ClutchFans Game Thread: Thunder @ Rockets 1/16/2014

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Frontcourt: 13th
Backcourt: 5th

 

Honestly I am not ready to say that. Lets see how the second half plays out and what trades/moves the Rockets make. If Beverly comes back with Asik and the Rockets add someone like Dunleavy and Patterson, I think we can probably compete well against OKC with Westbrook.

OKC is who and what they are, we know what to expect... this Rockets team is still figuring it out. Some of the issues can be easily fixed (bench) and others (intensity) cannot.

 

Question to the coaches - When the opposing team put big bodies like Perkin and Ibaka to clog the lane and take out your penetration, and your 3 pointers are not fallen. What plans do you have?

Oh yea, we already know we don't shoot mid range

 

Pretty much all the starters were playing PG. Dunno why Jones felt he had to bring the ball up numerous times.

 

Whatever, if you think it's fine for this team's shooting guard getting zero pts on second half isn't any issue on this game. Keep blaming on others.

 

well, you can thank this guy for starting the Lin hate and pretty much single handedly turning this into a Lin vs xxx player once again...

once again LOH singling out Lin just to hate on the kid when pretty much the entire team sucked balls.

I've said it once somewhere here, LOF dont get stupdily crazy most of the time until an LOH comes around to stir things up...

 

man we ran out of gas you guys do rmber it was a back to back game right

 

Dude,

The question was why was casspi out of the rotation.

I just answered that Mchale was riding the hot group that he played Dmo and Ab more

In this team of short rotations, what would that tell ya? Yep, Casspi and Lin won't have much playing time.

Well, Lin played in the end when it was a lost cause. Lol

I never said Mchale's move was the right one, did i?

 

Don't feed the trolls, then. Just ignore it if it's a dumb post.

 

if we can learn lessons from this..i'd rather be exposed and lose now than in april/may.

now its a quesiton of whether we can learn and grow from this disappointing loss.

 

Yeah that hot group in the first half that became garbage on the 2nd. Lol

My point is if McHale is riding the hot group or the hot hands, the other players will see less playing time. See for example Ab and Lin on this game.

 

yeah... fortunately, it wasn't me who went full LOF activate mode

 

Harden scored 46 on OKC last year.

 

I ****ing hate the Thunder

 

oh please tmac and yao's team are better than the team we have now

 

The later Scola Artest teams I agree, but the Bowen Padgett squads probably have to disagree.

 

It was a more balanced team, and a more mature team obviously with veteran leadership. This team may get there though.

 

And that's because Yao and T-Mac were so much better than current Harden and Howard as the role players on the T-Mac's teams were putrid. The best SG and the best C in the league....just because all the other SGs and other Cs suck that much in a historically weak era for both positions. Harden got exposed once again the moment Scott Brooks made necessary adjustments to lock down the paint and the three-point line- no wide-open threes and no trips to the charity line effectively nullified Harden. You can expect more of the same in the playoffs against the truly elite teams. Howard is no longer the athletic beast from his Orlando days, everyone ****ing know that. But he has now revealed himself to be a softie too, getting punked by a 20 year old rookie. Truly embarrassing.
I am no big fan of McSuccess; I've always put a large part of the struggles of the team on his laughingly inept coaching. I also blame Morey for not trading Asik and Lin as soon as possible to plug holes on the roster considering that the Rox's window for championship will close on the first hint of a major decline of Howard's atletic ability and is thus fairly small considering Dwight's age- every year should be made to count.
However, in the event that McSuccess is fired and that the necessary trades go down, this team will still not be a serious contender if Harden and Howard do not improve in a major way. Lately on the GARM it has been Lin this and Lin that: why all this focus on a role player when the two supposed superstars are being regularly exposed as pretenders?

 

Is he worthy of a championship roster?

 

There is no singular excuse for a 19 pt half after a 73 pt half. NONE.

Had higher expectation for this year. Guess we need to temper that for now and see what growth next year will bring.