Playoffs 2017: WC First Round - Houston Rockets (3) vs Oklahoma City Thunder (6)

Post #481 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:05 am

Russ...come on

NaturalThunder · Post #482 » by **NaturalThunder** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:06 am

The decision to foul up three was correct. Doing it so early and doing it in the backcourt was incredibly stupid.

Post #483 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:06 am

Get robes out of there.

Post #484 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:09 am

Lucky. Very lucky.

NaturalThunder · Post #485 » by **NaturalThunder** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:10 am

Still a very poor 4th quarter. Russ was great overall, but he nearly cost us with poor FT shooting and by fouling too quickly and in the backcourt with a 3 point lead and less than 10 seconds to go.

Post #486 » by **Dadouv47** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:11 am

When we win, we think we got it and play bad the next game.

Russel Westbrook being so mad at himself is really powerful. That's the right mindset. It will be difficult to win on sunday but we need to play better on those clutch situations.

spearsy23 · Post #487 » by **spearsy23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:11 am

*Insert if harden made his teammates better comment here.*

Post #488 » by **Dadouv47** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:12 am

Taj Gibson made the difference. Donovan made some great adjustments. He was coaching the team perfectly before the 4th quarter. Some crazy stuff after that

Pillendreher · Post #489 » by **Pillendreher** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:12 am

Thank God. Now let's tie it on Sunday.

spearsy23 · Post #490 » by **spearsy23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:13 am

Robes was spectacular again. If he could shoot 33 effing percent on threes and 70% from the line he's be a 20 million dollar player

spearsy23 · Post #491 » by **spearsy23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:14 am

[quote"Dadouv47"]Taj Gibson made the difference. Donovan made some great adjustments. He was coaching the team perfectly before the 4th quarter. Some crazy stuff after that

[/quote]
You don't get credit when your biggest adjustment is playing your second best player more than twenty minutes per game.

Post #492 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:19 am

Taj is a keeper. Presti needs to get over his love of kids and sign him.

Pillendreher · Post #493 » by **Pillendreher** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:19 am

spearsy23 wrote:*Insert if harden made his teammates better comment here.*

'See! His supporting cast is good'

NaturalThunder · Post #494 » by **NaturalThunder** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:19 am

spearsy23 wrote:[quote"Dadouv47"]Taj Gibson made the difference. Donovan made some great adjustments. He was coaching the team perfectly before the 4th quarter. Some crazy stuff after that

You don't get credit when your biggest adjustment is playing your second best player more than twenty minutes per game.[/quote]
This.

Tonight was Gibson's 26th game with the Thunder. It took 26 freaking games and being down 0-2 in a playoff series for moron coach to figure out that maybe he should play our second best player more than 20 minutes.

Post #495 » by **Dadouv47** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:19 am

spearsy23 wrote:[quote"Dadouv47"]Taj Gibson made the difference. Donovan made some great adjustments. He was coaching the team perfectly before the 4th quarter. Some crazy stuff after that

You don't get credit when your biggest adjustment is playing your second best player more than twenty minutes per game.[/quote]

Line up with Taj at the 5, Roberson at the 4 and Mcbucket and Abrines on the floor worked perfectly (only lasted for a couple of minutes).

Post #496 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:21 am

spearsy23 wrote:*Insert if harden made his teammates better comment here.*

Harden was good but he's no George hill.

NaturalThunder · Post #497 » by **NaturalThunder** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:22 am

I don't know why I keep reading the GB. Because of one game, a pretty much do-or-die home playoff game down 0-2 where our supporting cast finally showed up, Rockets fans are preaching "put the whole 'Westbrook has bad teammates' thing to rest."

NaturalThunder · Post #498 » by **NaturalThunder** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:22 am

Knrstz wrote:
spearsy23 wrote:*Insert if harden made his teammates better comment here.*

Harden was good but he's no George hill.

We would've won by 15 tonight and we'd be up 2-1 in the series if we had George Hill instead of Westbrook.

spearsy23 · Post #499 » by **spearsy23** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:22 am

Through three playoff games our second leading scorer is Andre Roberson and he's hitting almost 50% of his threes...

Post #500 » by **Dadouv47** » Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:23 am

Yeah, put Rondo instead of harden and they win easily. So many good shooters around him.