ClutchFans Game Thread: Thunder @ Rockets 4/7/2018

Cp3 holding hands ....? Mobley must be happy.

 

i can't believe harden got shut down by russell westbrook.

 

I just read the last few pages & couldn't believe all the crying over the loss to OKC. 1st of all, this loss doesn't affect our seeding at all. 2nd OKC's win & their soft remaining schedule means they won't finish with the 8th seed & we'll get either Minny or Denver. So we get an easier 1st round opponent. Actually this loss was beneficial to us!

 

Today is our strategy to lose this match. It is a match for practice. For the last two matches we can give more time to play for our bench. I think iso joe, black and nene have to give more minutes to shoot more.

 

Westbrook ASKED to guard him

 

Well I must say that’s what mvp’s do they take over and do what others can’t

 

Capelas free throw shooting has really gone to shite lately

 

Dude, I wish those were “my” seats. This was a once-in-a-lifetime deal. I tried to make it count!

This was my bucket list, all the way.

That’s Wayward Nephew, by the way, looking at his hero Russy while rocking the Cletus Capela jersey.

 

Harden just cant stop turnover against Westbrook.

 

My take on what’s happening is Harden and crew can’t rest or else they come back and miss everything. So they have to play but since they have 1st place and nothing to play for they are only out there really for the conditioning?

 

Did not deserve to win and the key stretch was around 94-92 when Harden almost had two 8-second violations, got stripped by Westbrook twice and then everyone started to buckle under the pressure. The game was lost before that. Once I saw how many times we nearly lost the ball, shot some deep threes that were contested, got cut off on our first drive attempts and hesitance to shoot, but most importantly how we just couldn't secure the defensive rebounds - ball got tipped a couple of times to OKC - I knew we were probably going to lose. The focus wasn't there, just for a few stretches.

I'm disappointed, because you just knew Melo, PG and Westbrook would show up, so lay down like this at the end and how we still have not played up to par since securing that 1st seed is worrying. We have some clear issues that we need to deal with or else this play-off run might not go as many of us feel it can go. This loss is definitely on our leaders in Harden, CP3 and MDA. Aside from their play, they got into it with the refs way too much and then made mistake after mistake.

Tucker and Ariza were both amazing on defense and it's sad to see their efforts be squandered like this. Tucker was amazing on offense too, another reason we didn’t have our focus is how we didn’t take advantage of his shot. Usually Harden finds guys who are hot, CP3 too, but not tonight.

Sad to say, but Nene might be done. Maybe he can give us one good game in the play-offs, but I rather we play Black at this point. He at least can still dunk and defends better.

 

Lost on purpose

 

Too risky for what ? If you want to be champions, you can't worry about who you could face in the Playoffs

we would beat them 4-0 or 4-1

 

People need to take a chill pill, if we had lost to Suns no one would care, no one should care now either, we're nr1. and we're nr1 and giving 0 ****s.

 

1. National Televised Game, Need to be in good reputation with ABC, TNT, ESPN. Adam Silver would be mad at us! Adam can order Referees can screw us in playoffs if we didn't play Harden and Chris Paul. 2. Seeding for OKC which we won't Face Them. 3. Would rather face Denver, long shot Pelicans 4. Steven Adams vs Capela is not good for us 5. Very Beneficial losing to OKC., before this game played it crossed my mind if we lose to them, We won't face them in the 1st round. Now I hope OKC and Warriors face each other.

 

Get well soon EGo and Ryno. We just aren't the same without y'all.

Harden, CP3, Ariza, and Capela shouldn't even make this road trip; they should stay home and practice free throws (Capela) and eschew clubbing (we all know who).

 

Too risky because we don't need a tough first round matchup. The T'Wolves or Nuggets would be a 4 or 5 game series. The Thunder would be too unpredictable. They could go down in 5. They could also push us to the limit. You don't know which OKC team will show up on any given night.

Not to mention that with this loss, there's a very good chance the Thunder wind up in the Warriors' bracket. The only thing better than avoiding them in the playoffs is for Golden State to have to face them.

 

Talk to me in the playoffs.. Everyone is focused on the playoffs. Coach, Cp3 an harden all the squad during post game said they missed Gordon and Anderson.. An they want to stay healthy for playoffs... That's all that matters in this point. News flash, just because GS is losing now doesn't mean when the playoffs come they will be a different animal. It's all about staying in rhythm that's it. You can tell in the last few weeks that the guys are focused on the playoffs. Why shouldn't we either..

 

Just like when Harden hit a clutch 3 and made clutch defensive plays against GS in a win. All you hear is crickets or wait till the playoffs. Yesterday game is no different.

 

Houston sports fans should be watching the Astros during these garbage time Rockets games like last night's and the one against the Spurs. I missed both and am proud of it. Let these **** franchises act like they're winning game 7 of the Finals while we've had MVP and 1st seed locked up for weeks now.