Udoka is a good coach but not a top coach. It will be difficult for him to lead the Rockets to win the championship.

We can also see from the Houston Rockets' loss to the Denver Nuggets that there are three people who need to take the blame for the Rockets' defeat in this game, namely Alperen Sengun, Kevin Durant and Ime Udoka. As the core players of the team, Shen Jing and Durant, as the players with the most money, did not perform to their own level at all. One was beaten by Nikola Jokic, and the other's offensive efficiency was a mess. But the one who should bear the most responsibility should be head coach Ime Udoka.

Uduka is a good coach, of course he has the ability, but he is definitely not a top coach, let alone a championship-level coach. Uduka and Stephen Silas, a bottom-level coach in the league, are certainly not the same person. When Silas was in the Rockets, the team had no system, players were playing haphazardly on the court, and the record was naturally a mess. With the arrival of Uduka, the team's discipline on the field has completely changed. The players on the field have very strong execution ability and will not blindly play. Moreover, the team's overall defensive system has also been established, and each player's personal defensive ability has also improved. The Rockets' ability to grow into one of the top teams in the Western Conference has a lot to do with the arrival of Uduka.

However, Uduka is far from good in terms of tactical design, on-the-spot adjustments, and personnel arrangements. In many cases, he even appears to be very stubborn, rigid, and inflexible. If Uduka's coaching ability was slightly stronger, he would have won the championship with the Celtics long ago. After all, even Joe Mazzula could lead the team to win the championship without him. If Uduka had opened his mind a little more, the Rockets would not have been eliminated in the first round against the Warriors whose winning rate was not as good as theirs in last season's playoffs. So far this season, the Rockets have played several strong teams in the Western Conference, and there are obvious problems with their tactical arrangements at critical moments. In many cases, they have lost games for similar reasons.

The key to failure is the twin towers. When they played the Warriors in the playoffs last season, the twin towers worked because the Warriors were really not good inside. The actual situation is that the twin tower tactic does not work against 90% of the teams in the league. As a result, the Nuggets, who are so strong in the inside and have a teacher, still insist on the twin towers. This is no longer stubborn, but purely to prove that they are right regardless of the record. There is also the issue of letting Amen Thompson play point guard. It is obviously not suitable and it has affected Amen's performance and the team's offensive fluency. However, Uduka insists on using it this way, and it is impossible to change in a short time.

So we can basically draw a conclusion that Udoka is indeed capable of taking a team that is in the rebuilding period and has a lot of talent to a relatively high level, but we expect him to lead the team further. This is something he couldn't even do with the Celtics' lineup, let alone the Rockets' lineup with obvious shortcomings. So in the final analysis, it is really unrealistic for the Rockets to expect Uduka to lead the team to the championship.