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Phreak50 wrote:Good win given we were down 13pts with 4:30 to play.

Lots of comments about Rockets simply having an off night and yeah they missed some wide open shots but we also defended them quite well.

Kawhi was real good at times and sloppy at others. Aldridge was pretty good, we are much better when he is playing inside out as I said the other day. Mills is superb. The big story for me was Danny Green. He didn't score a lot but hit some big shots and even if he missed those shots toward the end of the game, the positive he was confident enough to take them in the clutch. One on the fastbreak pullup and the other he didn't have much room or time to get it off. Great to see!

I said in the General board yesterday that no one wants the Rockets first round and they are proving that. Harden is surprisingly a great distributor, he just demands so much attention and then deserves a lot of credit because some of his passes take a lot of skill and vision. And the Rockets run some really good plays. Those baseline drives and swing to the corner three aren't by accident, they actually set some great off the play screens for their corner shooters.

Good analysis. I definitely saw the hesitation from Kawhi last night. I wish in these games we'd punish the other team for having no post defenders. It really would have made the game a whole lot easier. We took far too many midrange shots against a team that had Nene and Ryan Anderson manning the rim.

I know imagump mentioned that he thinks Aldridge doesn't know his role and I think while that continues, it is also throwing Kawhi off his game and has done so for over a month. He too often isn't sure when to shoot or pass lately and it's not good for his offense. Career high 7 turnovers and quite a lot lately where he drives into a stacked paint, hesitates and fakes and is putting his teammates in bad positions (at times, because other times he is actually making a smart pass leading to a bucket).

I still think the front office should be exploring LMA trades.