We are a team who finds excuses and focus too much on the refs which has been a problem the whole year. Just fight already! We need to change our identity and adapt if they feel the refs are not calling fouls. Damn straight we soft and it starts with MDA.
yep only thing hard here is Harden who drives and sacrifices his body & healthy almost 20 times a game
They are also extremely well coached. Their second unit doesn’t blow 20 point leads in 6 minutes. Their system works with any player. It’s spurs 2.0 there in golden state
Even if it were true, it wouldn't matter. A finesse team could win an NBA title, even if you think it has never happened before. It's part of all sports. There are different styles. If we're good at something, we should do it as much as possible. I don't care about this branding exercise. We have as many tough players as most former NBA champions. Tucker, Ariza, Moute, Paul, Gordon and Nene are not soft. Capela is good most of the time. Harden is a rock on offense, and while his defense sucks he is certainly not soft on that side of the ball. If anything, it's his overaggressiveness coupled with his lack of alertness that makes him so bad at it. I don't think we have soft players. Not even Anderson is soft, he won't ALLOW people to push him around, but it's just far easier for people to go around him. Capela shrinks sometimes, which is irritating right now, but if you're honest with yourself it's as much as you can expect from him. He hasn't promised more. What he has promised is that he will slowly get there rather than not improving anymore. I'm happy with that - teams have won a ring with less talented core role players. The schedule is much harder than before guys. We're going through EXACTLY what we went through last season. People think everything we do from this point forward should be compared to our red-hot start, just like last season. #1 seed in the West was not our average, that's not our comparison point. If anything, our record right now is a perfect reflection of this team: with normal injuries here and there, we can manage to end up 2nd in the West. There are 8 new players on this team and a new PG and we lost each of our two best players for a month each, along with other minor injuries. If you're all over the place right now, the problem is you not the Rockets. You let yourself believe something else, and that's causing you to point fingers at the team rather than yourself. We're going through a rough stretch right now obviously, but our overall record is one that we should be extremely proud of. The team has shown elite offense and elite defense in big chunks. Harden and Paul are meshing nicely. We have nice depth to deal with injuries. It is painfully obvious we are neither going to be as good as our start or as bad as our recent slump. All I care about now is how we do in the remaining games against the Warriors, Spurs, Celtics, Cavs, OKC and Minny. Our record in those games with Harden and Paul healthy is the only important factor. I'm no longer interested in this repetitive drivel about peaks and valleys in the regular season. What's indicative to me is how this team does when healthy against those 6 teams.
I dun care if by saying we are a finesse team we admit that we are a team without consistent Defense. Defense wins championships, I dun care about how much finesse we got as long as we play consistent D.
Agree 100%...i would say just let the coach deal with the refs but MDA has no clue when to call a TO i dont know how he would do managing a ref the whole game. But to your point, too much whining. Get after it play after play , the focus should be on the court only but too many times ive seen us get derailed because of the constant whining. Refs pretty much are always gonna be bad you can count on it now, so zone it out. I dont feel we have seen this team ever in the "zone." That would look freaking scary as ****
Webber makes our team sucks at defence. I suggest MDA to use green cp3 and eg. Webber just makes a big hole. Cut him and buy bogut better at least he can gtab some rebounds
We've seen it before and we'll see it again --- Stick a 7 foot monster in the paint, put everyone else on the three point line, watch the Rockets die.
Also averaged 2 points per game during his greatest days and would likely be a marginal improvement from Briante Weber, unfortunately.
I will agree to an extent. Healthy, I think they are tough team. Injured, i feel like there are some business decisions being made. There is an element of basketball that the cameras don’t focus on. The intangible, the stat-less, the element is will. And it certainly encompasses toughness. Do you have the will and toughness to set a hard screen, an effective screen? The will, the toughness to box a guy out 15 ft from the basket who is trying to trail a shot? The will the toughness on the other side of screens to drop a shoulder into it and let the screener know what the price will be? Do you have the will to keep running when your legs are tired but you see your defender sucking wind? Are you tough enough to close out hard on shots? To keep your hands up and active on defense when your arms are burning? I see an injured team making business decisions. Getting picked on one side, getting blown up on picks to theother side. Not boxing out. Not pushing through fatigue.
How many points is Tucker averaging again? Difference between Weber and Liggins is not marginal, especially on D. One has proven he can lock up Steph Curry.
