ClutchFans Game Thread: Blazers @ Rockets 4/23/2014 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 2)

I blame Harden. He's not playing like Harden.


Dude could easily get 30 pts per game in the regular season. He seems very passive in the playoffs.

 

Coach Lin?

 

When you have a ball-dominant SG, you are not supposed to have a lot of assists.

 

James Harden needs to be traded for Kevin Love this offseason. Spread the word.

 

You have posted this in like 4 threads already.

 

lol@ posters in the offseason wanting L.A for asik straight up since the blazers were only going to win 5 games in the season.

 

I want to make sure that Morey sees it. How else will he know?

 

He can do that, but if Harden doesn't want to put on his big boy pants in game 3, it'll prob be a loss still.

 

ESPN calling out " james HAREN"

 

The whole team played like ****. Everyone just watched the ball and stood there frozen like pieces of cold ****.

 

we need a guy like the chuck wagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6f5Uyu6Dv4

 

Link?

Hope the whole basketball community calling him Haren will inspire him to play some D. Ironic it's not his D that's the main problem.

 

HOU should consider these lineups:

In Nov 5, they used this lineup to beat POR in their home court 116-101

Asik+Howard+Parsons+Harden+Lin > Batum+ Aldridge+Lopez+Matthews+Lillard

http://www.hoopsstats.com/basketbal...l-blazers-vs-houston-rockets/2013-11-05/14/25

From Oct30 to Nov25, POR were W-L 13-2, they were very hot,
the lineups above is the 1 of only 2games can beat them.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>HOU just 1-of-7 so far on corner 3s in this series. Attempted 6.4 per game in regular season. Playing at slightly faster pace vs POR.</p>&mdash; Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/statuses/459344045614321664">April 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rockets kept saying problem with offense is defense, w/ Portland buckets slowing them down. Actually, playing at a faster pace in playoffs.</p>&mdash; Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/statuses/459344439001894912">April 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rockets third among playoff teams in pace; 10th in points per possession. They are playing fast offensively. Not playing well.</p>&mdash; Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/statuses/459344632329953280">April 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I realize these are all small samples. That's what the playoffs are, though -- who can tilt things their way over a small sample.</p>&mdash; Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/statuses/459344624164024320">April 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rockets 42.1 % shooting third-worst in playoffs. That's misleading. They've been worse than that, shooting 21.6 % on 3s, last in playoffs.</p>&mdash; Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/statuses/459345193259393025">April 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Yes, I remember that one.
Note that it was a great scoring game for Harden & Howard (Despite having 8 & 6 TOs, respectively), but we had problems with our TT lineup at this stage.
I remember that Asik was bitter, CP25 was still struggling offensively and Jones and DMo were still out of the rotation, mostly.
Our X-factor back then was Casspi in PF. In the game you mention he was the 3rd most efficient Rocket, led the team in Assists (5) and was 2nd in Rebounds (8).

 

I saw that and I couldn't believe he was straight lying. Not once did they 'try and double him.' McHale was trying to save his job last night with all the excuses he was spewing out during his post game interview.

 

Oh boy, not again. You complain about Harden's defense, and you want all-stat Love. He scores 40 points when his team doesn't have a chance of winning a game.

 

I'm curious why McHale chooses to sub Lin out for defensive possessions at the end. I know Lin is at best an average defender but if McHale had any semblence of common sense wouldn't he sub out Harden during defensive possessions?

 

Because you need someone to jack up an ISO 3 off the defensive rebound if necessary