ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Thunder 4/21/2013 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 1)

Houston is a great comeback team -> never give up!

 

How are we not supposed to talk about LIN

Playoffs will expose you..... Lin doesn't fit our team. It obvious.

He is good, but his role and kind of play doesn't fit. HARDEN Handles, all Lin had to do is shoot OPEN 3's( he can't)

 

Most of the team isn't playing like they usually do. I think they just need to play past the jitters. I think they will improve past the half.

 

Because LOHs just have to pipe up when Jeremy Lin does bad, and LOFs have to defend him/bash other players, and the vicious cycle continues..

 

2 major things are happening-

1. we arent hitting our shots from the outside

2. since we arent hitting our shots from the outside, OKC's defenders are clogging the paint preventing us from driving to the basket.

harden and lin have pretty much become useless because of this.

 

Jack3d is for 16 year olds

 

Lets go rockets! I believe!

 

good to see the front office put marketing and exposure over getting good players.

 

remember when sampson used to bench lin too. the problem is sampson doesnt ryhme with fail so it doesnt make a good meme..

 

The rockets are not playing team ball. The only real run we had was when harden was on the bench. Lin has been atrocious.Beverly has been amazing on defense. Lin and harden are both killing the team. The only momentum we had was due to parsons and Beverly. Please no more delfino at pf. Can we please see t Jones or Robinson.

 

What are you talking about? My point was that everyone is focusing on either hating Lin or defending him. Did I not put that the Rockets should just calm down and not just Lin.

 

He won't. With our small ball, OKC is double teaming him or Harden. While Harden works fine under double teaming, Lin is not on that level. Unless Mchale put our big PF in, Lin should go to the bench. Lin is NOT the player we wnat to go to if we go small ball.

 

Is the TNT halftime crew on bath salts?

 

Wow you really see the heightened emotions and overexaggerations during the game.

 

God, the angst in this thread is infuriating,

 

He's been shooting 40% from 3s since Feb. This is not even one game yet.

 

Smith looked pretty bad out there. Jones should get some time

 

More people on this forum focus on proving that Lin is good/bad than actually caring about the games, this is what it's looking like by the amount of LOF and LOH posts on this thread, they make up about 50% of the posts, if you want to argue with each other and make insulting posts not related to the game, you should take it to another thread

 

tough game for lin, in those 2 minutes. Kenny had good insight on how lin went into panic mode in those 2 minutes.

 

Leave it to Lin fans to try and lump together Harden and Lins performances, when Lin's been 100x worse.