Rockets Defeat Spurs, Jalen Green’s LEAP, and Do the Rockets Have a Offensive Identity?!

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1. The Rockets don’t have enough quality outside shooting to play a half court style of basketball, with so many young, athletic players, this team should be pushing the ball up the court more often.

2. What impressed me about Jalen is his defense. All of a sudden he has become a really good defender

3. Thanks Frank

4. Our offense is Jalen. And we can maybe make that work but it’s going to be Harden type team

5. Yall came at Jalen ALL year for poor play. Sengun's clearly regressed this year & is already getting benched, yet you're talking about PATIENCE now? No. Our best player was and is Jalen Green. You were wrong about Jalen and also wrong about Rafael Stone. Stop making excuses for Alperen Sengun

6. If frank says so i take it 🙂 thank you 🙏

7. How bout that bari mid post cross jumper 😏

8. Frank, i been watching your videos in quite while now. I love how you analyze game by game and still oversee the team progress. Rockets becoming more exciting team and the league will notice them soon or later. Maybe we see you on bigger media platforms as guest who knows😀thanks for your hard work brother

9. Agreed about bringing in an offensive coordinator type assistant. It's like Udoka doesn't even realize a guy like Sheppard can be extremely useful because he's so obsessed with defense.

10. Segun is a good player but will never dominate inside due to his size, he has the skill, the touch but Rockets can only go as far as Jalen takes them

11. I agree with your point about why the offense is bad. I also think the Rockets don't have any 4 or 5 shooter lineups currently, which are becoming almost standard in the NBA now amongst the top offenses. Tari, Cam, and Amen aren't really shooters just yet. And we aren't really utilizing Alp like some rolling big man like Sabonis, or a point guard big man like Jokic, or a top of the key passer like Draymond with a bunch of off ball movement and catch and shoot opportunities. We are mostly using Alp with a few pick and rolls a game, but mostly posting him up. Unfortunately, with the way the offense is set up right now, he is looking more one dimensional over time as a post-up scorer, and his assisting capacity isn't really being utilized.
    Rockets need to make Sengun a real jokic/Sabonis hybrid where the offense revolves around him mostly and there are constantly 3-4 shooters around him. If they don't, the offense will always be worse and Jalen will have less room to slash.

12. Yo Frank I swear I just talking with some folks in a Rockets group on fb, I told them the Rockets remind me of a pack of wolves that don’t haven’t figured out who the alpha is

13. That's that "wiper" action

14. Sengun and that contract scares me. Ive been saying he not a max player and will continue to say it. Length and athleticism bothers him. He plays under the basket, he flops his arms if he thinks he is fouled, he flops when he should stand strong. The Joker is big and has length with a jumpshot thats why he can play under the rim. Sengun is not really a center. Adams is a blessing, and Jalen is showing yall who the real leader is

15. Mature and great comments.Macro analaysis with supporting micro details. Excellent Frank

16. If im IME, im starting Bari at the 5 against the Mavs next game.. oh wait, we paid Sengun 180 not to be on the bench..Luka dropping 50

17. I wholeheartedly agree that there’s no hierarchy on this team,

18. LEYSSSGOOO ROCKETS GREEN IS PLAYING LIKE ALL STAR

19. We do need an offensive coordinator because all we do is spam pick and roll with Jalen and Fred and go to Sengun one on one in the post those are our only options

    We need a coach that needs to be more creative on offense. Will Ime go out and get a coach like that. I don’t think he will he seems like a coach that’s like as long as we play good defense he ok that the offense is bad or average at best

    Defense is great but you can’t rely on that alone to win games we need to be at least an above average offense if we want to be a contender.

20. When I was a basketball player, it was tough to play against guys that are 4 to 6 inches taller than me. Anybody that says just because Sengun is getting a near max contract, he should be able to handle these guys, is about as stupid as anybody that has ever made a comment anywhere. When Victor gets his next contract it is going to be way higher than Alpy's. The jury is out on Edey. He has only played 4 NBA games. Even Olajuwon had trouble with Mark Eaton.

21. Excellent point! One I never thought of. The players are still learning their roles. Two players in particular are Jabari and Cam

22. Agreed on pecking order. This is Jalen, Sengun, and Amen's team. Love Cam but Jalen does a lot of stuff better than him and i see him more as a spark off the bench player. Love Jabari but his primary focus should be defending, rebounding and hitting open jumpers. Tari knows his role and Reed will figure it out

23. Good that we got the W, but man there are some weird line ups still. There was a nasty line up that was FVV, Cam, Tari, Amen, Adams, and if they're not causing havoc on defense its really ugly on offense. That line up almost cost us the game. Jalen balling out right now, and more importantly we saw it come in clutch time. Would still like to see his 3 ball be a little more efficient, and make faster decisions on if he's going to drive or kick it out. I don't know how to explain it, but its like I can see in real time him making his decision. It's a small sample size, but man it's starting to be apparent that Ime and this staff need an offensive assistant coach. I wonder if its possible to pry Sam Cassell, Jordi Fernandez, or a David Adelman to complement Ime.

24. Our biggest issue is so many standing around. When Amen Tari Brooks Bari on the floor Jalen and Fred are always at the top of the key. The defense will cut off our drives forcing Jalen and Fred into shots without totally being in rhythm. Then it’s the stagnant PnR with a low rim pressure lack of athleticism in both Fred and Sengun. We’re an efficient Handoff team. Sengun is a mix of Jokic and Sabonis. Give Sengun some Handoff plays with Fred with Cam with JALEN even Jabari to force their PF and Center to switch or Bari mid range even Amen for his drive game. And have the other guys either screen for each other or look for cutting opportunities. Need Bari and Amen screening for each other just to make guys focus on them and less on Jalen and Fred PnR with Alpe

25. Did you even see Stevo? 12th pick btw

26. Great analysis. Thanks for the good and honest breakdowns