Westbrook out and Harden doubtful vs. the Jazz

[Zombie]

There were a LOT of iffy calls one way and noncalls the other, but honestly the Jazz looked a step slow on defense all game.

A lot of Utah's defense this year is predicated on getting set in the half court and that is harder to do when you miss a lot of threes and the other team bolts down the court- it's exactly the kind of thing that can lead to a big freethrow disparity.

That's what it seemed like to me anyway, bad offense leading to bad defense and so on. It also didn't help that we didn't really run much to counter the Rockets switching defense. For now I'm chalking this one up to guys just not getting up for this game, it happens.

 

[nateboz]

I have never said anything about his offense. He played terrible, so did pretty much everyone.

Today was his make or break game. The Jazz needed him and he wasn't there. If Quin has a dog house Mike should be sitting in it.

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[latin jazz]

He had 5 fouls in 25 minutes. That's a bad breakdown. His defense wasn't good.

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Conley was meh. At least he was disciplined on defense. To be fair, Joe & Royce were atrocious tonight. Couldn't stay in front of Rivers/Gordon. Committed dumb fouls navigating screens (also reaching). Were late on rotations. Even Thabo blew by Ingles a few times. A lot of film by Quin tomorrow morning.

 

[Jazz4ever]

I’ll bet we even lost the game on ESPN too... two losses on one night...

Was going to watch a little of that but saw Hayward and turned it off.

 

[prodigy]

Since Conley's return Joe has really cooled off

 

[Jingled]

So, why is everyone putting all the blame on Conley?. Yeah, he played erratically on offense but Joe or Royce should not be given a pass. Royce and Joe's perimeter defense on Gordon/Rivers was really bad tonight. Couldn't hit open 3s. Rudy was late to contest open jumpers too (particularly in the first half). Also, the refs were terrible (especially on Bradley). The team played tight and out of sync. Dumb TOs. Just an awful performance.

You're right, Joe and Royce played like ****, Rudy didn't have his best game, hell even Bogey and Donovan had a few boneheaded plays and weren't very good of defense. For the most part those guy's have all been amazing over this incredible run we've been on, winning 19 of 21 games. It would be extremely helpful if our highest paid player could step up and pick up the slack when some of our other guy's have a bad night. You can pretty much count the good games Conley's had this season on one hand.

 

[freakazoid]

We showed up expecting them to give us a win... they got hope and were loose so made a lot of shots... we missed a lot of shots and played flat out awful. We played lazy, stupid and selfish AF.

I didn't watch the game, but looking through the numbers, it looked like we should have won, until you see that they shot 49 effing free throws to Utah's 26.

Looks clear as day to me that Adam Silver doesn't want the Rockets falling too far behind. God forbid the league allow James Harden to get bounced in the first round.

Obviously Utah could have overcome the crookedness of a manipulated game had they played better, but every once in a while you see a game that should leave no doubt in anybody's mind that the NBA is not a 100% honest sport.

 

[nateboz]

Conley was meh. At least he was disciplined on defense. To be fair, Joe & Royce were atrocious tonight. Couldn't stay in front of Rivers/Gordon. Committed dumb fouls navigating screens (also reaching). Were late on rotations. Even Thabo blew by Ingles a few times. A lot of film by Quin tomorrow morning.

If he was a good defender I'd be ok with mediocre offense. He was defending Ben Mackelmore and 5'9" Chris Clemons. His defense should've been dominate over those scrubs. His defense was only ok on scrubs.

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[Handlogten's Heros]

Was going to watch a little of that but saw Hayward and turned it off.

We have better effort in that game than this one.

 

[nateboz]

Since Conley's return Joe has really cooled off

So has Clarkson and Royce. It's not his fault, however with Mudiay everyone was playing better.

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[Handlogten's Heros]

I didn't watch the game, but looking through the numbers, it looked like we should have won, until you see that they shot 49 effing free throws to Utah's 26.

Looks clear as day to me that Adam Silver doesn't want the Rockets falling to far behind. God forbid the league allow James Harden to get bounced in the first round.

Obviously Utah could have overcome the crookedness of a manipulated game had they played better, but every once in a while you see a game that should leave no doubt in anybody's mind that the NBA is not a 100% honest sport.

We didn’t make shots until garbage time... we came out of the gate completely unfocused. Any analysis from someone who didn’t watch is laughable... especially if it goes straight to conspiracy...silver has bigger things on his mind.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I'm going to try to write off the slow start due to emotions related to Kobe. The Rockets got it out of their system yesterday.