ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Warriors 10/17/2017

Lmao SAS is dumbfounded on SportsCenter.

 

Agree with all those gravitational observations;

Gordon looked faster, improved
Tucker looked gangsta from three
Moute was playing great d and scoring at his discretion.

Everyone made some noise tonight. Even cp3.

 

Seth Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, David West, Shaun Livingston and Nick Young had no help tonight.

 

I'm watching the replay of the cavs game. This is a weird scene when Hayward breaks his leg man

 

Mike D'Antoni: "Somebody said we don't take it seriously on defense. Well obviously (Warriors) don't take it seriously either"

lmaooo got their asses

 

Goodnight y'all, hahahaha.

 

Someone please post that **** lol

 

Did he seriously say that?

 

I not shure

 

Tiz ok budd... Weee one

 

lol yes

 

There's a video on ESPN right now behind the scenes where CP3 asks where he should go to play off the ball. That he's tired of being on the ball all the time. I think you're straight up wrong. I rarely if ever disagree with you because your takes are good. This one... not so much.

 

Few notes:

• The Warriors' biggest enemy is the injury bug. Keep an eye out on Green. He's absolutely their most critical piece.
• If the Chuckwagon could shoot threes, you'd get P.J. Tucker. Nice to have a Longhorn in the main rotation. Absolute bulldog that perfectly fits what we're looking for on the defensive side, AND he can hit threes? Ridiculous bargain for Morey.
• I like the rotations where we went small with Anderson or Tucker at C. Clearly way more effective than when Capela was in there.
• Capela easily had the worst +/- on the team with -23. Sorry, but if Morey's whole plan is to build a roster to beat Golden State, Capela shouldn't be on it. He absolutely needs to be on the trading block. Hopefully we can get a star or at least someone who helps the team and provides a little more value.
• Is Gordon anti-aging? WTF were those dunks? Great to see him in shape and ready to kill people out there. I'm sure @Clutch loved seeing the Rockets players picking on Jordan Bell throughout the game.
• Ryan Anderson consistently has great games @ Golden State. He's a keeper. Really impressed with his offensive rebounding in this game.
• CP3 obviously didn't play his best game and was banged up, but he still showed some flashes on why Morey brought him. Made an incredible defensive play to strip the ball from Durant which led to a Capela dunk. It's weird to look at the box score and see he got 11 assists when I didn't even think he was involved much in the offense. Just shows how quietly effective he can be. When the Rockets started their 4th quarter run, CP3 was the PG at the time, so that's a good sign
• What's going to be incredible about the Rockets' offense this year is the relentlessness, since Harden or CP3 will always be on the court. No more dropoffs because Harden is on the bench. Do you understand how amazing that's going to be? The other team can't take us lightly at any point of the game now. I predict this offensive system will become so successful that it will start to get replicated throughout the league. A dual PG rotation with staggered minutes.

 

I don't think we played anywhere near our best and still won. Positives were

Harden's clutch playmaking and scoring in the last few minutes

EG being the guy keeping us in it all night

Tuckers vet leadership and big shot making

Luc's offensive out burst at the start of the 4th where most of his points came off CP3


I'm not looking at the negatives because most of them can be corrected.Unlike yester years this team has pretty much every aspect of the game coverd. Also i'm glad we did not giveup EG for Melo since I believe EG is the better player at this stage of Melo's career

 

it's steven

 

Well, we'll see. I think CP3 will just be relieved that he has another guy on his team that can actually play on his level and be better than him and not be expected to carry the team every night.

But the premise is quite simple for me. Harden is a better SG than CP3 ever will be. So when they are on the floor together, why would you swap their roles? In reality, they will share the ball any ways because that's how these things work, roles aren't so strict, but Harden actually has plenty experience in this role. CP3 just doesn't. He's always been the PG for his team, I don't expect him to really do too much off the ball now. He'll shoot and create and always be a positive on the floor regardless....

But it's not his game. Curry, for example, is a great off ball PG. I'm not so sure CP3 is that...but he'll always be a positive on offense because he's CP3.

 

except cp3 is an offensive monster looks like he's nursing an injury is playing through. donkey didn't want to play when he got hurt

 

He looked ridiculous... what the hell did he do this offseason...?

 

I would've been so pissed if we lost by 1 point since that PJ Tucker flagrant on KD was such horse manure. Glad to have a player a tough player like Tucker who's not shy to foul hard though.