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Pops team was beating them.
-No weak links on defense: Always have 5 average to above average defensive players that can switch 1 through 5 (that means no Pau Gasol, no Patty Mills, no Tony Parker, no Forbes).
-Have three pt shooters: It is what it is. You aren't beating this team without shooters. Houston won two games this series shooting under 40% just because they chucked threes. It might not be pretty but is what it has to be done. Spurs lack a lot of volume three pt shooters. You just can't have so many perimeter players that can't shoot like Tony, Murray and Anderson.
Rockets almost pulled it off (and probably do it if Paul doesn't get hurt) by basically playing just 6 guys (Gerald Green didn't play all that much before the Paul injury), and playing sub par offense. The first team that manages to duplicate Houston's defensive effort, while having a bigger rotation and an offense that creates three pts looks out of better ball movement should be able to beat a Warriors team that will have to be exhausted, next season, after 4 straight final appearances.
Should Kawhi stay here, I don't see why the Spurs can't be that team. But for that to happen, Pop and RC need to get their heads out of their asses and get done.
It's pretty much what many of us have been saying all along, just hope that the rest catches up after seeing this series. I'm still reading fans asking for more bigmen to play alongside Aldridge, LOL.
Pops team was beating them.
Rockets lost
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They played Ryan Anderson has Curry went off and he’s due 40M over the next two years as well. But yes, adding some additional wings that can occasionally shoot some 3’s is probably a good idea.
Missing 27 straight 3 pointers isn't the recipe for beating anyone.
And they still were right there. They make just 25% of those threes and they win the series. Which shows you just how good the reasoning was.
HOU wins this game with CP3 tbh. They wouldn’t have been chucking 3’s repeatedly like morons in that 2nf half if they have their QB out there to run the show. Shot 7/44 from 3... my god. Worse than the C’s last night. Unreal.
In in other news, Warriors are the luckiest team in professional sports history.
GS: our chuckers are more numerous and better than your chuckers.
Paul injury just ed it all up for them. Anderson was never meant to play. He was played just to give other folks a breather and all broke lose. Just goes to show you how you can't have defensive liabilities on today's NBA.
Last edited by DAF86; 05-28-2018 at 10:57 PM.
Not really. After Curry, Durant and Thompson their next best players are Green, Iguodala, Livingston, Bell and Looney. Neither guy can shoot threes at a good clip.
You are probably never getting a shooting trio as good as Curry, Thompson and Durant, but you can make up for it by having more guys overall that can make threes.
The recipe for beating GS was CP3. The second he went down, Houston became a 3 point chucking team just like they have been for the last three years under James Frauden's leadership. They were only in this game because GS was putrid in the 1st half. Houston should have built up a 20+ point lead by halftime.
CP3 wouldn't have been enough without that switching flexible defense that forced GS to go one on one so much, tbh.
And yeah, ideally you would have 2 star perimeter players, but around them you need shooters.
Rockets-ball is not winning ball.
Damn - so Morey gave 60M and killed their flexibility for a player that should never see the court? YIKES!
Pop needs to pull another 2003 (beating a dynasty after another team softened it up), tbh.
I don't agree one bit. Trying to beat Golden State by running and chucking 3's is not the way to beat them. In fact, that's a sure way to lose to them. Like someone else mentioned, the Spurs have the formula to beat them, they just didn't have the personnel this season.
Good thing D'antoni didn't stubbornly double up on that mistake and forced that player into the rotation, so that his team could have the best chance possible of going all the way, tbh.
He actually did. Ryan Anderson played 8 minutes in the third and was a huge reason Curry went off and their lead was gone. Now he’s due 40M over 2 years
HOU was a very well built team, but they are in a BRUTAL spot moving forward. They should still be very good IF they can keep them together, but they have virtually no chance for improvement unless they dump Anderson which will likely take some serious assets to do.
HOU has to pay CP3, Clint, Ariza, Luc, Gerald Green. If they lose any of those guys, they don’t have money to replace them. It will be interesting to see what Morey can pull off and for people that complain about Pau/Mills, Ryan Anderson’s deal is 10x worse as far as killing the cap/flexibility and Mills was at least a positive player.
Morey's a genius, but giving a white American basketball player that contract in today's league was one of the worst moves I've ever seen
Sure, the way to beat them is with the strategy that lost 10 of the last 15 games against them.
Lol idiot. Todays nba shoots 24 consec threes and misses.... lol terrible product,
Houston will probably trade Ryan Anderson so they can make room for Lebron in the offseason.He actually did
And they would have had a 20 point lead if the refs had called the 3 BLATANTLY OBVIOUS fouls on Harden 3s. That 9-point swing to GSW courtesy of the refs was disgusting.
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