ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Wizards 12/29/2017

Harden literally harming people's health with his pathetic ass attitude

 

Ya that's not funny. Sit down.

 

FO!! It's the team that's collapsing not just Harden. They need to regroup as a team. This is not on one man's shoulders or else it would be a game of HORSE.

 

and he does it over multiple IDs . . . I wonder if he is russian

Rocket River

 

Goat STILL ragging on Harden. A true HOH.
Relentless.
Do us all a favor and let us know who you would have replace Harden and bring us to the promised land?

 

Who? James or Bobby?

 

Dear god how many various multiple accounts do you possess? At first it was somewhat comical but now I fear for your mental health. It is kind of disturbing...Let me rephrase that it is creepy and really DISTURBING!

Son go out of the house and enjoy life instead of creating multiple accounts to troll about Harden. It is unhealthy. You are just making a utter complete fool out of yourself! You’re trolling is not going to make any difference in regard to getting Harden traded. You are just stressing you’re self out and harden is living life as a millionaire while you are a nobody except a angry bitter soulless troll.



Do yourself a favor by getting rid of all the anger in you and enjoy life because it is unhealthy to have this much hate in you.

 

That comment was a joke dude (Although, Briante is probably worse than Bobby) And I'm a very happy person that only owns one account, but I am indeed stressed out about this team.
Edit: To add on to that, I wouldn't say I'm a Harden hater. If I hated him, I wouldn't have bought 6 pairs of his shoes, lol

 

Anderson shooting 24% from three during this losing streak isn't helping either.

 

Hear me out Morey...

This might be a shocker to you but maybe... Just maybe the Houston Rockets have no where near the shooting personnel to jack more three pt attempts than the Golden State Warriors, a team compromised of some of the best shooters this game has ever seen. I mean we have freaking PJ Tucker who has one of the most ugliest least consistent shooting strokes in the NBa jacking up 3-6 3 pters a game. That's just wasted offense.

I'm frankly just tired of this "live by three, die by three gimmick" when this team doesn't have a single pure shooter who isn't a streaky mess.

Half the league has better shooters than us. Half the league can attempt this stupid ****ing gimmick and go off on a 10 game winning streak here or there. There is just too. There is significantly more varience to the lows and highs of the team. Most NBA GMs know this gimmick isn't sustainable against true elite teams thus they don't want to build an entire system behind taking more 3pt attempts than 2 pt attempts .

 

Lol he ain't listening to this. He probably would say if that were the case why don't other teams having the success record wise then? Newsflash only one team wins the championship... plenty of teams would love to have a winning record every year be a contender and generate the bread. If it's that easy for other teams to apply this system and go on random win streaks then why aren't they doing it? Some pieces are clearly missing in this puzzle. At the end of the day in nba you gotta have stars with a system that is great.

 

A few missing pieces? We jack up more threes than a team that has 3 of the greatest shooters in NBA history on the same roster while this team has almost no elite true shooters. We have very streaky ones and flat out shitty ones(Tucker) but none of them are pure elite shooters.

That's a very vast gulf of difference to rely more than 50% of your offense on when there are teams that can do it signficantly better.

 

Problem is it hasn't been done by any of those teams better. I understand what your saying and it makes sense but we aren't running the Rockets. Situational basketball can be better for instance if mid range is open we should take those shots... make this offense a pick your poison type attack but 3's are big part of it in that some guys on this team aren't that good at playmaking so having them shoot a open three seems to be better than them looking stupid trying to create a shot. Only way to fix that is to run an old school offense like the Princeton offense.

 

Possibly no Harden figures

 

So... chance with no Harden.

 

That is the problem without Clint in the game and no true center to come off the bench and fill in. You are right about the streaky shooters. You are also right that there are a lot better 3 or shooters in this league. Even Anderson has a higher average than Gordon, but is just as streaky.

It works when we have Clint and Paul both in, but we are relying on streaky luck otherwise with only Chris being in the top 50 percentage wise in the league. They can look great or horrible like Ariza and Andeeson were last game. Even so, both of them are in the top 70 and Gordon, who doesn't even rank in the top 100 takes more 3's than anyone other than the Beard. Maybe if he worked more on assists and getting in to the paint we would do better.

 

Maybe the Hawks will be looking to move Marco Belinelli at the deadline. He's shooting 39% from three and he's averaging a career high 12.1 PPG.

 

With Clint, CP and Moute out, our team is just not the same.
A 3 legged stool is a solid seat until you take off just ONE leg and then it becomes unstable.
That's what's happened here.
I don't remember seeing any of your panic posts during our league leading run.
We'll get our boys back and our swag.

This team wasn't thriving JUST on 3 pointers. Sure that is a mainstay of our offense.
But what makes it thrive is a 3 prong approach. (shoot 3, drive for layup, or alley oop)
WITHOUT Clint we lose 2 of those elements. The defense can tighten up on 3 pt line and put a big in for rim protection
to prevent the easy drive. (see 2nd half of Celtics game for proof. They made those very adjustments)
Not to mention we got manhandled on the boards without CC's length and rebounding.
WITH Clint, if the defense tightens on the arc, CP or James drive past and into the lane, or HIGH P&R.
Penetrating the lane forces the C to help out, and boom, ALLEY OOP.
High percentage shot. You DO watch the games, right?

Our P&R is just not the same without the alley oop threat (Capela). But when it's on, it keeps the D honest and if they
crowd the arc, then they will pay. If they sag, that leaves open shots. Pick your poison.
With Clint, CP and James it's the 3 legged stool. Solid. Without that critical piece in Capela, our typical approach struggles.
Neither Nene nor Tarick can run the P&R and alley-oop like Clint.

Our offense is also missing Luc. He was one of our better 3 point shooters. Not to mention one of our best
lock down defenders.

Sure, we were unfortunate to have a rash of injuries pile up at the same time and took out 3 key players.
But, once healthy we'll be a force again.
The Warriors haven't been the same since Curry went out. Do you think the fans are calling for the head of their GM?
A 5 game losing streak is ugly, but it's not permanent. Let's get our full squad back and THEN if we're still on this
skid it would be more of a concern.