ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Timberwolves 12/26/2012

This has got to be one of the most exciting things to watch unfold. Houston, with this roster, and this coaching staff, seems to be just the right environment to enable Harden to flourish.

And, in addition to that, we have team that is, as Crash says, building character and confidence, game by game. The future is bright.

 

Asik was arguably just as important as Harden today and is playing awesome again. Lin's got to either will Asik to catch the ball, put it directly in his hands, or not pass it to him in tight situations good pass or not. He's got to live with those TOs as they are his.

 

dELFINO IS AT LEAST FUN TO WATCH:grin::grin::grin:

 

Amazing. Just amazing. Mchale's is an awesome coach, harden is an elite player and the rest of the guys runs the floor night in night out. Harden reminds me Clevland's Lebron. I start to doubt if we need another star, well maybe in front court, we are the youngest team in NBA and we show no tracks of slowing down, it's scary to think while all the current teams are going to get older we are going to get better. Just Bravo!

P.S Let D-mo play too

 

Well I usually only get to see one Rocket game in person a year unlike y'all that live in Texas.

Anyway I am in the middle of a big Minnesota Texas week. Texans played the Vikings on Sunday, Rockets play the Timberwolves tonight and the U of MN Gophers play Texas Tech on Friday at Reliant. I get to see two out of three in person. So far one has totally sucked one has been great and excited about the last one. The last one though will be the only one that I am not rooting for the Texas team.

Of course I will be an outsider at all. I was the only one rooting for the Texans on Sunday while surrounded by Vikes' fan. I was rooting for the Rox while in Target Center and will be rooting for the Gophers in Texas.

 

He single-handedly kept us in the game with his continual bricks.

 

ugly, ugly win.. but this is the kind of wins which builds team confidence. I'll take it over a 5th blowout win in a row.

 

When your team comes through in the clutch is always beautiful!:grin:

 

Yeap. Like when we need a 3 pt bucket to tie it with 10 seconds left but his foot is on the line. That is the day I will run outside naked.

 

This game, was the type of game that we lost earlier in the year. Progress right before our very eyes...

 

Didn't get to watch the game. Was Lin as bad as his stats show?

 

let's be fair in the beginning all the starters were off. ashik missed passes he would've gotten on a rested night, but lin also missed shots he should've gotten if he had the legs. let's not blame players or fans but revel in harden's night!

 

Jeremy stepped up at the end of the 4th, when we won a game that was really looking like it would be an "L" in the won-loss column. That's what counts, as far as I'm concerned.

 

He was ok. Hit a big shot in the 4th quarter. Lots of turnovers early on.

 

Ill take Delfino's TOs and tendency to jack chit up if it means we stay aggressive, fast, diverse, and can see moments where he takes over for stretches in the game every so often. I do wish he'd make the right play every time but that's not his game. He's been criticized as a chucker all his life cuz that's who he is. And he's a vet. He's not gonna change too much.
All things considered ill take him

 

Yes and No.

He had a poor game, but there were a number of dropped passes and he really got the bad end of several calls.

2 steals where he took a lot of physical contact, and he got hit with a bizarre offensive foul. And then there was one where he was chasing down a ball off of a fast break steal and ended up going out of bounds.

He made some critical plays in the 4th... 2 pointer to tie the game, and a steal off JJ Barea that led to a Harden lay up to stretch the lead to 3 with 31 seconds left.

So a poor game by Lin, but not nearly as awful as the stat line suggests.

The reffing was crappy on both ends. The Rockets literally couldn't get a call until the 3rd quarter.

 

He already did! The game against the Spurs in which he scored 38 pts, two of the 3s was counted as long 2s exactly because his foot was on the line. If not for that, that game would not have gone to the OT and we would have won by 2pts. Ironically, Lin costed himself the the big win.

Sometimes I really want to punch his face for his recklessness.

 

I think Osik should work on his catching skills. Maybe in the summer, try to catch tennis ball that come out of a machine. This will make him a better catcher. He fumbles the ball too much and can't catch it well.

 

As much as the credit should go to Harden for that amazing 4th quarter, the same should be said of our bench who rallied us back! Smart move on McHale to go back to our starters to finish the game.

 

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