No Kobe
No Blake
This isn't a Timberwolves game?
>>65254377
Rockets fan here.
LGTSS
>>65254415
>>65254415
Watching on Root Sports, so I get Bill Worrell, Clyde Drexler, and Calvin Murphy.
>>65254427
Yeah, there's not much reason to be optimistic just going by the win-loss comparison, but that's why they play the games.
>>65254448
They just feel so much worse..
>Harden goes from just enough to women's high school tier defense
>the state of Dwight's body
>Ty Lawson
>>65254471
Can't deny that.
That said, we at least got J-Smoove back, and he's helping as much as he did last year. That's a good thing, right?
Anyone else here think Harden/Howard vs Durant/Westbrook in NBA Jam would be an awesome matchup?
>>65254494
>>65254551
Welp, whatever, I'm not gonna throw a pity party about the team. I'm just gonna watch and enjoy what I can of them.
Beverley vs Westbrook, who throws the first punch, /sp/?
anyone else think the thunder can beat the warriors if durant and westbrook go absolutely ham and just iso as much as possible. They have the talent and athleticism to beat any of the warriors defenders 1 on 1 and they got so much length and size on defense.
>>65254642
Iso ball doesn't work look at Lebron
>>65254642
So your saying that Durant and Westbrook both have to have their best game of the season to have a shit at beating the warriors? Yeah not gonna happen
>>65254674
cleveland and the spurs both got btfo trying to move the ball as much as possible the warriors are just way too good at switching and hedging on screens and PnRs
my theory is minimal movement and forcing the defender to contest with no help would favour a team with as much pure talent on offense like the thunder
>>65254706
That would only work in regular season games. If they tried that in a 7 game series the Thunder would get BTFO.
You're basically playing into the Warriors favor if you want to have a chucking contest.
>>65254618
westbrook
>>65254753
Would not surprise me.
A3ZA
>>65254706
The Warriors don't play like that though. The help defense will come on the iso if your just playing through two players. Hell Durant and Westbrook will get tired
>>65254735
then what the fuck else is there, you cannot move the ball against them, i dont even need to look up the stats to know they are top 3 if not 1st in possesions per game, fastbreak points and points off turnovers. They get like 15-20 points a game from ridiculously easy layups and dunks from transitions and turnovers.
The cavs took 2 games off them by playing tight defense and eating up shot clock and getting good shots consistently.
Singler/Durant just got BODIED by a WHO
>Its a Harden episode
End 1.
29-22 Rockets.
>>65254801
Face anon you can't beat them in 7 games
I thought originally JB would not get many wins being a young coach, but he has some talent and the players have responded well to him.
>>65254855
s-shut up its possible
Good defense by the Rockets, to force a shot-clock violation!
thanks smiff
>tfw don't feel the magic from last season
>tfw Brewer and Smith will probably never lead the Rockets on a historic comeback in this year's playoffs
I can only hope the Rockets get the 6th seed so they avoid Dubs/Spurs.
When you push the ball upcourt, you force defenders and refs to make decisions, so you get more calls. Seems to work well most of the time.
OKC doesn't look good
>>65254947
Especially being at home
I've gotta admit, the Rockets are playing good team defense in this game so far.
>>65254994
if only they could do it all season
>>65255015
Agreed, their inconsistency has been MADDENING.
It explains the ~.500 record, at least.
>>65254855
I think >>65254801 has a point. Think about how Lebron was able to take two games and then realize that he was fucking terrible on jumpshots. If Durant took control and hit an adequate number of jumpshots, and Westbrook did some stuff, they could win.
AND, Serge is basically Tristan Thompson with a jumpshot, so the paint wouldn't be clogged like with the Cavs.
no contact, Haren getting FTs literally because he missed a layup
dwight throws the first hit
Strange ghost technical called on Dwight; is a brief hug after the whistle a foul now?
Lol kyle singler is such a fuccboi. How is the dude even in the NBA?
I like that foul
>>65255077
he used to be a 3 and D guy with the Pistons, then the 3 disappeared
the thunder wishing they could touch harden without getting fouled
Hack-a-Howard in effect.
>>65255098
well they could have if they didnt trade him
>>65255120
kek
>>65255120
surprised they didnt foul dwight when he got the steal
>all these free throws
the last minute of game time has seriously been like 8 real minutes
>>65255153
Happens all the time in the NBA, and it's been like that for decades.
>>65255120
>implying it would have worked
Harden needs the ball in his hand. Also the egos would have killed the locker room
>>65255153
yeah it sucks
but there shouldn't be a guy on the floor that can not shoot a basketball
Halftime.
58-55 Rockets.
>>65255163
I've never seen a game like this. It isn't even half time and it's being treated like the last 2 minutes of game 7 in the NBA Finals.
>>65255184
Nah dude, this isn't anything like that.
