[Western Conference Finals] (1)Golden State vs. (3)Portland

Tough loss for the blazers man, I feel for them, but CJ did have a few wide open looks to seal the game.

Wish Dame would've attempted a few more bombs, but that's the tricky thing with playing the Warriors. I think each time you get a chance to beat them, you're trying so hard to not f*** up cuz you know that there may not be another opportunity like this that you just overthink it. I see Harden do it all the time, though he has gotten a lot better about making the right play against them more often than not. Dame just sorta stopped "flowing" his normal way towards the end of that game and it cost em.

 

I think if Looney went against Draymond he would become obsolete, that's the real issue

EDIT: But Looney does have better touch around the basket so you may still have a point

 

Lillard played 43 minutes! He was exhausted and that's why he stopped "flowing" simple as that.

 

Ya it's tough man idk, always a bit unfair to keep asking guys like Lillard and Harden to just keep giving more when they carry so much of the load.

 

Warriors ball movement so much better without Durant.

Off ball plays for curry and klay seem to be more devastating than Durant isolations and post ups.

Makes you wonder if the rockets would have had a better shot with Durant lmao

 

I think we would've, but that really doesn't make a difference now lol.

 

GS is the best team in the West again, with or without KD and Cousins.

I hope that we tank for 2 to 3 years after the Harden era. Draft right. Build a team from within and hold on to those players. The Spurs and Warriors have shown the way to build a long lasting dynasty. Chasing expensive free agents is not the way to do it.

For now, we need to try to scrape together some supporting players and hope Harden plays like a God.

 

Look at the shot with 2:30 to go, as an example. Draymond is standing at the FT line and gets the ball. His defender comes up because he pulls up for a shot, and then he just throws it to the rim. Those shots are only possible because Draymond is willing to take those shots. No one has to guard the Rocket player in that spot, meaning the shot at the rim is not open.

 

Nobody is scared of draymond shooting jumpers. They actually want him to shoot over curry and klay taking jumpsuits.

The alley-pop from draymond to looney was primary created by how fearful teams are of curry shooting 3’s. They trapped him, he threw the slip to draymond, the blazers tried to rotate, but looney ran at the rim with draymond and created a 2 on 1 situation where draymond threw the alley to looney.

Realistically maybe the rockets should have ran a pick and roll with harden and pj tucker when they tried to trap harden, instead of capela, but pj’s finishing at the rim and his passing is suspect. Plus mda values pj as a corner 3 specialist over a playmaker.

 

Incomplete hypothesis.

The one you should really be asking is:

Is Looney against Green > Clint against Green?

 

dont compare the two its an insult to green. i hate draymond for his dirty plays but dude always shows up for his team. plays with heart and is always at the right place to make the right place (for both sides of the ball). we thought dude was toast but it just goes to show how we overrate stats and underrate high bball IQ and clutchness which shows us in big moments whos a winner and whos a pretender. GS got a team full of winners and high IQ guys we absolutely need more of on our team.

 

I don’t see anything the Blazers did which we didn’t do better

 

Looney dominated capela straight up. watch the games. every key momentum shifting play looney out hustled him or just made a smart play to give GS easy scoring extra possessions. capela not only wasnt helping he was making stupid decisions, choking and losing the game for us. aint even close comparison. morey needs to incorporate watching and studying playoff winners instead of studying stats all day or we end up with a team of capelas and flame out every year in the playoffs. we swap players and we couldve swept the warriors

 

You won't get as lucky as the Thunder did with building in the draft getting Durant, Westbrook and Harden and look how many championships that turned into.

As for the Spurs, find the Rockets as good a coach as Pop and we'll talk about building from within.

 

Sometimes I think the same.

 

This is absolutely the truth. Think back 30 years and all the teams that were competitive enough to win ships or get to the finals. The vast majority drafted and nurtured their stars. Tough decisions must be made to suck hard, and draft well. No guarantees now with new lottery system - ask the Knicks.

 

I said they have played well during the playoffs. Not 1 half of basketball. Lost there starting C and don't really have a "star" player. It6very impressive. Coaching, proper scheme and a Agood GM go a LONG ways.

 

So you see you in like 2030??

 

The Rockets' roleplayers aren't bad. Teams like the Warriors will always have better looking role players because their ball movement - and Curry running around in circles drawing attention - makes life easier for them. The Rockets' offense is designed to help the stars be great, but it does nothing to help out the role players.

The true difference in stars between Curry and Harden is what happens all over the court when they don't have the ball.

 

Lol

Guess you missed that run in the third where they scored 13 unanswered points on back breaking 3 after backbreaking 3 after backbreaking 3 after backbreaking 3