Thanks alot assholes, oh and honorable mention, Dwight Howard, who once again loses us a game at the free throw line, he makes his free throws, Rockets win game 1.
I don't think Smith played bad, really. Made a lot of key plays. Jones, the refs, Brewer's defense, and Terry just straight up murdered us all night, though.
I like Jones but he is too streaky. I would trade him. Capella is going to be amazing. Just wait till they bulk him up.
Josh Smith lost or threw the ball away at 2 or 3 CRUCIAL moments in the game that coulda tied or given us the lead, UNFORCED ERRORS
Smith played ok but yeah he had some costly TOs..Jones, well he was invisible. No need for a knee jerk thread though. If you have been following the Rockets, you will know that our role players aren't consistent. Unfortunately they have days, where they disappear, have costly TOs or can't hit open shots or worse still, layups. Hope they perform better next game - they need to perform at a high level for this team have a shot at winning this series. Altogether though, the Rockets gave good effort.
Does anybody remember the play where Harden drove and I'm pretty sure I could hear the slap on his arm but there was no foul called. The next play the same official who was standing right next to Harden on the previous play then calls a foul on Dwight from near half court on a play that happened near the rim. Atrocious.
Right on. I would be proud to have Livingston as a Houston Rocket. He came back from a crushing injury, I never thought he would be able to make a comeback, let alone be as good as he is.
Rarely do you see guys like Harrison Barnes or Draymond Green making stupid shots or making dumb TO's. That's the big difference in this team. When guys like Smith and Jones play well we usually win.
I think it's fair to assume we didn't expect Livingston to score that much. I would have expected it from Barbosa and do expect Barbosa to put up some more points next game. Seemed atypical from Livingston (it seems like he tends to distribute, but maybe not).
Yes it was an amplified skin slap. Full on foul...I was surprised no one on the broadcast mentioned it...it was def not ball...reminded me of the palm to palm slap game we played in middle school
