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Today's loss is on Pop and Vic . Those absurd rotations killed us and Wemby can't be that passive on offense for 3QT.
SMH... I'd rather to have had HB40 in crunch time than KJ for shooting and defense at least.
Today's loss is on Pop and Vic . Those absurd rotations killed us and Wemby can't be that passive on offense for 3QT.
yup....Pop dont learn.Hes tries to be smart with his rotations and game plan to much.
kj’s shot is back to looking like a catapult
Keldon had his moments, but if Pop had put Champ in there for the last two or three minutes, the Spurs would've completed the comeback. Johnson isn't a good perimeter defender. He doesn't have good mobility even at the lower weight. When he's not hitting shots, he has very little utility. At his old weight, he probably couldn't bodied up the smaller Rockets lineup. I don't really have a lot of criticism for Pop's rotation. Wesley took some minutes from Castle, but you have to give Blake chances to see if the pre-season performance can carry over.
I'm wondering if Minix can come in for the backup PF spot. Pop's been bringing in Branham, Castle and Johnson as the SG, SF and PF. I wonder if he just cut out one of Wesley/Branham, put Castle at PG and ran with Castle, Wesley/Branham, Johnson, Minix, Collins if that might be a more functional unit long term.
Another idea would be to more heavily stagger Paul and Wemby so that they spend a lot of their minutes apart. I think Paul with the bench will really help solidify the talent there, and Wemby and Paul aren't really jiving right now. If the Spurs are going to play Victor out of structure, they don't need Paul there trying to run offense. The problem was never that guys didn't know how to pass the ball to Wemby. Castle, Wesley and Branham can bring the ball up the court and stand in a corner well enough, especially once Vassell comes back and takes most of the perimeter scoring in the first unit.
This team would look much different once Devin comes back their bread and butter was that Wemby-Devin two man game. Sochan looks like he took a significant leap this year in terms of confidence and athleticism.
We missed some very makeable 3's. I'm actually proud of the boys ... in the 2nd half. They didn't give up but digging yourself out of a 17 point whole with our shooting is nigh impossible.
First half was a show.
Easy to forget our 2nd best player is out. I'm still withholding too much judgment til Vassell has a few games back under his belt.
Ahh you're wishing he was Banchero got it
Banchero isn't THAT tall is he? Damn.
Only Wemby could have a 20 board, 5 assist, 4 block game and have it be considered a bad game
Vic has to stop making the game so hard; 40 ft threes are not the answer in a close game or frankly ever! Punish them in the mid post in.
Spurs got in position late to win the game and nobody able to step up. Sure wish Pop would have thrown Castle in the fire. Castle shows difference maker abilities. Guess Pop lost my phone number.
Yep without shoes he's at least 6'10
naw! Lol
Wemby plays so immaturely that it’s frustrating. Yeah he’s 20 but he’s also played pro for a while.
And man, keldon…
I noticed that Wemby only took 14 shots tonight. How did he get limited to that few? I was at work and didn't get to see the game?
Pop will need more castle in okc
he was double and tripled but moreso it just felt like he wasn't getting into good position. he was beyond the arc a lot more than i like to see
Once pop is gone things will start to get better
I just read where another poster said he was passive for the first 3 quarters.
Wemby was gassed for most of the game. The Houston announcers kept pointing it out.
He was bullied into bad position all night by small guards. He woke up way too late to play hard. He'd call for ball in those bad positions and set himself up to bail or hoist bad shots.
He needs to learn to win position before calling for the ball more. His fundamentals with establishing himself are really raw.
I don't disagree about fundamentals at all. But the issue is he seems to think the point of the offense is to get him the ball. It's not that he needs to win position before calling for the pass. It's that he shouldn't try to win position until the offense is ready to get him the ball. At best, it's wasted effort. At worst, it bogs down the offense because he won't set screen or get out of the way.
It should be wait for the right moment, make the seal, create a target for the pass, catch the ball and shoot/pass. That's it. No calling for the ball. No trying it back guys down. No trying to drive. Wait for the offense to move the defense, get the ball and shoot. Should be easy, but it's not what Durant or Lebron does
Yea I notice this a lot. He does not have a good feel for when to go, when to clear, when to press, etc. He goes for oops before his main ball handler even has a path to pass. My biggest gripe with it is how much energy he wastes. He's been consistently gassed every game and turns into flop city on defense when he doesn't get his legs set.
Definitely has some maturing to do on his feel for the offensive side. Needs to cut back on all the freestyling crap and not playing within the system. He's too good now for opponents not to gameplay for him. His next step is definitely learning how to take advantage of the right opportunities in response.
Hopefully getting Vassell back will calm him down some going forward.
He's gotta let go of the KDurant dream. He's so long that I find it hard to believe he will ever be smooth like that or be able to run around other players even if his ballhandling evolves significantly. It's worrying because he doesn't seem that jazzed about not being a guard.
Of course, none of this matters if he becomes a deadeye shooter, cause no one is blocking or bothering that otherwise.
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