Clutchfans be Thirsty

[Chinook]

Yeah, after seeing more replies to that thread, that seems to be the case. It's really pathetic on their part. Who gives a if Sean talks about your team. I'd rather not hear a commentator talking about the Spurs if they're just going to say generic or incorrect .

It's also pathetic that they think Harden going off had little to do with the Spurs D. It's like they didn't watch the team change their scheme and neutralize him during their comeback. That Houston has lost two big leads in a row against SA simply because the Spurs decided to try should be much more disheartening to them than it seems to be. A focused Spurs team would run train on them.

[will_spurs]

It's also pathetic that they think Harden going off had little to do with the Spurs D. It's like they didn't watch the team change their scheme and neutralize him during their comeback. That Houston has lost two big leads in a row against SA simply because the Spurs decided to try should be much more disheartening to them than it seems to be. A focused Spurs team would run train on them.

Some of the posters there see that but same as here most of the participants are rather casual fans who just happen to come from Houston or live in Houston, so they buy fully into the narrative that "shots don't fall" seemingly in a vacuum. In their view nobody ever shuts Harden down: he was tired, his shot wasn't falling, he had no help from his teammates, opponent got lucky, refs suck, etc.

[Horse]

Been trying to figure out how bad Sean is as a commentator. Lucky, Clutch Fans was there for me. It seems like the main problem they have with him is that he doesn't give Harden enough credit when they play. I don't personally see that as a problem. I think he talked plenty about Harden, but the biggest reason why Houston was carving the Spurs up was their own poor D, and Elliott harped on that.

Why exactly does Sean have such a bad reputation? I think he is biased, but he is usually tongue-in-cheek when he sees the Spurs get away with something rather than blatantly in denial that it happened. Like I watched the Warriors game last night, and the commentators watched a video where Klay clearly reached over and slapped an Atlanta player in the face, then they responded with, "All I see if that guy go down without being touched". I feel like Sean would have said, "Well we don't need to see that replay again," or "Yeah, he got with that hand there."

There are definitely more neutral teams out there, but Sean seems like a good balance between being an unabashed Spurs fan and a guy who is good at articulating what he sees (and illustrating it).

The ninja is the man. I hate when we have national televised games and cant hear the home feed.

[Chinook]

Harden is easily #1 in assisted points created. When you add that number with points per game, Harden is #1 in the league over Westbrook.

Kawhi Leonard isn't even listed in this assisted points created rank. He's not even #1 on his own team (Tony Parker is).

The narrative that Leonard is a 2-way player while Harden isn't is incredibly misleading. Leonard doesn't have even remotely the playmaking skills that Harden/Westbrook/LeBron has. It's an element that's really missing from his game, and the media isn't penalizing him for it.

Harden's offensive value alone might actually be superior to Leonard's total value even with defense added.

Holy .

[Joseph Kony]

Rockets fans

[UZER]

Holy .

So 39 points doesn't count because it's not pretty and the media doesn't penalize him the it?

As stupid as that is, that's kind of exactly what they do. He doesnt make highlight plays for sports center. I'm not voting for him.

[DMC]

we had a 50 page thread about TOSB kirilenko

Same 3 people multi-trolling each other tbh fwiw AFAIK IIRC

[spurraider21]

So 39 points doesn't count because it's not pretty and the media doesn't penalize him the it?

As stupid as that is, that's kind of exactly what they do. He doesnt make highlight plays for sports center. I'm not voting for him.

Pretty sure he made some sportscenter highlights in the rockets game

[jsandiego]

Does anyone have the actual plays and results when Harden was guarded by Kawhi?

[pookenstein]

If Kawhi gets MVP, no, wait. Scratch that: after Kawhi is named MVP I bet the General Population of Houston is cut in half. What an epic meltdown at clutchfans.