ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Pacers 3/27/2016

There might even be an iota of truth in there.

Morey never had to face complete failure before in his great career.

 

Didn't had that much problem playing with Lin, so no

 

Exactly, this season is on Morey alone.

 

I'm not saying Bickerstaff is a bad coach because that would be fair for the 36 year old, but his basketball I.q is not very high. That or he's just stubborn as heck. How do you not play Gouldlock? His do you leave Dwight in the game instead of DmO when you need a three? Why do you play these horrendous three small forward lineups that make the team get killed in the boards. Bickerstaff is costing he rockets games and there's a chance they won't make the playoffs now because of him. He obviously won't be the Rockets coach next year but he still needs to coach well for other job offers, and he's really Effin up the rotations.

 

Morey is more at fault than JB. We have no other scorer other than Harden. How can you expect to win games like that? jeeez..

 

Why does JB have Beasley passing the ball in when he doesn't pass at all. It should have been DMO.

Rockets had 3 chances to tie the game and had no plan all 3 times.

Rockets had the most success when Harden was running the PG with 4 defenders around him. All of sudden JB takes out the line up that was working.

Rockets can't get a defensive rebound to save their lives...

 

I'm not talking about playmaking im talking about being able to dribble the basketball to the hopp when harden has 3 guys on him.

Ariza gets so many open lanes to the hoop with scrambling defenses and never capatlizes.

 

I feel bad for JB.. He's had all the pressure put on him. That's no excuse though. It's just unfortunate he was under the tutelage of McHale for the last few years.. He could probably be a good coach if he had a better mentor.

 

Morey gave him a line up, and he keep having key stretches where he find the way to put the worst possible combination out there.

Is been all season but since Beasley is on the team the rockets had a great chance of winning every game, but JB keep finding a way to screw up.

 

J.B. once again plays Harden the entire second half and he ends up with 44 minutes. Harden has nothing left at the end of these close games, they are running him into the ground.

Why did he take McDaniels out of the game when he was making a huge impact defensively?

Why not put Goudelock, or even DMo in for Howard on the last play? Makes zero sense, seeing that they needed a three at that point.

 

Even mediocre teams like Indiana have two offensive go-to-guys (Paul George and Monta Ellis). This is the case with almost every decent team. Who is our second go-to-guy?

 

Lin didn't even handle the ball that much, that's the point. People who are suppose to handle the ball become useless next to Harden

 

If Beasley doesn't step up, we're f***ed, because this is Harden's one-man-team on the offensive side.

 

And Morey got him Beasley who is scoring at top 10 in the entire NBA rate with goat percentages and with Dmo Starting to play better there is plenty of scoring options to bad JB don't know how to use it.

 

Anyone else think Harden's been hit & miss closing games this season because he keeps playing 40 minutes night in night out? He literally didn't rest the entire second half.

What 8/9 games to go and we still don't have an effective lineup that can buy us time with Harden out the game. Pathetic.

 

I agree all your said.

Coach is the most important issue Rockets have.

This team has talents, but can't display...

 

Mchale taught JB everything he knew. Coach harder, coach harder!

 

Beasley + Harden miles above PG + monta

 

Plus, how many awful games Howard playing recently?

Can we say Howard is done as a garbage player?

 

Westbrook and Lin shared the ball Harden, and had no problem playing with him, so you're wrong