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Rockets just set an NBA Playoff Record 50 point 3rd quarter!

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Shaq2Yao, Apr 23, 2018.

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  1. WestendMassive

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    All that clownshow website has left to hate on the Rockets with is the ultra weak "i just don't like watching them".

    Must be a miserable existence when fast paced, efficient high-scoring basketball is not interesting for you.
     
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  2. daywalker02

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    One Quarter to Bind them All

    One Quarter to Rule them All

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  3. Will

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    I'd trade that 50-point quarter for a steadier diet of 30-point quarters. This feast or famine stuff is killing me.
     
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    Going up 2 - 1?
     
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    beats team of all times confirmed!
     
    #45 hakeem94, Apr 24, 2018
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    KOC is on an island over there for his Rockets fandom. Which is cool because I think he’s gonna be the only non-Simmons personality in that bunch to actually stick as an NBA analyst. The dude watches as much film as Zach Lowe, and no one else is in their ballpark.
     
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    They just desperately want it to be true that good offense requires the ball bouncing all over and being touched by every member of the team every possession, because it's "beautiful" and it's "team basketball".

    They hate that the Rockets became the best team in the NBA by playing the way they do. It goes against decades of basketball orthodoxy, wherein ball movement is the god which Must Be Venerated.

    Unfortunately for them, basketball is not figure skating. You don't score more points for presentation. It's about putting the ball in the basket, stupid, and whatever is the most effective way to do it is the best basketball, whether you prefer watching it or not.
     
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  8. Kevooooo

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    If we managed to only score 15 points in the other quarters, yah I'd be unhappy. We've played like **** for a month and we won't get many if any 50 or quarters again. And no, I'm never happy. It's the coaches life for me.
     
    #48 Kevooooo, Apr 24, 2018
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    I didn't even know how good it was till it was over. I know they were playing great ball. I was just "fan"ing in the moment.

    The quarter ended after EG's 3pt.

    They said 50 pt quarter.

    The mind just started racing.

    What did we just witness?

    I wanted to run in and wake the wife and kids up. Yes, they go to bed early. No, they would not appreciate it. Son is only 4 so he might have a chance to understand NBA greatness one day. Wife, ehh, not so much hope. Instead, I just gave the dog a couple of vigorous pats and back rubs while watching the post game interviews. Then drifted off to sleep with visions of sugar plums and step-back 3s falling.
     
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    The Rockets only needed to score 1 point in the 4th to win the game.

    That’s amazing.
     
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    It funny. I watch other teams play now and I'm always thinking "What are they doing? They are taking terrible shots" Its hard to watch. The rest of the NBA will catch up to what the Rockets are doing and it will become the norm. Until then enjoy the ride.
     
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    http://www.espn.in/nba/story/_/id/23299214/houston-rockets-find-their-rhythm-minnesota

    MINNEAPOLIS -- The Houston Rockets executed the opening play of the second half perfectly. James Harden took the dribble handoff from Chris Paul, who set a screen on Jimmy Butler, freeing his costar to cruise down the middle of the lane for a lefty floater.

    It was a perfect opportunity for Harden to get a little rhythm after a rough first half for the probable MVP. But the ball bounced one, two, three, four times on the rim before falling off, Harden's 11th miss on his first 15 field goal attempts.

    Man, this might just be another one of those nights for the NBA's regular-season scoring leader. Yeah, right.

    That was one of the only things that went wrong for Harden and the Rockets in the third quarter of their 119-100 rout of the Minnesota Timberwolves in Monday night's Game 4. Houston's 50-point frame was a dozen-minute display of the rare skill and ridiculous potential of the pairing of two Hall of Fame playmakers.

    It was really the first time during these playoffs that the Rockets, who had locked up the NBA's best record by the end of March, got in a rhythm. It took them only 14 quarters.

    "One quarter we get hot, and that's it," Harden said.

    That was the game. That was almost certainly the series, with the Rockets taking a commanding 3-1 lead before returning to Houston. That's all the Rockets needed to regain the swagger of a 65-win team after sort of scuffling through the first few games of this first-round series.

    Harden refused to let the Rockets lose Game 1, when he put up 44 points and eight assists, covering for Paul's off-night. Paul returned the favor with a 27-point, eight-dime, bounce-back performance in Game 2, which combined with a dominant defensive effort was more than enough to make up for Harden's 2-of-18 bricklaying.

