ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Blazers 4/27/2014 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 4)

rockets lose by double digits . (realistic response tbh...)

 

Game 4 Rockets will win this for sure!

 

If Harden and Parsons hit their 3's, we win. If not, this is going to be a tough one to predict.

 

I just don't see the Rockets playing as bad as they did the first three games.

Portland has been making some incredible shots, and to the point that they seem like a better version of last year's Warriors.

 

Good grief, can we get a damn early game for once?

 

Give him the green light!

 

The defense still has some worst than high school relapses. When will this team ever learn?

 

No way we win.

(only saying that cuz I said the same thing in the last game thread, and we ended up winning)

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Harden says the pressure is off Houston and now on Portland (via <a href="https://twitter.com/KHudsonTBlazers">@KHudsonTBlazers</a>)

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Pressure is off? I don't get that at all.

 

The pressure is off Houston??? Uh, no. NO. Love Harden but want to smack him sometimes.

I don't know how I feel about this game. It's honestly up to Harden and Parsons.

 

Get him some drive and kicks and screens - more dishes to Daniels by Harden and Lin & co. would be a very welcome sight.

 

Exactly, pressure is still on us, but I guess it's good if Harden goes into the next game relaxed and just plays his game, not forcing it.

 

Pressure is off. At this point, you were expected to take the series. If you go back to Houston tied up and all that progress out the window, than you are in serious trouble.

The Blazers have gotten away with three piss poor performances by Harden. He is going to explode sooner than later. I would say its Portland's defense, but the fact is, James has killed them in the regular season.

 

After we went down 0-2, I said a few things would happen:

Between Games 4 and 5, one would be a 50-50 game that could go either way. We had to win that game, and we did. The other game I predicted our offense would really start clicking. That's going to be Game 5. Get ready Rockets fans, we are coming back to Houston tied 2-2.

 

Sounds like a hint of complacency. The LAST thing we need right now.

 

All he means is that they are expected to lose this series now, the Rockets.

The pressure he means is the series pressure of winning the next game. That pressure is on Portland to close this one out, they know...EVERYONE knows that if they lose game 4 the series resets and Portland will have to win two more in Houston (which wasn't easy in the first place, took two historic efforts from LMA to do that...)

That's all he means really. There is always the pressure to perform and play well for him, but it's a different thing when you are now expected to lose vs win. Like last year's series for example against OKC.

If Portland had won last night, Game 4 means nothing to both teams. It would have just been about if the Rockets wanted to be eliminated in Portland or Houston....but since the Rockets won...now the series is on the line in game 4.

Any ways I didn't predict the last game so I won't this one. I think there is still a chance, Portland is very much a jump shooting team like we are...we've been colder than them and they have been VERY hot...hopefully they are in the process of cooling off. I'm still waiting for that poor shooting night and if we extend this series long enough that night may be the end of it for them.

 

I would rather Harden feel like the pressure is off. He played like the weight of the world was on his shoulders in the first 2 games.

 

Who is ready for the freakin Blazers to come back down to earth and actually have a cold shooting night? They have shot unbelievable in this series, hitting fall away 3s, 4 point plays, and Aldridge hitting all those shots with Asik in his face??? Game 4 there is a cold front coming through!!!

 

harden goes god mode ..and parsons has yet to have a good game..this is that game