ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Sixers 11/13/2013

indeed. Which is why McHale drew up plays for Parsons and Garcia to end regulation and OT.

 

Personal opinion.....he's been the closer all his life (including some games at the NBA level) and have delivered. Not sure what you are talking about. Obviously, the landscape changes when you have two max players on your team....they may not be the best but are paid to do that plain and simple.

 

Beverley was the one who slowed him down.

 

You do know Beverley is smaller than Lin and still plays hard on defense. Wroten is a slightly better player than Anderson and they are both around the same height. Thats why Beverley played him for most of the game. The only reason Anderson is starting is because they do not have a real SG on their roster.

 

McHale is a horrible coach. They always preach to players to not make the same mistakes twice. Tonight, McHale made the same mistake again.

Against the Raptors, McHale allowed Rudy Gay to shoot the 3 to tie the game instead of fouling to give up only 2 FTs. McHale said the decision was because he felt the Raptors were shooting poorly all game so he took a chance. It almost backfired and cost them the game.

Tonight, the same situation happened and McHale made the same mistake again by allowing Anderson to shoot the 3 to tie the game. We all know Anderson was hot as heck, so why not foul to give up two FTs but preserve the lead and the ball?

 

Thought I feel awful about the loss this game goes to show a lot of our offensive woes were primarily due to the Twin Tower line up. It just kept getting us off rhythm I would say. Once James comes back I'm sure things can be tweaked and the rockets will go back to being more like the team we remember from last year.

 

so what? he's james anderson, got waived and was avging 7 pts a game. he has no business dropping 36 on 85% shooting, like thats an MJ scoring game

 

How is the 185lb 6 foot 1 Bev not a mismatch for the 205lb 6 foot 6 Wroten?

 

Does anyone think we maybe need to slow the game down? I think we go up and down the court so often that we just take some possessions for granted. i think trying to outscore the other team is a horrible game plan with only one player is hitting 3's and the rest are just chucking shots cold.

Just my opinion

 

Guys noticed something different tonight? Without the TT lineup, Houston did not have to play catch up basketball...sucks it was still a loss though.

 

This is not two years ago with the Knicks. Look I like the guy and think he has talent, he is just not a closer. Few guys in the NBA are. It's not a knock against him. It's a attitude that those players have.

 

Emm... Then you are right if we just count the average. Both Miami and Dallas almost qualify as 9 if you do not count a player's absence from the game due to injury.

In our case, only Cassipi, Garcia and Lin has quality minutes. We have a sharp drop at the minutes played between the 8th player and the 9th. (from 22.6 to 12.2. For the other team, the gap is much smaller.

 

Especially, in the beginning of the fourth with the 10 point lead....

 

Bev was doing a OK defense job, definitely below his normal level. Philly just got hot.

BTW: I am still scratching my head to understand why they are doing well so far in this season.... Anyone want to share their insights?

 

Ugh, this loss hurts so much I can't sleep.

I honestly don't know if we can single players out for blame on this one, there were more than enough bone-headed plays to go around.

My thoughts overall

- We can't do a 7 man rotation the next time someone is out. The level of fatigue for our starters is just ridiculous

- Our defense is not a problem isolated to a player or even set of players. It's stunning how pervasive this issue is and the complete lack of defense was pretty much the only reason this game was close. I don't have high hopes on this improving dramatically over this season. Does anyone know why this seemed like less of an issue last year?

- Is this our final rotation (i.e. starters, key bench guys?). We need some sense of familiarity and I feel like we essentially have these guys playing pick up games at this point.

 

He scored 34 but gave up 36.
He had 12 assists but 8 turnovers.
And his team gave up a 10 point 4th quarter lead during which he was largely ineffective, ending in an embarrassing loss.

That does NOT add up to a fantastic game to me.

 

I think that is the time when you we Harden.... Unfortunately he is out.... Harden's ability to force a play is money!

 

AB can still do some playmaking. He needed to play in the 4th to give Lin more adequate rest. McHale played Lin too many minutes in the 1st half and certainly didn't give him enough rest in the 4th.

 

Also, does anyone remember the discussions about our crazy depth in the preseason... man that did not work out...

 

MCW didn't play. Also didn't know Lin was going up against Anderson. Lin performed the exact opposite of my expectation, I thought he would struggle offensively and do better on defense. I was wrong, he turned Anderson into a Rockets killer. I was tweeting this game and my gut feeling early on was that Lin's poor defense was going to contribute to a lose, I just didn't think it would really happen. I'm still stunned we lost to a MCW-less Sixers team. And the incompetence of McHale to show any kind of strategy or draw any play out of timeout is SLOWLY pushing me toward the "fire ******" thread. I always said, we give him too much credit for wins.