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Austin Rivers has left the bubble due to an urgent family matter

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by tmac2therack, Jul 24, 2020.

  1. daywalker02

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    Ego is streaky, can have 8 pt games and 50 pt games.
     
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    So did I, Apache. Hopefully not. He is expected back.
     
  3. John Harvey

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    They'd say the same thing if he was covid positive.
     
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    I thought the same thing but Austin is ALWAYS ragging on Harden and Westbook - just who they are lol
     
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    you guys are so damn dramatic lol, rivers is solid but doesn't help our achilles heal....i think its carrol/luc we should be looking at
     
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    Deuce Context & Nuance

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    -I’ve got this supermodel wife at home like 10 miles down the road, but this super Urgent emergency came up. Yeah I’m back and feel quite relieved actually.
     
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    Pascal tall, but EGO thicc. :p
     
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    TBH, when a player leaves for personal matter, I low key wish it is for something silly as a 'romantic entanglements', because it'd mean that someone close to them didn't actually pass away or is in a serious condition. Hope he's doing ok.
     
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    I liked it, but EGO shouldn’t be starting at the 3 spot. We’re small and don’t need to get smaller. His scoring and defense should be better off the bench.
     
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    When you employ a switch everything defense turning everything your opponent does into isos, your defense is literally only as strong as your weakest defender. And that possession showed exactly why Eric should start, because if it was House in that situation it would have been a bucket or foul vs Paskal 90% of the time. And I say this fully acknowledging that House ideally should be the perfect starting SF for this team and Gordon has been god awful offensively all year, but we have tried the entire year and that experiment is now over.
     
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    Austin reportedly came back a whole bucket lighter.
     
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    Good teams move the ball and make cuts so not everything goes into Iso for the opponent.
     
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    ???

    The switch everything defense encourages iso, that is why GSW struggled so much implementing their ball movement offense.
     
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    Austin Rivers and Jango Fett have never been seen together.
     
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    Pascal tall indeed, Paschall thicc.
     
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    Why do people do this?
     
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    The small video clip was nothing.....my posting was just something for CF’s to talk about. It sometimes gets boring or
    stale unless we stir in a little something-something.

    I’m suspicious of players saying they have these emergencies and I’m sure the NBA does as well. They are probably having the players followed like NBA rookie draft picks. Case in point Lou Williams. Do you think he volunteered
    the information before the NBA security teams approached him.....or after?

    My suspicion was the real reason for my post.....get talk going. You took the bait.
     

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