ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Sixers 1/15/2024

The team was 35 wins a season last year but Silas kept them at 22.
The young core is one year more experinced, Alp, Jabari and -when he plays- Tari is better players this year.
$80M spent in summer, 2 FRP drafted , 1 lottery, 1 lottery caliber.
The whole efforts will make us 0.500 team, if possible. 5 or 6 more wins than last year team's potential.
It is not Eric Gordon's "no improvement" but certainly "not enough improvement".
We have coaching issues, hope they do better at the second part of the season.

 

LOL.

 

missed this one, but heard we were down by a whopping 28 points in the 1st half

I don’t even want to imagine just how bad the team was playing

whole squad softer than melted butter on the road

 

This game was at 12? WTF, who was the leading scorer?

 

Jock Landale was +15, the other plusses were JeeNathan and Jae'Sean.

You guess who was.

 

LOL

 

JeeNathan? Who is that? Someone get injured? If I had to guess, I'd say Sengun led all players in scoring...

 

Just checked, Jalen Green scored the most points...

 

You don't know JeeNathan?

You know nothing Jon Snow.

 

Give him max.

 

Only Sengun is getting max, Jalen is getting traded...

 

No, give him near max then. We need all of our young core.No trade.

 

Don't need a young core, Sengun is ready to win a chip now.... Trade away all the young guys and put good veterans around him. The Rockets are contenders.

 

I wouldn't even give Green KPJ's contract, let alone near max. TBH, maybe it wasn't Jalen's fault. Ime's offensive scheme does not fit Jalen. Jalen may be a better player if he was under offensive mastermind coach like Quin Snyder. We are kind of wasting our time and Jalen's time.

 

But nobody throw lob for them.

 

Sorry, it was a kind of jargon/sarcastic communication between I and Salvy. Nothing was serious.

 

Our FT % during losses has to be around 70%. Basura.

 

pretty sure @Salvy is serious as a heart attack

 

No need to apologize, as we grow older our skin got thicker by default. I kind of feel bad for Jalen. He was drafted to be a superstar, he dreamt to be a superstar, it would be hard for him to accept that he's far from that level. He must have a lot of regrets that he should have gone to the college instead of playing the g-league ignite, and he must be thinking he should spend his time wiser in the past summer. As a fan, we objectively pointed out the facts and the facts hurt, but at the end of the day Jalen is still a 21 year old kid. I wished he go to a team that his offensive skills can be utilized properly. I don't think he's as bad as Jordan Poole, but at this rate nobody will offer Jalen that Jordan Poole's contract in the open market.

 

Every single starter missed exactly 2 free throws and each rookie missed one.