Teams fight a LOT harder in the playoffs for that extra point or two here and there, and they'll do ANYTHING to get those points, sometimes even rules be damned.
That's that playoff intensity people talk about; it's a whole 'nother animal than what you see in the regular season.
>>65255153
The only decent solution I have would be to have a player foul out at 4 or 5 fouls. And I still dont like that idea.
>>65255184
Drumond shot like 38 FTs a little over a week ago against Houston and most of them were in one quarter
there was a guy for the Rockets who had 5 fouls in nine game seconds
you have 20 minutes to name a worse defensive big man than Enes Kanter.
>>65255326
hibbert
>>65255326
kevin love
Refs blowing the whistle a lot to start the 2nd half.
>>65255326
bargnani
>>65255384
they have relaxed now so far
Harden almost threw it away
Ejected???
Dafuq is with calling another tech on Dwight?!
awww crap
how is that not a flagrant on Beverley
Westbrook tagged Brewer in the face, and he should get a flagrant foul for it!
call it evenly refs
>>65255469
he was trying to make a play on the ball, that's not a flagrant
Clean foul on Beverley, but definitely a foul on Westbrook on Brewer.
>>65255469
it looked like a regular hard foul
any webm or gif on westbrook brewer foul?
>>65255500
I dont have it
glad they didn't call because Adams can't shoot it but Beverley elbowed Adams in the face fighting through the screen
need to get Westbrook out and let the game cool down, the fucking thug Beverley is out for blood
>>65255542
Maybe Russell shouldn't be a little faggot then. He's fouling and throwing elbowsm
>>65255542
Westbrook's every bit as much of a hood rat on the court; Bev just gets more reputation calls on himself.
>>65255542
Be isn't interested in blood. He likes knees.
>>65255555
>>65255558
Beverley has been a dirty piece of shit since he played at Arkansas, he is flat out dirty. It's not intensity, it's not a misunderstanding, the guy is fucking garbage.
>>65255542
Westbrook is equally a nig as much as Beverley, but Westbrook is more talented to it's tolerated more.
>>65255558
>>65255585
Westbrook is a hothead, but Beverley is a calculated piece of shit. It's like comparing manslaughter to murder.
>>65255598
only the guy committing manslaughter keeps getting away with it
>Westshit tripping himself
OK this is getting out of hand
>>65255583
>>65255598
Not like y'all are gonna convince anyone here and now of that.
Enjoy that intensity, guise!
>>65255616
pretty much mirrors the Waiters foul on Harden earlier.
who pays one hundred dollars for a wallet?
>>65255633
That's why I said this is getting out of hand, these refs suck.
>>65255653
That wallet better be packed FULL of features for that price.
Waiters you dumbass
The fix is in
Waiters mouthing off 'cause he thought the refs were on his side.
Dumbass kid.
still mad harden didnt take a shot sooner
>>65255326
Jahlil Okafor
>>65255716
Well with Dwight being ejected for BS and no calls on OKC, he assumed he'd get a call.
End 3rd.
89-83 Thunder.
>>65255716
every time I get an ESPN alert on my phone I hope it's going to tell me that Waiters has been traded
>>65255725
top kek
>>65255724
no 3rd quarter collapse
I want Harrell to be NBA ready, he'd be great for situations like this.
>>65255754
Agreed, he's a big enough body that he could keep Kanter et al off the block. TJones and Capela can't quite do that.
>>65255766
Well also he has enough spring to get a rebound and get a put back dunk AND SHIT IN THEIR THROATS
>>65255785
MOAR PLZ
I like the way you think anon!
What's up with OKC's defense? It seems like they've been in constant 100+ point games lately.
score the lay up
>>65255820
Roberson is injured, so that means Waiters and Morrow are playing more and they can't into defense.
AHAHAHAHA
dont tell me bev is injured again
>>65255864
Looked like he rolled his ankle on Kanter's foot.
Seriously Ty can't see??? How is that not treated?
is kyle singler elite?
HARDEN!
>>65255875
he gets a lot of shit because he doesn't look like an NBA player, but he's an adequate role player. He's an above average defender and he used to be a good shooter. Hopefully it's just a confidence thing and his shooting form returns.
Capela with the and-1!
need some stops
borat gonna get a double double
>beverlel
This game has been a disaster since Dwight got ejected. Such a bullshit ejection too. Oh well on to the next
welp, that's game
>>65255950
Yeah, this game's integrity is definitely suspect.
>>65255950
Howard was -7 even when he was in, Rockets fell apart after hack-a-Howard
just let thornton chuck a few threes
refs trying to keep this game interesting
its not over yet
who /Lakers/ here
now its over...
My dick.. pls stop CP3
Today I will remind them
>>65254377
Roy Hibbert isn't on the pacers anymore?
