dygaction wrote:The flaw of ISO is other players including the bench would get cold without enough touches. That's why people like you claim he does not have enough help.
As much you want to downgrade RW, he is still a really good player with 24/8/7. It is the coach's job to prevent him from chucking 3s.
ISO and biggest star's sub par defense have a big part to do with the overall below average defense. You cannot expect everyone to be as motivated when they are not part of the offense.
Didn't we just establish the offense isn't the problem? So why are you talking about players getting cold without enough touches?
Who are these 'cold' players, btw?
PJ Tucker - 63%TS
Capela - 63%TS
House - 60%TS
McLemore - 59%TS
Chandler - 74%TS
Clemons - 59%TS
The only guys that are 'cold' are Austin Rivers, who was also 'cold' in New Orleans, LAC and Washington... He's been 'cold' his whole career because he's booty cheeks and only in the league due to his father's nepotism. And of course Westbrook, who can't score in the half-court to save his life. And no, it's not because of Harden, because he wasn't much better his last two seasons in OKC...
You can't sit behind your screen trying to tell me how good Westbrook is when teams are literally double-teaming Harden as soon as he crosses the half-court and Westbrook can't even take advantage of 4v3 situations. He's crap. Westbrook's stats are more a product of high usage and pace. He hunts defensive rebounds and then pushes the ball and shoots/passes a lot. This is nothing new about Westbrook. Dude is a high volume raw stat hoe. If Westbrook's raw stats actually matched his impact he'd be one of the best players in NBA history easily, but he's not. He's not even close to Kyle Lowry who produces half of his stats.
Also, apparently 'reeling' Westbrook in and managing his playstyle is the coach's job, but making your team play defense is Harden's job, because he needs to allow Capela, PJ Tucker, Daneul House and them to spend more time with the ball in their hands offensively and make decisions... while arguably the best on-ball player of all time in Harden and Westbrook who is completely useless without the ball need have the ball less... All of this will somehow end of having a snowball effect on the defensive end, lol.
I'm gonna drop a quick one-two on you again:
1. RE:DEFENSE - The Rockets were arguably a Top 5 defensive team in 2018 with Harden doing more or less the same thing offensively. So your theory of Harden's offensive style contributing to Rockets defensive woes doesn't really mesh with what conspired in reality. The defensive dip is far more likely to be attributed to losing Ariza, Mbah Moute and CP3, all very good defenders, and replacing them with worse defenders.
2. RE:WESTBROOK - Nobody can 'force' Westbrook to do anything. The onus is on him. From there on, the coach has two options. Either allow him to play the game in a way that makes sense to him and feels comfortable, living with the results in the process, or, bench him for insubordination and risk losing a key player, causing chemistry issues etc. Needless to say, MDA and the Rockets don't exactly have much luxury in terms of roster talent/flexibility to be giving Westbrook any sort of ultimatums or anything like that. I think the answer to this is pretty obvious.
He should list the other 11
