This is the big question that has clouded Houston for several weeks, will Stephen Silas still be the Rockets coach at the end of the 2022-23 season? We took very wide, probably too much, the Texan velleda being announced by many as already condemned by its management. So we reformulate: will Stephen Silas still be the coach of the Rockets at the end of January?
Hey, the record of Stephen Silas at the head of the Rockets is not infamous: 47 wins for 145 losses. He’s infamous, but that’s not even the point.
The Rockets are in the midst of rebuilding and the coach seems to be borrowing this argument how to shield Swiss cheese. “We are all frustrated and we would like to see this reconstruction go faster and see it more concretely. When you don’t win as many matches as you would like, frustration sets in. It is not an easy process that we go through”. We all agree that basically, the Rockets do not necessarily have to interfere in the first part of the table. They still have a lot of work to mature their last draft picks as NBA players: some are still ultra-talented prospects. On the form on the other hand, we can only regret the absence of style and the ambient brothel which reign within this team. We don’t even know if the players get along well. The little altercation between Jabari Smith Jr. and Jalen Green on the bench. Eric Gordon, first drunk by the situation, already 34 years old and the desire to seek a real Playoffs campaign elsewhere, recently dropped a small bomb. It was last Saturday, coming out of the 108-88 loss to the Knicks. A journalist asked him if he had seen the expected progress at the start of the season, to which the full-back replied: “There is no progress”.
Vlan, a cartridge shot right in the snags of the franchise, its staff and the young people around it. As if he no longer believed in much. As if he realized that time would run even faster than Jalen Green in transition. And suddenly ? What is the project? Keep moping around pleading for « la reconstruction » ? Too many counter-examples among franchises with similar projects. The Rockets are 15th in the West with 10 wins for 28 losses: the Thunder is 13th with six more victories, the Pacers are 7th in the East, the Magic treats us at the bottom of the table. Impossible is not reconstruction, Stephen Silas fails to breathe the little flame into his players. Full of immiscible raw talent, oil in water, big bubbles don’t mix.
Eric Gordon CALLS OUT Rockets’ lack of improvement!@LanceZierlein @johngranato#rockets #nba #basketball #houston pic.twitter.com/7YMdQz24AD
— ESPN 97.5 Houston (@espn975) January 3, 2023
“There are rumours”. Pfiou, the old sea dog phrase that announces John Lucas – current assistant to Stephen Silas – as the next Rockets coach. The trend thus redirects Stephen Silas towards this page. It would only be a matter of time. The Rockets host the Jazz tonight with the firm intention of… we don’t know what. Difficult to stop a series of five consecutive losses with a snap of the fingers. The Mormons are still playing the Top 10 and will (normally) be on their legs after two days of rest. Given Eric Gordon’s latest outing, it’s also not impossible that Stephen Silas has already lost his locker room. As Lance Zierlein points out in the podcast for ESPN Houston, ironically enough, the Texas coach is probably “the nicest guy in the world”. However, he does not hold his players responsible enough for their own mistakes. Houston is the 2nd team that loses the most balls this season with 644 turnovers in 38 games, or 17 balls lost per game! It’s indecent. Close to professional error. And that says so much about the state again « brut » of the collective. Everyone wants to show off. Most have the potential but not the method. This needs to change quickly. We bet ten kopecks that Silas will be the first victim.
A sequence of Jazz, Wolves and Kings over the next three meetings: nothing insurmountable but easily reprehensible if there is a heavy defeat(s). Take out the camera and go develop the photos, we are most likely living the last moments of Stephen Silas at the head of the Houston Rockets.