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Muddafuccin Freeboundz... And Masked Up Beard In Da Bubble [19-20 Rockets Season Thread]
I feel this way about this entire playoff run. Feels like a last dance.
2013 - 2019 was fun if not bittersweet in retrospect. I was fresh out of grad school starting my Corp career, so grinding all week but then getting to that weekend Rockets game and talkin title chances afterwards with the homies on our way to Engine Room, Elan, Grooves etc...
That was such a fun and now nostalgic time for me. That said, if we don't beat the Lakers... what's the point of this ultra small ball roster? Esp if Pringles is all but axed after
Playaz Eyez
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I wish Tilman was never hired. He feels like a guy that’ll drain this franchise dry and have us looking like the Knicks or Timberwolves. He doesn’t belong in professional sports in any way. Rockets need to win the title right now cause I feel like there’s gonna be some very dark post-Harden/Westbrook years ahead.
who_better_than_me
Time to go!!
Everyone he talks about his ventures or business, I just
.dude doesn’t look like he cares about the stuff he owns. Like Marc Cuban passionately cares. You can tell he’s just in it for the profits. I don’t hear any passion in his voice when he talks about his conpanys:
Playaz Eyez
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Everyone he talks about his ventures or business, I just
dude doesn’t look like he cares about the stuff he owns. Like Marc Cuban passionately cares. You can tell he’s just in it for the profits. I don’t hear any passion in his voice when he talks about his companies
Exactly. Sure, he’s done good stuff for University of Houston, but he is totally in over his head dealing with a pro sports franchise. He wants to be the face of the franchise when that should be the players. And he always comes off like a loudmouth arrogant goof every time he speaks. Either fall the hell back, or sell the team to somebody else.
Playaz Eyez
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It took Westbrook’s worst performance, and heroic efforts from Markieff Morris and Rondo for the Lakers to win after they ended being up 21 at one point. If Westbrook was simply average, this team is 2-0. They should get next game, but that takes cutting down on self inflicted stuff like the rapid fire turnovers (mostly from Westbrook). Rivers and Green need to be better as well. Rivers in particular was AWFUL in just a short amount of time. This is another case where your non-Harden minutes have to matter. Either you maintain, or extend while he sits. Plus with those double teams on Harden, Westbrook needs to be the star that he is, not a game-sinking pedestrian.
You say this like y'all didn't hit 22 threes (4th highest amount in NBA playoff history).
Kieff's 3-pt activity (4 out of 5) is easier to replicate than the Rockets getting this 3-pt production again in the series:
Tucker - 4 out of 7
RoCo - 4 out of 8
Gordon - 6 out of 12.
22 out of 53 as a team.
That doesn't bode well going forward.
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Playaz Eyez
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You HOPE it doesn’t bode well going going. Literally none of those is sustainable. Russ was terrible and Morris/Rondo played far above their normal output. It’s cut and dry.
Hey! Shut up there!
You're only seeing this from the perspective of what is in the best interest of your team - that's fine, I get it. But the reality is, one role-player stepping up and giving the Lakers an anomaly performance (like Kieff did) is more likely to occur, than the Rockets shooting 40+% from 3 as a team, in the remaining games.
It doesn't bode well for y'all, because even when you got that output from everyone, y'all still ended up losing. Y'all literally made the 4th-most three-point shots in NBA playoff history. What do you think will happen in the games when the regression hits?
Playaz Eyez
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You're only seeing this from the perspective of what is in the best interest of your team - that's fine, I get it. But the reality is, one role-player stepping up and giving the Lakers an anomaly performance (like Kieff did) is more likely to occur, than the Rockets shooting 40+% from 3 as a team, in the remaining games.
It doesn't bode well for y'all, because even when you got that output from everyone, y'all still ended up losing. Y'all literally made the 4th-most three-point shots in NBA playoff history. What do you think will happen in the games when the regression hits?
