ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Thunder 12/25/2017

I don't think anybody is mad at him...he just doesn't seem to have NBA skills.

Beverly busted his ass, and that was great. But he also shot the ball. Weber seems like he was completely lost out there, made no offensive moves. You can't survive with a PG sized player who is a zero on the offensive end.

 

OKC doesn't suck, it was in their gym, and went down to the last minute.

The clippers game was aggravating, this one not so much.

 

Losing Paul and our backup PG in Boute is rough.

That being said, our defense needs work.

110+ points given up to 3 teams that are not good offensively

 

Agree, by itself it wasn't a bad loss especially since CP3 was out. But I'm just not liking the energy from this Rocket team lately, and watching the end of the game it didn't seem like the Rockets were playing that hard.

 

Not only Roberson, but against lengthy, athletic types Harden always sh!ts his bed.

Let's be honest, Harden's offensive game is limited, and combined with his piss poor defense, this dude probably is not the best guy to build around a championship caliber team.

 

we need to just hoop man, stop trying to get those foul called...refs ain't calling shxt for us this season..fact!

 

what "assets" are you ttalking about or do you just like ******** from your other hole?
Bev? Dekker? Harrel? 27th pick? thats alot of assets for a top 10 player in this league....some ppl man

 

Rockets maybe a bit soft
If the Refs allow teams to be overly physical with the Rockets they shine a bit
Luc and Cp3 will help that......but still

OKC was very handsy and grabby....esp on Free Throws and under the basket
Hand checking is allowed for them but not agains them
Rockets got some Ticky tack fouls and Paul played with 5 fouls like
A quarter and a half...... Never went at him

Rocket River

 

I guess having a money step back, a reliable three point shot, great finishing around the rim and creating the MOST FREAKING POINTS FOR HIS TEAMMATES AND POINTS COMBINED IN THE LEAGUE IS LIMITED. lol. Wow you take stupidity to a whole new level.

 

Tired maybe?
everyone played 6-7 minutes more than they used to. only natural you'll get tired with older legs. There's only one Lebron.

 

I really don’t take much of anything from losses without CP3, Clint, and Moute...the Lakers and Clippers losses sucked, but every great team/contender will have bad losses throughout the year

tonight we played OKC tough and just couldn’t pull it out in the end on the road, oh well

I judge the team on how they look when fully healthy, and so far, they’ve looked incredible

 

There're plenty of players around the league that don't have nba skills but they still play some minutes, Weber might be/is one of them but right now we just need one or two bodies to play few minutes, and for that he didn't do bad, i mean, what is the alternative at this point? Playing six guys 42 minutes every game?

 

When matched up against elite perimeter defenders such as Kawhi, Danny Green, Roberson, PG13, etc. Harden's FG% is embarrassingly pathetic and only gets decent points per game by drawing cheap fouls, which never works late in games. Harden has some decent offensive moves, but those are not as great as you think it is, otherwise he would not struggle to this degree against the best defenders in this league.

LeBron, Durant, Curry, etc. don't always **** their bed just because they're going against great defenders, whereas Harden's performance against the likes of Roberson is becoming pretty predictable at this point.

 

We might have more depth next year but im not sure morey really had the ability to add much depth this year.

I believe that he prioritized going all in on having a chance to make a lineup that could potentially compete with the warriors. He addressed that when talking about “upping his risk profile”

Also pretty much said that we werent really built to have the no 1 seed or the best record in the league in his “we are obsessed with beating the warriors” interview

 

While we were jacking up 3s OKC was finding the best shot at the end, even if it ended up being modrange

 

You mean any season not just this one lol

 

The Lakers and the Clippers losses were bad but this one you can live with

 

Losing streak is not over. Celtics and Wizzards are tough matchup.
Morey needs to move his ass to do his job.

 

I hate to say it but Harden just doesnt play winning basketball. Plays like the game owes him something... not enough dog in him.

 

Is no one going to talk about the last minute?

Down 3 and literally took 3 HEAVILY unnecessary contested shots!

I believe they had timeouts also, what’s up with that?