Rockets 103 - Clippers 106 - This one's on Rick.

I get trusting your vets but in a 4 games in 5 nights stretch u need to rest em.
Win or loose, keeping miller and scola in so long is begging for an injury.

Not going to put the blame on Rick for this loss. As much as I love to see Patterson and Dragic play, they commit a lot of fouls, getting the rockets in the penalty. I think more than the 4 games in 5 nights excuse, the law of physics caught up. Credit to del Negro for going big and having kaman and jordan playing several minutes together. Houston can just not match up with that length in the front court. The clips exposed our greatest weakness and kaman shot the ball out of his mind. We were 3 pt dogs going into this game, and I expect us to be 5-6 pt favorites vs indiana

start to come along to the idea of playing the youngsters. So many people are counting games as wins when games like last night’s really only prove that if you’re the Rockets the only consistent thing you have is inconsistency.

Why is T-Will on the bench?? For him not to get a single minute on the 4th game in 5 nights speaks volume of something happening off the court between them.

Maybe Adelman has a secret Twitter account and follows T-Will’s stupid tweets and RT’s….

but watching Miller on both ends of the floor was painful. He has lost a step and a step was about all he ever had. If you break the numbers down I don’t see how playing Thabeet could have been any worse. My math skills have never been great, but someone will have to show me how he could have made the score any worse.

have to make a decision on whether or not to pick up Thabeets contract through next year? Its a nice sum of money and how can they make a decision, if he doesnt play. How much of the system do you have to know to be able to stand in the paint (while not getting a 3 second call) and block/alter lay-ups and dunks? I saw a little bit of Thabeet in college but I dont follow UCONN so its not like I have every game he played. I dont know where he is, skill wise, and I think he should’ve seen some minutes during the Portland game when we were up by 17 with 5 minutes to go.

You guys can apologize to me whenever you want.

Remember, he did the same thing in the blowout against the Nets. It took him a really long time to figure out that he should remove the starters during a “blowout” in the 4th Quarter – once again on a back-to-back when we were going up against a very explosive New Orleans team the next night.

About 5 minutes left in the 4th, I was yelling at my TV: “Free T-Will!” a la thedreamshake.com. I was also hoping to see other guys get on the court to rest our starters.

But from reading the recap and looking at the boxscore, I just see a team that’s been playing well over a fairly tough stretch, and finally dropped one at the end because they were tired. Disappointing, but I had hoped to go at least 2-1 over that three game stretch, and we won the two difficult games, which were also more important when it came to playoff positioning. Just have to get some rest, and make sure we beat the Pacers. If we lose to them, then we have a problem with our playoff hunt. But not after this one.

As for T-Will? I can’t comment on Chase’s or Martin’s play (they don’t seem to have played well), but I will observe that Lee got lots of minutes and I am less than pleased with Williams’s after-game reaction. Seriously, T-Will needs to get Adelman or maybe his mom to go out there and confiscate his Blackberry for the rest of the season.

maybe young, with an upbeat approach to the game head coaching prospect that could be a possibility for this squad next year? I think a true rebuild would need to mean a parting of ways with RA.

assuming we package a deal to move up to a higher pick to snag someone we really like. When I look at the holes needed to be filled I dont see what we need the most, which is a quality big man prospect that we can build around moving forward. Other than that our next need seems to be @ SF. Some interesting names I see are Derrick Williams and Terrence Jones or if we really could reach maybe Perry Jones. I thought those might be players at positions we might want to trade up for, but if we hung out around 14-16 it seems like Jordan Hamilton might be able to be had and he seems to have potential to be a very good NBA player. Anyone else that you thnk we might target come draft time?

I agree with all your points. Great post, Xiane.

I see people getting heavily bashed (even by creators of the board) for writing a SIDE post that seems slightly repetitive, like a “How do we trade for NeNe?” or “We need to blow this team up!” post and yet, here yalll are posting up the same old stuff about situations you don’t understand. I read the first paragraph and I know what the rest is; Adelman only played Lee blah amounts of minutes, why didn’t Patterson stay in the game longer, Brad Miller! Get that geyser out of the game! Listen, if you want the level of intelligent communication to be raised, then raise the level of the conversation. I love TheDreamShake, but honestly I hate that I have to avoid the majority of the comments because of repetitive banter and hypocritical bashing. I honestly wouldn’t respond/care about this at all, but Rockets fans are supposed to be the classiest (basically means we have a level head), very loyal, and smart. And most importantly, this site is shown as a feed on Sports.Yahoo.com/NBA. That’s a big deal and we are representatives of a team.
Winning three out of four in five nights is the most you can ask for this team. It’s obvious the guys were tired, but go back and watch the game again. Look at the squad that was on the floor when our bench players were in and you’ll see why their PERs were so high. Losing by three to a (truly) youthful and rested group after four games in five nights? It’s nice our expectations have risen, but this one isn’t on Adelman; It’s on the limits of the human body.

Look who is finally able to remember the password to his Dream Shake account…

I agree with the post for the most part. Rick definitely did not help the team when he flat out refused to sub tired starters in the 3rd. He seems to be set in his rotations, not realizing that we have interchangeable parts. Hill or Pat Squared should have been used on Kaman when he went all 2009 on us, or when DeAndre was out-athletisizing us for his hometown crowd. We could have used T-Will to relieve Air Bud as well.

I don’t subscribe, however, to the belief that ’Sheem could have helped. Remember, he & Dragic have not practiced, and even though Dragic can get by because he can dribble and shoot, ’Sheem can do neither, and will need a lot more time. A Jordan Hill sighting would have been more appropriate in this case.

Mo, Kaman, Adelman, and as luck would have it, a freshly off the IR Gordon helped secure a loss that will haunt us at the end of the season.

Random side note: The Rockets are 4-8 when Pat Squared shoots under 50% from the field.

USA teams really reshape what a player does in the NBA. Gordon is a prime example of the effect of a strong mentality.

If only he would realize his best asset is his creating and not shooting. Im just not sure how he fits in RJ’s offense which needs the wings to shoot or cut pretty much.

Read my fanpost and you will know why.
http://www.thedreamshake.com/2011/3/2/2025144/i-wanted-thought

i though he was gettin to many mins and bud should get a few more with battier bein so much older and lacking offence (although bud lacks D) but now that he gone i was expecting Bud to take most of the mins with Lee robbing a few mins and Williams gettin alot more maybe Rick just thinks starters have to have so many mins?

in the blazers game the bench should really have played more

But I definitely disagree with the prevailing sentiment that Hasheem Thabeet needs to be playing right now. Thabeet is simply a horrible basketball player, even defensively. With some time on the practice court this summer, he could become a serviceable backup, but right now he’s not worth putting on the court. He’s a zero offensively, and defensively, while he can block shots, he often lets people right past him only to foul them on the way up, is way too weak to guard in the post, and has no technique whatsoever. Honestly, Miller is just as good defensively, while he’s as slow as molasses and is all-around bad, he doesn’t make nearly as many mistakes as Thabeet. Thabeet wouldn’t have fared any better against Griffin, and he would’ve just killed our offense even more (Miller was 3-5 from three last night and had some sweet passes).