Thats the thing, the Rockets DON’T need that output from everyone to win, which is why that’s such an anomaly. Even with everything that went right for LA last night, they still damn near lost. Not seeing it just from the perspective on my team at all, I’m simply being logical and realistic, something you’ve never actually done in any discussion. Westbrook had the most embarrassing performance you could have, and were still right there in it. THAT doesn’t bode well for the Lakers. Morris was treated like Dort and basically got a free 14 points. Rondo was a positive for the first time in ages, in which Laker fans had been trashing him all season wanting him to stay off the court. To show how awful Westbrook was, it wouldn’t have even taken him an average game for them to win. He could’ve simply been subpar, and the Rockets win that far and away. Westbrook crippled them unbelievably, and being even subpar would’ve had a Rockets win. Smarter decisions from MDA as well, who I think is the biggest wildcard out of anybody. Is he going to actually adjust heading into the next game, or be stubborn and do the same things and get the same results just to try to prove a point? We’ll know these next games.
And how do you figure this, when the Rockets rely on 3-pt variance more than any other team, and had that in their favour last night, yet still lost?
The Lakers were on the receiving end of one of the largest 3-pt swings in NBA Playoff history, and yet somehow you came to the conclusion that everything went their way? I can't even possibly comprehend, nor do I want to, the shyt y'all Rockets fans are on to be this delusional after all these years.
It's like y'all overdosed on hope, and are now walking around like zombies.
There's absolutely nothing "logical and realistic" about your stance. You're perceiving all this from the waters of bias that you're willingly drowning yourself in, and coming up for air acting like you ain't wet.
For starters, this is who Russ is; he's an erratic, mutable, and incompatible factor, where these performances are the norm for him and not an outlier, especially given the fact that mitigation of his foibles aren't going to just magically happen given the circumstances of his health, form and seemingly decline. And again, you can't just automatically paint a picture of the differential being that if Russ played an average game, that, therefore, would mean the Rockets would win. The Rockets weren't still right there in it, based upon them having a normal outing, again, it seems I have to reiterate, they were on the apogee of 3-pt shooting to get them to that point.
22 made three-point shots; 4th-highest amount in NBA Playoff history; their first loss in 17 games when shooting above 40% from behind the arc.
If there's a regression toward the mean with their shooting next game, then Westbrook will have to produce more than just a good performance. Do you think he can keep the regularity of that up for nearly every single game for the rest of the series, given that he's shown absolutely no ability to be that consistent? What do you think will happen if the Rockets end up having a 3-pt outing at the other end of the spectrum, as they did in the '18 postseason when they missed 27-straight threes?
Ask yourself, how many times in the past four postseasons, have you come away from a game and thought to yourself, if only D'Antoni made smarter decisions?
It's like y'all Rockets fans have a sudden onset of amnesia every time the playoffs roll around every season.
@Playaz Eyez
Before Game 2, the Rockets were 16-0 this season when shooting 40+% from behind the arc. They're now 16-2. And Westbrook had a good performance, and they still lost.
Like I said - it doesn't bode well going forward.
Before Game 2, the Rockets were 16-0 this season when shooting 40+% from behind the arc. They're now 16-2. And Westbrook had a good performance, and they still lost.
Like I said - it doesn't bode well going forward.
Playaz Eyez
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@Playaz Eyez
Before Game 2, the Rockets were 16-0 this season when shooting 40+% from behind the arc. They're now 16-2. And Westbrook had a good performance, and they still lost.
Like I said - it doesn't bode well going forward.
I also mentioned we’ll see if MDA will make adjustments or continue to do exactly what I think he’ll do, and he’s definitely done the latter. He’s a total sham of a coach and I feel bad for anyone that actually defends his decisions. It’s 100% of to the players on this roster to make a move, cause them winning will have nothing to do with him.
ShoryukenHaduken
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did daniel house get suspended for trying to sneak a girl in?