1. Donovan learned to sub in Gallinari as a small ball 5 instead of Adams, and fight the Rockets with their own medicine (much the way the Rockets did to Golden State, once upon a time). 2. Chris Paul had "his game" of the series. Doesn't feel repeatable (primarily the overtime performance). Tip your hat and move on. 3. Defending the speed of Schroeder and Gilgeous-Alexander needs to be addressed 4. Tucker's offensive contributions 5. Austin Rivers' outside shot 6. Eric Gordon's outside shot 5. James Harden's outside shot 6. Robert Covington's offensive contributions 7. Missed free throws, especially the game winner 8. House rotating off of SGA to give him the open potential-winning 3; he stepped off of SGA to triple Chris Paul at the hoop with Jeff Green and someone else (Harden?) 9. Harden foul trouble 10. $40M-2-FRP-man not playing 11. Adams deflected the ball when Gordon fell down, was obviously pursuing it to save it, it was noted by anti-Rockets-apologist Doris Burke, and was reviewed.... and overturned. CLUTCHBOMB: 12. McLemore's early defensive mistakes and resulting lack of touches Things NOT related to why we lost game 3: 1. Refs in general (this still has nothing on Dallas 05, Utah 07, 08 or Golden State 18) 2. Conspiracies against Tilman The reason I list all this, is because if we fix one of these things we aren't in OT and we're cheering a 3-0 series lead. Championship teams have to address mistakes. This is our chance. It's all good for now. These guys are literally living in a basketball bubble. Surely they can shoot threes every waking moment of their lives?
That was totally out of bounce by Adams, as he touched the ball, big time swing there. Rockets had some unfortunate calls, but seriously rockets didnt even show up in OT, so it doesnt even matter.
Should've never gone to OT. That triple-team on Paul that left SGA open was a major brainfart that should've never happened (by House). Missing the clutch FT was icing on the cake. He played a good game overall, along with Uncle Jeff, so the team can't let this shake his confidence.
why are defenders allowed to be physical with harden and he cant be as physical back on defense without being called for a foul. Why does it seem like Harden has to play on eggshells when he is playing defense and OFFENSE. No other star has to deal with that.
lol it should have been obvious when adams was leaping for the ball. why run for the ball if its off the rockets. THINGS THAT MAKE YOU THINK
IF YOU AGREE, then why the hell does harden get blamed here for losses after games if you know and i know he is up againist the nba mafia. Like i said weeding out the harden haters here would make this place much more readable
Agreed that Roco could have played more. He like Harden got fouls very early on, which I think may be why MDA sat him. James also picked up early fouls but no choice to leave him in.
Harden has 100% been to blame for some past playoff losses, it's just fact, not tonight though, he was making the right passes all game. Biggest issue was that he fell in love with his outside shot. At least it wasn't another 0-16 game.
Harden was not at fault since 2018. PERIOD. the refs have had a hand in all of our losses. CP3 was a limited player in 2019, and plus we didnt have ariza and luc. So we werent the same team
Points #3 and #10: So you want the dude with a quad injury to come back and defend either one of the two quickest players on their team? Because you know that's what Donovan is going to instruct those two to do - go after Westbrook.
nah kawhi and lebron push off more than harden and they never have 5 fouls. Harden has had 5 fouls like 5 times in the bubble. I know for sure the blazers and mavs game
Agreed. How many times have we seen this? We’ve seen it during his whole career. It was so frustrating and predictable watching him with the ball in his hands while the best backup PG is clearly Rivers. Makes more sense to Eivers run point with Gordon spotting up along with Macklemore, Green, and Covington or House.