On how close the Rockets were to winning a title, said D’Antoni, “I thought we had it, the third year until Chris went down. He was able to do stuff (that)… just a mastery of the game.” We were banged up one night and I said, ‘James, you might have to get 50 tonight for us to even have a chance to win.’ He gets 60 and we win. He went over 50 I don’t know how many times in a row. “I thought probably two or three years there, he had a complete mastery of the game. “James is one of the smartest players - and there are a bunch of them - that I ever coached,” said D’Antoni.
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Both of them were perfect.”ĭ’Antoni said part of the reason for the iso sets was he wanted to maximize James Harden and make him “the best player he can possibly be.” “Harden had to do it like Harden did it, but both of them were good. “Chris was just a maestro at running our offense, and doing it a little bit (Steve) Nash-like,” said D’Antoni.
But when you have the most efficient offense in NBA history, or close to it, why wouldn’t you do it? Just because you want to look pretty?”ĭ’Antoni talked about how good the Rockets second units were in the 2017-18 season because of Chris Paul, citing how often the Rockets boosted their lead or turned a deficit into an advantage when they turned to the bench. And if I had a team that didn’t have James Harden, guess what? We’d be passing the ball around… It wasn’t pretty. The former Rockets coach admitted it was not the most pleasing offense to the eye. We kind of blew that out of the water a little bit (at) 1.20, but our isolation game was like 1.25, 1.24, so it was like - why wouldn’t we isolate?” 1.16, for a long time, was the standard of the best offense an NBA team had.
“But it was doing, if I’m not mistaken, 1.2-something (points per possession) ridiculous. “If that one-on-one was not efficient, we wouldn’t do it,” said D’Antoni. One of the big topics discussed was the isolation sets that the Rockets ran often and why they did it. Former Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni made an appearance on the Thinking Basketball podcast to discuss his career, and he went into his stretch with the Houston Rockets (2016-2020).
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