He might have no personality but he has 10x work ethic most of the Rockets plyaers have, and to me, that's much more important. I mean, common, dude went from a good defensive player to all star, you think Pop is responsible for all of it? He has so much drive and passion, it might not show on his face, but in clearly does in the Spurs win column.
He has zero intensity. ZERO. He does nothing when he gets it. Harden and co give him the ball and he passes it right back. He refuses to shoot wide open shots and then instead settles for a contested jumper. Sure, we have done a bad job of incorporating him but he has been absolutely abysmal. Truly horrific. The dude is a doormat.
Thornton not seeing the floor until second half is laughable... I was going to look for positives from this game, but Bickerstaff threw in the towel before some of the fans got back to their seats from the halftime snack run. Hmmmmmm... Marjanovic 16 minutes 5/9fg 13p 10r Jones. 16 minutes 3/10 11p 3r
People trying to single out players. What's the point. The whole team was garbage today. Too easy for a great defensive team like the spurs to defend
We need some bugs that can shoot. They have Aldridge and west who were just killing us from the elbo all night. Really though we should have seen this coming the Spurs were at home were nobody beats them while also coming off a 30 point ass whooping. Even when the rotations are good the Spurs still seemed to score but the few times we did get stops we just couldn't convert or we would turn the ball over. I mean we litterly turn it over twice on inbounds plays after Spurs mad baskets with no defender in site. Just piss poor effort and focus. I thought we played well in the first quarter on both sides but as soon as they scored 8 in a row the team just quit even though it was still well within reach to get back in it.
its so painful to watch the Warriors after a Rockets game...why do they always do that to us....on both ESPN and TNT
What's Thornton gonna do? The rockets gave up 100 in 3 quarters. You're not gonna win like that period
I can understand a loss but what I can't stomach is a flat out beatdown wtf? Watching the game its like a match between a well equipped army vs savages from Nicarugua or whatever, what the **** was that? The Rockets come out with swords and the Spurs just gunned them down with AK47s. It was ****ing pathetic the Rox had no defense outside of 3Za who did a great job contesting Kawhi's shots and Dwight who played like a top 5 player. What was up with those rotations, Spurs made every shot because their defender was like 3 feet away from them, on the other hand Rox were clanking everything AND didn't even have the b-ball IQ to go to Dwight and maximize his game. More change needs to happen, I like Brew and Tjones but they need to go, we need better players if we want to compete with Spurs and GSW. And JB needs to start being more authoritative and put his foot down on D, you either rotate and defend or you're not getting PT. If he can't control this team then he needs to go as well, I mean if we're gonna play this sloppy might as well trade Dwight, he's gonna leave this mess after the season.
Even tho Josh Smith had a bad game, he still wasn't as terrible as TJones. Morey still doesn't want to trade TJ, boggles my mind. Harden, for some reason, was passive the entire first half. Didn't want to spot up, didn't want to help assist, terrible on D as usual. Howard had so many mismatches on him today, could've easily fed him for buckets but the team chose not to feed him. You could tell Dwight was frustrated. Everytime Danny Green and LMA sees Rockets on the upcoming schedule, they are just ready to feast on this team. Harden just leaves Green open all night and no one can stop LMA in the post... Dwight doesn't even contest his perimeter shots.
Hats off to those fans who made it to the end of that game. The Spurs came out with more energy in the third, so I turned it off.
