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Summing up what Clutch is saying the last week

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by sirjesse, Jan 15, 2020.

  1. sirjesse

    sirjesse The Udoker has spoken!
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    He is bringing down the house.......
     
  2. heypartner

    heypartner Contributing Member

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    Here is how MDA answered the question:

    Danuel has fallen off. What's going on with him?

    You never know exactly because if you knew, you'd just go fix it. It's a process he has to go through. Not really worried about it. He's thinking about it a little too much. Let me just do the simple things, play as hard as I can play, make the simple play until I get my confidence rolling again & get over the hump. He's on this journey. He'll figure it out & work through it. We just need to win games. He's playing hard, he's trying but it's not totally clicking. He'll get over this & find his way.​

    To me that sounds like we are asking him to develop his playmaking off Harden's doubles. And the game is too fast for him. But they're giving him some rope to develop.
     
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    heypartner Contributing Member

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    Actually, the whole MDA interview is a good read...transcribed by @J.R. in the game thread. i.d.i.o.t.

     
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    vlaurelio Contributing Member

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    howbout MDA think, figure out, coach, and practice plays that they can run
     
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    #werefine
     
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    Dude is about to retire. There is a reason Murray sacked all his assistants - hoping he would walk away. But if Tilman is paying him, he'll be at work, not on the beach....
     
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    SMH

    Rocket River
     
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    I really like this kind of logical and rational analysis after back to back ugly blowout losses :

    Let’s blame it on a G leaguer.
     
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    Imagine resting your season's hopes of supposedly "winning a championship" on a D league player learning to create for the team on the fly.

    lol

    Brilliant coaching.

    [​IMG]
     
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    If you really think he is a G-Leaguer...

    He shouldn't be a starting SF on a contender-hopeful.

    Tucker is an offensive liability, Capela is, Westbrook is. McLemore, Gordon and Harden are fantastically streaky. Everyone is undersized and rebound-challenged -- if/when they actually remember to box out. These things add up and House doesn't have time to score 3 points per game on wide open looks.

    I complained about recent moves during the summer and then adopted a wait and see approach through December, but now I'm being openly negative again. I don't 'hate' any guys on the Rockets, but almost everyone has to improve from what we've seen recently.

    It just hurts to see the slow motion trainwreck of moves that have gotten us from 2018 to here.
     
  11. Zboy

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    Everyone will tell you he shouldn't.

    All except the Rockets brass.

    House would be fine as someone off the bench.

    He is being asked to do too much for a bench player that should be on a short leash.

    It is what you get when you have a cheap owner that is pretending that he cares about building a contender or at the very least keeping it intact.
     
  12. heypartner

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    Trap-busting off of double teams is a simple role, and a legit play. We even have PJ do it. Capela. Rivers. And House is competent sometimes, enough to warrant developing. If he can't improve, then he can't do that role in the playoffs.

    Right now, I'm in favor have giving him rope (as Coach says), not a short leash. But his window to improve is shrinking.

    He's definitely regressed...and yeah, it's so frustrating this team can't fill that simple offensive role that even a 40 yr old Iggy would crush ... or even a retired Livingston. sigh
     
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    D'Antoni sounds like McHale, eerily similar....at least he's forthcoming that he doesn't know.
     
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    MDA developing players.........LOL!!!!!!
     

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