Before their matchup against the Lakers on Thursday, Houston Rockets’ head coach Mike D’Antoni made it very clear: they’re going to ease up on switching.
“We’re trying not to switch (everything). There will be times when a guy gets hit and he can’t get through and you have to switch, but now it’s on a have-to basis, not a we-want-to basis. We’ll try to keep a big guy at home, try to keep him where he rebounds more.”
This move couldn’t have come soon enough.
Before Houston’s game on Tuesday against the Blazers that started their current win streak, a critical stretch of bad switching cost the Rockets a win against the Mavericks in Dallas.