Western Conference Semifinals: (1) San Antonio vs. (5) Portland

Tony Parker looks dirty as hell. Dude could go down on another man's woman and don't mind the sloppy seconds from the night before. Just a nasty dude.

 

that perfect pop want some more nasty

 

The most advanced super computer takes 40min to simulate 1 sec of the human brain activity.

Analytics takes you only so far... experience, human experience is still by far much more complex and valuable than any analytics can master up today. It's a tool, a very useful one, but if you overly depend on it, you are doom.

 

I really thought it didn't matter. That the players would be mature and responsible enough to set their own team philosophy and culture that would benefit them on the court, but its clear that is not true.

McHale is a loser. Pop is a winner.

Now I'm just wondering how in the hell we beat San Antonio 4-0 in the regular season.

 

Because we have talent. Loads of talent.

 

mchale has never been a winner in his post playing days

 

Because the regular season means nothing and san antonio literally gives zero ****s about those games. Not sure what's hard to understand.

 

He's not really a real NBA coach. He's a cheer leader.

 

So weak in defence with terrible bench. And this shows how good the best SG is! Blazers are the weakest playoff team in WC. But they still managed to knock out Rockets in 6 games. That means a total failure for Rockets this season. And most experts and fans just treat Lillard and Aldridge like the legendary Utah duo. What a joke! And it was so surprised for me as a basketball fans in Hong Kong to see the tweet from Morey commenting on the Blazers. The so-called best GM by most fans here!

 

The stupidity of this board has gotten astounding, it really is a very simple concept. They will continue to live in ignorance about our real flaws and float around in the semen cloud that is melo/love downstairs though.

 

i know what you're saying and yet they still won the most games in the nba this season

 

The Rockets have enough talent that they don't really need melo/love..... I really hate that every season we are crying and begging for some big name out there. What we really need is better coaching and a few key rotational players that will facilitate for Harden, Howard and Parsons. I'm specifically referring to a point guard that can rack up the assist and stop the 1 on 1..... And point guard who will take care of the ball and reduce our turn overs. A point guard that can break down fake stars like Lillard... I honestly feel like the Rockets are a good point guard/better coaching away from being legitimate contenders.

 

Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, how long have you guys been watching the NBA???? Don't you know by now that it's all about matchups, a team getting hot at the right time, etc. in many cases? Portland got hot at the right time, we screwed up, boom. Portland would probably kick Dallas' ass, yet Dallas took the Spurs to 7 games. No one knows how these things work sometimes, they just do. We'd probably beat the Clippers in a playoff series. That's how screwy things are.

 

The spurs match up well against everyone. It isn't just about matchups, sometimes some teams know how to hold leads, stay composed, and make free throws down the stretch regardless of who they play against.

 

If it wasn't for Dean Cooper we would have played like the Spurs and shut LA down.

 

The one good in grateful for with Portland is the fact that they play heroball just as much as the Rockets so maybe now that the Rockets see how badly Portland got massacred maybe the Rockets will realize how far they really are to a championship and how badly they need a coaching change.

 

This. SA was actually horrible against good teams like OKC in the regular season. They still manage to get the job done against cannon fodder. Those guys are old-timers, the won't get fired up in the reg season against the big guns as if they still have something to prove. Their real season starts in mid-april and the regular season is merely used as preparation to reach that stage in peak form and with good seeding.

 

OKC will roll them in the playoffs as well, Portland don't have any of the traits that cause a bad matchup for San Antonio, and to make matters worse they can't even hit open shots.

 

Talent wins regular season games, coaching wins you postseason games. Difference between Rockets and Spurs

 

I'm not thoroughly convinced.