ClutchFans Game Thread: Nuggets @ Rockets 11/7/2012

Man, someone needs to make McHale answer why he didn't insert Jones in the game, to matchup against the Nuggets' hustle players. Sounds like a lack of confidence in our rooks.

 

+1 Lin has a good pull up, a good turnaround, should post up or flash post little guards like Lawson.

 

You lost me after, "learn from Toney Douglas" but I get what you are saying. If he hopes to make a long-standing career in the NBA he needs to be consistent. Also, it doesn't help if he is passing up on an open 3 point shot.

 

dude hes not mediocre its 4 games in you do remember he had 21-10-7 a couple nights ago ya ? his defense is pretty good and hes gettin there the offense wont be good til @ least 15 games in dont go judging stuff like that , we got pissed when we got rid of skip and got aaron that worked out , we got pissed when we got rid of brooks and got lowry and dragic that worked out , so have some faith and stop being stupid 4 games means nothing

 

at least douglas can hit the rim...

ok so he got 6 steals big deal. you know what? scrubs hustle, because they have nothing else to show for. also he got those steals because he played the passing lane too aggressively, and thus got burned by lawson on numerous occasions.

linsanity is a fluke

 

Seriously, I think the last two games show that the Rox coaching staff doesn't have that much trust of Lin. They are taking away his game.

 

Rockets missed Asik to hold up the defense in the 4th.

 

So many people played terrible today guys smh. It's always the same people to blame with you idiots. Lin and Harden. Lin and Harden. Blah Blah. There are players on our team that shouldn't even be in the NBA. The Nuggets are a well rounded team with no glaring weakness in any position and with a coach much better than ours. You can't pin every loss on the same guy.

 

McHale: We didn't cut and move. Ran out [of?] a funk offense. No ball movement, no body movement, not cutting, sticky. A lot of stuff to correct. We have to correct it.

We had 20 turnovers. Self-inflicting gun shot wounds.

We need to have more ball and body movement. We need better flow. Can't have breakdowns on D. We need more reps. We need to be more diligent in doing it. We're not as diligent as we need to be. We're taking shortcuts here and there. For 2nd game in a row at home, we were flat in moments in that game. It's like we're having a hard time to get the motor going [&] where we can roll off points in a row.

We're stuck in the mud right now(on how the game feels). Ball feels sticky in everyone's hand. Very frustrating. I know how we want to play and what we have to do but we're not doing it.

Pat played well. Pat is a solid defender and real good team defender and knows what he's doing. Did a good job tonight. We're gonna need that effort out of Patrick.

One thing I know, they're a good group. They don't want to play bad. They want to play good. We're in a funk. The game feels hard. It doesn't feel like it's flowing. We have to get rolling and flowing. Young group that hasn't played a lot of basketball together. We gotta do what we do. We took shortcuts on both sides of the ball. We have to establish our identity. We have to be a push and pace team.

We're sticky with our feet and hands. We're not moving enough.

 

hmmm....last week I would said, Hell no!

but by now I've seen enough of Toney Douglas. Anyone please replace him.

 

LOH alerts

 

Uh, most of his steals were from strips, not intercepted passes.

 

The first 2 games Jeremy was still running the offense and Harden was playing off him. After Harden put up those MOSTER games coaching staff creamed themselves and decided Harden is Michael Jordan so now he is playing PG and SG at the same time while Jeremy sits in the corner or at the 3 point line being a spectator on offense.

No pick and rolls run for Lin at all. No drive and kicks, or drives at all. Just the same set play for Harden where the result was a turnover or a bad shot with the clock winding down.

Go back to what worked McFail!

 

I was just being facecitious... as bad as douglas is.. it looks like he doesn't give a crap and takes shots. That is the attitude Jeremy is missing. IF you look at his offensive game closely and compare to his linsanity days, you can tell he doesn't have any confidence in his shot.

IMO he is jsut a consistent jump shot away from superstardom. But like a stereotypical asian, he is "shy"ing away.

 

ya i'm kinda disappointed...i felt they didn't really left Lin do his thing

 

You can if it's the same guy.

 

Bad night for Harden... looks like he's coming down to earth

 

Our offense is pretty much the same on every play. Lin takes the ball up to the perimeter, hands it off to Harden and then hides in an invisible hut in the corner. This is partly McHale's fault because he has to implement different sets in the offense and call different plays.

 

Who exactly are you talking about?

Patterson put up 18 points.
Asik got 10 and 13.
Delfino scored 19 points.
Cole Aldrich played a HUGE part in that 3rd quarter run.

Marcus Morris was off tonight. Same goes for Parsons.

I guess those two qualify as "so many people."

 

Except it's not. Asking Harden to ISO heroball and Lin to stand in the corner all game long is moronic... but feel free to hate on the players instead, you can't help it if you can't understand how basketball is played.