Gordon: "We can’t isolate as much against a good defensive team. I don’t care who you are."

Nick Wright said we ran 45 iso's last night and we usually only do 20-23 iso plays a night. He thinks we can win playing iso ball if its, how we been winning all year which is only 20-23 times a game. He said it was iso ball on steroids last night lol.

 

Yeah he’s a goner this summer

 

Nick Wright has a point. Here is my 2 cents on the matter. Our two stars play more ISO ball when the bench and the other starters aren't hitting their shots. Maybe the other Rockets need to step up and hit their shots...make their layups...hit their defensive assignments. Stop blaming the 2 stars for using their strengths in ISO ball when the rest of the team is not doing their job. JMHO.

 

GSW takes away the Pick and Roll when they switch. It's why Clint had a quiet night. We run PnR 80% of the time so it definitely takes us out of rhythm. The way we take advantage of switching defenses is to get their weakest player in Isolation against the MVP. It's a good strategy and made us the best regular season team in the league. We're not going to become a motion offense between now and Game 2. This is who we are. Play better defense, get stops, run in transition, and FINISH AT THE RIM LUC.

 

This is literally the only logical conclusion. The Rockets are trying to run plays that they do well, and not run plays that they don't do well.

The iso whining today has been unfathomable. It was the only thing that worked last night!

 

he did yesterday. 3 of his past 5 games have been decent. But he is right, we need to attack the whole Warriors defence with different offensive sets

 

He's missing wide open i have time to set my feet and line up my elbow three pointers.

 

But when we do he needs to show up bottom line.

 

point taken, but watching the game last night, we were playing ISO from the beginning. I never saw us play with ball movement. It was like we made up our mind that we were gonna play iso-ball from the opening tip. So i dont think you can say it was just as simple as the bench not making shots.

 

1) Gordon is right.
2) Gordon is also a huge part of the problem. Same goes for Mbah a Moute and most other role players.

#2 is the more serious problem. Fix that, and #1 will take care of itself to some extent.

 

he looked good yesterday, he just didn't get the ball enough. We need more off ball movement and passes for easy baskets, there were a few yesterday and they looked dangerous when doing it

 

for all intensive purposes

 

We started off the game very strong and we were running straight ISOs, and we got complacent with it. Eric, PJ, Luc all looked out of rhythm

 

smh the warriors and media got us not believing in ourselves. playing right into their hands off a one game loss...not good. dudes need to be mentally stronger than that

 

So it begins... rumblings from the inside now...we might get swept!

Will Lebron join the rockets if we get swept?

 

at this rate, EG will become brewer 2.0 real soon

 

I do not think that's true at all, even by eye test. There were many possessions where they tried to set multiple off ball screens for Green or Gordon but Golden state sniffed it out from miles away and just switched and denied them the ball, which led to Harden or Paul just dribbling around and eventually had to iso.

Our bread and butter plays with dribble hand offs did not work at all last night, everything was stopped, so we had to iso

 

The Rockets weren't just doing iso ball last night, but some sort of weird Steve Francis tribute in which the ballhandler pounded the air out for 20 seconds before heaving up a contested 3 (or passing off to a role player with 2 seconds left so they could heave a 3). That's not the method that won them so many games this season.

 

Honestly.. . . . .I know this sounds strange but . .. . we need the secondary back screen for Capela.

I think we need to move Capela to screen for Harden
Pick Draymond while Capela rolls . . .
Probably Gordon sets that pick .. . so the defender is a guard that switches to Capela

Rocket River

 

I don't think you're understanding. It's the OFFENSE that's not working. EG's looks aren't really open and the lane are closed up. Even if you find someone that is contempt with standing in the corner he's still going to be standing in the corner (when he should be cutting the basket). Golden State adjusted to the way we play. MDA needs to figure out a scheme that'll actually work and get guys better looks. I don't have a problem with what EG is saying because it's truth