ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Raptors 3/9/2018

Loved the fight from the Rockets.

Hard e for me to be upset.

Rockets were going to lose eventually might as well be against legit comp.

 

No Lebron finals? NBA can’t allow that.

 

YESSSSSSS

 

Raptors definitely treated this game as if it were the finals. Their commentator even said JV's free throws were "the biggest of his career", found that funny for a regular season game.

 

if it was game seven of the finals, lowry would have shot 3-14.

 

Yes, CP3 had a bad game. But it was ONE bad game. He's been great for us all season long so lets stop bashing him so hard for this one.

These players are human, they'll have off nights every once in a while.

 

Iffffff

The Warriors lose tonight...

This game means nothing. Let’s go Blazers. No steph.

 

I can handle any loss where the Rox play with pride. Losses are part of the game. Continue to work on game plans and execution and the results will follow. I'm proud of the Rox tonight. They didn't give up and I can't wait to see them compete in the playoffs.

 

Yea we were down all game double digits even the 4th they had a double digit deficit. Then they started to cut it closer.

A Capela dunk or two or three would have given us the game. Or if Cp3 didn’t turn it over or if Harden had stolen that ball when we were tied. Or that terrible pass by Harden after horrible clock management. Or if Cp3 had gone for the 2 instead of 3. Or if that 3 had gone in.
Or if the refs hadn’t called anything and waited for a jump ball.

So many things went wrong. Seriously so many;
We were down by a lot I thought we wouldn’t even get closer and would lose by 20 or maybe 30 the way it was looking.
No one played well except Harden.
No one made their 3s really and barely even attempted them. Tucker and Cp3 made a lot of turnovers. Harden didn’t get some calls inside that should have been. Luc didn’t shoot threes when he was open same with Tucker. Ariza couldn’t buy a thing same thing with Eric. Capela and Joe were trash. Joe didn’t attempted those open threes and the one that he did he bricked.
Green didn’t even play. I thought I saw nene but he barely played maybe too fast pace for him. Ryan, wright didn’t even play or Black. Capela was super soft tonight like some games when they body him up or plays against a good skilled big.
They missed their threes.

After all these it got close it was tied and we could have won, we fought hard. Man this is a good team even though nothing went right. Even when the refs didn’t call anything on our favor when it mattered we could have won and we almost had it.
We will take it.
I’ll take it

 

Can they copy and paste their players though. No other team has such a crazy bench

 

I'm mad, so I won't stick around and rain on everyone's parade. Hoping for more from CP3 going forward. The sample size isn't huge or anything, but I don't see any way you can justify playing Johnson over Green. It doesn't make any sense. He's shown us nothing, and the stats back it up.

 

Delete

 

Congrats to the Raptors. They played pretty close to the games of their lives and barely beat us in their home.

On to the next streak.

 

Hope these guys come back strong and protect the HCA against the Warriors.

 

They “Lowry’d their way to victory. If he just goes 50% on 3s we probably win

 

Seems like the comment element is they can neutralize Capela with bigger, stronger guys. Capela's made such good progress but he needs to play with some more aggression sometimes.

That said, if Chris Paul plays his normal game the Rockets probably win this one handily. He didn't look good in this one and despite a few nice plays never really came around.

 

I heard that too hahahhaha

 

Was that the worst quarter or period of the season for the Rockets (in the 1st)? Surely, it had to be.

 

Is that what you think? Or what he said?

 

yeah, they relentlessly went after the mismatch.

What hurt is it was VanVleet dusting JJ, not Lowry or Demar. I know VanVleet is good, but man he isn't super star level.