McHale: lineup will change for Game 3 tonight

Both right now. And plenty of others. My list:

Player wise...

-Harden not playing like a superstar, or star, or even a decent bench player. He is looking like a hobo that Jones will stomp on once the series is over.
-Howard not rebounding and defending the paint like he should
-Parsons talking the talk but not walking the walk
-Jones is just not ready yet. They are stealing his lunch money, lunch, and his underwear down in the post
-Getting minimal to no production from Lin on offense who is supposed to be the 6th man

Team wise....

-Terrible decisions on the court.
-Absolutely useless bench
-High school level defense or worse....
-high school level set offense or worse...
-Terrible coaching (no adjustments, poor time management, lack of preparedness etc. etc.)
-Bad attitude and body language on and off the court


Thats a massive list. Depressing.

This team needs to be taken to the laundry to clean the mess up.

 

anyone else feelin a loss?

how did we go 3-1 against this team and now we are scrambling to change our lineup?

disappoint

 

They made adjustments to defend Harden. It's worked so far. We need to make adjustments if we have any chance of winning this series.

 

I would not be surprised to see TroyD for about 8-12 minutes tonight also.

 

I was just going to post this...I think he takes Garcia's minutes.

 

would rep if i could

 

inb4 he doesnt start harden and we get blown out

 

anyways id rather see a Bev-Lin-Harden-Asik-Howard lineup. could be interesting

 

I certainly hope so.

 

I wont be surprised with a TT lineup,but I would love to see this lineup/rotation.

Bev/Lin
Harden/Daniels
Hamilton/Garcia
Parsons/Jones
Howard/Asik

Get LMA out of the paint area to like Dwight work and Harden to drive,get Hamilton for the athleticism and 3 ball just to shake things up and hope McHale goes deep in the bench for some sparks.

 

double LMA with asik and howard. I'd like to see him score on that double team.

 

But the fact is that we almost won game 1, and that we were still in game 2 late. An extra rebound would have given us game 1. Cleaning up a few defensive rotation breakdowns and making a few more shots would have given us game 2. LMA is playing the best ball of his NBA career and Harden is MIA. That won't continue. The odds are against us, but we still have a shot.

 

99.9% chance he kicks it out to an open shooter we won't be quick enough to rotate onto.

 

With the way the games have been called we would loose both our big men in the first quarter

 

Sadly the call where the NBA admitted that the foul was not on Howard was that "extra rebound" that we needed.

 

Offensive rebounds and tip-ins galore for Portland if we go small ball

 

Granted this may be true but is doesn't change that from the past 2 games they have clearly been the better team. From an execution & coaching standpoint.

We just need to play better.

 

He is going to start DMO and Lin

 

We are down 0-2 and lost both home games against the Blazers in the first round.

Not Miami, or Spurs, or OKC, or Clippers.....

We might have squeezed out one win but at no point have the Rockets convincingly been the better team.

 

Coach McHale is going to put Bev on LMA.