A Third Party Perspective of The Houston Rockets (Jazz fan)

Nice vid
I agree with him, the media narrative that we won’t work because there’s only one ball is the same as when Chris came to the rockets.
They also forget or they don’t take into account how many games Chris missed this season or how many games we sucked hard. We were a mess and also we lost a ton of games that we should have won or we let slipped.
At least we could have won 10 games easily. Even with the horrible start, we had a chance to get 2nd seed. But we lost some easy games. And specially the last game against okc. Oh yea Brody got their win but we had that game if we had stayed focus.

And that really was the reason we didn’t go to the western conference against the warriors. Because we lost a couple games (specially the last game).

And some of them were from injuries, some because they just were careless with the lead and some because of chemistry. Some games you saw something not meshing. It was more obvious the first games were nothing look good. And we looked like we were going to miss the playoffs. We were in 13th or 12th place. Playing like we didn’t care. And who carried us, Harden did.

Anyway these reasons give me confident about this season. When Chris joined us we won 65 or so, then I’m sure we will win more than 60 wins with Russ and pretty much the same team back.

Idk I just can’t see how Denver, who we were closed to passing in the standings can be above us when we had a bad start and we had so many injuries. Russell alone carried okc a couple season all on his own. Even with all the stats padding. He got the thunder on the playoffs so that he could win the MVP. Because imo if they didn’t make it I’m sure the media had no excuse but to give it to Harden. Even with him averaging a triple double.

SO yea we will be good.

 

There are a couple things I like about this trade. Russ likes to push the ball up the floor early. Clint and Russ rim running early in the shot clock will be fun to watch and good for the offense. If the break get defended, then kick it out to Harden. I don't see entire quarters of Harden walking the ball up the floor happening anymore. Second, some of those bad losses where we were up by twenty and then bricked 3 after 3, I don't see happening with Westbrook. He will drive and make things happen instead of relying on the three.

 

Yeah, I subscribe to this guy too. He is very reasonable to listen to...

 

The only acceptable Jazz fan.

 

I like this guy a lot, seems coool. But...lol would you guys still like this guy if he said some uhh not so positive things about the Rockets?

 

He can stick his Yankees hat where the sun don’t shine. Other than that he seems like a pretty good kid

 

Great find! Haven't heard anything from him in a while, but really like his takes. What Hansen had to say about the Rockets was exactly what I needed to hear, and I suspect that much of what he says is shared by many on the BBS when we daydream about the coming season. If Harden and Westbrook gel, and they've done it before, and we can manage to stay healthy, then as scary as this trade looked when we made it, like this cat said, Morey could end up looking like a genius. I think Morey gave too much in the deal, but not having made an explosive move of some kind would have had us worrying about the team running in place, not making the bold move to get better. Morey rolled the dice and they're still tumbling. We'll see how they fall soon enough.

 

Excellent d g

I agree with the fella on some points.




I would put the ball in Westbrook’s hands to begin most (not all) offensive sets. Harden CnS from 3 is 41.4%

Ast% for Harden was 39.5% and 39.3% for CP3 last season (per basketball-reference.com)
Westbrook was 46.5% (ast%). Westbrook does well distributing the ball.....well enough.



Problem I keep hearing is, “how efficient CP3 was shooting the ball.” Unfortunately CP3 was too selfish last season
and was more focused on distributing the ball than aggressively taking his shot. It was missing most of the season.
The final game (vs Warriors playoff game) was the CP3 we needed all season. Again, unfortunately, health of CP3
took center stage and overshadowed much of the theme of last season.

Westbrook can hopefully take advantage of the spacing Rockets players provide and attract the defensive gravity
towards the paint....this is where Westbrook’s ast% being greater than both Harden/CP3 last season (while being
part of weaker players/shooters on the perimeter —Thunder) pays dividends. Hopefully Gold dividends.

Don’t worry about Westbrook taking his shots. They will come more often than CP3 looked for last season.
Should be beneficial to the Rockets in the long run.

 

Zdog is still my favourite

 

If it was just CP3 for Westbrook and nothing else changed about the team from 65 wins I would be really confident. But we lost our two best perimeter defenders and lots of depth. PJ came off the bench for our 65 win season.

Heck even Anderson played a huge role in the regular season. He was shooting like 75% from three on passes from CP3 the first half.

Even if westbrook is an upgrade of CP3, the rest of the team isn’t even close to what it was.

 

ESPN needs to find a way to simulcast his videos. He's better than 99% of the people they have now.

 

breh is a rockets fan, or at least has htine roots/connections. it's the only reasonable explanation.

 

Did he really pick Toronto to come out of the East last season? Damn! That wasn't an unreasonable pick on his part, but he did better than the overwhelming majority of the talking heads ESPN trots out and claim as their "experts."

 

If they were accurate, sure. The very first thing he lambasts in this segment is "the narrative." The narrative is where most of the outright annoyingly wrong things about the Rockets come from. Internally, as dedicated fans who actually watch the games, we have our own list of things that bug us and frustrate us about the team. The team is not perfect by any means, but if you actually know enough to properly identify the imperfections and also acknowledge the good where it exists with the bad, go right ahead. This guy, unlike 99% of the national media, seems to actually have that capability.

 

That kids got a screw loose .… but its entertaining to hear him spew venom on the Rockets after they curbstomp his beloved Jazz. Its almost as if someone killed his puppy.

 

Yep. That's the primary benefit here. Rockets HAD to get someone else who could drive.