Very encouraged, give the team a few games to work out some kinks. We were hardly running our rotation in preseason anyway.
led by 16 in the first half. that is not that much in today's NBA and again, this is one of the top teams.
Our rebounding as well, I loved the uptempo push Westbrook provides. We missed a lot of open shots today and had many turnovers, I do think with Russ you’ll have to live with some of those but I do think they’ll clean up a few with more games together.
the rockets are infamous for giving up double digit leads, specifically the 2nd half. this has been an ongoing problem for the longest time
Yeah offensively in the 2nd half couldnt get going. But overall i thought Beard and Brodie didnt look bad together. In fact better than preseason. I feel the team need another tenacious hustler. Someone like Harrell (whom sadly we traded away). Definitely dont expect us to settle with this squad till trade deadline. Hopefully able to add one more piece to contribute in the playoff run
For real man I was so so sooo encouraged by the rebounding, I think we can clean the other stuff up. Westbrook really impressed me.
I still think we end up top 3 in West... But Clippers and Denver are gonna eat us alive in playoffs.. We need to work on our situational offense... We seem to play our worst when we're up 10+ pts. against the better teams.. Just chuck and then chuck some more!
I was at the game and from what I saw, everything looked better than expected for game 1. We led just about the whole game by double digits..Westbrook look good but not great. Seems like he didn’t turn it all the way on because he’s still not 100% of his role.
a double digit lead is nothing and they are given up every single game. the rockets should have won the game, but losing a 16 pt lead is not a big deal. harden and gordon might never shoot this poorly in the same game the rest of the year.
no it isnt. this is being overly dramatic as an excuse for a real problem houston has and has had for years
Not sure what’s encouraging about this game. 1) D’Antoni still can’t manage a game 2) Capela still soft 3) Still can’t hold a lead to save our lives 4) D’Antoni still doesn’t trust the bench 5) Still too reliant on 3’s while holding a lead Westbrook was great and that’s good to see, but too many of the same problems still showed up. Nothing has changed. Beat the Pelicans Saturday
First of all I agree with the OP and see exactly where he is coming from but man I'm pissed. Why do we have to always be that team that chokes?
Shot making has been the problem with the Rockets for a long time now. This is typical. Don't forget who set the NBA record for the most missed 3's in a row in the playoffs. Rockets are bottom three 3 point shooting team in the league and I will stand by that. Now that we have Westbrook instead of Cp3 it will be even worse. On the flip side our transition game looks good so hopefully we can get that down.
im disappointed, but i thought this could have been so much worse against a great defensive team and us still trying to figure a lot of things out. we pretty much had our way getting into the lane and finding each other. we played with good intensity we just need to finish stronger. james cant let himself get so frustrated and we have to activate his mid range. if cp3 had a green light on them i dont see why james cant. its wide open we will be good though. all teams seem so flawed except the clippers.
We could have won even though Harden had a terrible shooting night. Harden and Westbrook look like they fit. Gordon needs to stop bricking. You could tell he had dead legs at the end of the game.
