ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Blazers 3/30/2017

Oh boy you going get heat for this comment. DD has fallen in love with another white player.

 

3 L's in a row incoming

 

10:45 start in east coast... I enjoy 5 hours of sleep during these west coast games

 

Rockets do not look like they care one bit.

 

It's the night against us because we're a team playing no defense lol

 

Difference is westbrook only use 5 second to get a shot up, harden uses 24 seconds

 

Pretty sure he got extended last offseason.

Don't think he's a FA for a while.

 

Harden has lost his MVP with all these down the stretch Ls and if Morey doesn't force rest Harden for the playoffs, we might be out in the first round.

 

Lou needs to step it up now

 

he's only being assisted on 31% of his threes which is a career low by far (previous career low was 48% during his 1st season in Houston)

he hasn't been able to make these threes off the dribble for almost 2 years now

 

Gordon needs to catch fire

 

How did Harden not burn Lillard one-on-one?

 

About a month and a half ago I thought this team was title contender material...now I just think they're a standard playoff filler team. They had a fun run but they are laughably not even close to competing with the real teams. They basically got run out of their own building by a short-handed Warriors team, and now they're getting over-powered by a mediocre Blazers team. This team has no will or no desire, OR they just aren't that good. I think its clear that if you defend the 3 against them, they have no counter, and its not that hard to defend them at the 3 point line. I just think they still need more post/rebounding presence AND a GOOD 3-pt shooter. Guys are FAR too erratic from 3 to rely on it like they do. YES, they won games, but everyone knows the playoffs are what counts. Gordon is cold, Anderson is likely to be erratic, Harden is absolutely cold (wrist issue included), Ariza is erratic, Beverley is erratic, and everyone else is just bad.

 

Maybe the rockets were coasting. Maybe they pick it up in the 4th.

 

Gotta play harder.

 

That's an understatement.

There's his first bucket in the last minute of the third...

Somebody needs to make a Lou Williams hot streak indicator based on matchups, frequency of his shots going in, and how many times he three wayed the night before. Then take those numbers and email them to Morey and MDA so they can adjust accordingly. We can't afford his limited D and 0-fer nights

We could that smooth scorer tomorrow.

 

Are we going to end this night well?

 

Leonard won't be a free agent for another 3 years

 

and Westbrook makes the shot

 

I wish in 2017 we could see our team play well for ore than 1 game. So inconsistent. It doesnt matter WHO we play, everything is always about IF we hit our 3s.

No matter what, the other team is going to shooter better than their average against us, Harden will have good stats, we will get outrebounded, and none of our players shoot well back to back.

We could win or lose against any team in the league, and its pretty maddening.