That was a horrible nightmare to watch the first half! But the second half specially that 4th quarter was BEAUTIFUL! Dwight, Asik, Harden, Parsons, Garcia and Lin all played great in that second half! Sweet win, now let's keep the streak on against the clippers monday!
Don't let the Texans color your vision of the rest of the world. It's just as likely that this is only an example of a team playing it's third game together. They have a lot of things to improve upon and they will.
I would think this team would get better over time as they play together. Kind of a different situation than the Texan, I would think.
McHale must have done some speech during halftime. From blahs to smiles all around on the bench. The starting unit played with more focus during the 3rd. The TT worked. UTA's shooting went back down to normal. We went to pnr with Howard; Lin got him going. Then our dribble-drives and 3s started working. Brooks, you singlehandedly allowed UTA to hang around by being unable to slow down Lucas. We definitely missed Beverley. Congrats to all of us who believed the Rockets could get back
I think the Rockets purposely took the gas off for the first half. They made it look way too easy in the 2nd half.
These posts about Matt Harpring, or whatever his fing name is, are cracking me up! Great WIN by the Rockets! Sign of a championship team when you can win the sloppy, bad, slow start games on a b2b on the road!
I think McHale did a great job with the subs tonight. I don't think I've seen him throw so many different combinations out in a game before. Eventually he got the right combo's with the right timing. I want to see more of that. Think he can be a little too complacent with the subs sometimes. If Bev is there instead of Brooks, we blow the Jazz out by the middle of the 4th. Good job McHale, even with missing 2 rotation guys, he got it right in the end.
Biggest comeback ever against Utah.. I think the Rockets just want to break records when they play the Jazz LOL. SUCK IT j*zz
Tough first half, but easy to rationalize it with altitude + b2b. Yah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Otherwise, still very far from sold on the TT. Really need at least ONE of them to step up their offensive game if they're going to keep running TT. Very happy that Dwight hit his FT's. If this is a curve of improvement I'll have very few complaints about Dwight (other than his dodgy post game). 2nd half we were pretty dominant. Gotta like that. Nice to come back from 19 points down and win by double digits. Utah Jazz fans gotta be pretty miserable unhappy with that loss right now. Losing a 19 point lead is one thing, losing a 19 point lead and still losing in double digits has to hurt. 3-0 and 2 more left in the 4 in 5. Win one of the next 2 and I'll have no complaints at all.
I say he just needs to keep playing like this - aggresive and confident - regardless if McHale starts him or if he has him coming off of the bench. 2nd half Lin reminded me of NYC Lin.
