Houston Rockets Thread - Preseason vs Spurs (Friday)

Is Mchale the only coach in the NBA that refuses to foul? Either hack-a-whoever or down the stretch?

They go hack a Dwight/Dorsey/Capela and we do nothing. Could easily foul rondo every time too he makes some.

Got the W though. One game at a time.
 
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Hell felt like them putting Rondo back in the game sparked our comeback.

JSmith played skrong.
 
McHale calls for small ball....and it works :pimp: :pimp: Brewer, Smith, and eventually Terry were huge off the bench, and Ariza was clutch with those 3s. i think that one Terry 3 was key in igniting and run, along with stopping the Mavs' run. Smith had 12 boards, but #12 was probably the most important one, kept Dirk/Barea/some out of nowhere bum from hitting a 3 and switching up the momentum. Even Pretty Pablo got in on the fun :smokin Howard provided enough of a defensive presence to make up for the lack of offensive production, and minimal time on the court. The Western conference is crazy, and based on the fact that Harden and the Rockets players in general can't really rest and truly have to fight, that should make even more of a case for Harden as the MVP. Sure would be nice if Harden could sit out multiple 4th quarters and be a spectator, and not have to shower after games. Hmmmm.

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Dorsey SUCKS btw.
 
That small ball lineup was fun to watch and got us back in it.

Jet/Nick/Ariza/Harden/Smith

But Brewer came up big and that block and save from Josh was huge.

I. Love. This. Team.
 
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"They look like soccer players or pajamas. No wonder they suck."

-My 57 year old mom on the Thunder jerseys.
 
I'm LOVING these lobs/dives to the basket looks we're giving dwight. minimize the dump down, back to basket iso in the mid/upper block. only dump down if hes literally right on the low block or under the basket. if we can do this consistently…….uh oh

and Josh Smith's passing is so underrated.
 
He makes some great passes. However, he looks to make the amazing pass too often IMO, but you have to take the good with the bad with Smith.

agreed….but i take it knowing that our coaching doesn't really coach players tendencies granularly. If we had a great coach, we'd be able to dial in the right amount considering he's playing role player minutes. I'm mostly ok with it b/c he's not a starter though. we can pull him as needed, which McHale does do.
 
markangelo markangelo you were damn near spot on :lol: :pimp:

This game :pimp: of course since these are the Rockets, ya'll knew it would come down to the last 30 seconds :lol: liked how active Howard was, along with him getting some very easy baskets, something we need to get for him more often. Dorsey was very active as well, so props to him, though I still hate him. Smith brought you the best of both worlds, but thankfully the good overrode the bad. His passing and simply getting to the rim were great to see. He had a Dirk-looking fade-away that nearly brought me to tears :lol: Prig's defense and passing were great, but he's still skittish on offense. That TJones block on Singler :wow: :x Good to get that win on Nat'l TV. Hopefully that built more traction for Harden's MVP case.

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 Peep that Dirk fadeaway Smith did had me like 
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He's made that same shot like 3-4 other times since hes been here tho seems like its a shot he practices.

Ive seen Harden do it also 
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I couldn't believe he did that, it was so randomly at that time of the game :lol:

Here's our schedule for the rest of the season. Man, this seems so fast, like the season just started.

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Seems like we have to get 3 out of the 5.
 
Apparently Joey Dorsey and Josh Smith were at Social Junkie awhile ago :lol: I never heard of it til like early March when I randomly went. Those hotwings and mozzarella sticks were fire.
 
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