ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Grizzlies 1/25/2014

We suck

 

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Would love to see more of this:

 

Lol @ the bit about Garcia

 

TJ is playing some best basketball when JLin is the starting PG.

 

just watched the game. terrible effort by the rox. defensive rebounding atrocious as usual. as good as tjones has been, he has to learn to get in position when Dwight goes for the block. but the main reason we lost this game was Parsons. i know, blasphemy to criticize everyone's secret man crush. it's ironic that just a couple of weeks ago chandler was calling out the team for playing selfish. tonight, he was the most selfish player on the court. i get that he was shooting lights out last night, but that doesn't justify jacking up shots early in the shotclock. i can't think of another non all-star who has as much of a green light as Parsons does.

worrell and bullard don't even try to hide their bias for chandler anymore, especially worrell. they criticize everyone on the team except for chandler: there's harden holding onto the ball, can't let Conley go left Jeremy (really Bill? even when the screen's set to that side), dwight has to make his free throws, tjones has to box out, player X takes the open jumpshot...and misses.

BUT, as an example of this parsons bias, lin throws a cross court pass to chandler. someone, i think johnson, goes for the steal and flies right by chandler. chandler steps into a wide-open 20 footer and bricks it. worrell: "well he did a good job of running chandler off the line." What????? it wasn't even a contest on the shot, the defender was going for the steal and was completely out of the play when Chandler shot it.

So the question is, do we need Worrell to take a paternity test or is this just your typical white announcer-white player love in the nba.

 

Too easy of a paycheck.

 

ball game

 

this is flat out sad. don't know what else to say

 

Hope we don't face Memphis in the playoffs,because they would eat us alive.

 

Last 8 games only 1 time with more than 2 turnovers (4)...so give that a rest please. But you're right, he's not a good fit for McHale's attempt at an an offense.

 

Absolutely. P&R should be more of our offensive. Harden and Lin are among the league leaders in P&R.

 

Absolutely right.

 

Lin sucks as the 6th choice of the team. He is not used as 6th man at all. His main duty is to bring ball to front court and let Bev. , Harden, even AB to handle it.

 

Seems like many Clutchfans are born with tumors in their brain that Lin sucks on defense. Even if he shut down all all-star pg in the league, they still think he sucks on defense.

Despite what people say about Jeremy Lin not fit on our offense, his skill sets is the perfect fit for our system of offense. It's just that we got someone much better than him. Harden. Therefore, Jeremy needs to go. A spot-up shooter is not his strength.

 

That game sucked green donkey dicks.

Is Harden who we think he is? I'm not seeing it. In fact I don't recognize this team at all from last year. NOTHING is the same even though we have the same personnel with the addition of Howard.

Bizarro world to say the least.

 

I missed the game because of Australia Day celebrations...just watched the 'Highlights', if you can call it that.

Our defence was pathetic, our offence stagnant and our play lacked passion. I truly believe that we have the pieces to win a championship, but if we continue to dog it (Aussie slang for mail it in) during games then we won't win SQUAT!

I'm so annoyed & frustrated...we should be over 30 wins by now, but just look as lost as our coach out there.

Asik in my opinion is in Royce White territory for what he's done to this franchise this season.

 

Lin is better at pushing the tempo than Beverley.

 

Jones and bev starting is a setup for failure something motet stats just can't show. that's leaves harden, parsons, Howard only ones who can create, and Howard is not consistent. Jones and bev will just be standing around watching

 

Many people are just repeating what the media said about him before he came to town. They are not gong to change their mind. Even Sampson has appraised Lin's defense. Not after he did a very good job guarding Tony Parker. Appraising Lin's defense is associated with the LOF label invented on this forum. The existence of these labeled clearly indicates that basketball knowledge and analytics are not treated as important as emotions and opinions.

The world is not black and white. Lin's major problem was gambling a lot on help defense and leaving his man open. His PnR defense could be better (which has gotten better - defending Tony who is elite inPnR).