How many head coaches have deemed him unplayable now? It’s not a fallback narrative,

it is THE ONLY narrative, unfortunately.

Regardless, we can’t waste our time on guys the coach won’t trust, doesn’t matter the size.

 

You didn't watch the minutes he played. Watch what he actually did during those 5 minutes and your stats won't mean near as much.

 

From Zero to Hero back to Zero.