Dark humor, but really funny. :grin: Needed a laugh after that stinker. What happened to TJ? It is like he didn't play.
Why are you worried then? It just means stability and not shuffling the roster every year will win out in the end. Patience is the key and it is tough in the West It is not rocket's science. If we win it will be that our talent can compensate that, if we don't then wait till the playoffs and next season
Spurs/Memphis will end up 2nd or 3rd, Portland is guaranteed a 4, Clips 5 and us probably 6. We have a bad habit of closing out badly in recent years. In the final 4 games, I'm not feeling very good about Spurs or necessarily Pels/Utah (Remember Rudy Goober owns us).
Pretty disheartening with the DMo news and then this game from hell. I agree with you. Seems like we always just stumble in final games.
Friday can't come soon enough. Rockets get the W the Spurs lost tonight will be forgotten. Rockets need to give the Spurs a payback on Friday.
Didn't Bill say that the Spurs had a double digit lead at some point in their last 20 games? It unreasonable to assume the Rockets can take the next game unless they show some fire and fight. The entire first and second units didn't seem to even want to be there tonight. It was a slow motion trainwreck.
I personally think we have a good chance at home in the next game. BUT I am not overly optimistic about playoff series right now. Those are two different matters
Yup. Unless the Rockets play with 5x the intensity they did tonight, they will almost surely lose. Defense was atrocious all night.
Yeah, where did the DMO stuff come from ? Wasn't it a "strained back" or something ? Do you recall the year....where we lost every game at the end and NO beat us to end the season. ? 3 years ago...2? Hate to be negative but the injuries really hurt. People dogged Bev unmercifully (and with some merit). But I felt we were really going to miss him...and we do. I do NOT want to not have home court and we are almost certainly heading there IMO. Hope I'm dead wrong.
Man, I hope you are right. If you don't mind me asking...what tilts thing our way in the Friday Spurs game in your mind. I'm not seeing it.
Tonight is definitely a night where it's justifiable to be negative. A whole lot of things going wrong for the Rockets injury-wise, and the impending drop to the 6 seed is just depressing after all we've done this year. I would like to believe we win out this year, and shoot...maybe we do, but given the ease of the Clippers schedule and the dominance of the Spurs, they look like locks to pass us up. We'll see. One thing I'm frustrated with is this Dwight minutes restriction. I understand it, but I also wonder if it's going to cost us, especially if he's still on it come playoff time. The Rockets were actually owning the Spurs with Dwight in the game more often than not, but seeing as how he only plays about 20 minutes, he can't be effective for a significant portion of the game. Just seems like if he's not healthy enough to play big minutes in a huge game or on back-to-backs, he's not healthy enough at all.
this game was a microcosm of all things bad with the rockets 1) bad free throw shooting 2) lack of focus 3) hurried shots early in the shot clock 4) inconsistent poor bench play.
Parker came out of the gate hot, but the Spurs looked beatable to me for much of the first half. Maybe it was the B2B getting to them, but they seemed uncharacteristically unfocused for minutes at a time, not playing their usual crisp passing game, taking a lot of bad shots. It's just that every time the Rockets had them down by 8 or 9 or whatever, the Spurs found a way to turn it around. The 8 point run literally in the last minute of the 1st, Manu suddenly coming alive. And then the 12 point swing at the end of the 2nd. Cory Joseph (and who the hell is Cory Joseph) making something out of nothing, getting the ball to the right player. They got flustered, lost focus for stretches. But they never seemed to unravel. Watching them tonight I thought this is what it means to have a belief in a system, and the players knowing their roles and how to play in the system. This is what it means to have longevity together. Rockets are still building toward that. Plus the Rockets have had a really tough year injury wise. This year, I just want Harden to have a terrific playoffs. To having something to build on. If they fall to 5th seed it is not the end of the world, facing Portland, someone mentioned Rockets would still have home court. They would probably beat Portland. Then likely face Warriors in second round. They may not make it out of the 2nd round, but they might. And either way, they will have some intense and valuable playoff experiences.
I think we have to see how it plays out. Memphis plays LAC and also play GSW, UTA, and a suddenly surging Indiana that needs every game. Just take it game by game and as of today we still hold our fate in our hands so that's the good thing.
KJ looks hungry to play and wants to help us... McHale needs to give him a chance. Him and Nick are probably the most athletic guys we got. Nick and KJ can be our defense guys...
Pop should run for President...he gets all these guys to leave their ego home. Remarkable leader. Remarkable coach.
See automatic adrenaline kick to "overperform" in front of the home audience At least give 120% regardless of he actual outcome What I hate about the Spurs is the ability to win games even when their players play sub par.
Spurs got literally every loose ball and every break. That will not happen Friday. Rockets win 110-105.
