Preach on!! It always happens the same way after every game. Its a certain players fault we lost or its the coaches fault.... They never look at the situation and call it for what it truly is, we are up against a better, more experienced team. SIMPLE! We have NO scoring in the low post, not even a threat to do a post move and score or even draw fouls. We have perimeter players who need help getting their shots off. All OKC is doing is guarding Harden with a on ball defender and a help defender (or two) when he drives. This is a team that knows him best. So that adds another issue... This team, as currently constructed, is not built to beat OKC or any other good team in the NBA in a 7 game series. One game we may get hot from 3s and pull one out, but that's about it ya'll. So please stop getting upset when we lose and trying to place a blame. We made the playoffs this year so lets build up from here. This will be a interesting summer for us.
Well said. If not for the not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5 etc, they would have won the championship last year. No team is so long, a normal team would certainly have Ibaka play center and Durant play small forward but these two are elite athletes who can guard smaller players. We have zero answer for them. Since they have two dominant scorers they can play three defenders in their starting lineup, we simply have no answer to that, none of our starters are as athletic as they are. There is absolutely no chance for the Rockets to beat the Thunder, the only marginal hope would be T Jones playing out of his mind, otherwise we have to just take it as a learning experience, move on and hope the young team develop.
You still don't get the point. I'm not saying the playoff is the same as the regular season, but all we know is that the ROCKETS' fast-paced all-out offense brought them into the playoff, why change it now?
Their weaknesses got in the way. I really don't expect this team to beat OKC even though I wish they would, at least 1 or 2 games. They need this experience to build on for future seasons and playoffs. We are seeing the beginning, not the end.
To say they were playing 3 on 5 is to say that everybody in OKC's lineup was also an offensive player. But they had Thabo and Perkins out there. Both of whom are pretty terrible offensively. We were playing 3 on 3 offensively. They were just much better than us.
Okay, I'll give you Perkins, he is in Asik's level. But you did see Thabo made a couple 3pt, and some pull up jumps? He is by no means a great offensive player, but put him in the same category with Smith? Come on.
Lins wide open shots need to be made. It's that simple. Thunders game plan is to double Parsons and Harden and let Lin shoot away. Brooks or Beverly would light it up if left open. Simple solution is always the best. Let Lin rot on the bench until he learns to shoot.
In the 2012/2013 season Thabo Sefolosha averaged 7.6 points per game in 27.5 minutes per game for a per 36 minute average of 9.9 points per game. Greg Smith averaged 6.0 points per game in 15.9 minutes for a per 36 average of 13.7 points per game. Obviously Thabo has more range than Smith, they are two entirely different players. But I think it fair to say that Smith is capable of giving us the same level (or greater) of offensive production Thabo can. Thabo just played within the confines of the offense last night on a vastly superior team. Everybody on their squad looked superior to our guys.
Why bother with Dmo? We'd be way better off starting Delfino. Delfino is a better shooter, rebounder and defender at PF than Dmo.
You can only run if the other team's coaching staff is stupid enough not to tell his guys to pay attention to transition defense.
The rockets were playing there best when dmo was starting and Trob/smith were backing up. Not saying that tjones shouldn't play cause he's been very solid every ame he's played but maybe smith needs to come out the starting lineup and insert dmo, give Robinson a little burn to see if he's causing problem on the defensive end. He's gonna rebound and run the floor maybe get some easy dunks. We need to try something new cause Greg smith really hasn't played well in the last few games. Dmo will at least shoot the outside jumper. It will give the rockets more room to penetrate plus maybe dmo gets hot and he steps up in the playoffs. I'm not even a big dmo fan but the team was playing better with him starting.
Rockets prefer to run, but if it's not there, they'd like to spread the floor, move the ball quickly from side to side, which is also part of fast-paced strategy. With both Smith & Asik starting, you basically give up the half court game. So if there is no fast break opportunity, the Rockets cannot score.
Yea, but at least DMO have some low-post game which can draw the defensive attention, and free up the shooters. For Delfino, catch & shoot is the only thing he can do.
It's not their actually offensive stats, but the way they scores. Smith cannot/won't do anything with the ball 10ft+ away from the basket, so he either stays inside to jam the lane, or be ignored completely when stands 10ft+ away from the basket. On the other hand, Thabo actually can score from outside, even when guarded. That difference is huge because his defender has to stay with him, so not be able to play helping defense on Westbrook, or Durant's penetration.
TJones should start our next game imo. He's young and inexperienced, but holy hell Smith had no business being on the court that night. Not to mention Jones can rebound (he had 8 that night).
cause the thunder are a good defensive team and Rockets struggle against teams that play big time D (Pacers,Thunder,Grizz)
