ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Sixers 11/3/2014

This could be Hardens year to lead the league in scoring

 

Oh, and Dwight seemed to take it a little easy tonight.

 

We sure couldn't have said that too many times last season.

Real test will be against Miami tomorrow...

 

I think terry is the only promising player off the bench.

Everyone else is the flip of a coin.

Hate the shoulda coulda woulda thought but imagine if we got bosh, and held on to asik and AB.

our second unit with AB,tjones,asik alone would have been so deadly. we would have been contenders without a doubt.

Meh, one can wish.

 

Honesty, I think we have the best starting five IF Jones can find any sort of consistency. Three legit elite defenders, one of the best offensive weapons in the game and a real x-factor in Jones.

But our bench has a lot of prove. Terry has been a blessing, though.

 

He no look happy. Maybe he smile inside. But no look happy.

 

Complaints about entry passes seem to underestimate Noel's defense tonight. He's an extremely athletic guy and didn't let Dwight keep position long. There were for sure some bad passes but it wasn't all on them.

 

I expect Dwight to pick it up tho. as these new guys get used to feeding the post

Started off slow last year, then Rockets got familiar as the season progressed and he picked it up mid Nov

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>If Tony Wroten plays this hard and this well every night, the Sixers are going to have to trade him.</p>&mdash; Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/529455135660179456">November 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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These are the games that "hey nothing happened, we won, happiness" but they show Rockets' futurible issues with their offense.

Basically, Noel didn't wanted Dwight to recieve the ball, and Dwight had 8 shots. Meanwhile, isoball, turnovers, bad shots... You can live with it agianst Philly, not against a playoff team.

Good time to remember that we should be prepared to compete against elite teams, and we're not.

 

man, we have to run some plays...set screens or something

i understand the NBA is a game of runs, but come on...it's like we shoot ourselves in the foot right when we lead by 10.

everyone becomes so complacent

dallas is playing really well, and i can only attribute that to coaching, otherwise we don't stand a chance against playoff teams...

 

This should go in the shoulda coulda woulda thread.

 

Yup, as sad as it sounds we need Tarik Black back as well.

 

Dwight has been very underwhelming this season for me. I really hope he picks it up and all his talk about dominating both ends wasn't just talk. I also wish he would pick and roll more. In the post he usually turns it over because the other team has so many hands in there poking at the ball and double/triple teaming him. I know he has worked with the Dream, but his strength has been and will always be the pick and roll. I also would like to see some more consistency from Papa. He had that one good game where he hit 4 threes and he hasn't really done anything since. Our bench is very bad and it is hard to figure out what you are going to get from day to day.

 

It's tough to evaluate the team in a game like this. It was so obvious that the team didn't give a f**k tonight lol. This was as lazy and undisciplined as I've ever seen this team play and playing a team like the Sixers can do that.

 

4-0 is a nice start to the season, first time since the 1996-97 season that we have done that

 

Dorsey for Wroten.

 

just glad we won in philly

 

Canaan, not too bad sir.

 

It will be a real test for the Heat also. They have played Wizards, Sixers, and Raptors so far. Raptors being their toughest test thus far 107 102 W for the Heat. Rockets will be ready. I hope Beverley plays tomorrow.