ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Mavericks 1/23/2021

Yep. Pacers were doing the same ever since his return last season.

 

did you know that clippers stars eg also had major health issues? george injury was particulary grave

great then more playing time for young guns!

 

He‘s just right.

idc if walls shot is not falling, I’ll take a 8.00 A/TO ratio every day.

some people, maybe including you, have built hate for wall because „he took the ball out of james‘ hands“ and haven’t bypassed that yet.

Wall is a good leader and can lead the offense and get other guys good shots. It’s not a coincidence that we had our best game in a while with him in the lineup.
The only thing I’d like him to do is to shoot less off the dribble and look to pass first.

 

sorry, spent the last five days in the Adirondacks enjoying the winter sports. Looks like I missed a FINE game against the Mavs. Will have to watch the game on LP tomorrow

 

youre enlightening presence was sorely missed, good to have you back, good to know you do sport in real life...a department that it seems most posters here are lacking in

 

need you to do more of this... perhaps this may be your new shtick?

 

I.D.I.O.T.

 

Probably the proposed deal will have to be sweetened, but professional scouts and other personnel do assess players for their defense etc, especially if they play well against them. I'm also offering them for a struggling role player. I know it's extremely unlikely to try and make such a trade until the March deadline. EG, Nwaba etc need to be consistent and healthy. Thanks.

 

John Wall is making 40 million dollars and produces like a roll player. So comparing contract to production. Yeah he sucks.

 

THE MIDRANGE IS MONEY

 

There is no doubt in my mind that Rockets need to use switch everything as their base defense.

Drop coverage or zone should only be used in Boogie only (no Wood) line ups.

Wood needs to learn how to switch everything, the sooner the better.

He is just useless in drop coverage.

 

They need trading lol

 

Please be sure to reference your post when the time comes, and it will, when you realize that Wall is not the future of this team nor will he be the best complement to Wood.

Wall if not injured is the 3rd best player on Rockets at best, behind at least Wood and Dipo, but he is Rockets highest usage player.

Inefficient.

After being the leading analytics team for so long, I'm askance as to why so few on CF refuse to see this.

 

lol, salary is irrelevant. He is having a good season for a guy who had 2 years off

 

lol he has low turnovers, shooting 44 percent from the field and a career high 82 percent from the line......that is not inefficient..............oh and his usage rate is only 25.8.........which is real low

 

His +/- is minus 3.5 on the court this season. It was -4.8 the last season he played for Wizards.

And his net rating is -5.4. He has had only 1 season with an offensive rating higher than 109 and it's not this season. FYI, 109 is good.

For a defensive rating.

Only 1 season with defensive rating under 100.

And TS% is a middling 53.0 and has never been higher than 54 his decade long career.

But you are correct, I misspoke. Both Oladipo and Wood have slightly higher usage than Wall right now. But both have much better TS% so make the most of their minutes.

Nevertheless his usage will jump due to being the only pure PG on the team.

 

Meh. Salary isn’t irrelevant. Wall has always been a massively overrated empty calorie player just like WB.

 

You can find guys like Nwaba all over the league. PJ Tucker, a superstar version of Nwaba with 3 pt shooting, only got paid 7M a year so that shows you the value of 1 dimensional defensive players around the league, and we aint even talking about Tucker just Nwaba. It'll take more than "sweeteners" for teams to take on EG's contract.

 

If wood and Cousins dont start together I will be mad. Cousins has earned a start. Dipo and PJ need to come off the bench.

 

way to go Joe, your anger is 100% justified! well, perhaps not 100% but you get iit, its more like 72 or even 73%