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D’Antoni threw the #1 seed with an indefensibly bad rotation.

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by LorneMalvo, Mar 13, 2019.

  1. LorneMalvo

    LorneMalvo Member

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    clark, Nene and most certainly House are all more playable than Iman Shumpert, Faried and Green.

    Indefensible.
     
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    What? Stupid thread
     
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    It's reg season but if he screws up in the playoffs, more criticism will be on him.
     
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    Faried did well last GSW game. I don’t mind playing him. He didn’t do well but I don’t think it was an indefensible decision.

    Shumpert is obviously terrible. House needs to take his minutes ASAP.
     
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    The lineups weren’t bad.

    Just poor offensive gameplanning, pj missing extremely wide open shots, and harden continuing his shooting slump.
     
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    Faried at the 5 is never good. At the 4 in the 4th Q us the only time he didn’t look extra terrible. Still missed a billion rim rotations and even more rebounds.
     
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    Not sure why nene wasn’t in there to guard cousins. But overall poor shooting, defensive lapses from rivers and green and poor rebounding did us in tonight. Harden was terrible from 3. We just had more mental lapses overall than them. The inexplicable turnover on the inbound was just stupid.
     
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    For whatever reason, the team just wasn’t in sync or playing with heart and energy. Warriors were going after everything and playing like their season depended on it. They also had a good plan with motivation.

    I just can’t fathom why the Rockets didn’t bring it for 48 minutes, what motivation do you need when Stephanie gives it to you before their suns game along with pushing for 1st seed.
     
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    @LorneMalvo, always first to start a fist-shaking, venom-spewing thread after a loss -- in this case a 2-point loss to the league's best team.

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    Clutchfans has really gone down hill over the last 10 years with these stupid posts....starting to miss the Jeremy Lin fans.
     
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    We had no answer for cousins, the post passing was a key reason we lost.
     
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    True, but this is the time to figure out your playoff rotation.
     
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    Could hide him as a secret weapon. He can ball, we know that.
     
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    Don't agree with the overreactions on either side, but losing the game is still concerning. Especially when most of the fans on here consider us to be the better team, and the loss to be nothing to worry about.

    We still lost, they did not play their best (or 2nd best) player and it looks like Cousins is getting it together and starting to figure it out against our team. Whether we want to admit it or not they are simply more talented, and simply playing a good game (by our teams standards) against them is not always enough to beat a more loaded team.
     
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    Everyone made mistakes today and they didn’t play for 48 minutes. It was a chess match that we needed more time but didn’t have. I think they will have tougher time integrating KD for playoffs with Boogie, Stephanie, and Klay. They have so many options though for both offense and defense.
     
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    We weren’t going to get the 1 seed

    We had been playing poorly the last couple games anyway. Beat Dallas by a point
     
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    you'll be glad to know Dantoni will receive a multi-year extension
     
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    This is stupid...... shumpert yea... but Farid and Green both need to be in there.
     
  20. LorneMalvo

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    Faried should never play Center. Green should never play over House.
     

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