In the past 20 years, which head coaches of the Rockets have been impressive?
For now, the vast majority of Rockets fans will say D'Antoni and Van Gundy.
The reason for choosing D'Antoni is mainly the Rockets coached by D'Antoni, who has been a contender for the Western Conference championship all year round, and D'Antoni won the best head coach of the season during his time coaching the Rockets.
The reason for choosing Van Gundy is mainly that Van Gundy coached the golden period of Yao Ming's career, as the historical height of Chinese basketball, Yao Ming played for the Rockets, and the Rockets' attention was the highest in the basketball field.
In the past 20 years, the Rockets have experienced 7 head coaches of TomJanovic, Van Gundy, Adelman, McHale, Bixtaugh, D'Antoni, Silas, and alexander and Fertitta.
From the resume of these 7 head coaches, the highest winning rate is D'Antoni, but D'Antoni's time in charge of the Rockets, the most criticized thing is that it will not cultivate young players, the main force of perennial death, the rotation lineup is very short, once the core lineup suffers injuries, for the team, it is a disaster.
McHale is best at pouring chicken soup into the hearts of players, balancing the relationship between players, and handling the contradictions in the locker room very well, but McHale's dismissal also did not deal with the relationship between Howard and Harden, in the 6th game of the Rockets reversing the Clippers, abandoning Harden, although the Rockets advanced to the next round, but the next season, McHale's relationship with Harden was not handled well, resulting in the team's start record was extremely bad, McHale quickly left the class.
Bixtaugh is a replacement for McHale's dismissal, as the team's interim head coach, more play an excessive role, Bikstaff coached the Rockets, more is to inherit McHale's coaching ideas, and did not have their own initiative, the end of the season, the Rockets did not correct Bikstaff, Bixtaff switched to other teams.
Before McHale became the head coach, it was the league Princeton tactical master Adelman, although Adelman's reputation is prominent, Princeton's tactics are very gorgeous and good-looking, but during Adelman's coaching of the Rockets, it is basically in the end of Yao Mai's career, the Rockets do not have the strength to carry Adelman's system, plus Adelman's adjustment is always slow, and the cooperation between the two sides has not sparked.
Adelman is the successor to Van Gundy as the head coach of the Rockets, Van Gundy's coaching philosophy is to defend, reduce the rhythm of the offense, focus on position warfare, drag themselves and the other side into the position war, by reducing the offensive round, thereby reducing the defense, in the Van Gundy coaching period, the Rockets are a defensively excellent team, but during the period when Yao Ming and Maddy became the core, the Rockets' bench lineup was not enough to improve the team's offense, more on the inside line by Yao Ming, the outside line by Maddy's talent to score.
Van Gundy can become the head coach of the Rockets mainly because Tom Janovic is ill and cannot leave the head coach's seat, TomJanovic is the head coach of the Rockets' two consecutive championships, is Yao Ming's enlightenment teacher, but it is generally not understood by Chinese fans.
Among the rockets' head coaches in the past 20 years, the best record is D'Antoni, D'Antoni mainly relies on Harden's supergiant to promote the team's lower limit is very high, among these head coaches, the worst record is Silas, Silas coached the Rockets, the Rockets are in the rebuilding period, Silas coached for two seasons, the Rockets record is the bottom of the West.
So, what theory does Silas offer for the rocket?
From the Rockets' division of coaching, Silas is mainly responsible for the offense, so from the current Rockets offense, there are similarities with the previous head coach D'Antoni, but they are completely different.
Silas's coaching philosophy for the Rockets is to become the main attack point of the team by the young core Porter + Green, which is to emulate the configuration of Harden + Westbrook, as well as Harden + Paul, but because the ability of Porter and Green is not up to the level of Harden and Paul, the main attack of the Rockets is more on Gordon and Wood, the Rockets are not D'Antoni period, absolutely rely on the big core of holding the ball, with the big core of the ball as the pulling force, for its configuration of players.
The root cause of Silas's failure to emulate D'Antoni is mainly that Green and Porter are not enough to support the team's offensive efficiency, although the two are the focus of the team's training, but the combat power is not strong, need Wood and Gordon to digest the ball, and Gordon is not in the team's future, Wood's defensive problems are very large, prompting the Rockets' ceiling is not high.
When the players that the team focuses on cultivating are definitely not strong, Silas focuses on activating role players, allowing more players to be trained, and in the case of long rotations, the playing time is egalitarian.
To this end, Silas developed Tate's passing ability, through the promotion of role players, to make up for the lack of strength of young core players, through long rotation to ensure the team's metabolism, in Silas's two seasons under coaching, the Rockets experienced a large area of injury and prevention and control isolation, long rotation is the best way to face these factors.
Silas faces the shortcomings of the core players, and uses more platooning to make up for the weaknesses of the players, but it is difficult for smart women to cook without rice, and the limitations of rocket players are too great, making it difficult for Silas to combine winning and cultivating young players at the same time.
From this point of view, Silas is the Rockets in the past 20 years, the most difficult head coach, but also the most changed head coach, although Silas did not bring a new offensive and defensive system for the Rockets, mainly the strength of the team's players is not enough, from this point of view, the Rockets' losing streak, Silas has tried his best, but the team strength is too poor.