ClutchFans Game Thread: Clippers @ Rockets 5/6/2015 (Playoffs Round 2, Game 2)

Believe this was the problem from what I recall. While a lot of people were concerned about what was going down, here what I responded to:
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Originally Posted by AuburnRocket View Post
Can't wait for your 4th post.....let me guess...the world owes you a living right ? How dare the Rockets fans second guess pitiful effort. GMAB man.

Idk wtf a GMAB is. My fourth post is this. If you want to come on a fan site for a sports team and just continuously b**** and moan all throughout the thread, you're not a real fan. You're a fake. Idc if I have 4 posts and you have 4000. I'm rooting for my team and having faith in them until the end because they're my team. If they're not playing as well as they can, I'm not just going to continuously nit pick at them to tear them down. Be ****ing positive. Don't just ramble about how terrible everybody is on the team that you supposedly love and root for.
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I'll try to be more positive in the future and say "I'm absolutely positive that playing without effort will probably not end well for us". I don't believe in entitlement....I always believed that you had to produce and put forth your best effort to be successful. I guess I take that too seriously.

 

Thankful for the win.

I stand by every comment about McHale.


He owes this game to the team. Shout out to Jet and Trevor for doing the things that go unnoticed by non-Rockets fans.

Let's hope to split in LA.


I just want better for the Rockets, and it starts from the coaching down to the 16th man.

We're still alive, barely breathing.

Cod

 

I was watching the number of people who were viewing the GARM after the game ended. It may have topped out at 1300ish.

Yeah it was a late finish but more people always want to complain rather than celebrate.

 

Honestly, Chris Paul or not, I kindve expected this to be 1-1 after 2 games before the series started... so i guess series wise im not disapointed. I mean sure, you hear Paul's out and you think...wow... maybe 2-0? I didn't think we'd lose both at home, and 2-0 seemed like dreaming... so this fits my expectations even tho how it's gone seems relatively disappointing.

Coming back from 13 down to win... especially with how dark things were getting... that a big confidence booster. Harden not only gathered himself, but he started to bring it, found his swagger. I don't know why he can't just harness it from the beginning.

The 3s will fall... they always do and when they do its in bunches.

I just wish our "50%" FTS shooters could actually shoot that or better, instead of worse than average. That's such a huge problem, man. Have we ever witnessed FT shooting this bad on a HOU team?

1-1. Now let's get 3 more before they do! GO ROCKETS!!!!

 

People feel good about this win? I'm only happy we decided to bring the effort in the 2nd half, came out flat again was worrisome. Only Dwight has shown up in most of both games.

I'm glad Terry, Ariza, Jones & Brewer had bounce back games, they played great. We were amazing on the boards, but then you look at the FTs, oh my...if we had made some if would not have been close.

Josh Smith was an idiot again and I fear we will not get much from him in this series. Harden was far from great, yes 32 points and some key baskets, but the awful low passes and sloppy ball handling again!

 

Agreed...and hopefully we can agree to disagree. I love the Rockets and so hope you are right on winning it all. That said, I have to tell you that I just don't see it. It is one thing to lose and an entirely different thing to not COMPETE. And there have been several games in the regular season and a couple in the playoffs where we didn't...I mean it seemed to me QUIT. Again, I'd love to see us win a 3rd and will be pulling as hard as anyone for that to happen. And I was wrong to engage in a personal tit for tat with you. I hope we can steal one back in LA but I'm skeptical.Have a good evening.

 

Try ignore those posts.

People were responding to me like this because all I did was respecting the Clippers.

Then they said: What? Rox in 5.... lol

This is the interwebz I guess and they can post whatever they want without thinking too much about it

 

Concerning game 3, I am not even sure Chris Paul is going to play.

Assuming he does play, he takes the ball out of Griffin's hands and we don't even know if the version of Chris Paul that plays this series in vintage Paul or 75% Paul.

The Clippers are not unbeatable at home and for all the negative attention on this board about the Rockets; the series is tied 1-1 and the Rockets are not going to keep shooting historically bad from behind the line. The misses are not on contested shots, but open looks.

The Rockets have to play better in the second quarter. For all the criticism McHale got, his team rallied from a 13 point hole in the third. Also McHale flat out abused Rivers in the second half. His adjustments were spot on and he made the right moves. The truth is neither McHale or Rivers is Larry Brown with the X's and O's.

The Clippers have to know the Rockets shots will start to fall as the series goes deeper. That will also open up the lane for Harden. Jordan is one of one 2-3 players that can stop Harden penetration, and he did in the first 30 minutes of the game. The Rockets need to go to small and unusual line ups which the clippers cannot match.

Losing game one was a killer, because Paul was out. Still, the Rockets regained some momentum and it is anyone's series at this point.

 

I've noticed people tend to read body language the wrong way around here. They've been doing it since Tracy was here. LOL Somethings will never change Fulgore.

 

I have a feeling if CP was playing we would be beating them by more. Good strokes of luck for his fills in.

 

McHale had nothing to do with the comeback? Going small, putting Ariza on Blake was a player decision? Taking Dwight out to prevent the hacking, trusting TJ to play center despite have an absolutely miserable game was decision made by Prigioni from the bech? Come on now McHale deserves some credit.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I've been told Matt Barnes talked smack to James Harden's mom during the game.</p>&mdash; Calvin Watkins (@calvinwatkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/calvinwatkins/status/596197713651343360">May 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Apparently some people with the Rockets are not happy about it.</p>&mdash; Calvin Watkins (@calvinwatkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/calvinwatkins/status/596198067851919361">May 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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You're right my man. Totally my bad and immature on my part. You have a cool head on your shoulders and are a wise man. Just curious if you get a chance...what's your feeling on the series ?

 

Barnes is a punk.

 

Not a wise move by Barnes. But if it motivates Harden and the Rockets, we should send him a thank you card.

 

Piss the Beard off. This can only go two ways

 

Damn, Matt Barnes , mama harden must of said some mean stuff.

 

I said this a lot during this season. "The jokers are trying to give a brother a heart attack".

16 points from the Bearded One in the 4th was AWESOME. Dwight was amazing last night, kept us in the game until it was Harden time.

That 2nd quarter was disastrous, but a blessing in the making because we turn things around in the 2nd half. Held Blake to 8 points after he went mad crazy in the 1st half.

Tied this bad one up, now lets go to LA and take both of those games. Realistically speaking, lets take one game and snatch back our home court.

 

Absolutely....let's get one and get back home court. I like our chances in Game 3 the best...what think you ?

 

It is really hard for me man to watch the Clippers because they are not playing a style I like.

I have to endure it because of the Rockets.

This series could go either ways. I have the momentum now but they split on our turf.

Because of Morey's live and die by the 3 pt, change of identities, new players every year, our team is still inconsistent.

I firmly believe we have the more talented roster on paper than the Clips even with Paul but the Clips are playoff proven, at least more than we are. (Howard and Harden went to the Finals with other teams not the Rockets)

I mean as a whole unit and not a team of assembled veterans that went far into the playoffs on their own but are new to this team.

And Clippers also have the confidence that they defeated the Spurs.

All in all I might agree with Clutch - if CP3 comes back 80% this is going 7.

If something unexpected happens either team is going to take it in 6

Even if the Rox do not win, it is a valuable experience.