Yeah, it hurts us against GS..... where Nene and CC were going to be a two headed monster hitting them in their Achilles Heel. And, against Cleveland.. Now, a commitment to small ball...asking Gordon to open up his game, risking injury..heavier minutes for Lou...CC's only 22 ...and is developing...I think he'll play at a higher level. We'll see how many minutes and at what level. But this is asking a lot. Nene was a leader/enforcer....great passer/pnr guy... Big loss.
Clearly, we are effective offensively when we play with one big. I am a big Montrezl fan, but this is not a series for him. IF we get through Spurs, Montrezl will be very effective against the Warriors. He had a monster game in that OT win against the Warriors early in the regular season. That was the game that Nene didn't play.
Reading the spurs forum, they actually think its good for houston..... On another note, spurs forum is cancer to read, they have no filter.
So sad. He was having a great season. Hope he comes back next year. I think since he is close to retirement, "role and happiness" might be more important than a larger payday for another team. This is a great place for Nene.
They are freaking terrible... ...but I think for this particular matchup, they are right. Going small with Anderson at the 5 pulled Lee/Aldridge/Gasol out of the paint and really opened things up. It's a small sample size of course, and I'm fairly confident Pop will adjust in some way, but it seems promising. They got buried with that lineup in.
Im upset and he was huge for us but does anyone else think this might help us? Starting eric and having ryan be a small 5 seemed to open up the 3 point ball for us again. Nene would hurt us in the future if we survivr but im not sure this was a good series for him
I love NeNe and believe his veteran leadership is vital to our team's success, but does he really move the needle THAT much against the Spurs or GSW? I'd say more so against the Spurs than against GSW. I don't feel like our chances are severely hampered with him off the court. Does it hurt? Losing any rotation guy in the playoffs hurts, but will it make it EXTREMELY difficult on us? I don't think so. I hope I'm right.
its not like we're getting past the warriors w/o a 2nd scoring option. eg, lou or ryan aint that guy. they're perfect 3rd options. but still, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu this sucks big time. **** this
Yeah, he acted all pissed and walked straight to the locker room. But OTOH, we want him to be motivated and pissed.
If DAntoni plays Harrell he'll stick w/ him. I dont see him not committing to him enough to give him a chance to settle in. But the question is do we have time to experiment with the adjustment? Or would we teamwise just compensate w/ the guys we have, Capella playing a bit more, Anderson and Decker, Harden playing their bigs, and trying to get up even more 3s-- I think this what itll be.
Sucks. Hope he's able to be back healthy next year. Guy has been through a lot with his cancer and other injuries.
Herrera? He was not replaced by Elie. He was replaced by moving Horry to PF and Elie moved up to the starting SF. They tried starting Chucky Brown before doing this. Herrera was valuable but I think NeNe is more valuable to this team. I'm a UH guy too. All of this was in an effort to replace the traded Otis Thorpe. We even tried Pete Chilcutt.
Feel horrible for him. He's been a real help for the Rockets. But luckily there are a lot of people on the bench who can come up big for us. We can win it for Beverley and Nene now. Let's go Rockets!
You guys think the NBA should implement a rule stating that if a player is injured during the playoffs and is out indefinitely til next season that a team should be able to sign a free agent in place for that injured player?
