Houston Must Be Pretty Bad If They Lost to Portland
Yea, give spurs credit for being on the verge of sweeping them. But Houston might be stuck with this first round clunker of a team for a long time. Never found Portland impressive at all. Aldridge went off, but he is back to being his typical inefficient self. And the rest of the team aside from Lillard is pretty meh. No ability to play defense at all. Rockets are in trouble.
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Harden and Howard were exposed big time.
No excuses for a team with the best center and the "best" SG (LOL) of the league getting eliminated by a pretender who is getting swept in the next round.
Why didn
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rockets were doomed from the second they gave harden the max.
not firing mcfail was the tombstone on their grave:banana: :banana:
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Portland are still a very good team. Spurs are just very good and exposed blazers lack of a bench.
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[QUOTE=All Net]Portland are still a very good team. Spurs are just very good and exposed blazers lack of a bench.[/QUOTE]
"Very good"? I don't really see it. They got nice pieces in Lillard and Aldridge, but they are never going to beat team in the playoffs that plays defense
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[QUOTE=Knicks2014champ]When u have Dwight coward on your team you deserve everything that comes to you that loser will never win anything[/QUOTE]
Dwight is the last player I would blame for them losing.
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It's about matchups. Portland has 2 guys the Rockets couldn't guard.
Meanwhile Houston would be able to man up the Spurs...
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Nah, Houston did just suck. Can't believe some people actually thought they were potential contenders :facepalm
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Doesn't work like that.
The playoffs are about match-ups. The team you get in the first round could be an infinitely more difficult match-up for your team than the team you get in the Conference finals.
But you know that already.
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[QUOTE=imdaman99]It's about matchups. Portland has 2 guys the Rockets couldn't guard.
Meanwhile Houston would be able to man up the Spurs...[/QUOTE]
parker would tear houston apart, and if houston couldnt even contain matthews and batum, i can only imagine what ginobli and the three point shooters on the spurs would do to them
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[QUOTE=SilkkTheShocker]"Very good"? I don't really see it. They got nice pieces in Lillard and Aldridge, but they are never going to beat team in the playoffs that plays defense[/QUOTE]
They won 54 games in the loaded West and got to the 2nd round in their first playoff run. Impressive for a young team. They just need to keep improving.
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problem is houston plays 4 on 5 constantly
on offense its because beverley is a dleague level player at best.
on defense its because harden doesnt even try. make that 3 on 5 since parsons doesnt try either.
than they have a disadvantage in coaching against every opponent.
cant win like that:confusedshrug: :confusedshrug:
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Rockets > Blazers, though.
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Lebron must be really bad to get flexed on by jj barea and Jason phuckin terry.:coleman:
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[QUOTE=All Net]Portland are still a very good team. Spurs are just very good and exposed blazers lack of a bench.[/QUOTE]
Lack of bench my ass