ClutchFans Game Thread: Jazz @ Rockets 4/14/2019 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 1)

The media will never succeed in breaking our heros up.

 

Hopefully the Jazz keep gifting Harden "fast breaks" in the halfcourt setting. That's just a terrible defensive scheme. I don't see that happening in game 2.

 

has anyone mentioned how harden almost got Ricky Rubio again????

made him do a power squat with a dribble move I didnt know he had.... he just missed the floater....

harden might be Ricky's step daddy for real

 

How about that TC Playoff Crowd?
they were AWESOME
@DreamShook

ps TC CROWD HATERS GO HOME

 

You missed it! It's a couple pages back haha.

 

I was at the game and tried my best lol.. the lower bowls weren't really chanting defense but were cheering loud at other times.

 

documentation & dissemination. perhaps Clutch could tweet the highlights or maybe we get a youtube video viral?

 

Rivers and E.G.'s defense was outstanding. Mitchell is a great player, but he was shackled to a chain by those two.

 

Anyway, on two game 2, lol.

The Jazz under Snyder is 0-5 for games 1, and 3-1 in games 2. Expect adjustments and a much more competitive game from them.

I am not worried. As long as the Rockets play lockdown defense which we know they are capable of playing, they are going to be fine. Zero in on Mitchell and Ingles. Let their two bigs get their 12 points each. Not much firepower after that.

Btw, as many mentioned, props to MDA for a near perfect rotation. Guys roles are defined, and the bench players appears to know what's expected of them.

 

A loss at home also gives up Home Court advantage if it goes back to SLC tied up

 

The narrative is the rockets heavily rely on calls to get to the line to win. Nah, the rockets won by 30 without it being a factor. The rockets themselves have adjusted to this and that's a sign of great things to come.

 

we can still win without fair officiating against all teams except GS/MIL imo

 

yeah its going to for sure be tough against gs but we've seen what this team is capable of at full health. and I don't see Mil coming out of the east but that's another topic haha

 

i'm not that impressed w/ MIL either, at least not as much as their reg season record would imply. but who do you see coming out of the east then, considering how poorly the other teams have looked?

 

i actually think itll be boston. i know many dont expect them to make it. Mil will make it tough though. i still think giannis lack of being a perimeter threat will get them eliminated when they get to the better teams.

 

One down and fifteen to go. Go Rockets.

 

if by some miracle we were able to make it to the dance, BOS is probably the team i fear least out of the top 4 seeds there. as long as smart doesn't injure beard lol

 

Next game - 28 threes!

 

yeah its tough to like them as team for sure but yeah the east is wide open now that lebron is gone and all the considered top 4 have their own flaws. theres cases for all of them making it out. hopefully the east playoffs continue to be surprising as it was on saturday

 

just start the thread already, and we will work from there, this is the work that cant be done in one day... lets work on this bit by bit and hopefully we can create an avalanche effect!