I would call beating a team 40-15 in the 4th qtr "miraculous". The Rockets won game 5 and 7 soundly winning by a combined 34 points. And then with the chips on the table the Rockets slapped the Clippers around on their home court for the entire 4th qtr. You can spin it anyway you want. Winning Game 3 and 4 "soundly" is the equivalent of bragging about a 15 game winning streak in the regular season, it looks pretty but who cares? The better team wins the important gamed soundly. Let me put it this way: You can have your game 3 and 4 wins and put them up against the Game 5, 6 and 7 wins (all double-digit wins) and I'll be comfortable in saying that those games are a better barometer of who the better team is then Game 3 and 4.
I don't get why Lowe is highlighting how irrelevant his opinion is to the reality of the NBA playoffs.
If you define "better" according to head-to-head win-loss record, yes. If you define better according to your honest prediction of which team would win a majority of games in a long series, maybe not.
well what other tie-breaking measure do they want??? I mean we had to win said division playing all teams four times in said division and all of which made the playoffs meaning on strength of schedule we likely had the harder run. ALL WITH JOEY EFFING DORSEY STARTING AT CENTER AT TIMES!! The only podcast worth listening too these days is clutch's i mean why would you bother, we could have swept the clippers and nobody would given us credit. media is a joke
My HONEST prediction is the Rockets would beat the Clippers in the majority of games in a long series. I would put my money on them in a long series after this series.
There were quite a few times where I had to turn around and ask, "wait a minute did McHale just out coach Doc Rivers?" I don't think by any means they just "played X's and O's" any better than us. Their wins came of insane performances from medicore players like Austin Rivers and Barrea, or best player on earth that day performances from Blake Griffin. And a healthy sampling of "oh yeah Dwight got two ticky tack fouls called on him within two minutes of the game starting." So, in summary, f*** the Clippers.
If this series continued for another 14 games the Rockets would win about 10 of the 14. Their excuse for not competing and losing 3 straight is fatigue. Here's the only hypo for Lowe's argument: if the Clippers had HCA with Chris Paul healthy and the Rockets hobbled, AND the Clippers had not gone through a 7 game series against the Spurs, AND the Clippers bench performed above expectations for the entire series, the starters would not have been fatigued and they would have won the series. I'm not convinced.
That's fine. Lowe disagrees, and that's fine also. It isn't something for which there is an obvious, right answer. Intelligent people can have different opinions.
Well, they play Horns. and they lost. Smith, Brew, Ariza, Jet, Pablo, Jones (I still have reservations about TJones though) all came up big. Their secondary people did not.
LOL what'd you lose money like 82% of the other idiots because you bought into the LA media/Espn hype machine? And why are you citing a 3 game sample? I watched 7 games and saw 4 wins. That's the sample.
No, it's actually true. It's Clippers fault that they were playing five legitimate players in playoffs, one of them - Crawford was supposed to miss the entire playoffs, it's their fault that they had to play Barnes, Rivers, 15M per year because of tax Hawes and Big Baby in WCSF. Listen, Barnes, Redick, Rivers and Crawford were 14/67 combined from 3-pt range in the last three games. That's a dead legs. But, if you are not smart enough to find a good trade acquisitions for Eric Bledsoe, screw you FLOP CITY
Intelligent people do disagree about meaningless things like that. I stand by we are the better team.
They had a 3 day break and still got their ass whooped. Didn't have the lead once in the game. Just got out played
Yep, and in the end of the day, who is the "better team" is rather meaningless. We care about who wins, and we care about our team being respected for winning. I think we're happy as long as we get those two things, and the more enlightened among us maybe don't even care about the second point.
If I can play ball at the rec for 2 hours a day I feel like a nba player who gets paid millions to play bball should be able to play 48 minutes of ball every other day 82/365 times a year. They actually play around 30-35 minutes to be realistic. I especially don't want to hear they had dead legs after a three day break. If I see 50 year old men playing ball everyday at the y, then I don't want to hear lebron b****ing about playing 28 minutes 82 times a year
I think ALL of us who actually watched 82 games this year did not recognize the team that lost those 2 games in LA . . . That's what gave me hope that we could come back. That we would rediscover who we were in game 5 and play well in 6 & 7. The dumbass hacks who know our team through sporadic National TV games and ESPN highlights once a week understandably could watch games 4,5 and think hey yeah - LA is by far the superior team and has exposed Houston. Those of us that truly watched all 82 and knew that 4 & 5 were an aberration knew we had a chance if we could get back to our regular season identity in 5-7. And here we are - the better team!!!!!
