I fear that now we have gone past the tough stretch and start to relax. Coaches better be on their tails. That 3rd quarter defense and TO tonight was freaking a disgrace. That cannot happen. It's ok to lose but not like that. What was that.
Given how they handled the first month of the season against inferior opponents, it's a legitimate concern.
it's not that long ago the rockets were losing to the mavericks (twice) and the wizards. can't relax. the rockets are a nuclear stretch from harden from being barley over .500. if harden is even good rather than kobe / jordan level it's still gonnabe a dogfight for wins.
I think our mindset is locked in . But James and Austin are going to start feeling the effects of playing 40 a night . No matter how great an athlete you are .... it's an inevitability . We need CP3 and Gordon to get healthy because MDA isn't going to let anyone else try to pick up the slack . He's been playing green and Ennis in some lineups with harden as the only guard and i kind of like that ... but Ennis is a wildcard and we aren't playing Clark at all so anytime he uses that lineup it's creating a minutes strain on the froncourt . We've been playing great . But our shooting has also been fairly hot ( a lot of that due to harden) and as your legs get tired your shot goes . Weve made it through hell only to maybe be exhausted on the other side . Just have to make sure we "clap clap play harder " to get us through it
The next one is a against Cav that we freaking lost to in the first meeting. They'd better bring it and crash them. No excuse.
Not many stretch 4's who can also play competent defense. Plenty of Ryan Anderson clones out there, but take one of those only if you want to not win.
Understandable that many still don't trust this team. But last year's team is basically back now. Once CP3 and EG come back, you might argue that they're better. At least, they are deeper.
Unfortunately, yes. I'm still somewhat hopeful that he might be able to play at 70 percent of the last season, when he gets healthy and energetic. We need EG to be near his best too. Our trade assets unfortunately are weak.
Harden also isn't the same Harden. This year's team will be better than last year once we exchange Brandon Knight fir somebody good.
