ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Thunder 12/9/2016

Preach brother, preach.

 

Awesome 5 game winning streak!

Interestingly it appears Morey's philosophy of all 3's and layup/dunks is proving successful now that we have a team full of solid shooters. So many guys can get hot and we've seen Ariza, Anderson, and Gordon just go off at times.

Rebounding and defensive effort continues to get better and better. Lots of forced turnovers and crashing the offense glass. Think what the record would be if Bev started from day one and Ennis was sacking groceries like he should be!

 

Yeah because clearly Harden isn't an elite player!! Harden isn't as athletic as most superstar players, but he is crafty as hell, excellent at changing speed and direction. I think at this point in time it should be clear that he IS an elite player.

On topic: ugly but great win tonight. Shots weren't falling, but different players came up big at different points of the game. Also, Bev was fantastic tonight.

As for Harden, come on people...be happy that the team could pull this off, on the road, with Harden having an off-night. His shot didn't fall, but he did other things!! You can't expect your star players to have it going every night...you need other players on the team to step up and they did that tonight! Y'all should be happy about that. Reading this board, you'd think we lost the game.

 

I'm sorry. Just had to log in and point to this. Relax a little. He looked bad, but lighten up. It can't be healthy living like that.

 

lol. I almost knocked his ass over

 

I actually don't care about bad shooting, except at least Harden should've stepped up late in the 4Q. But more than that, he needs to cut down on those unforced live ball turnovers man, it really makes my blood boil because they are so preventable and directly leads to points for the opponent. MDA has to have serious talk about this with Harden, otherwise we are going nowhere.

 

Dude could care less about the Harden vs Westbrook stuff, I will take the W all day everyday.

 

I really don't think Harden played poorly like many mentioned.

He was facing an elite defender today and yes he did committed lots of TOV, and he didn't shot well, but most of the time he was very aggressive and decisive, very few bad possessions except in the last couple minutes when he forced to play ISO because the whole team is stone cold.

It's not really about the results, his efforts actually is much better than many other games he got the numbers.

His overall defense is still bad, but he is much more engaged tonight.

 

Russell Westbrook struggled to shoot when he was guarded by Patrick Beverley Friday. Westbrook shot 16.7% when guarded by Beverley, who contested 10 of Westbrook's 12 attempts as his primary defender.

 

[THREAD TITLE]Are we just going to ignore the fact that Harden is leading the league in assists?

 

ugly win, refs tried to give it away, Harden was forcing it all night on his shots. I'll take it though!

 

What streak?

 

Simple question for the harden haters

Who in the league can you replace harden with for tonight's game and lead the rockets to winning?

 

Some of you are too caught up over stupid ass sh** like the Harden/WB statistical matchup, rather than focusing on the W. The team won despite every call going OKC's way and Harden made the crucial close out on Morrow on the last play. Save your ire for Brewer and his two clanked FTs, which triggered the Thunder's comeback

 

Not true.

http://vorped.com/1-nba/2015-2016/player/1416/donatas-motiejunas/shotchart/

He's a top of the key 3pt shooter. A good one.

 

Klay Thompson.

Clown Question..

 

Brewer certainly sucks

 

I'm proud of our defense. Bev was clutch in that regard. Time to chase down the Clippers and Spurs for second place in the conference. We were there two years ago. We should get there again.

 

Steph Curry

Spoiler: wait for it...

lul, jk obviously. Imo, only Lebron