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Westbrook out and Harden doubtful vs. the Jazz

NUMBERICA said:
Not only do we need to learn to play against it, the Jazz need figure out how to DO it, especially since that might work better against it.
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The Jazz played against it fine, they just missed shots again and had some really bad open court TOs. The game was a fluke.
 
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Ujfanatic said:
The far bigger concern here is this: the Jazz cannot beat the Rockets. Their style of play neutralizes many of our team’s strengths. We have seen it the last few years and this game was no different. Their iso ball limits the impact of Gobert and requires our perimeter defenders to play smart 1 on 1 defense. Unfortunately, our defenders have proven time and time again to be unable to do so. In fairness, that’s also true with most teams in the league.

What was truly disappointing though was the team didn’t have a better offensive strategy for Houston’s small ball. The tallest person in their starting lineup was 6’7, but their defensive intensity was off the charts. Quin better figure out a better game plan for that because if not I’m guessing a lot of other teams are going to give it a try against us as well.
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The Jazz shot 50% from the field. Their offensive gameplay (other than really bad TOs) was fine. Missed shots happen. There was just a lot of huge momentum swings where the Jazz would miss something easy on one end, then give up something easy on the other.
 
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I've been commenting on game threads here for what, 3 years I think. You can count on one hand the number of times I've even come close to blaming a loss on the refs.

Hell @nateboz can be my witness. He knows how many times I've responded to him saying it's not the refs we're just not playing well.

This time was different and you're damn right I'm gonna say it.

If that makes me a sniveling conspiracy theorist then whatever lol
 
This was just a really strange game. A lot of really weird unforced turnovers, tons of missed wide open shots, only 2 offensive rebounds against a team that never played anyone over 6'6, no one could stay in front of their man on the perimeter. The whole team just seemed really unfocused, like their heads just weren't in it.
 
SoUjazzfan said:
While I agree there were too many fouls called, and the majority obviously favored Houston, there were multiple times rockets got to the rim uncontested. Our close outs were soft, rebounding was soft and the follow up dunk by house was ridiculous. No excuse for that. We just weren't giving the effort necessary to nullify what they wanted to do. We looked past them. Scheduled win was our mindset and it bit us in the ***.
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Dallas game too. As long as teams get Rudy out of the paint, they can basically drive to the basketball and get free buckets at will. Our perimeter D sucks this year and we don't really have anyone else who can close out behind Rudy. At this point, I'd try some zone D. Close down the paint. Force those guys shoot threes and live/die with it.
 
Jingled said:
This was just a really strange game. A lot of really weird unforced turnovers, tons of missed wide open shots, only 2 offensive rebounds against a team that never played anyone over 6'6, no one could stay in front of their man on the perimeter. The whole team just seemed really unfocused, like their heads just weren't in it.
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The crowd was also totally dead, too. Completely. Like, I get the Kobe thing, but act alive. The crowd is a huge part of the psychology of the game. When you’re playing stuck in mud, it takes a while to build momentum to wake the crowd up to start to feel like you’re actually putting it together. I get that the team should show the crowd something to get them excited, but I wish collectively we could turn on the juices to kick start this stuff in situations like last night.
 
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