ClutchFans Game Thread: Mavericks @ Rockets 11/1/2013

Of course not, which was why I said he's only part of the reason. If it wasn't Harden's monster 3rd quarter performance then who knows what would the outcome be.

He played good defense tonight, no doubt, and attacked the rim aggressively instead of just camping at the corner. I like him making high risk/high reward passes, it's his 'jump to the air with no plan' TO that I am complaining about.

 

9 games in 14 days. Damn

 

we should go 4-1 in this stretch, i'm predicting one loss to the Clippers

 

Excellent. You have a future in writing. I like the one on CP the best. Couldn't help myself laughing. LOL

 

Lin did say he was just going to play the game his way, i.e. attack attack attack. The same game during Linsanity which also produced quite a few turnovers...so maybe more turnovers for more Linsanity? It's preferable if he works on his handle and limits turnovers though. :grin:

 

Good thing we have brooks.

 

Thats true, Lin does have a tendency to do that once or twice a game.

 

I believe a few of them he was fouled but no call

 

Need to work on zone busting offense!

 

He attacked scored, played great d, force turnovers, could've easily had more assists if a few more open J's went down...you want all that and low turnovers?? That's top 10 pg type style.

THe bottom line is this team basically led the game double digits pretty much the entire way. If Lin had +/- in the negatives I could understand it, but he was +14 out there. His aggressiveness while resulting in more turnovers, resulted in a net positive. Sit back and enjoy the W peeps.

 

Lin was turnover prone during Linsanity too. It's just a matter if McHale likes his high risk play or not.

 

Seems like more lin's turnovers higher winning%.

 

A win is a win, our depth is impressive, and to think they will only get better.

Oh, and we beat Dallas...YES....it is a good day.

DD

 

It means he's being aggressive... and when he's aggressive, we usually win.

 

It's funny because it's true.

Thankfully it's still early and the team is still learning their way.

 

Aggressive Lin is good but the bad thing is the TO's.

Aggressive Lin is great for the 6th man role though.

 

You know that discrimination can be positive or negative? Favoring someone because of his race is the same as disfavoring someone because of his race. I hope that doesn't need further explanation. . . .

But just in case: if white people prefer white people coz they're white. . . . You know what I mean?

 

We would've lost the game if it weren't for Harden's 34 on 17 shots, so I don't know why you all are debating whether Lin's TOs had a large impact on the game or not.

 

The most encouraging thing about tonight's game was that Harden is healthy, thank goodness for that.

The second most encouraging thing was Lin's play, but even more so, how he played after the 5 TOs. At times he would become hesitant last year after making some mistakes. Tonight he kept attacking all the way until he left the court. Lin always says the right things about sticking to playing his game, playing aggressive etc. But I want to see it on the court and that wasn't always the case in the past. Tonight it was. Even his TOs were all due to aggression, which I will take.

Lin needs to keep attacking and keep being aggressive, and let the coach worry about if he is overdoing it or not by taking him out if need be.

 

Who can pass the basketball to D12? Noboby!
Why did everyone shoot 3p after 3p ?
Does McHale know how to play D12?