ClutchFans Game Thread: Grizzlies @ Rockets 12/26/2013

This gamer bore the fruits of the Rockets being supremely talented and having a deep bench. DMo showed up when he got his shot and Harden and Lin owned the 4th. Loved the ball movement and defensive intensity

 

Just a little ankle tweak. Didnt look to serious.

 

Yeah, we got the bad Lin today. Fire McHale

 

I.E the Raptors game on VaLINtines day.

 

Harden 2-9 for 27 points? Must be Christmas miracle.

 

Just like in the Spurs game when Lin had 6 straight points when the Spurs came within two points, he was huge again in this game with two big threes.

 

Is HakeemtheKing just trolling us or is he really that stupid

 

Monteijunas was great! He really played great defense.
He changed the game. Caspi was being abused!

 

I think the key turning point was Brooks getting injured because Lin got to play the 4th quarter, which had he not then the Rockets probably would've been down and lose spirit to play and lost the game in the end. The key plays in the 4th were Harden's FTs, Lin's 2 threes, Lin's pass to D-Mo dunk and outrebounding and triple teams on Zbo. That's the summary of what I saw.

 

I'm going to be a big Portland fan tonight

 

Jeremy Lin Unchained.

 

Well the bench did step up and stop the bleeding. Demo just went crazy on defense so I guess machale stick with the team that was hot. Harden was just great at getting to the free throw line. And lin made a momentum changing 3. But the team sticked together and play hard to win a tough game.

 

Grityy win but but i'll take what we get.

I think pretty much everyone was gassed. It showed up in the way the team came in.

Harden for sure lives on the line. Would have been fun if he maintained 1 FG for the whole game and hit the current points he had.

We really need a backup C that's serviceable, our boards or lack of it nearly killed us this game.

Garcia's still not getting a pass from me for his shooting the past many games. But any contribution from him and Casspi will be appreciated. Its not like we have that many bodies left to throw at other teams.

Lin was really off to an off start, (bad pun i know) but did he redeem himself in the 4Q. PatBev impersonation on the boards too, not bad.

The Zebras were kind tonight when it mattered. Not gonna argue with that and hope for more.

Most imptly, we didn't lose to a middling team this time after a B2B and winning a good team.

Curse broken. (Hope im not jinxing this) and Happy New Year to come all a CFans!

 

If the Rockets had made more shots this would have been a blow out game.....just 5/24 from beyond the arc.

 

good team win. lin is so unpredictable man. first 3 quarters he was pissing me off but he really came on in the 4th quarter. hopefully he can learn to be consistent the whole game. im really amazed we won though, our interior defense in the 2nd was straight trash

 

Damn good comeback win by our Red Nation Rockets Boyz,

Talk about your tale of two halves.

lol

 

Everyone can have good and bad game. You make it sound like Lin doesn't always gave his all. I don't think anyone ever questioned his effort.

 

So I guess the key to guarding Z-Bo is just standing still with your hands in the air. Not rocket science.

 

Parsons anomaly on the boards. 11 rebounds tonight.

 

44 minutes for Parsons and Harden