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Donatas Motiejunas - X Factor

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by DudeWah, Nov 23, 2014.

  1. sealclubber1016

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    D-Mo just keeps hitting that corner 3. Over his last 28 games he's shooting a rock solid 36% from 3, largely because he shoots the easiest 3 available. Over this recent stretch D-mo is becoming much more comfortable with his non-post offense, which has been a huge weakness.

    His counterpart at the 4 claims says that he watches D-Mo, I think he needs to take better notes on what jumpers to take.
     
  2. aqd

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    I wish he could get more ball on the field. He is really improved and I strongly believe he could go over 20pts a game if the team just let him posting-up as much as they try to do with Dwight.
     
  3. elainas

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    Still he should be primary post selection, he's estimate and pass if not sure he make, and bet make less turnovers than Dwight,.. just sayin
     
  4. omgTHEpotential

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    Woah!
     
  5. chenjy9

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    D-Mo is asserting himself more with some aggressive drives and block attempts. Really liked seeing that. While he has been a good positional defender, he has not been an aggressive one who tries to intimidate his opponents. I want to see him continue his recent efforts and really go after players with the intent to stuff them when they go up on him. He just needs to work on being vocal when mommy and daddy rests.
     
  6. Normalus

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    And 40.1% at home this season! :eek:
     
  7. Rocket River

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    We like Agresssion!

    Rocket River
     
  8. kemah

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    This may be interesting but doubt it. I recently quit smoking...again and every time I do I seem to dream or at least remember my dreams and lately have had some doozies. Not long ago I woke up from a dream about Dmo. My wife out walking met Dmo and invited him over for dinner of chicken and dumplings. He ate and loved the dish so much that he became a friend and came over often and always requested the same dish. It had gotten to the point that it became annoying as even he once after a late game and flight home he called and begged for that dish. I of course made the dish but told him enough. He offered to pay me and other inducements and even wanted to hire me as his cook. I told him that he can't buy my friendship and to stop asking for the same dish always. Well I thought of the old proverb that to give a man a fish he eats for one day but to teach him to fish he can eat forever and when he came over to eat again I told him that I would teach him to make the dish but he was adamant that he couldn't cook or even boil water so I was stuck on making that one dish and got annoyed. I know it was very strange dream as all my dreams are.

    Well later that day I watched a game and during it the announcers showed Harden making a stirring motion and said that it was a new thing with Harden and that he meant it as stirring things up. They showed Harden in a clip him making that motion again and it came to me that Harden was saying that the team had to stir things up and...

    Dmo can't cook.
     
  9. RockingRox

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Captain Hook <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NBAMostImprovedPlayer?src=hash">#NBAMostImprovedPlayer</a> RT <a href="https://twitter.com/richg0703">@richg0703</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoRockets?src=hash">#GoRockets</a> <a href="http://t.co/N7ciF7dsl7">pic.twitter.com/N7ciF7dsl7</a></p>&mdash; Matt Bullard (@bull50) <a href="https://twitter.com/bull50/status/556163633558732801">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

    Just saw this and don't want it get buried.

    So it is "Captain Hook", huh?
     
  10. Mr. Clutch

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    Bullard is so corny.

    Dmo should keep taking open 3s IMO
     
  11. omgTHEpotential

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    Fixed your post for you.
     
  12. bongman

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    Is your wife hawwwt? Maybe it's a different dish he is interested in :p
     
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    lol

    Yes she is and 18 years younger than I so possible. He kept trying to pay me money or buy me things and go shopping and do stuff together also so maybe he is...

    Anybody ever seen him with a babe?
     
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    I seem to recall when we first drafted him, there was a girl he was always with. I don't see her around him anymore.
     
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    Pls tell us more of your dreams... great reading!
     
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    Do you think if Rox were 1 seed, as GSW is DMo get such attention and praise from media as Green does? their stats quite similiar, both fill injured player spot. But attention to Green is like he's star.. which I'm doubt
     
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    They both are really good defenders. Green is a better rebounder. That being said, I think DMo has a much higher ceiling - his offensive versatility is star-like.
     
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    Green is a very good player im sure if he was a rocket we would think he has star potential too. This takes nothing away from Dmo who I think is better.
     
  20. Key

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    Draymond Green's and DMo's production per 36 minutes stats are actually comparable.

    Note that currently Green gets 32.4 avg mpg, while Dmo is at 27.9.

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    So it's quite disappointing that besides a couple of blog posts (and Rockets fan forums, obviously), DMo gets none of the sort of recognition and coverage that Draymond Green does.

    I don't know if that's true, but I'm starting to believe that most of the time NBA TV and TNT's Inside the NBA crews are "analyzing" the games with only having seen the highlights and boxscores, instead of having seen the actual game. Obviously, Draymond gets on the highlight reel a lot more, hence the higher recognition.
     

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