Who has the most pressure with the playoffs looming?

Jeremy Lin

He has a great playoffs, all is probably forgiven. If he is a no show, he might be out of the NBA after his next contract.

 

Harden and Howard. The playoffs is where the superstars win games. To hell with everything else.

 

Lin has the most pressure from Houston fans. Dwight has the most pressure nationally

 

Lines are pretty well drawn at this point. Haters going to hate, LOFs won't see any reason to doubt their hero. Unless Lin wins several games all by himself (not freaking likely) the hard-core camps here won't change.

 

Me. Watching the game is a lot of fun but pressure.

 

The top three players (Howard, Harden, and Parsons -- especially Howard)
And also Lin.

Parsons, because of his contract situation.

 

Howard

Harden

McHale

Lin

 

No. Houston fans aren't putting pressure on Lin. It's like; whatever we can get from him. He's like our 6th or 7th best player

Pressure is on Howard.

 

How can McHale feel any pressure? He doesn't draw up the offense or the defense. His job is just to yell at the team, and pat them on the back if they do good.

 

Its on Harden and Howard, our team will only go as far as they take us!

 

Dwight Howard and it's not even close.

1. He is on a supermax contract that eats away about 1/3 of the cap.

2. Dwight sure hasn't played like a superstar.

3. His decision making or BBall IQ is low and often time at the detriment of team success. He is often powerless over his own emotions.

4. His PnR defense (staying in the paint and never hedging) is one of the main reasons our perimeter defense regressed. It's not a coincident that Lakers had the exact problem with Dwight last year.

Not holding it against him for his half ass effort in the regular season....BUT...

All eyes are upon you. Time to shine, big fella!

 

Lin needs to put up 30/10, hurt Lillard, shutdown Aldrige, and hit a buzzer beater in game seven to stop all the hates in this forum, but just for a few days...

 

Darryl Morey.

 

Feasible.

 

The most? I'm sure the players with the most pressure are Harden, D12, and Lin, but the person with the most pressure would have to be Morey. IF we lose in the 1st round yet again, that is not a sign of progress and I'm sure he'll hear a few words from Les.

 

Not Lin (he's a role player-remember ) .

 

we lose the series with portland, mchale has likely coached his last game in the nba. of our rotation players, only casspi would be really be in danger of being out of the league after these playoffs.

 

All McHale votes should roll up under Morey (or Leslie). No one held a gun to their heads and told them to choose McHale as their coach. Add that to relying on minimum salary/D-League guys for your bench and it's clearly Morey.

 

Josh Powell

 

morey has a contract though. and les will not be pressured to sell the team. mchale is clearly gone if we lose to portland (assuming we have no catastrophic injury to our key players). and it's very doubtlful he would get another head coach position if the rockets let him go. so he needs to win 4 of the next 7 games not only his job, but his career.