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ClutchFans Game Thread: Bucks @ Rockets 2/25/2025

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Clutch, Feb 24, 2025.

  1. amaru

    amaru Member

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    You finally answered the simple question. Was that so difficult?
     
  2. clos4life

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    Maybe you could try being like Ryan then and callout the good stuff he does as our only all-star player and you wouldn't be a hater, but your post history already shows what a hater you are.
     
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  3. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    We should have lost this game 3 times but the Bucks didn’t want to take it.

    I’m very disappointed that the team still can’t inbound a ball in 5 seconds and that we refuse to take take of the ball in general in clutch time. That’s on Sengun and Green. Is Ime losing the team because I can’t imagine he tells them to be so careless with the ball.
     
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  4. gfab-babyboi

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    Because our team goes stupid, when can have a player hit 2-3 shots in a row and that player won’t get another shot for 5-10min

    we can run a play that gets us a good look 2x in a row and then players go rogue

    we get up 7-10 points and Ime with his set rotation times will sit Alpi and JG and watch us lose the lead before rushing them back in

    in no world should Jock take 3-6 shots in 5min unless they all dunks or layups …yet he puts Amen Holiday Tate Tari Jock out there and wonders why we go through a 5-8 min drought
     
  5. mac_got_this

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    Ime don’t even be standing anymore on the sideline. He’s been sitting down down all of February. I think he’s fed up with the team. He don’t even get up or barely looked fazed when Amen got ejected. I think the team is losing Ime. You can tell he wants changes
     
  6. Bo6

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    Wow what an absolute disaster class there down the stretch.

    Amen flagrant 2
    Jalen Green getting pick pocketed
    Dillon Brooks 5 second call
    Tari Eason traveling violation
    Tari Eason blocked at the rim
    Alperen "magic" pass


    yet we still won lol... jesus christ bucks fans have to be in a coma after that.
     
  7. Hemingway

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    lol
     
  8. Hemingway

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    i know we have virtually no guard depth when FVV is hurt, but Holiday? Stone should be crucified for not finding a better option than Holiday. Hell, Tate is a better pg than Holiday.
     
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  9. gfab-babyboi

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    Thats what I really wanted - A backup PG with size and a shot blocking rim running big

    I would love to have a Swiss Army Knife roster for matchups but unlike Morey who would of found someone in G League or Overseas even.. Stone is set in Stone
     
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  10. dream2clips

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    LOL Sengun literally drove it in to the paint toward contact from mid-court. He had several seconds and about 40 feet to make a pass if he was scared.

    Sengun just had a brain fart and made an incredibly dumb, casual, lowiq, losing basketball play.
     
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  11. solid

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    I didn't see the game, but reading the post game comments one could only conclude that the Rockets lost by a huge margin.
     
  12. dream2clips

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    deleted double post
     
  13. No Worries

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    Well, damn if we did not win the game. It's time to fire the coach!
     
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  14. HardenReturns

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    Oh f off.
    Tell your boy Bari not to stop halfway to the rim instead.
     
  15. Patience

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    The Rockets made a lot of mistakes in the 4th, but luckily the Bucks made more. The team at least played hard and with force and intention. That’s a nice change from some of the previous games.
     
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  16. backwardhead

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    Executive function, or will-power. the ability to keep your attention/intention on a action that is not yet instinctual, is a limited quality. I can have a lot of the capacity in the morning but over the course of the day lose it if I don't recharge or find a new way to reframe the tasks I'm involved in. Anyone who read the book "Thinking Fast and Slow" might be familiar with the idea.

    Are our players still learning how to think fast AND smart? Like learning to let the coaching and the plays take over and become instinct? But by the end of the game they are out of mental gas? For the average person the neocortex uses 30% of our calories. That's how I understand it anyway.

    So who is to blame? Is Ime to blame for expecting to much? Or telling the players to "play faster" then "play smarter." I think its a little like the vinn diagram with FAST, QUALITY, CHEAP. You can have two of the 3 but never all 3. For our basketball team is it FAST, SMART, AGRESSIVE? You can get 2 of the 3 but asking for all 3 is just going to get you nothing good except frustrated.

    I wish Ime would make it less person. Be Billy Bad Ass on your team but don't get personal. That's how you are going to lose millionaires. The poor will put up with more of that **** but not the millionaires.
     
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  17. Hippieloser

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    Just popping in to say that I still really enjoy beating Lillard. **** that douche
     
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    Earlier in the day I posted that I would like to see Jabari and Jalen Green
    slash to the basket more, Rockets have them too stagnant offensively.

    Well someone must have read it, Jabari was diving to the rim the
    entire game when he played.

    It was the best I've seen him look. I know the stats don't reflect it, but he was
    all over the paint and creating havoc. If not for the Bucks being a long armed
    team, with Brook Lopez. Giannis, and Kuzma......but I noticed what you were
    doing Bari.

    Spurs without Wemby should help Bari finish on those plays. Average 18 points per
    game, with 3's, Crashing the paint, momentum going towards rim for some
    rim rockers, and some free throws now.
     
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  19. J.R.

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    ...didn't Tari nearly turn the ball over but mercifully the bucks defender fumbled it out of bounds at some point down the stretch too? Giannis stealing the ball from Green was one of those where his length gave him a window nearly no one else has - I'm not mad about a great defender doing this to Green. What I am mad about is why Green and Sengun decided with the game on the line to hunt out Giannis via unnecessary screen switches when he was probably the LAST player you want guarding you on their team. Here is a thought - reject the Sengun screen and let Green guard you OR get the switch and give Alpi the ball with a size mismatch. It's like these guys don't understand what a mismatch is.

    ...there were some good things too - the Tari steal, Green hitting a big 3 but the story here is the Bucks were just a little bit worse than Houston tonight. Was that KPJ's Rocket's redemption game with that god awful turnover at the end?
     
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