ClutchFans Game Thread: Blazers @ Rockets 4/30/2014 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 5)

Um, I guess DH is just an after thought compare to the defensive juggernaut PBev.

Don't get me wrong, PBev plays great pressure defense but its effectiveness is limited as can be seen from this series so far. The record for this season has more to do with DH than Bev.

 

Rockets' bench outscores Portland's bench 34-5. This is usually the case at home - the role players tend to step up.

This obviously won't be the case in Game 6. I expect Lin to go back to his struggling, inefficient ways while Mo Williams, T-Rob, etc. play with better intensity.

Game 6 is going to be about our starters carrying us. I just don't see it. Hope I'm wrong.

 

tonight i heard one of the announcers say...

"the GREAT Patrick Beverley."

I was like... seriously?

Look. The guy is good on D and a great hustle player. He is also solid on offense and I think that could be developed.

But the GREAT pat Beverley? Blew my mind.

I definitely think Dwight Howard needs to get more props. He may not be a superstar with all his flaws, but he showed up to play. He has delivered everything he was expected to.

 

I call this Russell Westbrook Syndrome.

 

thank god


clutch city!

 

Games 6 will depend on Harden....and unfortunately that means a LOSS

 

If we win this series with Harden playing the way he did in Game 1-5 it'll be a miracle.

We are going to need 1 or 2 big games from him. I can only hope.

 

Then what? Tnt? We got blown out so many time son espn. The blazers, and the bulls blew us out on espn.

Espn looks good because we dont seem to get any calls ever when barkely and shaq get to make fun of howard after the game.

 

Exactly what I was saying.

Lin + Harden showed flashes of brilliance last season and were being called the best backcourt in the NBA after the first 2 monster games together. Lin played PG and James played off ball but still got buckets.

Then coaching staff shifted PG duties over to Harden, and even so Lin + Harden still had some great games, like the one vs OKC where James went for 40+ and Jeremy had 29.

Good coaching staff would keep building on this but instead they split them apart and now their chemistry feels worse than it has ever been when they are on the court together.

 

Troy Daniels needs to start in place of Harden for the rest of the series!!

 

Great highlights. Thank you for sharing.

 

Since you know James so well, could you get me his autograph? It must be really cool to know him so well that he opens up to you like that.

 

seriously...

 

So is it really that hard for McHale to come up with one play to get Daniels open?

 

why? you don't want to blame god if he sucks

 

We are going to lose Game 6, I am afraid. Harden gave a fairly respectable performance in Game 4, but this horrible performance is a bad omen.

 

Take this **** to the d&d. The hell man. It is still a tweet from a rockets player, but your posts about lins god belong in the d&d.

 

Watching Lin's shot at 1:31 in the third over and over; each Portland player looking depressed in their own special way. The magic of HD.

 

I mean 1:18 in third. Should have looked at the clock too... but Portland depression so mesmerizing.