ClutchFans Game Thread: Mavericks @ Rockets 1/4/2021

Yeah, I know that the parents of players don't exactly need to keep it "professional" but Aaron fox and Bagley Sr. are really undermining what their sons are trying to accomplish on the Kings...

edit: what's happening on the Kings is what dysfunction really looks like. The Rockets spoil us, for the most part.

 

To be fair to Silas, they contested a lot of these shots and he just nailed it. He wasn't missing. He threw some of those up there and they were swishes.

Dude hates the Rockets with a passion for some reason. Mavs fans aren't even all that hot about him, hopefully they trade him to some irrelevant team so it won't matter anymore.

 

+/- is offense PLUS defense metric.

 

100%, didn't mention the refs but they did impact the game for both teams. It was very choppy, not a lot of flow in the game. It affected everyone except Hardaway Jr. apparently. He was unconscious.

 

Bmac need some mintues since he is back , Cause 3p% have been awful as a team

 

Okay, that's an excuse. What about the time they beat down the Blazers a couple days ago?

 

Not his fault. Wall doesn’t mesh with him. Kept trying to do everything himself instead of running thru James. Nwaba etc also played away from James. Team isn’t meshing.

 

Tonight the Rockets played as a team. Unfortunately, they all played like crap. We don't need to pick out players and blame them...it was a team loss.
I also think this was Silas's worst game coaching. It was a team loss.

The Rockets will regroup and move forward and play better.

 

The team that has clowned Harden his entire career?

 

You missed my point.

Harden has never had a player of Shaq's caliber (top 15 all time) nor the greatest NBA head coach ever by his side.

Kobe has had both.

Shaq was THE best player on those Shaq-Kobe championship teams, not Kobe.

Kobe has never won without Phil either.

 

Rockets fans keep bringing this **** up without realizing that defense was the ONLY reason the Rockets had a chance to beat the Warriors that one time. They scored under 100 like 5 times in that series...

 

I agree. Wall took control of the offense. Wonder if this will create some friction. Wall was making some bad decisions out there trying to do too much. This offense should run through harden and 2 man game with wood. Walls role is to spot up shoot or find seams to drive when he has an opening not dominate the ball and move it away from James.

 

Harden had the lowest negative on the team. Just a coincidence.

 

I agree, this will get us wins in the regular season. The playoffs unfortunately is a different story. That is probably why we are deliberate in getting offense other than thru james. It is also silas coaching philosophy to have ball movement.

 

Made some weird plays too like when he had a 1-1 against Doncic. He could’ve drove the ball on him or shoot but turned it over. Didn’t run back on D several times.

 

And Defense was the reason OKC didn't win in the bubble.

 

Yea its really weird, he just...looks idk "slow" like in the sense that he doesnt know what to do out there.

 

"We're still just figuring each other out, still."- Christian Wood

 

Sounds like Tmac.

Would Yao made of glass be enough?

 

Nah...it was both defense and offense, yall have got to stop peddling this narrative. Warriors ran a switch everything defense like we did, it cancels out actions.