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Clutchfans Game Thread: Lakers @ Rockets 9/8/2020 (Playoffs Round 2, Game 3)

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Clutch, Sep 7, 2020.

  1. topfive

    topfive CF OG

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    It would be fascinating to see what his tanking strategies would look like.
     
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  2. adoo

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    u need to stop being an apologist for the self-annointed king of analytics.

    after kicking Dragic out, and signing JLin to a poisoned-pill FA contract,
    Morey came up w some stats that put JLin (w a sample sizes of 3 wks of NBA competition)
    in the same pantheon as Iverson, CP3 and LeBron :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
    Morey hasn't won anything, not even a Conference championship, he doesn't deserve another chance to rebuild.
    Stupidity is doing the same thing expecting different outcome


     
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  3. Verbal Christ

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    So any other GM would have had this franchise winning for 15 years straight?
     
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  4. HP3

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    And neither have most GMs, only Spurs, Warriors or a Lebron led team, guess all those other team's GM suck too.? Nope, you're not doing a good job of evaluating things.
     
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  5. HP3

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    Why do you continue to show how much little knowledge you have? And why are you only here when we lose? Morey has 2 WCF, a 65 win team and one game away from dethroning the Warriors. Give me a GM who's matched that success besides the Warriors or Spurs? You're knowledge of basketball is garbage, stop talking.
     
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  6. BigShasta

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    We missed House and missed our glue Tyson.
     
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  8. adoo

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    Morey must have naked pictures of you
     
  9. HP3

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    Alright man, tried to be civil with you....but it's really clear that you are a results based person who doesnt know what he's talking about.
     
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  10. riko

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    Morey wanted no part of Lin it was les Alexander who wanted Lin for Marketing reasons. This is common knowledge . You can’t blame him for that epic blunder and yes Dragic is light years better then lin. Just look at what he is doing In Miami. The Rockets wanted to start a tanking process that season but Les still wanted a way to keep his foot in the Asian Market even after Yao’s retirement.
     
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    he was pretty clearly shoved by kuzma right into that elbow. harden gets a post-mortem tech for no harm no foul, of course faker$ won't even get reviewed for this
     
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  12. adoo

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    what part of this u don't understand ?

    after kicking Dragic out, and signing JLin to a poisoned-pill FA contract,
    Morey came up w some stats that put JLin (w a sample sizes of 3 wks of NBA competition)
    in the same pantheon as Iverson, CP3 and LeBron :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
  13. jordnnnn

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    A GM went into full “spin” mode after he was forced to make moves he didn’t want to make?

    Couldn’t be...

    Sounds eerily similar to this last off-season. Forced to trade for the last player in the NBA he would ever want to trade for and he promptly talked about how great it was going to work,

    It’s part of the job,
     
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  14. D-rock

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    After 3 games, we know that Rivers and BMac are unplayable vs. Lakers. They get hunted by both Lebron and AD too often and are unable to offer anything on offense.

    If Rivers not re-signed next season I hope Morey is still interested in Tyler Johnson (tried to sign him for bubble).

    Same age as Rivers but he is much more explosive and same defensive mentality except better at switch everything.

    Nets desperately want to retain Johnson but they cant afford him.

    https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/ny-20200909-un3shkzkzbdz7bdkeq6ae4bt6a-story.html
     
  15. MrButtocks

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    They were unplayable against OKC as well. It's odd because Rivers was effective against GS in prior years. You think his speed and scoring ability would be valuable, but he's been a no show the entire playoffs so far. For a minimum contract I can't really complain, but if he wants MLE for next year he's not showing that he's worth it.
     
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    What the hell is going on man????
     
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  18. D-rock

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    Play Demarre, Luc and Bruno.

    Shorter rotation is NOT the answer vs. Lakers, especially in 4th.

    RoCo may not be 100% so Rockets will need another rim protector. Luc and Bruno can provide some of that.
     
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  19. Francis3422

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    Let Bmac play! I actually thought he had a number of good defensive plays last night. Get him 8-10 3pt attempts.
     
  20. RocketsFido

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    House definitely got suspended and is probably in quarantine for 10 days if those rumors are true. Why else would they be hiding it? If he had a death in the family, he'd be out of the bubble by now and will come back later. Chandler is probably involved somehow, sucks because even though we don't play him he's a big voice on the bench and is one of the best cheerleaders.

    This series is pretty much over if Roco can't play next game. It sucks but Harden will have cemented his legacy among media and general NBA fans for being a "playoff choker" (because of narrative).

    I was one of those ppl who adamantly asked for us to blow it up after the 65 win season to get a lottery pick to draft Luka because I knew it was all downhill from there if we didn't rebuild but instead we overpaid CP3 and now we're all-in with no picks, even if Tilman fires Morey and by a miracle, gets a competent GM, he'd have no draft picks to work with. Morey truly have dug us a hole we can't climb out of.

    Meanwhile, as you can all see, Luka has been amazing at the age of 21. Worst of all, he went to the ****ing Mavs, a team I hate.

    Yes, Harden has been having a great series stat wise but he doesn't take over the game in the 4th to try to will us to a win. He gets double teamed, yes but many of those are because he ****ing dribbles the ball until under 10s then the double comes and Harden is forced to pass the ball. Instead of dribbling out the clock when we're down 10, maybe Harden should look to score earlier. It really frustrates me he doesn't have that urgency.
     

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