Dwight has these guys playing disciplined ball tonight. (vs Sixers) Defensive assignments are being covered better than earlier in the year. The ball is moving on offense. The game is looking like these guys are on cruise waiting to get hot on offense while the defense carries the Rockets thru the early part of the game. I think the situation the Rockets are in is similar to what the Heat had a few years ago. The who defers to who on offense conundrum is pretty obvious. The Heat also made a commitment to playing team defense when they decided who was going to be the man. Same situation in Houston.
Yeah, the offense is great but we can't stop anyone right now unless it is Dwight or Jones protecting the rim. This is Harden's team, when the game is on the line we look to him to lift us over the line. If the ball is in Dwights hand he is shooting free throws. It is also not like he can score at will on the block either.
The ball is moving has nothing to do with Howard. The ball will move as long as Harden is not in the game. Harden is a black hole.
Ummm....might wanna rethink that "defensive assignments are being covered" It's Dwight and Harden's team.
Dwight's post game should be painful to watch for any Rockets fan. He continuously dropsteps to the baseline so he can throw up those ugly banks, instead of taking the simple jump hook to the middle. And then when he does try the jump hook, he doesn't use his body to bump the defender, resulting in Hawes stuffing it right back in his face. Yao would average 50 points against the defenses that Dwight faces. Oh, and his defense was very lazy tonight.
Yeah well his FT brick syndrome is contaminating the rest of the team. Harden at least made the team a decent FT shooting team
