What you wrote is based on scoring ability. Blazers move ball well and allows Mathews and Batum to contribute on offense. Defensively: The bigs are almost even, with us an edge on defense. LMA and Lopez are still good defensively. Mathews > Harden Lillard < Bev Batum > Parsons Batum and Mathews individually may not be better than their match up for offense, but they find ways to contribute. That's the main difference. Rockets are so damn predictable. Well the ball is going ot harden - dump it to him. Let's set up a prdictable PNR in which Harden will get the switch etc. Well the ball is going to Dwight. better have him post. If the blazers know it's going ot happen, there's a chance they can steal and pick off a bad pass.
I don't wanna see Jeremy Lin play another minute for the Rockets, so yea i'll go that far n put in Casspi over Lin
Absolutely more Troy Daniels. And it might have to be by way of the "small lineup" with Parsons at PF. Daniels' shooting is a huge X-factor for the Rockets. They need that shooting. It is sad that we are at the point that a D-league guy is perhaps a key factor for the Rockets success.
