You didn't answer my question about Anderson. If the Rox offense is so easy to figure out the the Rox wouldn't be 3rd seed in the league wtf. Regular season Ander would give you 15 pts on near 40% 3pt shooting Playoff Anderson is like 3-24 or some BS. Thats not due to game plan that is extreme variance brought upon by a subpar player making more money than he should be making and thus taking on a heavier role than he should be doing.
Nobody is denying intangibles are important. But I dont get ur point though, league is about pts pts pts but the Rox didnt even break 100 and Anderson/Nene/Williams were combined 1 pt. If anything it shows how important pts are, all the intangibled won't save you if you can't shoot crap.
It is due to game plan. They let Ryan catch way outside. And they they collapse on him. Keep staring at those regular season numbers though.
they mixed it up for the most part when James Harden drives. Anytime he was successful they started coming over to help out here and there trying to pack it a little bit to bait him into passing like what we did against Westbrook. when the shooters are doing that poorly they would rather do everything it takes to stop james from getting it going even if that means a late contested/slightly rushed three-pointer. they trusted Kawai Leonard to guard him one on one for the most part with a big helping when he could. James Harden is also more worried than he should be at times and rushing when Leonard is guarding him. Yes Kawai Leonard is in James Harden's head. the man stopped the LeBron, so I don't blame him but he has to realize this.
The one thing I've always questioned about Harden, Lillard, and Kyrie: do they want their team to win as bad as they want to be the man scoring the basket if they do. Honestly, Curry wants to win, he is a team guy despite his scoring. I really don't think harden, lillard and kyrie are the same. Westbrook wants to win, but he also doesn't trust anybody more than himself to get it done. so he is different.
Yes, a 7 footer that can shoot the 3ball would have helped because Pau would have had to come out and guard him.....if that is too sophisticated for you to understand, so be it. DD
The Rockets play a style that has the best shot of beating the Warriors, which is to get really lucky in a small sample size (variance) to outscore them. They've over performed all season but really aren't supposed to beat the Spurs. Hopefully the luck changes but the most common scenario for them to be in right now is down 2-1, so this isn't all that surprising.
Harden is an average point guard as far as running the team is concerned. That may be the problem, but then again, harden is only effective when the ball is in his hands, and he has a high usage rate. It's very difficult problem to figure out what to do, because harden isn't going to get much better at running the team, and that's a problem.
This has been Harden in the playoffs for so long now. He is the anti-Westbrook. He's trying to be unselfish and it is actually a detriment to the team. Sometimes he needs to take what is given to him. For instance, tonight he kept the team close by driving into the paint and taking the layup even against the big man. Then, in the 4th, the Spurs lead spread to 10+ because he kept passing up layups to force the ball out to people that weren't open.
Harden made incorrect reads tonight. SAS are staying home on the shooters. He needs to trust Capela more against Gasol, but I think the poor (rigged) officiating in Game 2 left too permanent an impression. Expect him to improve in game 4.
