ClutchFans Game Thread: Celtics @ Rockets 3/3/2018

Toronto is really really good.

That' the toughest game left

 

Non boring win is not boring, Rox prevailed. Kudos to a worthy opponent.

 

No doubt about it. OKC are a tough matchup too, when they get going.

 

Indeed, 44-20 is nothing to sneeze at with Kyrie and their big frontline/ depth. I hope MDA will always keep the Prince in the last few crucial minutes in a tough game. Go Houston Rockets!

 

Props to Ariza and EG tonight. They are invaluable to us.

 

Tucker, Luc, Ariza, Harden and Paul should be our starters in the crunch 4th quarter, unless Capela is having a big game. EG can come in a pinch when needed.

 

Anyone see that crazy irving shot over Godan where he was fouled? Didn't it look like he first dribbled it out of bounds? Never saw a replay though

 

Jeff Van Gundy talking about the Rockets in the 1st quarter, "They have no weaknesses."

 

I'm just irritated that SportsCenter used most of their allocation on Celtics-Rockets to trash Capela. Ridiculous.

 

This game, more than any other this season, shows us how important is to have quality role players surrounding our two superstars. E. Gawd, Ariza and Tucker were just terrific.

Ariza may be getting older, but dude brings championship caliber play like that crucial steal and bucket in the 4th quarter.

Morey had got to find a way to keep this group together.

 

Couldn't agree more. I have to shake my head at those who think that Capela wouldn't be hard to replace. He's a key part of this team, a perfect fit, in my opinion, and only getting better. Morey has to figure out how to keep him.

 

No doubt about it. Prince Luc played good defense too, and good ol Nene
brought energy too.

 

It was great to see the Big E in the tunnel talking to Harden after the win.
He is a Rockets legend. Harden is maturing. His comment, we have a long way to go, shows he is humble and hungry.
Go Houston Rockets!

 

I would have agreed with you at the time, but damn... MDmA made the perfect call! PJ Tuckwagon came up BIG!

 

Your posting is lazy and terrible. My god.

 

Funniest part of the game was the broadcasting crew giving a little kid with a high pitched voice a mic to scream in the last minute to torture Celtics fans watching. I read the Celtics reddit and they wanted to strangle that kid so bad lol.

 

Man wish I got to catch the whole game, but was itching to watch the full highlights. All I knew was that this would be one of our real "tests" in a long time and that prior rockets teams were bound to lose these types of games to worthy opponents. But somehow, I thought to myself "if we can win games like these, I think harden's right that this is our year." I thought that having checked the score going into the 4th and seeing harden's stat line show he was struggling with his shot. So crazy how it was EG, Ariza, & Tucker who really won us the game. Who would have guessed that a game with our two stars struggling against the 4th best team in the league, that our role players would win us the game?!? So glad EG showed up. When his aim is on, we must have like 98.985% chance of winning ...

Having missed the game I missed a lot of the in-between that doesnt show up in even the full highlights. What was really going on with cp3 and harden? It looked like they were both struggling defensively in the highlights but not sure.

 

Just watched and it was Ariza's man. Confusion with him and Capela switching.

 

Celtics were taking advantage of the Rockets switching everything to get the a big on a guard and vice versa and they made us pay almost every time. Just smart coaching by Stevens to use our excessive switch everything philosophy against us.