ClutchFans Game Thread: Pacers @ Rockets 3/27/2013

The coach's name is McHale.

If this is a bull**** forum, you know what you should do?

So you like that McHale played our second unit a lot, but you want him fired because he didn't play Lin enough. Got it.

Now I suggest you find a less bull**** forum wherein to dispense your wisdom.

 

YOU ARE COMPLETELY RIGHT. I am fine with LIN GO or MCHale. McHale does not have complete trust in him although players like Harden or Parson can play their worst game, they are still in the game. Not Lin. GOOD OR BAD, he still on the bench for most minutes, especially in the 4th quarter. Why is a starter on the bench, unless he is a bench player.

 

heh? get the facts straight. Giving 6 pts to the other team while contributing nothing on offense?? That's just not true. After the first turnover, he came right back and got the 2 points back on a long jumper. THen got an assist before the turnovers.

It's his fault this team couldnt stop a pole? It's his fault Lance Stephenson went off?Harden bears no responsibility for the slow start being 1-5 from the field at that point?

 

You meant MCFAIL

 

McHale:

-Got down early, never able to recover

-Hibbert & Hansbrough dominated.

-They bottled up our offense. Never got our offense going. No breaks. No rhythm to the offense.

-They challenged our shots, we bobbled passes. They were using their length.

-They were in our paint the whole night.

-We got down early and didn't seem like we had zip or spunk to start the game out. We were lagging. Never got rhythm. Funky game.

-We weren't running. We had a night tonight where it felt like our offense was stagnant and in mud. We couldn't come up with a key rebound or key series of rebounds and key steals or something to get us(our break) going.


Jeremy:

-Didn't break free in this game. They did a good job controlling us and dictating tempo of the game.

-One loss is one loss. If we learn, it can be good. If not, can't compound one loss with another loss.

-We didn't defend anybody. Let them bully us. Got any shot they want. They scored at will.

-Notorious for slow starts. We gotta figure out a way to get going faster, earlier so we don't play from behind as much.

 

Damn, what a rough game.. team played bad as a whole. Harden had one of his worst shooting games, but played decent overall. 22/4/8 is a very decent game.

And man, Kozmo has officially made the jump to be the biggest LOF troll on this board. Congrats, Kozmo, you've earned it!

 

That's so clever. It really never gets old. The best part about it is that, right off the bat, it shows which posters are teenagers and need to be treated gently.

 

J.Harden was ice cold tonight. 42.43 min play time, 6-24 FGM-A, 3-10 3PM-A.
And C.Parsons as well with playing time 40.16 min of playing time.

J.Harden seems like he's drunk of something tonight, he kept tripping and falling all over the place. LOL

D.Mo need to be bench and start someone else?

G.Smith and T.Rob is the man tonight.

 

Look on the bright side...GS is going to be 32 in the loss column, same as the Rockets. Time to move on....

 

FIRE MARK JACKSON!!! Either he or Curry has got to go!

 

22 points on 24 shots is below average for a regular player. For one as efficient as Harden usually is it is practically a disaster, not decent.

 

I agreed! Something is terrible wrong here. Favoritism?

 

It's innefficient, sure, but it certainly not "below average for a regular player." It's below average for Harden because we've gotten used to his brilliance. But it's still decent production when you factor in assists.

 

Only problem is Curry played 45 minutes. They both need to go?:grin:

 

Harden's contract is guaranteed, i.e. he'll get his 80 millions whether he played or not. In addition, he gets additional bonus for making the All-star & additional million(s) if he is voted as the MVP, and that bonus counts against the cap. So essentially he gets additional motivation to pad his personal stats, regardless of whether the team wins or not. That is not accountability by any means.

 

What's more with JH's play tonight is not just the inefficient shooting - that I understand can happen from night to night when you're in a slump. What I really put on his shoulder is how sticky the ball is tonight - there is no reason why he is jacking up shots without moving the ball around to try to find some space.

 

Decent game for Harden? Come on, that's with 42.43 min of playing time.
If G.Smith or T.Rob or infact anyone in the team with that amount of playing will get those amount of points too.

 

i don't think it's favoritism but after watching many games this year it appears that jlin struggles against athletic teams, okc, Ind., mia. from the beginning of the game with athletic he just struggles and then he starts overthinking and confidence seems to go then the offense clogs which is why the coaches have to bring in beverly or delfino.

he does very well against slower teams like the knicks or even the spurs.

hopefully experience will help because he has the tools, it just takes time to become a star pg especially when he didn't start out playing pg.

he seems to be improving as the season goes on but this is why you find he will score 24 one night and then have 6 pts the next it's based on the team matchup the rockets are playing.

 

I just look at the 6/24 stat...and that's bad no matter how you look at it. I can understand his reason to keep shooting though.....tough loss.

 

That's not true at all. They might get that many points on any given night, but Parsons played just as much and he only had 11.

If anyone on our team could get 22 points anytime they played 42 minutes, we'd be champions.