The defense right now is absolute garbage. This team is playing terrible basketball

There has to be a real problem here.

The D in this losing streak has been so freaking bad

8 point favorites down by 25 at home

This is disturbing.

Time for a dreaded players only
Meeting

We beat Boston and everybody is eating crow and then this happens. WTF. James has been off

It'll never happen, but Harden needs to sit for a few games. He's absolutely hurting us more than helping now.

This team isn't going anywhere. Too inconsistent.

Real talk

What a ****ing pathetic effort. Good lord

My article on the game last night
http://houseofhouston.com/2020/03/09/houston-rockets-rumors-james-harden-problems-small-ball-lineup/

dshedd41 said:

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My article on the game last night
http://houseofhouston.com/2020/03/09/houston-rockets-rumors-james-harden-problems-small-ball-lineup/

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Small ball is fun when you hit 40% of your threes. Not having a big in the middle feels awful, I'm with you there

Might be an over-simplification but Jeff Green sums it up pretty well

I would rather this happen now than in the playoffs. Mike has a lot to figure out....

35 first quarter points to one of the worst teams in the league without arguably their best player

Feels good to finally not lose

Ugly W is still a W

Finally a win

Couple observations from the last few games:

Offense:

-lots of hesitation to take threes. Don't know if its confidence, or PTSD from the Clippers game, but in Dantoni's system of live or die by the long ball you gotta shoot

-I think Harden is the one missing Capela the most. Specifically, the ability to run PNR or get easy assists when guys crash on him while headed to the paint. Now the paint is clear, but when he drives and they crash there is nobody there to cut to the rim, its just a long a** pass to the three point line which lately ends up in a missed three or bad pass for a turnover.

- Eric Ambrose Gordon Jr. - in his last 10 games he is shooting 16/70 from 3 (22%) - Be better

Defense:

-the effort just isn't there for all 4 quarters. It comes in spurts, but there are too many guys that look disinterested until the 4th quarter when it matters most.

-way too many guys getting beat off the dribble. That results in an easy layup or wide open jumper because another defender has to come help. Sometimes it looks like they are doing it on purpose, and in the off chance that they are they need to come up with a better strategy.

Gordon is just bad. He's not good.

At this point I think we need to give Eric Gordon Sr a look

Dear God make it stop.

Says it's due to player testing positive

agdaddy04 said:

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Says it's due to player testing positive

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"With that in mind, Jazz star Rudy Gobert could have handled this joke better.

While speaking to reporters from the media center on Monday (not the locker room), Gobert finished up his press conference by touching all the microphones, recorders and phones left on the table. He was making a point about the global fear stemming from the coronavirus pandemic."

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mazag08 said:

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Dear God make it stop.

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People are absolutely losing their minds and most leaders aren't stepping up to put a stop to it.

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I do think if we had reliable data from early on testing there would be a lot more reasonable actions being taken.

This comes at the perfect time for us. Things were looking bleak.

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Buck Compton said:

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mazag08 said:

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Dear God make it stop.

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People are absolutely losing their minds and most leaders aren't stepping up to put a stop to it.

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I do think if we had reliable data from early on testing there would be a lot more reasonable actions being taken.

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This is reasonable given the lack of information we have at this time. This virus is a complete unknown. From what we do know this disease is as transmissible as the flu and could be 5-20x more deadly. There's a lot of variance and unknowns and you don't take a light view until you have a better understanding. I'd rather not live in a world where we talk about Corona season rather than flu season.

China is not a great test case for what this is going to look like long term.

Don't act like you're gonna die from it, but respect and understand that it's not "no big deal".

Gobert is the worst human

People need to get over the Gobert touching the mic's a bit, i'm starting to feel bad for the guy

There are legit medical people around Gobert and none of them thought he should be self-quarantined

Fact of the matter is Mitchell will be one of TONS and TONS of people people who will contract it, its just about helping slow it down.