You're telling me you wanted this dude to make up for his bad games in one game!? You guys listening to yourselves? what's going on here? I'm white knighting Ryan Anderson because you guys have gone nutz.
Yes Capela was soft tonight but Anderson along with Ariza has still killed the team more than Capela has overall and has made this harder than it needs to be.
Capela also had three blocks and rarely played that last quarter and probably would've grabbed that rebound that Adams tipped in over Anderson. But let's not put things in its proper context here let's just talk about bogus plus minus stats
I agree with what you said except replace Capela with Nene. It's the playoffs. MDA should play his vets more and straight up I would start Nene over Capela.
Yea he finally broke out of his slump but he's mainly on the floor to shoot the 3 ball and spread the floor. He's 2-18 (Corey Brewer #s ) from behind the 3 point line for the three playoff games so far hopefully his long range shooting will revert to the mean very soon for the rockets sake.
Yes, he played well offensively yesterday but he was absolutely atrocious on defense. Taj Gibson destroyed him, and he could not defend the switch on pick and rolls.
@BigggReddd Your statement was half right. Anderson is useless... but my sig was to point out that you had written us off in the first round. Muhahahahah!
Anderson 3-24 12.5% 3 pt against the Thunder....a team he probably should've lit up. That's his money maker, stretching the floor and burying 3s and we've all seen the capability. IMO his biggest contribution to the series win was the 1st game grabbing 12 boards and leaving Gibson out. Gotta have better output against the Spurs and should have plenty of open looks. He and Ariza both, Ariza was 3-16 for 18.8%....Gotta have some of those shots falling and it would be nice if a LOT of those shots were falling. Either one of them shoots close to 40% it's a different series. Both would've been a sweep.
No need for anyone to apologize. He had 14 points on 12 shots. He has a really hard time getting his shot off. Pretty soon he's going to be shooting from the backcourt. Making 4 of 12 shots is not a great night.
I'll give Ryno credit, he stepped up and played more confident than he did throughout the first round. He needs to keep pulling the trigger without hesitation, I don't care if he's 5 feet behind the line, he can hit that when open. But guys, don't act like he played like some sort of god, when we upgrade to Millsap next season you'll see what a real 4 looks like. Anyways, for now he's a Rocket and I'm gonna be cheering him and this team on.
actually when 10 of those shots are 3's, its not bad either. you don't hold a 3 pt sniper to the same box level scores as someone who is trying to be an efficient scorer. if he went 4/10 alone that would be a great night easily since his job is primarily to knock down 3s and spread the floor.
But but but, he didn't go 4/10. He went 4/12. Lets talk about what's he actually did, not what he didn't do. Look, he wasn't awful, which is a big improvement over what he did against OKC. But really now, he wasn't all that great. And, there I see no reason to give a player that shoots threes a pass when it comes to offensive efficiency. Let's hope he can make a significant and consistent contribution going forward.
good, not great doesn't matter. very solid game to me. huge hand in making their bigs struggle. no reason for a pass? if you shoot 80-90% of your shots as 3 pters your offensive efficiency #'s obviously, aren't going to be close to comparable to someone who is much for versatile and scoring in different ways. that's just the reality of it. whether you want to realize that or not isn't really significant. it's actually a fact.
You are missing the fact that his early ones open up the floor and that doesn't show up in the box score. He was huge last night.
