I don’t think this team plays selfish basketball…I think they play low IQ basketball I also think KD doesn’t trust the other guys when the game is tight in the 4th quarter and ends up trying to do too much/forcing up shots…I don’t think he’s an inherently selfish player like a Carmelo Anthony tho
I dont think they are inherently selfish, but I do think they play selfishly... But I agree that it stems back to coaching because they just simply dont know what to do. I dont believe theres anyone pointing out small things they could do to create better shots for teammates. A lot of players have flaws but good coaching minimizes those flaws and maximizes their positives. Ime is a hammer...you know the rest... Look at this from the Thunder: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8x6yRSm/ Theres really nothing special about that clip. They are just moving the ball and not thinking they are the one that has to make the big play. Thunder have a lot of clips like that. Now look at this clip: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8x6aS5Q/ First, lets look at Steph setting a better more meaningful screen than Sengun. Not to just pick on Sengun, but the lack of attention to setting good screens on this team is unbelievable. Ime is just simply extremely outclassed as a coach. I pointed out something similar to this clip with Amen the other day. Ive been saying for a while that gsw have been able to play not great shooters and still generate open threes for their best guys. If (Amen) Draymond's man is sagging way off that just creates 2 vs 1 on the perimeter. You set a good screen and there isnt another defender that can switch and get to the shooter. Watch how the Rockets play. There are often open guys and we'll instead go up in traffic. Just move the ******* ball. On a side note, when Reed first got here I think he was trying to play the right way offensively and move the ball and not take crazy shots. I think Sengun used to play like that too. Amen as well. Theyve been coached into the way they play now. Everyone holds the ball waaay too long. Too many guys want to show how much of a dog they are and that they can make the play. Ime is ruining these players. Hes just a more disciplined, defensive version of silas teaching them another variation of bad habits.
I think the Rockets problems on offense is that they are too soft as well. Nobody sets a good screen definitely not Alpi. I dont know if they are scared of contact or what, but this team would be a bottom feeder if they played in the 90s. Alpi needs to watch film on Vlade Divac or something. Well just the whole Kings offense in the mid 90s. Every person on that team could screen someone. They weren't the most athletic at that time either.
Completely agree with this. He talks a big game about sharing the ball but I’m pretty convinced at this point he actually encourages selfish behaviors behind the scenes, seeing them as some sort of measure of aggression and toughness that needs to be rewarded. He was gloating about how Amen adopted the ‘no friends on the court’ mantra. I think people missed that that probably also includes his teammates, but bet he saw that as Amen being a dawg. Or this ‘sometimes you, sometimes me’ offense BS, which actually turned into ‘let’s see who’s the hero tonight’. That’s not encouraging sharing, it’s encouraging competition within the group hoping someone will take over and save your ass. Above all, is he maybe just not the sharpest tool in the shed? Even his concept of sharing seems disjointed and guys taking turns doing things on both sides rather than building a system, a well-oiled machine where every part feeds into and enables another. That’s why he needs 5 good defenders to have good defense, or why he can’t seem to draw plays and tries to cover it up by unloading the burden to players in the form of a read-and-react scheme. He’s not a dot connector or system builder. Even the way he expresses himself in conferences, he just doesn’t provide any eloquent or detailed/insightful analysis, just a lot of finger pointing and boilerplate explanations and thoughts delivered in jumbled, incomplete sentences, almost always ending with the statement that we didn’t play hard enough or didn’t hustle or got good stops and defended someone well just basic stuff. Or, he desperately wants those things he claims to want like ball movement and more complicated sets and whatnot, but utterly fails to implement them cause he can’t control the guys at all, which is even worse.
I like this bunch of young players, Alpi, Bari, Tari, Amen, Reed, I like every one of them. They are all unselfish and you can tell they want to win. If you show them the way to win, they'll do it. And they aren't lazy either. It's the coach's job to show them how to win.
