The young Rockets players have clearly improved and proved it in the first preseason game

8. Howard was making free throws

 

9. Canaan was showing courage

 

Courage shown. Definitely a lot of heart. And courage... A lot of courage. Resilience also. Showed resilience. Determined. Was very determined.

 

10. Canaan stepping up to show the world he's on Eldridge Recasner's level.

 

I'm unfamiliar with Eldridge Recasner's level. Could you graph it and Canaan's as well so we can compare?

 

I want purple courage lines, blue resilience lines, red heart lines, and green determination lines, comparing the two players. 'k? Graphed over the course of Canaan's minutes, comparing his performance to Recasner's career averages. Like, the real advanced insider ****; you know, JCD.

You can start to make things up to us if you'll provide this for every player after every game, and after every practice too... using a random Rockets player from the past to project current player's future courage and resilience performance, etc... you can do it, JCD. Don't let us down this time...

 

That's a lot of #5's.

11. Howard having a PER 36:
25.3 Points | 12.0 Rebounds | 4.0 Assists | 1.3 Blocks | 63.3 FT% | 54.4 FG%

 

~lol~ Yay!!

 

11. Toyota Center was packed

 

I think to many people piled on DMo yesterday. If you go back and look at the beginning of the game Davis had the green light to try and score on DMo. Before DMo went out of the game and Jones came in to replace him Davis went at DMo 5 or 6 times and didn't score.

DMo wasn't great but I don't think he did that bad for his first game back.

 

Remember last year at around this time when we were referring to this team as the "baby Rockets", and saying how important it was to be patient, not have too high expectations, and give them a few years to develop.

I totally agree with the OP and others above, I too am "elated" by how much the Rockets' young players have improved in such a short time.

 

They have look impressive, albeit it's one preseason game.

 

There's no doubt that this team looks absolutely phenomenal at a very early stage.

I predicted as much, given their frequent practice sessions over the summer; at least one of which included mchale.

This team's still got a long ways to go. And the major issue is and will be what to do at the 4. Asik's tenure is a concern as well. I know that a lot of forum members are emotionally attached to DMo and Asik, which is all well and good; but there is a good chance that one or both will be moved in order to acquire an all star 4.

I'm pretty certain that morey will make a move before the trade deadline, or in the offseason at the latest, and I tend to suspect that it will be yet another blockbuster move, rivaling if not equaling the acquisition of harden and howard.

 

No doubt. The heat look even more frightening after just 1 preseason game; I have little doubt that lebron is an even better player now than he was last season.

 

12. Covington was ballsy and tenacious. Shots weren't falling like they were in the camp footage, but I appreciated that he kept at it instead of disappearing, which would have been the easy thing to do.

 

Get used to the negative reps. You cannot praise or defend Jeremy here...someone will leave you a mean message....it never fails. I have almost 100 and most of them negative reps. Just ignore.