Wait, the one thing from this game that you get is that Courtney Lee should start? With all due respect, but WTF?
I counter-argue that AB is a 6th man kind of guy. Definitely should play together with Lowry in the 4th. But as far as starting our offense, he completely makes everyone else stand around and watch as he does his thing and drives to the hoop or shoots an outside 3. Granted, he's good at those things. However, it's detrimental because it makes our ball movement lazy. Secondly, his poor defense sets a bad tone for our team defense. With Lowry in at the start, our intensity picks up and our D is at the very least, respectable. Ball moves around more too since Lowry knows he can't shoot. For now, with no trades on the horizon, we need them both.
Our star players will never be clutchy if our pg can't make get the ball to them at their comfortable zones. Lowry's overrated defensive player. Rose ran pass him again and again tonight, He just can't guard rose one on one. Lowry is a defensive minded and tough player though. If we somehow combine brooks' quickness and shooting, lowry's toughness and Ish's vision and passing into one player, we will go to western final easily.
The problem is that most of our players are extremely one-sided. If you start AB, teams will expose AB/KM on D If you start Lowry, you lose the ability to score consistently from the PG position You can't start Bud because AB/KM/Bud would cause even Dwight Howard to be in foul trouble every game You start Shane and he fails on O immediately when he tries to do more than shoot the open 3 Scola/BM cannot provide any help D and gets torched by most PFs with the ability to shoot Yao, don't get me started, I pretend he is out for the season, might as well be, too bad we are stuck with him. Oh well, could be worse, we could be the Knicks... Still early, but it is not looking great, even if the team gels we still have too many one dimensional players.
Thank you. They have been doing this for the past few years now. I don't see how it really was a mo killer either, if the Rockets really had the Big Mo like everyone is saying they did then they would have hit the next few shots and that -3 would have been a minor exclusion.
Hey Clutch, you got the title wrong. It should be: Post-Game Analysis: Bulls 95, Rockets 97 Just a little typo.
Perhaps he wants to get fired so he can go coach the other perennially injured team known as the Trailblazers in his favorite city Portland.
Yeah, and how many wins does Brooks have in his belt this season? In the games that he played in, how many points did the opponents score against the Rockets, especially the perimeter guys. And it is not only this season that Brooks' defense and lack of court vision have been exposed.
Don't blame RA Lowry ---overally good, played all the second half, lowry was a plus 4 every other starter played well, second unit, TERRIBLE ish --- played like an undrafted rookie which forced lowry to play all the second half, which indirectly affected lowry's defense on rose when he exploded at the beginning of the 4th quarter Lee was also terrible, 4 tos, these two combined for 6 turnovers and 2 points.... the second unit should be responsible for this loss hill, hayes were made look bad by lee and ish, too, but hill did not do anything positive too, i had no problem with RA sitting him all the second half.
lowry had no help. he's been out and ish can't play in high level games. lee is lost and a poor passer. the reason we lost is no bench. our starters tonite were tough.
Lol the Knicks are kinda like the Rockets...Felton just steps out of bounds on a clutch play. I guess the good thing for the Knicks is that they may finally get rewarded for having a bad season...hell they may draft RIGHT after the Rockets.
I guess I will chime in now. They played good enough to win, but the rockets will always get exposed by good teams. Lowry tried, but when the 2 bigs have the foot speed of miller and scola, its easy pickings. I don't think people really know how much a 1/2 a step means to a guy like Rose. When he gets that half, he increases the distance and is at the rim. Another thing tonight showed is the bulls have 2 way players and you can defend with quickness and size. The rockets brought in hayes, they brought in the 7ft kid. The rockets brought in lee, they brought in brewer. Their entire starting 5 can defend their position. Also, Kyle can run the team against backups, but against quality players, he can't do it. He's earl watson to me and I've said that. He's good enough to push the starter and is a good spot starter, but when the game is on the line, he will falter because teams won't guard him. No need to mention martin because he did what always do in the 4th qt.
I think Adelman was just as shocked as we were when the second unit guys (Smith/Lee/Hayes/Hill with Martin) got their butts whipped by the Bulls backups in the first half. That had to be very unexpected. I guess Adelman could've shown more trust in Smith and Hill and played them some in the second half. Ish at least should've given Lowry a breather. However, I thought not playing Hill was more about needing Miller's high-post offense, someone with a jump shot, than Adelman being unhappy with Hill. You could argue Adelman should've subbed in Taylor, but is it better to insert an end-of-the-bench player into a fairly close game, or to hope Lee starts snapping out of it? Me, I'm fine with Adelman's decision, even though Lee played poorly. Also I'm not sure how Jeffries would have helped. Hayes did a good job on the defensive end, and Jeffries isn't any better offensively.
