2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀

[Macklemore 2874]

Tari needs to start. Let’s close this game out strong.

[Macklemore 2874]

Wrong thread

Edited November 1 by Macklemore

[Scraps 13554]

Uh oh is meltdown initiating?

[Macklemore 2874]

FVV has been awful. Bench him for Reed.

[Scraps 13554]

Sheppard sucks

[Scraps 13554]

Fucking Jabari you have to make wide open shots

[Scraps 13554]

Big shot by Green

[Scraps 13554]

Amen!!

[Scraps 13554]

Brooks with the dagger....gonna survive.....fuck Dallas

[BigOrange1 6422]

awesome win.  wasn't expecting that one at all.  Green and Thompson both hit clutch shots down the stretch.

[Macklemore 2874]

We should be 4-1 but for the choke job on opening night.

[HtownHorn 14581]

Is there a reason why the NBA has a hard on for us and Spurs in the 1st 10 games of the season?

[ChickenSandwich 9809]

Tari and Thompson were great again and a big reason for the W

[Hank Kingsley 20803]

Proud of them to hang on in the 4th. 

Hopefully it's just a slump but I'm concerned about FVV. Feels like his margin for error for being good offensively is very small, and it only will get worse as he gets older. 

When the game/situation is right, I'd like to see Sheppard fire away when he gets minutes. 

 

[HtownHorn 14581]

53 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Proud of them to hang on in the 4th. 

Hopefully it's just a slump but I'm concerned about FVV. Feels like his margin for error for being good offensively is very small, and it only will get worse as he gets older. 

When the game/situation is right, I'd like to see Sheppard fire away when he gets minutes. 

This is his last season with a guaranteed contract. If Van Vleet struggles all season and shows signs of falling off the cliff, the Rockets can cut him and have a little money for FA, though the better idea would be to try to flip him for an upgrade.

[Hank Kingsley 20803]

Yeah, I knew that. But saw somewhere that FVV permanently resides in Houston, and wants to stay with Rockets after this year. 

I like him and he's a great teammate for the young guys. Maybe he will take a team-friendly deal. Just want to see more minutes for Sheppard sooner than later. 

 

[ChickenSandwich 9809]

1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Proud of them to hang on in the 4th. 

Hopefully it's just a slump but I'm concerned about FVV. Feels like his margin for error for being good offensively is very small, and it only will get worse as he gets older. 

When the game/situation is right, I'd like to see Sheppard fire away when he gets minutes. 

 

Would rather he melt down this season so we don’t give him a dumb extension rumored in preseason. 

[Scraps 13554]

No Steph tonight. Got to get this win.

[Scraps 13554]

Warriors scoring at will

[Fastbreak 3962]

Heild would be all-nba if the season ended today

[Scraps 13554]

This is a disaster.

[Fastbreak 3962]

That kiss cam was so brutal it caused my league pass to crash

[HtownHorn 14581]

It's likely not going to work out with Ime and this current personnel. His offense is so bad without 2 All-NBA players creating shots for themselves and others. They were stupid to give Van Vleet $40M but balked at Harden at $33M.

[Macklemore 2874]

Embarrassing effort tonight. FVV, Jabari and Dillon should no longer be starters. Reed needs to play most of the 2nd half.

Edited November 3 by Macklemore

[Scraps 13554]

Don't look now....down to 17 lol

[Scraps 13554]

How hard is it to find good announcers? Hollins fucking sucks

[Scraps 13554]

Oh shit down 10

[Macklemore 2874]

Love this lineup with Tari, Amen and Reed

TARi!!!

[Scraps 13554]

Uhhh...down 3...9 mins left.

New ballgame

[Scraps 13554]

Nice foul OU horsemouth

[Scraps 13554]

If Amen would have made that half court heave to win the game this would have been the best basketball game I had ever seen lol

 

Overtime 

[Scraps 13554]

Why does Jabari think he is Steph Curry?

[Macklemore 2874]

Really frustrating loss. I hate the Warriors with the intensity of a 1,000 suns. This sums up what I feel:

 

[Scraps 13554]

Fizzled out....missed alot of layups in OT 

[Macklemore 2874]

4 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Fizzled out....missed alot of layups in OT 

1-12 in OT. Reed needs to take over from FVV who is getting worse every game. He was getting abused on defense 

[HtownHorn 14581]

We'd be 6-0 with Harden instead of Fred.

[Slacks 6807]

1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

We'd be 6-0 with Harden instead of Fred.

Man, stop.

Ime wants a certain culture and Harden has shown he isn't that. It's ok for the Rockets to turn down a bad cultural fit. It's the beginning of a long season.

[msbesq 385]

This is a .500 team all day long and a recipe for mediocrity in the league 

[ChickenSandwich 9809]

Go trade for Giannis

[HtownHorn 14581]

8 hours ago, Slacks said:

Man, stop.

Ime wants a certain culture and Harden has shown he isn't that. It's ok for the Rockets to turn down a bad cultural fit. It's the beginning of a long season.

I am sure he does want a different culture, the problem is that culture doesn't translate to wins.

[Slacks 6807]

1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

I am sure he does want a different culture, the problem is that culture doesn't translate to wins.

Harden ain't the difference.

[Scraps 13554]

Is there a logical reason why tomorrow nights game starts at 7:45? It does not look to be on any national broadcast.

[A-Tex Devil 2445]

On 11/3/2024 at 8:46 AM, ChickenSandwich said:

Go trade for Giannis

Need a third team to dump FVV off to, or for Milwaukee to go full blow it up mode and dump Dame to.  I am trying to figure it out on the trade machine. 

[TonyTexas 10493]

15 hours ago, Scraps said:

Is there a logical reason why tomorrow nights game starts at 7:45? It does not look to be on any national broadcast.

Not logical but this is what I found:

The game has a different start time of 7:45 instead of the usual 7:00 because the league has all 30 teams playing as part of its campaign to encourage citizens to vote for Election Day on Tuesday.

 

[Scraps 13554]

Not logical but this is what I found:
The game has a different start time of 7:45 instead of the usual 7:00 because the league has all 30 teams playing as part of its campaign to encourage citizens to vote for Election Day on Tuesday.
 

Thanks....makes about as much sense as having Kamala or Trump as our next President

[tx 3 putt 76589]

16 hours ago, Scraps said:

Is there a logical reason why tomorrow nights game starts at 7:45? It does not look to be on any national broadcast.

 

1. it’s dumb 

2. nba game will be starting every 15mins tonight. rockets have the #8 slot

3. no games tomorrow 

[Macklemore 2874]

Rockets playing great with Tari, Reed and Amen kicking ass and then bring in the starters and close out the 2nd quarter in a shitty manner.

Edited November 5 by Macklemore

[billfromlaketravis 11380]

I should have gone to this one. Knicks are the only premier team that doesn’t do load management because of Thibs. 

[Scraps 13554]

Disaster last 2 mins of the half

[Macklemore 2874]

It’s criminal that Tari, Amen, Reed are not on the floor together for 30 minutes a game. I have been a huge Ime supporter but he has really disappointed this season with his rotations and the lack of motion in our offense.