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I have grown to HATE Clint Capela

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by TheSource, Mar 20, 2019.

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HROZ said: ↑

Lol ..... Okay......

You guys need to get a grip.
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The overreaction is unbelievable. B2B game with no backup center against a pretty good player in Val...and Capela is the problem?

Overall, the loss wasnt a big deal...OKC is now an 8th seed and McCollum is out for Portland. Rockets played like total ass and still had a chance to win. Health is the only thing that matters for this team.

#61 Elephant810, Mar 21, 2019

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Capela sure does play soft when he can't catch lobs. I bet the Chuckwagon could shut him down.

#62 REEKO_HTOWN, Mar 21, 2019
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Wow... The first page of this thread is shocking... The dude had surgery not long ago and is clearly rounding back into form. Yes, it takes A LONG TIME to come back in every way from that much time no activity. Having had multiple sports related surgeries myself, I can't believe he's been playing as well and as hard as he has this fast. He's perfect for our team, the only one better would be Anthony Davis...

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#64 Verbal Christ, Mar 21, 2019

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Take it easy on Clint.. He's not used to bigs that play with their backs to the basket. It's like sayin Harden plays bad defense against Redick or Klay because he has to chase em through numerous screens. It's out there comfort area..

#65 javal_lon, Mar 21, 2019
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pippendagimp said: ↑

i've been against keeping him going back since last season. he hasn't improved his skills (on either end of the floor) and has the softest p***y mentality
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So your terrible takes are not just on one subject.

You just chose to bust this one out for this one game.

SMH.

#66 biff17, Mar 21, 2019
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the real swiss miss SMH

#67 pippendagimp, Mar 21, 2019

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REEKO_HTOWN said: ↑

Capela sure does play soft when he can't catch lobs. I bet the Chuckwagon could shut him down.
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How is he gonna stop him from catching lobs?

I see all of the hot takes are flowing today.

Some people.

#68 biff17, Mar 21, 2019
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Here's the problem with Capela.. He has the wrong combination of skills limitations to help us get past the Warriors in the playoffs.

1. He can't shoot the three. Went if this a key skills limitation??? Because if he could shoot the 3, then the intent weighs have to take their big of the floor and attempt to defend Capela with a PF or small. Without that skill, teams with power bigs can bludgeon us both with their own switches and also on the boards by hammering us with their size.

2. He's not as big, long, and strong as traditional power bigs. So over the course of a long season and then into the playoffs they can beat him down. And do. We've seen this the last two seasons already.

3. He's not quick enough to effectively stay with the best smalls in the league of the course of an extended playoff season.

Points #2 and #3 put him and our team in a quandry and expose his limitations. He either has to get bigger and stronger to battle power bigs better OR he has to get lighter to get quicker in switches.

The problem is if he gets bigger and stronger he gets slower and his switchability deteriorates almost directly proportionate to his strength/bulk increase. Not to mention his already low stamina becomes even more of an issue. But if he's lighter he gets pushed around even more.

Go back and study video of Capela when he was a rookie. He was noticeably quicker than what he is today. That's why when he was a rookie I was calling on us to develop his shooting, not his physicality. Because If you've got a quick 7-footer that can shoot, switch, and run, then you eliminate all these old skool power bigs like Jonas from the equation. The opponent has to counter with a quicker/faster defender. And Jonas has to sit down.

We chose to develop Capela physically and leave his shooting skills development for another day....actually another contract. That was our mistake.

This is why I don't hate Capela, contrary to what many of the more idiotic posters here believe. It's not his fault he followed our player development protocol/plan. He followed it to a T, working very diligently. He became EVERYTHING we asked him to become.

We asked him to become the wrong thing, a traditional PnR center. And we chose to try to develop his strength and bulk him up while he learned the intricacies of the PnR with Harden.We got what we asked for. In spades. We should have developed his shooting from day 1, accentuated his quickness in defensive switching and developed his defensive mentality, alongside running pick and rolls, and within to increase his stamina instead of bulk training.

Now we've got a guy that's the third higher paid player on the team who is too slow to switch on to smalls like Curry and be effective, but he's not strong enough nor long enough to bang against opposing power 5's in our lineups. And his stamina has gone down the tubes.

It's on us...not Capela.

We have made ourselves #alsorans.
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Holic has 3 points here.
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Capela is not strong enough to push big body Boogie and Bogut out of the paints;
Capela is not quick enough to guard Curry, Thompson, Durant ....

Capela is possible to be taken out of the game.

#69 BigBum, Mar 21, 2019
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Boogie ate Clint and now Valanciunis. He just needs to stop going for the fakes and or try to block every shot

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Capela My Fellow?! Not a "bruiser" for sure. Needs more strength training in offseason. We need a younger Nene.

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GTFO

#72 Mr. Turbo, Mar 21, 2019
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Cousins, Adams, Nurkic, and I'm afraid even Harrell will push him around if they play any of those teams in the playoffs. He has to play with more physicality.

No more leaning on guys' backs trying to tip offensive rebounds back -- push them around

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Juxtaposed Jolt said: ↑

He rarely has any bad games...so the first time (at least, in recent memory) he has a bad game, you make this thread?

Smh, some CFers just have nothing better to do than to b**** and moan.
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Agreed. Seems like complaining is a drug to some of these posters.

#74 Smacktle, Mar 21, 2019
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I have grown to hate dumbass threads like this one...these dudes always poppin up after a loss to start b*tching

OP nowhere to be found while the Rockets are winning, but after a loss, all of the sudden guys like him are active thread starters...miss me with this BS

#75 Reeko, Mar 21, 2019

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maybe hes just saving his strength and energy for playoffs lol

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HROZ said: ↑

Lol ..... Okay......

You guys need to get a grip.
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Agree. Chalk it as 1 bad loss.move along

#77 417Rocket, Mar 21, 2019
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basketballholic said: ↑

False.
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Like all the “inside information” you have.

#78 Sean Dr34ms, Mar 21, 2019

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Reeko said: ↑

I have grown to hate dumbass threads like this one...these dudes always poppin up after a loss to start b*tching

OP nowhere to be found while the Rockets are winning, but after a loss, all of the sudden guys like him are active thread starters...miss me with this BS
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Huh??? I post frequently after most games

#79 TheSource, Mar 21, 2019
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dafuq is wrong w/ this snowflake?

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