I do not deny the importance of a good player such as Parsons or Jeremy but the team with Howard, Harden, Beverley could at least make it a closer game. They trailed by 10 pts at home most of the time.
The unaknowledged hart and soul. I always am confident that he can carry the team via playmaking,driving and explosive scoring. As George Carl said "He is the motor that makes the rockets go".
McHale may be a below average coach, but he is not a coward. Very strong and inappropriate word to characterize McHale.
Yes, Rubio does. I feel he is such a poor shooter that he is not Truely NBA material, his passing notwithstanding. Dragic did not attempt to break down the defense. I was puzzled. However after some thought, I think it was part of the offensive plan for this game. They asked Tucker and a few big men to step up. Bev's FG% last year was .418 and this year it's even lower .404 Very poor for a starting point guard on a championship team. He has the 3rd lowest FG% on the team.Dmo and one other are lower. Not auspicious.
With Lin out our backcourt will be outscored by a large margin. Let's see how Beverley does on Curry, however. He is our best defender and if he shuts down or greatly disrupts Curry's offensive clout, they we only have to worry about Klay and he can be double teamed, and we will do much better. Lets go Bev.
He is small, doesn't draw fouls, is an average playmaker and was cut by Sacramento. Beverly at least plays reasonably good D.
Yah... I wouldn't get too hopeful. Curry is the main focus of every team defense. Asking Beverley to shut him down by himself is asking WAY too much of Beverley. If the Rockets don't start playing serious PnR and fast break defense, GSW is going to carve them up like a Thanksgiving Turkey.
What is worrying is we got handed by Phoenix Suns who were on a BACK TO BACK. GSW have the best shooting back court in the NBA and with our weak ass D esp Haren, they would try and repay us for the 23 3's we drained on them last season
I'm talking about the timeline of the person who tweeted about Harden. ETA: I don't mean a literal timeline. On twitter, your main page that displays all of your tweets is referred to as your "timeline."
Thank you. Someone who watches the NBA and is not setging ridculous expectation on Beverley. Curry can take and will make contested 3s!!! We're gonna need good team defense (see what Miami did, a lot of trapping, double-teaming) to slow down Curry and get ball out of his hands. Warriors have also improved defensively this year so like always we will need to play both sides of the floor and make our shots. Defensively, Bogut's good, but Lee sucks so exploit the weak link.
Yikes @ your grammar lol. But Bev is not asked to be a playmaker -- that's the primary reason he was placed in the starting lineup, to allow Harden to fill that role in the starting unit and Lin to fill it in the 2nd unit. Chandler has become a pretty good playmaker as well, IMO. But if Lin and Chandler are both out and Harden is not making smart plays... that will be a problem. I didn't watch last night's game so I don't want to speculate too much, but the box score suggests he did more chucking than trying to make plays for other guys. I'm open to being corrected, as usual.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>WED @ <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VidaLounge&src=hash">#VidaLounge</a> Hosted By Rockets Pat Beverley x Teammates -Official Rockets Game After Party- FREE ALL NIGHT- <a href="http://t.co/QbLVWie8mq">pic.twitter.com/QbLVWie8mq</a></p>— CelebCed713.com (@CelebCed) <a href="https://twitter.com/CelebCed/statuses/407349689583796224">December 2, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> I understand players are free to do with their time as they please but I'd prefer they do this sort of thing during the off-season or allstar break, or at least when they have a long layoff rather than right in between games.
GSW setup alot of special plays for Curry and Thompson to get open shots. With the way Rockets have been defending, it'll be a very tough game. See this video is just googled about set plays for Curry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh9eGkAfUUI
