2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀

[Bender Bending Rodriguez 1693]

12 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

awesome fucking win.  i thought they were toast late in the fourth quarter.  ballsy effort to get that one back after giving it away.

Same. I thought they ran out of gas, especially after blowing a big lead. Awesome sign seeing them gut it out down the stretch on the road against a good team. 

[Scraps 13584]

Really just want to post the vid because the play Amen made to tie it at 102 was massive

But heres a bunch more from him

[HtownHorn 14792]

The two biggest plays of the game were Amen Thompson's steal and layup tying the game and the 3 in OT to tie the game. The Rockets had had 3 bad OT possessions before Amen knocked down that 3, and the Rockets added the next 8 points on top of it for an 11-0 run to put the game away.

The obvious core is Sengun, Thompson, Eason, and Smith. Need more playing time for Reed to see if he can add to it.

Love the veteran play of Van Vleet, Brooks, and when available Adams.

After slow starts, Brooks is over 40% and Smith is at 34.5% and going up.

The defensive ability of Sengun, Brooks, Thompson, Smith, and Eason is the driving force behind this record. We need one more shooter in the rotation and we are cooking with serious gas.

[LCHorn 2632]

So looking at the statistics, rookie Jalen Green appears to be a more efficient player than 4th year vet Jalen Green.  For those of y’all more able to watch the games, is there some performance improvements you see that are missed by looking at the stats?

[HtownHorn 14792]

2 hours ago, LCHorn said:

So looking at the statistics, rookie Jalen Green appears to be a more efficient player than 4th year vet Jalen Green.  For those of y’all more able to watch the games, is there some performance improvements you see that are missed by looking at the stats?

No.

 

[Js1 85614]

[TonyTexas 10535]

Jalen starts tonight’s game en fuego. If only he could be like this 2/3 of the time instead of 1/3, we’d be in business. 

[Scraps 13584]

Yeah Jalen abusing these boys

[Scraps 13584]

FVV with the half court runner

[billfromlaketravis 11544]

I like the Team France guy’s game. Not sure where he would have fit in the Rockets, but smart move for the Sixers to give him a shot. I think if he was drafted by any other team than the Celtics he would have a solid NBA rotation player for the past 8 seasons. 

[billfromlaketravis 11544]

Better Sixers team without Embid? I’m sure the hoops heads are thinking it. 
 

Morey is such a star fucker, he’d never move him. 

[tx 3 putt 77564]

that’s a foul ????

[tx 3 putt 77564]

what a fucking horrible play 

[Scraps 13584]

No reason we should be going to OT with these goofs.

Better pull this out

[Scraps 13584]

Old man tricks ballin out in OT

[billfromlaketravis 11544]

Stay on target. Segun is special. 

[HtownHorn 14792]

Sengun gets no repsect. That should have been an and 1. The Philly Center tried to tackle him.

[billfromlaketravis 11544]

Never trust a man with birthmarks that large. 

[tx 3 putt 77564]

chalk up a W

[HtownHorn 14792]

I love this five.

[tx 3 putt 77564]

yall keep talking shit about green, he read this thread 

[billfromlaketravis 11544]

13 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

yall keep talking shit about green, he read this thread 

Probably not surly, but reading Rockets Twitter is definitely plausible. Smith has picked it up big time after social media buried him. 

[A-Tex Devil 2464]

Look if we go 54-28 and Green is 3-11 for 14 points 3 out of 4 games and is 14-22 for 35 in the 4th and the team is cool with it, I’ll take it.  
 

I was all about a 2-1 or 3-1 trade but now I’m not sure what kind of (realistic) trade makes us better than Boston or OKC (with Chet) so why not try to do it with what we got? 

[Slacks 6880]

9 hours ago, LCHorn said:

So looking at the statistics, rookie Jalen Green appears to be a more efficient player than 4th year vet Jalen Green.  For those of y’all more able to watch the games, is there some performance improvements you see that are missed by looking at the stats?

He tries to pay defense and doesn't get the ball every play.

[Slacks 6880]

Amen Thompson is different.

[HtownHorn 14792]

🤣🤣🤣

 

[HtownHorn 14792]

3, 4, and 7 on this list.

 

[HtownHorn 14792]

9 hours ago, LCHorn said:

So looking at the statistics, rookie Jalen Green appears to be a more efficient player than 4th year vet Jalen Green.  For those of y’all more able to watch the games, is there some performance improvements you see that are missed by looking at the stats?

Again no.

 

[ChickenSandwich 9856]

Why did these shitty cartoons become such a thing recently for professional sports?

[Macklemore 2876]

 

[BigOrange1 6476]

big four game stretch coming up over the next 10 days: vs. okc, @ sacramento, @ golden state, @ clippers.  then it will be the knockout stage of the nba cup.

its fun to be playing meaningful games again!

[tx 3 putt 77564]

off until sunday 

just keep improving