ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Clippers 11/22/2019

Sometimes I wonder what they do during practice. They lack simple fundamentals.

 

This team reminds me of the 2013-14 squad. I remember that team losing tons of games like this in the regular season, just had an inability to close teams out and would always seem to give up a barrage of points at the end of the game. And it came back to bite us in the playoffs.

 

So rough... we had the lead at the end and then clint capela committed a turn over and they gained the lead.... knew at that point the game was over......

 

Omg I finally got to see the highlights of the game. Are you kidding me!? I don’t know what was worse. Westbrook shooting a jumper to win the game opposed to attacking the rim or Thabo forcing the ball to a triple covered Harden when Clemons was open for the “Gerald Green” shot!!

 

Thabo sux balls, always a negative +/-, too told. Was hoping he'd be a moute type of player, Clemons was open. Again though cant be 117-112 with 1 min to ago and then they have miraculously score 10 points in one minute, thats all defense not westbrook, harden or anyone

 

At least Beverley got fined for that horrendous flop....

 

Scrub Bev stay flopping @Air Yordan

 

Tough loss. Played well enough to win in LA against perhaps the best team in the west. Had we had House and Gordon, we would have won so not worried.

 

Am I mah brother's keeper?

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ther-gets-verbal-altercation-montrezl-harrell

 

Everyone has bad moments. For every example you show me of Westbrook playing bad I could show you clips of him making great plays. I won't waste my time.

 

The overreacting is pretty nuts. Westbrook is fine. Yes he shoots bad but he does tons of other things that help this team. We lost two in a row to very very good teams. Last night we lost to one of the best teams and we are really short handed. If they hit their FTs there isn't any discussion today. I'm not worried about this loss or the Nuggets loss.

 

> epic

 

I swear Paul George made that exact same 3 pointer in crunch time in a game last season at OKC that we also lost. It hurt then and it hurt now.

 

No, that's the defensive playbook on how to defend against Harden - the objective is to double him and force the ball out of his hands. It's not fear - it's called "coaching". MDA should try it sometimes...

 

How do people come up with this stuff? Is that even a thing?

• Cookout knees

 

That's true

 

But that has been the question for this team under MDA - does his system give them an edge when faced with pressure-packed won-or-lose situations when the game is on the line? I'm not sure they "blew" that game. Instead I saw a Clippers team do what it takes to get a win. Down in crunch time BOTH teams made some critical mistakes. The Clippers won because they had two players - KL & PG - who were able to overcome their mistakes and make the right plays to secure the win. The Rockets can win and win big against the other guys but I'm not convinced they can pull out the tight games with the current roster.

 

Looks like Bev hit Harden low on that jumper, not even trying to defend but deliver dirty shot.