ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Pelicans 12/29/2019

That about sums it up.

 

Keep Clemons, IHart and rivers.

ship out clark, house, Ben Mac, and as a last result Capela.

I'm ready to go all in for Robert Covington right now and just go small. or even Gordon hayward.

Play Clemons, EG, Harden, Russ and tucker from now in the tuckwagon lineup.

 

We played without any stars. Get real. You can't possibly expect a team of G League upgrades, bench players and a 6th man to get out there and win.

 

The post you responded to calling his comment stupid was factual.

Harden has played with GLeague players and won.

No CP3, no Capela, no EGo.

It happened last season.

Harden hate is real but the revisions in history confuse me.

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/james-harden-is-great-stop-pretending-he-isnt-11390708

 

Yes, but it doesn't win championships. Depending on one guy for offense has proven to fail, ESPECIALLY when that guy decides to stop taking shots the last 7 minutes of a winnable playoff game. Starting to think you guys are content with simply "winning some games" every year

 

This team as constructed, can not win16 games in the playoffs. Tilman can either have lux. tax and a chance to win Championship, or have Morey save Tilman money. Harden has maybe 2 or 3 more years at his peak to win it all. Tilman says if he pays lux. tax the Rockets have ti at least make the Conference finals, or heads will roll. Well Morey you need to Sh#t or get off the pot. Go for it. If Tilman fires you, plenty of teams will give you a job. If not stay Tilmans B#tch and Shut up and listen.

 

Again here we see the weakness of MDA's coaching, all he knows is to rely on a HOF pg like Nash or Harden. He cant win without an abundance of talent even if the opponent is a lotto bound team. There was a distinct lack of direction and discipline on the team, they dont know what they are doing just playing streetball out there. I dunno if a new coach can do better but he probably wont do worse than MDA since MDA barely does anything except let Harden do everything.

 

The team is already good enough what are you even smoking? We are paying the money to Harden and WB, take Kawhi and PG or Lebron and AD out what do those teams look like? You cant have 5 allstars on your team unless you have a beta b**** like KD.

This is a coaching issue when the coach plays just 6 guys every game and has no other plan than let Harden freestyle obv they are gonna look lost and tired af when Harden is out. Why we even have WB, Harden and Capela out? Is it because those guys have been playing 39-40 min games lately?

 

It has nothing to do with anything. I am not saying it isn't true. My point was that it was a stupid comment. What does James winning with role players have to do with last night's game? Apples and Oranges. No G League upgrades and bench team led by a 6th man playing off of convalescent leave should be compared to a star with better role players.

Right now, without Ariza and Luc, we are a less defensive team. We will be lucky to win a Championship even with James, Clint, EGO, and Russ healthy. We have yet to replace what we lost in Ariza and Luc's combination of experience, wingspan, and skills.

 

I wonder why Harry didn't attempt a 3 in these last 2 games. I want to see that next. Come on Harty, you can do it.

 

naw house to me makes covington unnessary. i honest think he just gonna ne a better player

 

lol this is dumb. bro u do know we rested the big 3....here we go again. i swear clutchfans be better

 

I think what comes out of this game is
1. Hartenstein - is ready to take 15~20 minutes a game. He is in the role Capela was when we had Howard
2. Clark - can spell PJ a solid 10~15 minutes a night - PJ SHOULD NOT be going 40 a night.
3. Clemons should get 5~10 minutes a night - Shifting Harden or Ego to the SF position
4. House - needs to remain aggresive
5. Ego is still Ego

Chandler, NeNe and Thabo - are there for emergency and mentoring purposes only.


Rocket River

 

The 4th quarter shows that people not use to playing heavy minutes .. . . started to get tired.
They have not learned how to play tired
or pace themselves
It showed in the 4th
DanAndToni did them no favors. . . Thabo and Chandler should have gotten some time last nite
because it was an emergence.

Rocket River

 

When a franchise claims to have championship aspiration, being middle of the pack in 1 of the 2 main phases of the game is terrible. As an organization and a fan base, we’ve wanted to compete for a title since Harden arrived. In the seasons MDA has been at the helm, we have consistently been a below average defensive team, with the notable exception of one year. Defense is half of the damn game. How many teams have won titles with those kinds of stats?

MDA being canned in LAL and NYC plus being left in on Philly’s bench until Alexander forced Morey to hire him tells me that there wasn’t a great demand for his services. Certain aspects of his game plans have become very popular, yet it doesn’t appear that too many teams lining up to hire him.

 

we are a lottery team without Harden..confirmed..

 

you’re targeting MDA for the defense when Morey and Tilman have given him sus defensive personnel (either undersized, unathletic, old, or a combo of all 3)...it’s not all on him

poor PJ pretty much has to anchor the defense by himself, and the dude is 34 and undersized

patiently waiting for them to bring in high level wing defenders to replace what we lost with Ariza and Luc...it’s been 2 years and counting

even now, the defensive rating when our starters are on the floor is 97.3 in 304 minutes...that is elite...for reference, the Bucks are the best defensive team in the NBA with a 101.3 rating...the problem is that once he starts bringing in the bench players, we begin to hemorrhage points...the same bench players y’all continuously kill MDA for not playing more

teams weren’t lining up to hire him because he was coming off 2 bad stints...in NY where careers go to die, and in LA where he had an ill-fitting team with poor chemistry both on and off the floor, and then later after Dwight left, a team filled with no-name scrubs

get MDA good defensive players, and it’s been proven that u can have a good defense with him as head coach

 

I don't know anything about Covington because I never watch his team play. House might be better in the future, but he isn't the defensive player we really need to make our defense better.

 

After this team, as it now is, flames out again, remember that i told you this team can not win 16 games in the playoffs.