The way to stop this bull team is don't let Noah get the ball in the high post. His passing is killing us. Normally a zone will work on the bulls but dunleavy was done busting today
You also can't obviously discount the home versus away factor. But, this game was an anomaly. It will be interesting to see how we play the Heat now. How will we respond after not responding after OKC?
I'm all for mchale unless we don't make it out of the first round. If we get to the second round I think the team should contemplate if another coach is needed. If we get past the second round and above then he should be kept for at least another year. Regardless though, I would love to swap coaches with the bulls. Look at what thibodeau has done with the bulls with their best player injured and also recently trading deng. Rockets would be top 3 if we had thibodeau in my opinion. If we had better defense to go with our offense. Remember our defense when he was a assistant coach here. Either way I'm impressed with what mchale has done. Rockets position and how they look when they are playing well is where I hoped they would be before the season started. I'm think laker fans were hoping we would be in the positions of the Knicks today.
Very depressing loss but we ran the gauntlet, you had to expect a sub par performance but damn not like this. I still see us going to the wcf though #rednation
I hope there will be a coach one day who will actually let the players suffer more than just sit a quarter. Let them sit the whole 2nd half, start the bench players in the 2nd half or something. Hell, Lin was the only guy who did something out there. Also playing some full court press would've nice. Nothing about this game was right, absolutely nothing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pissed they lost, especially the way they lost BUT once again; Miami, Indiana, Portland, OKC, Chi and Miami again!!! If they win Sunday, ya'll will be all over them again
They need to put this horrendous effort behind them and find a way to get something working. They need to utilize Dmo in the post more.
Well, Mchale had some questionable substitutions. Took Lin out in first half while he was hot. Then waited so long to sub the starters out in the 3rd (down by 20+ by then)
Rockets needs to get "nasty", need a true mental leader. Not a leader who is liked by everyone but someone who puts all the overpaid player in check.
