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Perhaps this is what the Lakers felt when Yao went down and their team played like fecal trash against our DLeague team. Deep down you know that Lakers team should beat you badly, but we embarassed them with heart and determination...and almost took them out. The problem is that Paul will play in this series, and instead of forcing Doc and the Clippers to have Paul ready to go, Doc has the luxury of getting Paul an extra few days to rest his hamstring and get ready to go in LA...where Harden has notoriously been bad. Professional teams should never end games like that ever...Its like they wanted to walk off the court at the 2:02 mark...
I love the idiot who mentioned T-Mac. Yet if T-Mac had these teammates we'd be unstoppable. Even with this failure of a head coach. God, it still leaves a disgusting taste in my mouth realising we have 3 more seasons of this *****. Oh but he's a coach of the year candidate. 50+ wins. Let's sing his praise and ignore his (myriad) amount of cons.
I'd rather have Olajuwon than T-mac based on 120 playoff games, 3 finals, 2 championship but I agree, we are being out coached. playoffs are about exploiting each team's weaknesses, they didn't have Chris Paul, we didn't exploit that...at all.
I don't get what you're going for in that first line - ok I do you're attacking T-Mac - but 100 out of 100 people (myself included) would choose Olajuwon over T-Mac.... so kind of a mute point. I personally wouldn't even say we're being exploited. One team is just being coached by a competent coach - one isn't. That's the most frustrating part. If we had a head coach who could use just common sense, we'd be much better. I STILL cannot understand why Terry came back in midwayish through the 4th and Prigs sat down. Prigs who had hit a few 3s and generally running the team very well. Just one example of why I hate McHale.
I cant believe this team put up that kind of effort. Im sure Dream and Sam got together after the game and said 'that crap would have never happend to us' losing is not a problem, but quitting is. Im embarassed to be a Rocket fan tonight.
Prigioni had the best +/- tonight on our team. They didn't have a point guard, they literally have no other PG on their team than Chris Paul, everyone else is listed as a 2. They had 21 turnovers because of no point guard. Yet we turn the ball over 22 times, and yes mainly Harden's fault but Doc Rivers would double him and force him into bad passes. The current Rockets system is to make 3s, well, they made made more then we did and they shot their free throws better than we did. We can hack a D'Andre, they can hack Dwight, Smith or Capella. McHale has to make adjustments, if not, this series will be over quick.
I don't post here much, but decided to post in this thread, because I agree with those who believe this is the Rockets biggest issue. Yes, turnovers are a problem. Yes Free throw shooting is a problem. But, if Howard/TJones would own the boards, especially on the defensive end & Harden would come out with a true killer instinct, all those other problems would seem so small. With our turnovers we can't afford to give teams second chance opportunities to allow them offensive rebounds. We have the people on this team to take that away. They just need to make it happen. Remember when Dwight pulled down 26 in game 3 against the Mavs? That was heart. He doesn't need to average 26 or anything like that against the Clips, but he needs to dedicate himself to the boards. 10 rebounds ain't going to get it done. & in the fourth Qtr, Harden needs to be calling for the ball & he needs to be taking it to the rim on every possession.... before the hack-a-dwight. That's all I've got to say, hoping the Rockets pull it together & pull out a series win in five games.
The Rockets and their fans waited over a year for a conference semifinal after the 0.9 second series walk off buzzer beater heartbreaker last year. 1 year and 2 days to be exact. What a let down, what an embarresment. Best thing about this series is only 1 day off between games. The Rockets will either show some heart or it will be over real soon.
