After the departure of head coach Mike D'Antoni, the question currently facing the Rockets is that the team needs to find a suitable new head coach, so will Sam Kassel be the right person for the job?
After the Rockets were eliminated by the Lakers, Mike D'Antoni told the Rockets that he would not play for the Rockets next season. The news is that the Rockets and Sam Cassel have a common interest in filling the managerial gap. Of course, Sam Kassel was a member of the Rockets during his playing career, during the period from 1994-95 when he helped the Rockets win two consecutive championships.
Sam Kassel took up the wizards' assistant coaching role in 2009, and as an assistant coach, Sam Kassel was the mentor of the team's point guard John Wall, after all, Cassel was an important bench player during the Rockets' consecutive championships, so he also had the conditions to become a mentor.
During sam Kassel's career, he won three championship trophies and was named to the All-Star Team in 2004 and scored 15,635 career points, averaging 15.7 points per game.
After five years of playing for the Wizards as an assistant coach, Cassel moved to the Celtics and played under Doug Rivers. In 2008, Kassel won a championship trophy with Doug Rivers and Celtics, and is currently playing for the Clippers and has been with Doug Rivers for 6 years, as for Doug Rivers also responded to the fact that Kassel could become the head coach of the Rockets:
"Sam Kassel should be the head coach, his basketball IQ is unbelievably high and I just hope he gets a chance."
Sam Kassel would be the right person for the Rockets
The main factor sam kassel may be suitable for the Rockets is his possible compatibility with James Harden and Russell Westbrook, and to be honest, the outside dilemma Westbrook is facing at the moment may be the need for a coach like Sam Kassel to give him some help. Back in 2014, John Wall told the US media Morley Gary that Sam Kassel helped him overcome the projection dilemma.
"He's a big part of it," Wall said, "and definitely helped us with the jump shot, and as a coach, he's a point guard player who knows a lot about the game." ”
In the 2012-13 season, John Wall only shot 26.7 percent from three-point range, and in the following 2013-14 season, Wall was able to improve his three-point shooting rate to 35.1 percent, and it was also in that season that Wall was able to successfully break into the All-Star.
So if Sam Cassel can successfully become the Rockets head coach, then his basketball IQ and game knowledge may still help James Harden and Westbrook play more consistently throughout the season, which is also a big reason why Wall and Bill can be better partnered in the Wizards.