ClutchFans Game Thread: Suns @ Rockets 3/13/2013

Home-field advantage!

 

Lets hope we can contain The great Haddadi

 

Scola alone caused five turnovers from our starting back court this past game by doubling down on the ball handler and taking one charge. Move the ball before luifa gets there and stop the force that is ha-daddy and we shall reign with glorious victory.

A bench other than delfine-o and garcia would be nice too.

 

Blowout win by the Rockets. Book it!

 

Damage is already done as far as losing to the lottery-bound Suns goes.

But yeah, at home with rest I think Houston will handle business.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>HOU record on 2nd night of b2b this yr: 5-13 (.278). All other situations: 29-17 (.630). 3 more b2bs this season. Make of that what you will</p>&mdash; Jason Friedman (@JasonCFriedman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonCFriedman/status/311115435078733825">March 11, 2013</a></blockquote>
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We still have 3 more games against them if i'm right. Rockets better make up for that loss by beating them 3 more times. Anything less is unacceptable.

 

Semi-early game thread? (Ehh, not that it really matters.)

Rockets lose (to them) again.

 

The Rockets will get a blowout win. They sleepwalked through the last game which they should have won.

 

Too bad...I thought the game was tomorrow.

 

Per Jason C. Friedman:

Harden a partial practice participant(say that five times fast), with a sore foot.
Asik a partial practice participant(rest)
Terrence Jones still rehabbing a hand injury. He could be cleared within a week.

And Jason C. Friedman getting testy with Jopatmc. Why you so mad Jason? Snarky ass Jason C. Friedman.

 

Is it the 13th yet?

 

Lol, man J.R., your spiral of pessimism has turned into a full-fledged whirlpool, huh?

 

Why is McHale always so angry? :grin:

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Omer has done a great job. Played a lot of minutes. Gave him rest today. Has done a great job on the boards for us all year long. Unfortunately we take him out and we can't get a rebound.

(Anything surprise you about him?) His conditioning he got himself into. Didn't know if he could play the pace we wanted to play. His conditioning from August until now is amazing. He was 295 at that point, he's 275 and in great shape, able to run. He's playing too many minutes. Greg, Tim, Thomas, someone gotta step up so we can get him more rest.

Playing Phoenix quickly after what happened the other day.

We didn't play them the other day so maybe we'll try playing them Wednesday.

Jeremy mentioned you made a point of pointing out they lost 5 games recently to sub .500 teams. Do you feel that...I know you had plenty of wake-up calls in that regard, but do you think that will not be an issue.

If I had to bring it up to them, they either don't know the standings, don't look at anything or don't care.

Simple as that.

You think?

Should be.

If you were doing a horse**** job, you think your boss would have to tell you?

I would hope not.

There you go.

Jeremy just said especially given the homestand and schedule and the way it lines up.

The homestand means nothing if we don't play well. The homestand means nothing if we play the way we did against Phoenix, Washington, Milwaukee. We gave up 28 points off turnovers, 21 turnovers, and 24 second chance points. That's 52 points they got off our stuff. That's unacceptable.

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I made a lot of points today.

Asked about the "Demetrius Jordan" dunk. Did you see it? No.

In terms of others taking on the rebounding load, in addition to...

Everybody gotta rebound. Our 2s and 3s gotta rebound. We had guys that didn't rebound. We had 4 guys that played 90 some minutes between them out of 240 minutes and had 0 defensive rebounds in a game where we got smoked on the defensive glass. Again, if you gotta be told that, then you have a long way to go to being a professional. Being a professional athlete in this league is taking responsibility, going out there and saying what didnt I do well, what do I gotta do better and owning it. That's where we gotta grow. We didn't play well against Phoenix. We gotta play a hell of a lot better.

 

i expect a beating to be handed out to Phoenix!

 

I hope the fans and the Rockets give Scola/Dragic/Morris a nice pre-game tribute when they return.

 

Don't confuse me for Carl Hererra!

I don't know if they lose or not. I wouldn't be surprised if they did though. They could just as easily win it. You never know. Is that better? Haha.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Jermaine O'Neal will not play tonight in <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23SunsVsNuggets">#SunsVsNuggets</a> but will Wednesday at Houston. Worked out Sunday &amp; today. @<a href="https://twitter.com/jasonzakrzewski">jasonzakrzewski</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/scoty_23">scoty_23</a></p>&mdash; Paul Coro (@paulcoro) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulcoro/status/311192330898141186">March 11, 2013</a></blockquote>
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The LinBeliebers got to him.

 

Damnit!