I feel you, but it does point to our character as a team. Playing down to your competition is not good anyway you slice it.
like i said, show me a contender that doesn't lose a few games to subpar competition. The Warriors lost to the Lakers.
What were viewing is a team trying to find its identity and were bringing pieces in and out looking for the right chemistry and were doing this on the fly not sitting on our hands disengaged like a lot of other teams.... A lot of so called "experts" maybe even you had already written the Rockets off after we got rid of Asik, Lin and lost Parsons and if you want to talk about "Gimmicky" last year's team was heck of a lot more Gimmicky than this years team because we are more oriented to defense this season and you don't win a championship without having some Defense. I just hope Morey knows what he's looking at if we run into the "right stuff". I know I would like another play maker and a 7 foot shot blocker off the bench and McHale to keep the rotation wide.
The Mavericks? The team that has lost three out of the last four games, and have a worse record than the Rockets? OK, that team.
If we take a look at the starting 5 for all west playoff teams, just about each team has only 1 big that can shoot the midrange. Tonight we faced two and that was the real problem. You don't necessarily need a Pick and Pop PF or C to win a ring, but you need someone who defend those players. I think Josh Smith is capable of doing so. We had to face Frye and Vucevic, and Howard only likes to protect the paint. Our lack of playmaking is shocking thus far, and Bev has been very mediocre lately. I really think we need a PG who can handle the ball, shoot, and give us effort on D.
We played poorly on defensive and the Magic played really well. Of course we could of done things differently but it's nothing to get all crazy about. Move on.
First of all, the playoffs don't start for another 3 months. We just had a lot of players moved around and we all know that there will probably be more moving during the deadline. We need for the chemistry to develop and when it does, everything will be fine. Developing chemistry is really important and the last two teams to win the ring had great chemistry. Secondly, Dallas is not as good as you think. IF the playoffs started today (which they don't) we would definitely beat Dallas in 5, maybe 6 games. They need time to gel too, and only time can tell how we look and how they look by April. Point is, calm the **** down. Everything is fine. You have to give the team time to develop some chemistry and you have give Morey some time to acquire whatever pieces he's targeting.
Eh, i don't know. Way too early to write him off. He has looked promising in some games, and has looked downright awful in others. He went from a good system in ATL to a bad system in DET and he fell into some bad habits. He's back in a good system and we owe it to him to give him more time. He's a Rocket after all.
We were up three with ~3 minutes left in the game. Orlando executed down the stretch, and we did not. The lack of motivation got us there, but I think lacking execution is an issue as well. You'd expect the young team to be the ones struggling to execute in the final minutes, not the Rockets. Meh.
Defense separates this year's team vs last season. Our offense (ranked 11th in ppg) is creeping its way back into the top 10. FTs and TOs are 2 major problems that have carried over from '14.
Completely unrelated to the thread, but I was thinking about this moment again, after the KG thing. Kobe caught an elbow to the face. All kobe does in return is call dwight names. Which one is soft?
I've been closely watching the NBA since the 1970's. If you are going to live and die by every regular season game, you are in for a miserable existence. The season is long, travel is grueling, and it is damn near impossible to get up for every game. On the whole, I like what I'm seeing here. If healthy and relatively fresh, the Rockets will be a tough, tough out for any team.
