ClutchFans Game Thread: Wizards @ Rockets 2/12/2014

Haha, talk about sour grapes. Questionable calls against both teams at the end of the game. They lost because the Beard is cold blooded and beat them.

 

The difference is 3 of them go back to their man.

 

Bwhahaha cry us a river.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/dwalker1985">@dwalker1985</a> It was a foul. Ariza grabbed him with both arms. Harden sold it, but it was a foul.</p>&mdash; Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/statuses/433808534577229824">February 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Ofcourse they are gonna be mad, their team lost. BTW, the officiating was horrible for both sides, Harden got fouled more than it was called, Refs swallowed their whistles in the second.

 

We did get the rub of the green today but the free throw disparity isn't as lop sided as it suggests.

Hack a Howard was in play for about 4 possessions as well as numerous fouls are the rim to stop a dunk. This would equate to about 12-14 FT's.

They also fouled unnecessarily early in the fourth which put them in the penalty about 5 mins into the 4th which attributed to a **** load of attempts on the charity stripe. I counted 7 FT's we got from personals.

If you take away these FT's, (47-19), you get 28 free throws which is more reasonable and accurate.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Dick Bavetta has been around long enuf to know that clasp Harden put on Trevor-offensive foul…okay i’ll SMH</p>&mdash; Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilJackson11/statuses/433823375765413888">February 13, 2014</a></blockquote>
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WOW, did everyone watch this game, lol. Phil armchair referee, what a troll.

 

Trevor was one of his players and also Metta's celebration on Harden got him suspended for a period of time while Phil was still the coach of the Lakers.

 

i'm pretty impressed Phil jaxxxon uses "SMH"
let's be honest, that was jeanie buss posting on his account.

 

Makes sense, seems like he always got something to say when it has anything even remotely related to Dwight. He's worse than the kobeturds on Lakersground.

 

Was at the game and I can safely say that I never want to see Lin as the starting PG for the rockets ever again.

 

If you were at the game, you should have noticed he wasn't actually playing PG.

 

I was at the game too and not only LIN but other players were making stupid passes. ie brooks on a kickout. Howard when double teamed. harden just passing to other team.

 

Lin played a very good game after being thrust into the starting lineup at the last minute due to Beverley's injury. It is very difficult to switch roles at the NBA level on short notice, and he did so and held his own against the Wizards' best player. The only issue he had was on 3 or 4 possessions in the 4th quarter he picked up his dribble a little early and his teammates did not help him very much, which sort of forced him to make low percentage passes. What he should've done is kept his dribble alive and say "look, I can blow past my defender and get to the basket but I'm waiting for you to get open, and to demand the ball to give you a look, but if you're not ready, fine I'll see you at the rim." This is a standard example of where he doesn't feel that the coaching staff will have his back if he takes full control of the situation and takes shots away from Harden and Howard to get one for himself. Given how well he had played up to that point, I think he should've had the attitude of "I'm getting 20 tonight and I'll force them to hack Howard to slow the game down."

 

I know team fans around the league for the most part hate Harden. Harden is not selling it as much as the opposing defender is really going after his head. You replay every head snap back and it's actually legit contact. Harden should wear a mouth guard like Lebron does. Dude is going to regret it one of these games.

 

lol lin did have those stupid turnovers in the 4th, but actually, if you look at harden's lastclutch basket there, lin actually started the play and did hack of a job to confuse the defense.

 

Actually Harden clasped/pinned Ariza's hand between his arm and body and forced the foul. Of course Ariza did foul him before they called that. But if the ref called the real first foul that would have been a bit unusual for the final play of the game.

So the Wiz coach was right to a degree.

 

Lin rarely wins on this board, but if you wanna attack a guy for shooting over 50% from the field, 50% from 3, scoring 16 pts, making 5 asts while holding his own against John Wall when he probably didn't know he was going to start until a few hours before the game...go ahead. I think a few of those turnovers could've been avoided if his teammates had actually helped their fellow teammate by moving towards him once he had picked up his dribble to give him a chance to reset the play.

 

Lin shouldn't even be the main point of discussion because,

1. He didn't even make the most TOs. Dwight had 7
2. The team made 24 TOs total
3. Harden's subpar guarding of Ariza allowed him to drop 32 on us

...but of course this is Jeremy Lin were talking about, so let's dissect him anyways.