    Finally, a couple days after the Timberwolves recorded their first playoff win in 14 years, the Rockets' co-superstars caught fire at the same time in this series. When that happened, Harden and Paul got historically hot.

    They combined for 37 points in the third, their most in a quarter as teammates. Harden scored 22 in the quarter -- or two more than the Timberwolves, the most in Rockets playoff history and the most by anybody since Golden State's Stephen Curry had 22 in a quarter against the San Antonio Spurs five years ago. Paul added 15 points in the quarter.

    "You just saw their brilliance," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said.

    We saw that brilliance frequently throughout the season, when Harden and Paul made skepticism about whether two ball-dominant playmakers could coexist seem silly. Perhaps those doubters started peaking their heads out around halftime Monday night, when the Rockets were clinging to a one-point lead, shooting only 38 percent from the floor through a couple of quarters.

    "Some of you might want to check your tweets at halftime," D'Antoni joked.

    D'Antoni also kidded that the key was his halftime adjustments, but the reality is the Rockets did what they always do. They spaced the floor and put the ball in the hands of two of the NBA's best creators. The big difference was that the shots started falling -- and just like that, Houston matched its point total from the first half in a matter of 12 minutes.

    "A couple of looks that I had in the first half that I missed, I was going to shoot those same shots," said Harden, who finished with 36 points, with Paul adding 25. "Out of the first play of the half, coach drew up a play, and I was aggressive. Just had that mentality. Not only for myself, but Chris had that same mentality and the entire team. We're going to shoot the 3-ball well, we're going to be aggressive, we're going to attack."

    Harden, who missed all seven of his shots from the floor in the first quarter, didn't hang his head when his easy floater missed to start the second half. He attacked again the next possession, getting a finger roll to fall.

    If you blinked, you might have missed the Rockets' 11-0 run to open the half. Harden and Paul combined to score every point, taking turns dancing off the dribble, as they did so many times this season, when Houston was 44-5 when both of them played.

    It didn't get much better for Minnesota the rest of the quarter. The Rockets were 14-of-23 from the floor, 9-of-13 from 3-point range and 13-of-13 from the line as they came within a point of matching the 1962 Los Angeles Lakers' playoff record for points in a quarter.

    "We can be that team," said sixth man Eric Gordon, who had eight points in the quarter, including a 3 at the buzzer. "We just hadn't gotten into a flow throughout this whole series. It was good to see that."

    It's a frightening sight for any team in the Rockets' path.
     
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    It was so sweet Kevin Harlem pronounced his name right.

    Who's Reggie Gordon?
     
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  14. Andy Sheets

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    If the Rockets end up winning the title, someone better swing by the Ringer offices to make sure they haven't all taken cyanide.
     
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    For 24 of those minutes, they kept the score tight. For the remaining 12 they effed around because they knew they were up by a bazillion points.
     
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    If you want to feel like "burn the internet down please", go to the deadspin comments section on their wrap-up, .


    https://deadspin.com/the-rockets-fine-tuned-their-equation-and-became-invinc-1825499194

    I learned that:

    1.Scoring 50 points in a quarter is SOOOO boring
    2. Watching Harden score 22 points in 7 minutes cannot be unironically said to be fun
    3. The Rockets cheated by using moving screens to score those 50 points
    4. The Rockets and Warriors are both unwatchable

    I'd love to see what these clowns consider watchable - do people really think 1990's Bulls-Jazz 85-point dirge fests were objectively more entertaining to watch?

    I lived through them guys - They were not.

    I mean if you want to watch a Pete Carrill team run around for 30 seconds and then miss, and feel that that's playing the game the right way, I guess today's NBA is not for you.
     
    #56 SamFisher, Apr 24, 2018
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    This post should be framed and hung on the main hallway at Clutchfans headquarters
     
    #57 Tfor3, Apr 24, 2018
  18. D-rock

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    Reggie was the MVP of the game, not James. He called everyone Reggie it seemed.
     
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    That 3rd quarter was a thundering wake up call for the Bulls of the North. All hope was crushed that old Tag, old Rose and super defense Butler do not belong in a conversation with GS and the Rockets. Waddaya think, Thibs? Who you gonna dig up next....Ron Artest?
     
    #59 Carter Le Grand, Apr 24, 2018
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