Worriers May have more talent but we’ve shown we can compete with them. We can not play sloppy and have boneheaded turnovers against them. We played good enough in game 1 to get a W. Idk if they were still mentally shook by the refs and Foster being inserted but we came out the gate lost. I believe we’ll get our $*** together for the next 5 games.
I see your point but you do realize that the style of play you are describing is not how MDA's system is designed to operate. Disciplined play is not in his playbook. That plus the one thing everyone overlooks is that this is the playoffs and playoff basketball allows an opposing team to concentrate, lock onto and exploit your weaknesses. It's all about adjustments - just look at what's happening with Boston and Milwaukee. In game one the Celtics employed a defensive strategy that completely negated Giannis which also rendered the Bucks offense impotent. In game two the Bucks adjusted to this defensive strategy and won going away. This illustrates the biggest issue I have with MDA's system - it's too slow to adjust to the opposing team's strategy and come up with new ways to attack the other team. This is why I don't drink the red koolaid when this team is flying high during the regular season because the playoffs are a completely different animal.
It's actually worse. The system does allow you to adjust the problem is MDA becomes one deminsional in his strategy. The defense always takes something away MDA is ignoring what he use to do in Phoenix which was to get easy baskets in transition. The pace off turnovers is the same pace when they take the ball out that's the way he use to coach. There is so much more but that's one example about how the coach is sonetimes. I don't know if it's arrogance or stubborness
well not really. weve seen that undisciplined rockets especially early in the season. yes the injuries were bad but we are also losing to lottery teams. the thing is GSW was also kind of slappy in the regular season. hell they were slappy against the clips. but they keep it crisp and tight against us. we have like 9 turn overs in the first quarter. gsw is supposed to be the team that have problems with turn overs.
Too many uncontested layups, too many backdoor cuts, we just lack a mental discipline, especially on D. It just feels different this year like the team is missing an edge. While ww have been close we are not really leading, it feels like a false close to me. DD
I always questioned why some felt this team was better than last year's team. Last year's team was special and had that edge. This year's team has never even approached that sort of level.
The team made a big push towards the end of the game. Just could never get over the hump. But this game was lost in the first quarter. I didn't see the first half, but I'm wondering how different it would be with Harden playing those mins in the first quarter. Of course, donkey scratched him in the eyes and had to go to the locker room.
LOL... I was just logging in to post this very rant. Our offense is pretty pathetic and predictable, when Harden was out we were actually moving the ball around and guys were moving around and we were getting open jump shots or lanes to the basket ergo the GSW could not just camp out near our their defensive assignment. Once Harden came back into the game we reverted back to the same old 1 v 5 isolation ball and a possible kick out pass. Well that meant the GSW could just sit in the passing lanes and steal the ball, which they did on the reg. Also to DD point, our box out skills suck, how many offensive rebounds did we give up to GSW in the second half that lead to layups or dunks with 2-3 Rockets players standing around the basket? Put a body on somebody for chrissake!!! On defense Harden and CP3 both have very bad habits of sagging into the lane to try and steal the ball and leaving their man wide the F open and they usually receive the kick out pass for an open 3pt shot. The difference in the GSW series is their guys are much better shooters than the Jazz. As JVG always said when we coach and yesterday on ESPN Stan VG said the same in an interview, it is the fundamental things that win or lose you games in the playoffs. When you are on the road rebounding and turnovers are killers especially to a team like GSW with so much talent on the roster.
I was so waiting for someone to note just this! All this talk about how this year’s squad is better and deeper than last year’s misses the glaring fact this is NOT a disciplined team!!!! Last year’s team was arguably far MORE disciplined even if less talented and less deep! Giving up 18 offensive rebounds? C’mon. Turnovers??? All self inflicted undisciplined wounds. Even CP3 is getting stuck in the air and playing so undisciplined. It’s like he is just wingin it out there. Schumpert 3s? Undisciplined Daniel House? Not boxing out? G league. And the list goes on and on.
Not true. Quit acting like the Warriors didn't want to shove Pat Beverley where the sun doesn't shine. We did NOT show the passion or fight the LAC did in their wins. The Warriors couldn't stop them in the paint but we can't be versatile with shot styles in the paint. We wait too long to drive, when everyone sets up defensively, then hammering way in for a foul or lob shot that we miss or get blocked far too often.
We’re like the Coney Island Five vs. their Hampton Five cause we play like weenies when it comes to rebounding.
Trade Harden, he is a great individual player but he is not a leader, this team with him as their best player will NEVER WIN ANYTHING. DD
Isolation vs. Team basketball... Team ball has won every series... Analytics basketball is great for regular season, but not during playoff time. T_Man
I am a slow learner - what gets me is all these people blaming MDA when he has zero control, he is saying PUSH the ball while Harden walks it up the court...MDA is all about 7 seconds or less early offense. Harden is the dictator here. DD
Considering the steadfast implementation of the same scheme's over and over, even when flexibility is better it's probably not a lack of discipline.
