The Houston Rockets will lose in the First Round of the Playoffs.

Backup Center's for recent NBA Champions History:

2013 Heat - Joel Anthony
2010 Lakers - DJ Mbenga
2008 Celtics - Leon Powe
2007 Spurs- Melvin Ely
2004 Pistons - Darko & Elden Campbell
2002 Lakers- Jelani McCoy

And one of the greatest championship teams ever assembled

1996 Bulls - Bill Wennington


Look... Dorsey sucks. There is no way around it. His free throws are laughable, and he's not really even a basketball player. He's a football player who is useful for defense and rebounding in an NBA game.

That being said with championship teams, with the exception of a few team in history (ALA 06 Heat) often they don't have the luxury of having two true starting caliber centers on their roster.

Most of the time teams have one really dominant center, and they piece together whatever they can for defense & rebounding with their bench rotation which in alot of cases with 8 man rotations doesn't even consist of another center.

I personally don't think Dorsey will even see minutes in the playoffs. Even if you had an upgrade like maybe a HEALTHY (fyi he's not 100% back in shape) McGee, or Dalembert or whomever, they probably wouldn't play either.

So please calm down about the backup center spot in the playoffs. Dwight/Smith/Jones will get the minutes. Smith and Jones just need to really be on their game defensively and on the boards as they would need to be anyways. No NBA coach would really want to use more than 3 bigs in a playoff game if they didn't have to regardless.

 

did you watch the last playoffs? He's going to get pressured all game, double teamed. Any decent coach will see what they did last year and do the same. Gameplan basically is let someone else besides Harden beat us. And while I like Dwight, and he did well last year, I don't know how he'll hold up. But not sure it will still be enough. McHale has not offensive gameplan other than ISO harden, or anyone else for that matter.

I've been saying the same thing all season, not just now. Mostly because of McHale. His, just give it to Harden ISO playoff plan will never work.

Remember our coach?

The playoffs are a completely different animal and our coach is a nitwit. The one on one Harden game isn't gonna happen in the playoffs like its been happening all season. Who knows if Dwight is really 100%. I'm betting he's not. Did I mention McHale? That muppet shouldn't be coaching a Jr High team.

 

Never said it was. Not sure where you got that. Clutchfans is a community though.

 

wait till the final match up is set, there is slightly little hope though...

 

Does playing Portland at the 4-5 matchup sound that bad to ya? Shid Id take it in a heartbeat.

 

There is too much negativity about the Rockets. They have been the #2 or #3 seed without their 2nd best player and Terrence Jones for most of the season. Yes losing DMO hurts and Beverly; however, Beverly was having a terrible season anyways so not like he was stopping the best point guards in the league. As long as Harden and Howard are healthy for the playoffs they should advance to the 2nd round. Harden is playing with a chip on his shoulder, which is motivating him and hence he has been carrying the team on his back all season. I know being a Houston sports fan we always tend to go negative since our teams have let us down, but we need that good Karma for the playoffs!

 

Neither Dorsey nor Terry were supposed to play meaningful minutes on the roster. The intent of acquiring Terry was supposed to be for his expiring contract, but Morey didn't predict that Terry actually would've helped the roster in terms of shooting (on his good days) and locker room leadership intangible stuff.

Dorsey is only playing because of limited Dwight minutes and now DMo being out for the year. You can't blame Morey for not predicting those 2 events.

 

The inability to put things away is the big thing that worries me. The Rockets have overly relied on shot-making in the closing minutes of the game to pull out wins. We may end up winning over 55 games this season, but our point differential (which I consider to be a better indicator of team strength) is that of a team destined for 49-50 wins.

The points about free throw shooting and turnovers are also spot on. Those are essentially free points we are not capitalizing on.

 

Let the non-believers have their say. No problem with stating an opinion.

It comes down to this. Predicting either victory or defeat for the Rockets has a chance of being wrong.

If I'm going to be wrong, I'd much rather be wrong believing in my Houston Rockets than to be wrong being a doubter who didn't believe in a team that found a way to win despite the hardships.

1. It's much more fun to watch the team that way (for me)

2. As a fan of the team, I think they deserve it.

3. Looking at a team that has played without key players all season, and still found ways to win, I think they've earned it.

People can disagree. And that isn't what my idea of being a good fan is, but I understand that other people have their own ideas. And people with different ideas of fandom are certainly welcome to like the Rockets.

Of course I see weaknesses in the Rockets game, and and they have things I wish would improve. That goes without saying. It's just that even with that I think they are a special team.

 

Not having a starting caliber PF or a backup 5, and having to see Jason Terry get killed by opposing PG's has people a bit down. Maybe Howard and Harden can overcome that in the first round, but the ceiling for this year is a LOT lower now.

 

I share the same feeling that we probably won't get out, but I won't call it the end of the world, especially when you consider the context of where we were the moment we struck out on Chris Bosh. At some point in the offseason, we were Bosh-less and traded away Lin, Asik for no on-court value at the time and let Parsons go for nothing.

We were barely a playoff team if at all at that point and instead we are still a 2 seed. Unreal season we're having and I'm pretty happy about it.

Whether it's a 1st round or 2nd round exit, we don't have enough talent to go deep, especially without 2 starters.

Let's have a more stable offseason, get us a max level player, and then go for the gold next year.

 

We're the 3rd seed now and likely will be the 6 seed by the end of the week.

 

The ceiling was probably the conference finals at best to begin with, so they will prob lose in the 2nd round now, but still a very successful season considering all of the injuries they sustained.

 

with all due respect fkn no..we have had to good of a season to just say oh well better luck next year you guys.

 

The Rockets will never win a playoff series while McHale is coach.

 

Dang dude. Did you come up with that all by yourself?

 

HOT TAKE

 

Last season the Spurs lost their 76th game of the season to OKC by 12. They also lost game #78 by 19 to the T-Wolves. They closed out the season by losing the final game by 13 to the Lakers.

Did you think that the Spurs were going to be out in the first round last year?

 

Big difference between the Spurs losing games when they have the best record in the league with a healthy cushion and the Rockets getting blown out with home court on the line. But that one game doesn't mean we will lose in the first round.

 

Poor example. The Spurs already had HCA locked up and were resting their starters.