ClutchFans Game Thread: Timberwolves @ Rockets 3/20/2014

Finally McHale screamed!!! I was wondering when he was going to resort to that, cause this team has needed many times before.

Also, coincidence that we have more assists with Dwight out? No, cause we play better when not forcing it into a center. So I'm not saying we are better without him, though Asik sets better screens, but they need to look at some stuff they are doing with and without Dwight and make it work.

 

With Howard plus Asik is a major upgrade. Adding Howard but without Asik, it is not such a major upgrade.

 

Good game from our PFs,but I still want Love no matter what

 

Thank you!

 

Good point. Asik is great at picks. Howard's game in that area needs improvement.

 

Griffin will be closer at that spot than Harden next year.

 

Its called players stepping their games up when one of the Superstars are out.

Another thing this wasn't the first time has screamed at his players.

 

Fixed:

Yellow this wasn't the first time Mchale has screamed at his players.

 

7 out of his 9 made attempts are assisted and 5 of them came from Jeremy. No wonder why Jeremy can have a large number of Ast this game. DMO is really moving well without ball.

 

I think DMO FITS BETTER WITH THE STARTERS NOW BCUZ HE MOVES WELL WITHOUT THE BALL THAN JONES!.. JONES CAN HAVE THE TOUCHES HE WANT OFF THE BENCH!..

 

Both players move great with the starters, Have you not seen the 30 point games or any game where Jones went off for 15 points or better?

 

For some reason, without Dwight we move the ball along the perimeter much better. When we feed/force-feed dwight on the post, our perimeter player tend to stand around waiting for the pass-out to shoot the 3s. Only Chandler is active in making cuts into the basket, but he does not do that enough I think. I hope to see more off-the-ball screen to free up our perimeter player when Dwight is on the post.

Btw, Asik sets tons of monster screen tonight. Dwight should learn that from Asik!

 

Asik got a huge body comparing to Howard.

 

Maury did it again

Drafted Parsons as 38th pick who replaced Bud in the starting 5 and then swapped Bud for TJONES

Minny got OWNED

 

From Dawk Ins

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is that a caspi euro step in there i just saw?

 

A mature interview from D-Mo. You can see that he is content in Houston. A far cry from the time when he was demanding a trade. He realizes the importance of his role to the team, and that he has to perform every night.

He so very correctly pointed out that it's going to be harder to move the ball around with the Heat.If we don't show consistency, we won't win.

 

Looked like Lin was really looking for Dmo out there. A line-up of Lin, Asik, Dmo, and Hamilton is playoff-worthy in the East!

 

I like how the ESPN dime writer game the game MVP to Kevin Love.


uhhh

what?

 

I worry about this team's mindset and thinking they are better than they actually are. Then, when you actually get back to playing elite teams, all this supposed progress we made beating up on average to bad teams goes out the window. It's good we are taking care of business against lesser teams...but I hope they understand that they can sleepwalk their ways to wins against these bad teams most nights. They really have to be at the top of their game against the elite teams and that is where we need the progress to be made. Is it effective to measure progress as a group when you beat up on bad teams where you can get away with a lot of stuff? Not so much imo.