ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Bulls 12/11/2020 (Preseason)

that pass wall made to d. House in the corner was a pass I’ve only seen the 2013 version of harden and luka make.

 

Having Cousins out there made them look so legit. His skill set is just absolutely off the charts for this offense. I love watching him play the game and really hope he stays healthy.

 

wall = cp3
cousions > capela
Wood > Tucker
Tucker + Eg3 = Ariza
Harden

Hope Harden can stay. Trade to get other team players cannot replace losing harden and tucker.

 

Harden was an amazing playmaker prior to Cp3 trade, he led the league on open 3 pter passes.

After the Cp3 trade he kinda fell in love with scoring a bit too much, started minimizing the Capela PnR and started increasing the iso stepback 3. He kinda lost the balance then and became almost exclusively a scorer.

 

Some additional comments:

- Cousins looks great
- SO NICE not to have that shot spammer Westbrook jacking up 25 shots a game. Wall is a much more selfless intelligent player
- Loved seeing Green back in the lineup taking, and hitting, his rushed 3-pointers off a screen. I didn't realize how much I missed that LOL
- Gordon looked good again. Again not panic selling on him. If his shot comes back to career averages, he is a solid starter in the NBA.
- Am I the only the one that mistake Bruno for Kawhi? lol. That hairstyle threw me off

Concerns:

Obvs hope Harden rejoins us. I don't mind playing for a couple months and seeing how things go, and then if he still wants to leave fair enough. It would be heartbreaking to see him bolt from the team without seeing the true potential of a Harden-Wall-Gordon-Wood-Cousins lineup.

Also, our offense looks nice, but I hope we stick with Moreyball. That is NOT the reason why we didn't beat GSW or the Lakers in the playoffs. It's what got us in that position in the first place. I saw Wall take a couple mid rangers, and even McLemore took one with 16 seconds in the playoffs. Not overreacting, but those -EV shots will kill us in the long run. We had to suffer through too many of those with Russ as is, I want to return to 3's/layups/and FT's...just with a little more variety and motion.

 

Harden should see the physical and the overall improvement in Cousins from the last few years and think he has a great couple of big men in Woods and Cousins who can help him immensely.I mean what other destination can he have that kind of frontline that is so versatile at his disposal?

 

Silas said he envisions harden and wood like luka and porzingis. Plz James give Silas a chance

 

Yep. Harden has way more talent then luka so I can see his scoring output going down from 34 to 29 or 30 but Harden could easily average anywhere from 11 to 13 assists a game on this offense.

Shams mentioned Silas and Stone are going to try to show their vision to Harden once he joins the full squad.

 

Hah, now you sound like me, lower his usage rate, up his efficiency - better for the team.

Well done, and welcome aboard!

DD

 

fingers crossed

 

I'm glad gimmicky small ball is gone.

 

Just watched the full game. Silas has a really nice offense. Wall and Boogie played very well. Really surprised by Bruno.

This was The Bulls and they are incredibly awful so well we will see.

 

Not surprised we're good but was surprised it was that fast. Right from the jump in the first glimpse. What makes everyone nervous, including James is the question of how long before these guys are out again? It's never been a question of talent for me. Before Wall was injured and fat, he was putting up MVP numbers and Boogie looked great in Golden St before he got injured again. It's always injuries with these guys. They can ball though. When healthy and in form they're super stars.

 

Was kind of skeptical of Silas but damn he sounds competent AF.

 

You asked a question that you were too lazy to search up the answer to. Not sure why you need to throw shade at Wall, considering he's done nothing negative and he's also a member of the Rockets.

But okay.

 

If Harden and tucker stays, the team settings are the same as Leborn's big 3 Miami team.

 

Oh, I knew the answer.

Wall has never led NBA in assists.

If anyone was throwing shade, it was the Harden haters.

 

I like how we went from "analytics" all the time to Silas now talking about "randomness" of the offense. Now we have an RNG running the offense. Nerds are still running this team. He seems to want the offense to flow spontaneously/randomly rather than running set plays.