David West: 'Stop letting nerds tell you how to play basketball....'

That's jut Kerr ****ing with Bzdelik. Allright you gonna switch? Then im gonna crush the boards after getting bigs out on the perimeter. Doesnt matter who would play pf/c on our roster they would still be outside with gsw bigs attacking our guards under the basket

 

That wasn't even true this game. The warriors were moving around playing team ball. Without boogie + KD I don't think think GSW have that much more talent than the rockets especially considering age.

 

Exactly! These idiots forget that NO ONE has been able to stop their dynasty except the corrupt NBA. Not sure why Rox get all the blame for not doing what NO ONE else has been able to do. You could argue we've come the closest.

 

There was a shot in game 3 where he had a wide open 15 foot shoot. Instead he steps back 10 feet to take a 3. Obviously he takes moreyball to heart.

 

When Chris Paul (in game 5), Eric Gordon (last night), and Clint Capela (the entire series) are playing like scrubs it doesn’t look like it.

 

The Clippers benefited greatly from Golden State not taking them seriously. If the Warriors had seen them as any kind of threat at all, they would have buckled down and swept them easily.

The Rockets, on the other hand, actually WERE a threat. Just not enough of one.

 

Yeah i remember that, but that's just what he decided to do in that situation, to blame the general manager for how a superstar plays is just pure no sense to me, Harden was taking mid range jumpers a couple of years ago, Paul is doing it all the time so, yeah...

 

i still believe in math, it just we didn't have the right personnel to get it done at the highest level..

 

Oh, well.

 

This is a period in the NBA when the most talented, transcendent team in NBA history are just expected to cruise to a championship. There is ONE team the past two seasons that make it a little interesting. They have an aging, much less talented roster. Nobody talks about them like they are an all-time great. .

And what do they get for their seemingly hopeless attempt to challenge the super-team of all super-teams? Is it praise for at least trying to make the NBA something more interesting than a foregone conclusion? Nope. They get ridiculed like they are doing something wrong.

People can be critical of the Rockets all they want. The bottom line is that the Rockets second best player is the fifth best player on the Warriors. There is no way to overcome that without luck and some sort of unconventional means. Any stupid ass hot take that doesn't take that into account is just a worthless waste of bandwidth.

 

Fxxk you David West.

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Morey just signed an extension with Rockets so he is here to stay.

 

He is mocking us rather than providing any substantive advice. Like ok what then.

 

This. We would pass up an open shot to pump fake, reset and shot again. We wouldnt take what the defense gave us, but try and fit a square peg into a round hole.

Our defensive has been elite and is what has kept us in.

 

backed up by a bunch of random G-League players and one Harlem Globetrotter named Kevon Looney.

 

This is what I keep saying. Missed 3’s help the opponent. They get to run. Our defense isn’t set. A made shot means the opponent is taking the ball out of the basket, handing it to the ref, and then starting their offense. A made shot leads to better defense. They are absolutely linked.

I think we need Moreyball to get as big a lead as possible and then take high percentage shots to close the game. We need some clutch players who rise to the occasion. Like a big shot Bob or Mario Ellie.

 

I disagree 100%. At this stage in his career, Chris Paul does not have the same impact on a game as Durant, Thompson, Curry, or Green. Chris Paul is our second best player. He would probably play 20-ish minutes a game off the bench if he were on the Warriors. The talent level at the high-end is not even comparable.

And LOL about people acting like our pieced-together-in-season bench has so much more depth than the Warriors. Almost everyone off our bench is either aging (Nene), or a one-trick pony (Green), or just not that good (Shumpert, House). Austin Rivers played admirably, but I must have missed when he was considered more solid and reliable than someone like Shaun Livingston.

 

That's always been Isiah's main issue with how the Rockets play and he's absolutely right. They're too predictable and aren't as versatile as they should be.

 

Man Rockets made it humiliating to be a Rockets fan.. burn all your merch.

 

I hear you. But this line of reasoning is such an easy target for the likes of Morey and D’Antoni to shrug it off by pointing to you that we are pretty good in the regular season. We just couldn’t overcome the Warriors. The whatever flaw you show them in their philosophy they will just dismiss by telling you they need some tweak to fix it.

No, it’s not those long rebounds on missed three that prevented us. Deep down it’s that philosophy plus execution. In my mind it’s like communism sounds all good and well on paper, it is just hard to be executed consistent enough to win a Championship. It’s more like a hit or miss system even with the best one on one player on the planet.

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