ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Blazers 11/16/2012

damn switching between parsons and douglas

blazers are a good 3pt shooting team, you DON'T GO UNDER THE PICK!!!

 

Sure it's disappointing...but this team is showing a ton of promise.

Wish we had signed Asik to a 4 year contract now.

 

Sucks losing to jump shooting teams that happen to get outplayed in every facet except shot making.

 

I feel sick in the stomach right now...refs get stuffed.

We are a young team, executing down the stretch is something that we have to learn, but blowing a 16 point lead? Lin benched for the entire OT? Toney Douglas taking clutch shots down the stretch?

Mind=blown.

 

It's kind of obvious the coaching staff doesn't like Lin. I say trade him, so at least we won't have a bunch of fired up teams gunning for us every night, and can just focus on Harden as the play-maker, which is what the coaching staff wants. clear direction, less baggage.

 

Sampson is off his rocker. WTF!

 

we lost this b/c of bad calls from the refs and poor coaching down the stretch. Lin's def not hurt. I guess Sampson thinks good defense with poor passing > good pg with good defense

 

Patterson has become a waste of space.

Harden kept failing and failing one on one, and instead of trying something new, he was content with failing one on one. There were a lot of possessions that were 1 on 5. Not good basketball.

Morris and Asik are the bright spots. who'da thunk it.

 

Brace yourselves, knee-jerkers are coming

 

not to long ago

we all wanted the team to tank. miami and this game we should have won and should be 6-3.

 

Wow. Just incredible. What a mess. Lin had an all around good game, almost a triple double, didn't even get more shots like he deserves.

So, bench him in the last minute. Let Douglas, with 1 assist, play the closing minutes. WOW.

 

People underestimate how bad calls can absolutely destroy a team's momentum, in this case the Rockets. That 2 foul shot gift at half time, that non-call on the "block" by Leonard on Asik in the 4th, tons of random phantom calls on the Rockets. Everytime it seemed like we were getting some momentum back, oops a random call.

 

Even with no Lin in the game in OT, the major reason we lost is that both Batum and Lillard went freaking crazy hitting 3's.

And even with that, the Rockets fought them to a standstill.

I'll say however that Harden iso plays are really annoying me. He loses the ball too much on the drive.

 

probably won't do much but i'm tweeting morey so he realizes that sampson is terrible.

 

There's only one good reason, and that's if Lin is injured.

Dont give me the Douglas is in for defense crap. Lin is statistically an elite iso defender. Douglas is quite literally statistically the worst player in the league.

 

T.Douglas 2-11, 1 assists, 0 defense and 0 win.

 

Im with you. Refs got us on critical plays

 

These Harden ISOs at the end of the game has to go. It has not worked once.

 

+11111111111111111111 why switch!!

 

why cant we defend the 3pt line! what the hell our perimeter defense is absolutely atrocious , batum made like a million 3s then got 4 opens ones lillard too is there nobody who can play defense on this team besides asik