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Pat blocked it and it landed on the baseline on the bounce before touching the mavs player. When i saw the replay from a better angle it looked like it may have been the correct call.

 

the ball hit the baseline and came up, that's when the mavs player got it. Pat blocked it out of bounds.

 

Harden couldn't have more of a rest because his ankle would have gone cold and wouldn't have been able to play anymore.

 

In first quarter when Lin is playing first 6 min, Mayo got 5 points, and when Lin off, TD in, Mayo got 11 points within the next 6 min. And Lin is not even guarding Mayo for that 6 min.

then in the 3rd quarter, while Lin on court, Mayo was 1-5.

so when Lin on court, Mayo got 7 pt. and he got 33 when Lin on bench.

And you consider that Lin was torched, and TD was the only answer?

 

Confirmation bias.

 

This is correct. I replayed it frame by frame and the ball landed on the baseline after PPat blocked it.....good call by ref. Sucks though.....

 

This part I don't understand, isn't that TD is even shorter than Lin, and how come coach would think a smaller PG could guard a much taller SG, whereas Parsons wasn't even be able to stop him?

 

Conspiracy Theory!!! Front office, Morey, Les, Coach are trying to pump Harden's numbers up so he'll be a true superstar and recruit his friends!!!

Conspiracy Theory!!! Front Office, Morey, Les, Coach is benching Lin so he doesn't get injured, they want to keep the Yuan flowing in!!!!!!

 

This actually makes sense. What a horrible game to watch otherwise.

 

Really scary that this was our defensive strategy. McHale's offense was Iso injured and tired Harden at PG and play only our "best" 3-pt shooters. Am not impressed.

 

Well, if you put Lin out there with Harden, he's reduced to a spot-up shooter, which he's no good at. TD is streaky as hell, but if he's hot, he's OK.

If you have Lin as PG, the offense flows, but Harden's talents are marginalized.

That's fine. But without Asik and Lin, there's no defense.

 

If you are going to do this at least play your hottest shooters. Lin was actually our best 3 pt shooter today.

 

It starts to be obvious that it really doesn't matter wether Lin is playing well or not. He will be benched just because he's simply not a fit for Harden.

And the Rockets definitely will not sacrifice Harden's production for Lin's.

Lin will be traded sooner or later unless he also becomes a scoring machine or a consistent 3pt shooter...which I just can't see either will happen in short time...

 

Parsons has a bruised shoulder bone that hampered his shooting , asik has a broken nose and shy away from contact. tough schedule. a recipe for disaster

 

I had to watch the Mavs broadcast and they clearly showed that Paterson blocked it out of bounds.