THIS. Patterson did nothing. Not one thing. Ok, I think he hit one or two open jumpers; I'll give him that. In the roughly 8 major statistical categories and 4 hustle/awareness/effort categories. Morris gives you a few categories. Other guys give you a few categories. My pick is Greg Smith, who gives you the most categories and contributions at the 4 spot.
Here are my categories and ratings for Patterson's play at the 4 thus far: 1. Offensive Rebounding: D- 2. Defensive Rebounding: D- 3. Shotblocking: D 4. Screen-setting: F 5. Intimidation and enforcement: F 6. Boxing out and individual position defense: C 7. Help defense: D 8. 3-point shooting: B 9. Midrange outside shooting: A 10. Foul drawing: F 11. Steals: D- 12. Loose balls & deflections: F 13. Hustle & Awareness: D 14. Post-scoring: D- 15. Passing: C 16. Ballhandling: C Totals: A-1, B-1, C-3, D-7, F-4
It's a big problem when you literally don't even feel the presence of Ppat below the boards in the entire game, let alone see it.
A friend of mine had a baby. I don't know what to give her for the shower, baby wipes or Patrick Patterson?
Man I hope he get traded at the deadline. His cheap, multi-year contract is the only reason he has some potential value. His value drops as an expiring next season.
Monster night on the boards for Patterson tonight! Almost Kevin Love-esque! With that said he played better tonight so that is good to see.
You guys all notice why teams now are just leaving Patterson wide open...? They don't even bother guarding Patterson at all and just double team the ball handler which is Lin or Harden. Opponents will keep leaving and ignoring Patterson and double up on the ball handler, which makes it much tougher for Lin and Harden to get the offense going. There was a possession tonight against the Wizards, where Harden and Patterson ran a high P&R. The defense ran up and doubled Harden leaving Patterson open, Harden led the double team away and pass the ball to an open Patterson who has an open lane all the way to the rim, stood there for a bit until he finally made the decision to take it to the basket. But that's rare for Patrick. He doesn't take advantage of taking it to the rim strong when left open, and continues to take wide open mid range shots. Also, with his big frame, he does not like to bang down low and fight for rebounds. His rebounds average is 4.9 per game, which is absolute terrible for a starting PF.
Yes I saw that. Also his attempt to post up all the way at the 3 point line was really embarrassing & getting his shot blocked as well. Like I said nobody is afraid of our bigs. Parsons, Patt, Omer none of them. We really need a more intimidating PF. I was watching Steve Nash highlights & a young Amare would have been perfect for this team. Back in Phoenix guys were scared ****less of Amare man. His dunks & blocks, people would get out of the way or he would put you in a poster.
Yes, because barely beating a depleted Wizards team at home is promising progress! Actually, what's sad is your neverending habit of trying to police this forum with your whiny hypersensitive vaginal moaning about Rocket fans that make any criticism you don't agree with
The double team Harden because he can score, and still got 30 points. Now you know why the double team him. Are you complaining about an and-1 call for Patterson? What is wrong with taking a wide open midrange shot? He is shooting a 50% clip, and probably a much higher clip for the "wide open midrange shot". We are one of the best rebounding teams in the NBA: with good rebounding guards, SF, and rebounding machine Asik, it is ok if he only 4.9 per game. A good complement, but yes he can still improve it. End of the world terrible? No.
Lets break it down. Rockets beat a Wizard team by six points at home. Rocket fan, who probably didn't bother watching the game or if they did, probably didn't take the time to think critically about what reasonable expectations are for the youngest team in the league decides that the Rockets should of beaten the team by more. Poster also ignores the Wizards have won 3 of their last 6 including an impressive win over the Heat. This poster decides to pick some random, arbitrary stat which appears problematic and immediately draw attention to it in an attempt to create a narrative rather than take the time to investigate why it is happening. Why take the time, when they can much easily try to create a false narrative and rile up Rockets fans like it is some sort of basketball atrocity? Said poster completely ignores, or is just doesn't realize, the fact that the Rockets tend to run defensive sets where the SF and PF often tween back and forth which leads to Patterson more often than not closing out on shooters leaving Parsons in the paint to grab the rebounds. Evidence that is clearly supported by Parsons top ten rebounding numbers including 8 against the Wizards tonight. Poster is completely ignorant to this and instead of praising a guy like Parsons for his high rebounding number in a new thread, instead chooses to be add nothing to the forum but rather grab a pitch fork, rile up the hive mind and head toward Patterson's house. Said poster goes to a old thread and bumps it, not with reasonable discussion, or a breakdown of why it is actually happening or possible solutions, but instead just continues down the ignorant path of false narratives and angry mobs. Its a like a case study of the average bad clutchfan poster. Science thanks you.
I understand what you are saying, but honestly the Rockets did not look sharp today except during that 2nd half stretch when they played some lockdown D and went on a 15-2 run (led in significant part by silent defensive star of the game Greg Smith, ahem, my strong pick to start, or at least play more minutes). By the way, pet peeve when Houston's announcers credited only Patterson for a great defensive play during that stretch when Lin made the initial strip then Parsons came in for the help-block.
This is not a old thread. We've all been discussing the softness of Patterson's game daily now in this thread. I always see this thread on the first page, especially on gameday when we are all usually reminded of just how soft a player he can be most times.
