Great effort by this team. 3's just weren't dropping and charging calls killed the offense. - Harden was a beast and really made me appreciate having him on this team more. - Anderson was pretty good. He's stepped in nicely. - Parsons really was the escape valve in this game. Hurt the team that he was in foul trouble.
That they're even hanging with them on the road is incredibly impressive to me. Opponents/locations don't come much tougher than at Miami against the Heat.
This is a frustrated game with all the bad officiating and floppings by Miami Heat, a shameless win for them.
Issue was mainly with trapping hard a step into the three, which is very different from collapsing and clogging the paint. Miami is athletic enough and long enough to do this. Probably the only team that defends like this but they can since they have freak athletes in lebron and wade
Much respect to Harden. He's a bona fide superstar, ill battle anyone who says otherwise. We desperately need a star pf who can get these rebounds out there. Tough loss, but can't win em all. Lin, Parsons, Asik gotta get better quick to help Harden lead us to the promise land. I believe they will. All 3 of them!! Go Rockets!
we need that 2nd star to compete with teams like this on a consistent basis. i'm confident morey will get it done
Two major darling calls for the Heat: 1. Charge call on Harden fast break, Chalmers was not even close to being set (unfortunately, this has been called on Harden a lot) 2. Harden gets hit on the hand by Wade, glorified as a block The good news is that Harden is a legit superstar. One more star or continuous improvement with the current team will allow the Rockets to compete on more even playing field against darling teams like the Heat, Thunder, Clippers, etc. We're on the cusp, folks. Rebuilding Morey style has its benefits as far as results. Just don't get too attached to some of these fan fav role players. Go Rockets. PS- The Heat announcers do hype up their guys a lot, but they were great tonight in calling the game. They even spoke highly of some of our Rockets (other than Harden).
How many games were those? the guy is right harden has no consistent help. One game it's parsons, one game 2 pat one game Lin. We need someone else to step up
To tell you the truth, we were the better team. Not saying LBJ is not as good as our players, he's bar none the best. Overall, we're the better TEAM. A b2b, plus an airplane flight. If we had a day's rest, we would have gotten this one. Blame David Stern and his hatred for the Rockets for putting us through this. Oh, and ESPN of course.
got to give credit to the heat their defense is another level from the rest. nothing the rockets can do except go out and get another big time player next to harden. that's the only way to break down this defense.
Thank god, reasonable fans. Yes, we lost, but it was a good game, played by our team. Be proud, they pour it all on the line. Good game guys!
Parsons is much better than Anderson in every other possible situation and has proven to be very clutch for this team. It was the wrong decision, some players you play in crucial minutes every night. Parsons is one of those players.
They are the Miami Heat. What can we expect? Today the bench is not helping. Lin is cold at the beginning.
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