I know Clutch has far more things in his life than he did 20+ years ago, but... Damn. I'm looking forward to see what he has to say about this debacle that we have been thus far. My personal layman opinion? I've never seen a Rockets team come out as lethargic as this. We watched Golden State lose 10 of 17? When it didn't matter? The Rockets have looked like that during this series. We look like shells of what we were. I will always be optimistic when it comes to this team. We have a Championship roster. But we better damn well start playing like it.
I'm upset as well, but never?? You only have to go back as far as 2015 to find a more lethargic playoff team. I'm hoping that they're bored with the Twolves but coming into the playoffs I was worried about a possible shooting slump with certain players. Ariza, Tucker and Gordon specifically. I pretty much written Anderson off as a 0 (fair or not) and I wasn't worried about Harden or Paul going cold for a whole series (not likely) but we can't survive with the 3 prior players i mentioned going absolutely cold for a whole series.
If anyone recalls our original titles. Staay Humble. Staay Hungry. (It was an American Airlines Stunt, but it worked!) Regardless. We need passion. And I haven't seen it yet other than Harden in Game 1... Eye of the Tiger. We need it.
If they don't come out with passion going forward in this series after the Wolves mocked the Rockets several times this game then it just won't happen. The way KAT acted you would have thought he'd been dominating this series from game 1. Teague as well. I think the key this series, and going forward (besides role players hitting open shots) is Paul going back to being comfortable and effective as Option 1b, not option 2.
It's the "Gentleman's Sweep". They had their first playoff game at home in a long time, they were amped, they kicked our asses. Now we win the next 2 and call it a series.
i did plenty of scolding towards the tv, for 3 quarters. everyone knew the rockets aren't making it out with a w.
Ok, but we have looked really bad this entire series. We just aren't hitting the shots we did. I love this team's structure, but I'm worried if it translates to the playoffs. I would've scoffed at anyone who thought it wouldn't 3 weeks ago. But here we are, 3 games in, against a decent team, but not anything incredible. And we've looked bad. On all 3 games. Anomalies are one thing. 3 bad games against a team that you've beaten more often than a red-headed stepchild housed by Cartman? There's a playoff disconnect that this team needs to recognize. And soon.
I agree with Fatty, kind of unordinary behaviour from a contender giving out this kind of trash. We should’ve been merciless, we shouldn’t of given them anything, not their first playoff win, not KAT cheering like a highschool b****, i truly believe that’s (the attitude) it would’ve taken, to beat GSW with Steph. It sucks that now we have to leave it to “matchups”.. we won’t win that kind of game. There’s no matchups when it comes to GSW, either you play harder than them or you don’t, that’s your punchers chance, to think Ryno, EG, Luc or JJ make any sort of difference in that matchup, is naive. Players that haven’t shown us **** all season, will outweigh it in our favour? Because now they’re “healthy”. Eg stats don’t back up his slump, and Luc’s offensive output doesn’t match up with what we need, especially with Paul & Harden’s average ass offensive output in the playoffs. Let’s worry about finishing the Twolves off which seems like more of a task than it should be.
