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The "I like ball movement" better than wins crowd is looking?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by jiggyfly, Feb 25, 2021.

  1. fchowd0311

    fchowd0311 Contributing Member

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    Imagine beliving my entire life is within clutch fans. Like do you know what I sat to people who aren't Rocket fans about Harden?

    Harden has his flaws and I I enjoyed watching him more in 2014-2015, my favorite season of his aesthetically, due to more variety in his game.

    Kevin Porter Jr I hope doesn't dwindle his game down to only threes and driving to the rim. He's still the most promising talent we have outside maybe Wood.
     
  2. D-rock

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    Because Rockets acquired role players to be catch and shoot specialists and/or dogs on D.

    Harden and CP3 were the ball handlers BECAUSE they were the most efficient at it.

    Silas is using these very same C&S players in opposition of their very best skills.

    Genius.
     
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    Because he obviously wasn't in the shape he wanted to be in. Probably due to not having a good off-season due to his hamstring. He came back with a force with OKC the following season and showed how great of a leader he was.
     
  4. Loneyroy7

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    Uhh you have 30k posts here. I think that's a pretty decent peek into how you think.
     
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  5. D-rock

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    It's like a LSD trip.

    Even chowd doesn't recognize the irony as well as the hypocrisy of it all.
     
  6. fchowd0311

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    Not really. I use this message board to vent more.

    It's the concept of "only I can make fun of my brother". Amongst rocket fans I criticize Harden. Amongst non Rocket fans I defend him.
     
  7. fchowd0311

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    If I acknowledge it would you feel better about your life?

    I'm willing to do that for you bro.
     
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    ?Bro, that's not because Cp3 was bad its because Cp3 didnt have adquate players to play with. No one is saying he's better than Harden but Cp3 is that dude. He's a top 3 PG of all time and his stats in the playoffs are very good.

    With James Harden and Chris Paul throwing him lobs and easy buckets. Capela is great(and I like him alot) but he's offensively limited, Woods is not. Woods has had these type of numbers since last season. Im not saying he's a superstar but I can say he's more talented than Capela.

    Im just saying, Cp3 is a playoff performer, we literally won 65 games with the dude as our second best player.

    What history? Do you think Cp3 is a choker or something man cause that's not true. Cp3 is making the all star game right while having taking a Suns team to a 4th seed.
     
  9. D-rock

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    Don't change your modus operandi for me, I could care less if you are no longer part of QAnon.
     
  10. D-rock

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    Honestly, Harden-CP3-Butler-RoCo-Tucker could have won it all in 2019. This group matches up extremely well with Hampton 5.

    And Clint worked best complementing CP3 due to CP3 threat from 3.

    Wood works just as well with Russ due to Wood's range from 3.

    Harden would have made any of those combinations work. Harden, and Harden alone, absolutely weaponized both Clint and Wood.

    Harden-Russ-Tucker-RoCo-Wood (if Morey was successful trading for him) would have pushed Lakers to the brink. EGo, Jeff, House would have been more than enough coming off the bench.

    IMO that iteration of Rockets win it all in 2020.
     
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  11. HP3

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    I'll take Cp3 over Russ any day of the Week, I like the guy but he's just not the second best player on a championship team.
     
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    Yep, I completely agree.

    But with Wood on the team, i still like our chances even with that hobbled version of Russ.

    100% healthy Russ would have run the Lakers off the court. Lebron was terrified of Rockets pace until he realized that Russ could only sustain it for a game or two.

    As similar as Wall's size, game and speed is to Russ', he doesn't possess the same indefatigable spirit and stamina that Westbrook has.

    There is a reason that Westbrook led teams are always elite at pace while Wall led teams are not.

    Russ can be maddening to have on your team but I'd take him over Wall any day.
     
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    Sure, we could possibly still win with Russ-Woods for sure I agree.

    But we both agree we ABSOLUTELY win with Woods-cp3, no?
     
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    Literally quite irritating. U see posters on here post sht threads. U call them out and they play the victim card

    It's funny Dakota tells posters to move on from harden, but everytime we talk about harden man still holds a grudge and always has to chime in on how he quit on us. Hell he just made a thread to passive agreessivly say harden ain't my favorite
     
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    And? Kobe said he ISO's because of the roster around.

    You think Morey and MDA didn't design it that way considering the the team makeup at the time?
     
  16. D-rock

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    b****es got to do b**** things.
     
  17. fchowd0311

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    We should send them to prison.
     
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  18. fchowd0311

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    Alpha male here.
     
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    Well, can I blame Morey and MDA? Because when I put any blame on MDA, Morey, or Harden, the same group acts like that's wrong to do. MDA's system is the best ever and Morey has made all the best moves, can't blame them either so I don't know who gets the blame at this point.

    Also, the "I like ball movement" crowd still includes Harden who was agreeing with Kobe and told Curry that he didn't want to play hero ball...
     
  20. jiggyfly

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    The following season when he lost again in the 1st round after claiming some people were not built for this?

    The same season where he only scored 19 points in a game 7 and was a -5 in that same game?

    Is that the force you are talking about?
     

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