If life is a sports movie, the Rockets have won close to a Wednesday night. This is an emotionally and physically draining for real Rockets, a day to play a back-to-back on the road, the better narrative back seat to better the team's second game.
From the current 2012-2013 NBA schedule came out, it always is a difficult one for the Rockets. Type of the game, coaches often say that the loss of the "timetable." This is a game, you can basically see the timetable of the "L" opponents, travel, back to back, or all of the above pencil.
Then an unimaginable bad timetable for a potential loss coach Kevin - McHale's 23-year-old daughter, Sasha - untimely heart, painful death. If this is a sports movie, the rocket will dig deep to find their heart, can not shoot looks good, slow months, and somehow find winning ways. The movie rocket will become a well-paid pecan. They shot lights pluck out a difficult emotion to win their coach, and their self-esteem is a very powerful Thunder.
Houston Rockets tonight to face it? In addition to relative rest Thunder, the best team in the West, they will go to a narrative completely different. They will face a pumped Thunder eager to send a message to the beard. Thunder players, and may even have some additional James - Harden and rocket.
Kevin - Durant may have a point, and caused a minor threat to James - Harden, his scoring crown. Russell - Westbrook may want to defuse criticism of his biggest transactions. Criticism of his decision-making. Westbrook may wish deflection people increasingly recognize he is a super-talented players, but maybe not a point guard in the heart, and the lack of a high price might spend Thunder. Serge - Ibaka very eager, in fact, to prove his contract and he is sound and valid reasons for strict economic Thunder can not and will not continue to strengthen.
Then there might even be a positive Kevin - Martin, eager to show his former club another one of the facial expressions, a huff seems to put his 2011-2012 season. In addition, he is likely to score a lot of points, because he was pretty damn.
When you compare the two narratives, the story of the Rockets apparently with superior moral weight careerist ambitions I fictional ascribed to the Thunder. If this is a movie, the various desires of Thunder will fail. A better story, as a team the advantage will be weakened.
The movie Rockets will get quick montage through this day. We will soon see the scene of fatigue, mental and physical. The northern part of the flight, a bus, a woman too young, the the destroyed coach and his broken family, a flight south, a bus, no shootaround, then in Thunder funeral. But the real, non-movie, Rockets has been a very long, very real, very sad day.
The weary Rockets will lose their best defender, Kevin - Durant - Chandler Parsons with a mysterious shoulder injury. Instead, the rocket will include questionable shot selection Daequan Cook and his festival - fully answer this question: "Why Daequan - Cook bench players it?"
Things started well enough. The Thunder seems concentrated in stop James - Harden in the first. This good work, Patrick - Patterson advantage, and to continue his NBA scoring blitz. The Omer - Acic continue to seize the line of sight of each plate to score at an alarming pace. The result is a short rocket lead, only in favor of the Thunder at the end of the first 2PT margin.
The second quarter started well, however, as the Thunder that their bench strength. Instead, the Rockets have fully proved their bench, no doubt, a work in progress, and not much progress has been made. We have made tremendous bench strength in the past few seasons, Morey's shrewd trading and powerful drafting two. Can be said that in the past season's starting lineup, the bench has been better. Not now. This year is the year of reconstruction, the depth of the Rockets, as it is anything else.
This is the efforts of a short bench, the Rockets fans desperate. Tony - Douglas looks like the bumpy Tony we saw earlier. He looks like a marginal NBA player than he looks like the players raved about. Watching Terrence - Jones lost a brief pit stop and Marcus - Morris drifting. Greg Smith, pleasant, beasted offensive rebounds. He looks more and more like a real asset to the backup center. However, how will they ever raise such a short fuse?
, The Kelvin Sampson quickly unplug reserves, most of the time the Rockets in the second quarter to do their best level, more than the thunder of a class, they led the league - mistakes. Rockets looked like a tired team recently, miserable, West Coast Swing - out of control, informality, lack of thinking. Thunder looks poised to take off with a vengeance. Durant, for example, there is a fight four points, just because he felt came to him in the shooting in the breeze Harden. It looks very bad, a simple Thunder scored willingness. Yet, somehow, the Rockets within 12 months, in the semi-closed.
(Referee decided to exit Hashim - Thabit, and then decide, obviously, it will be interesting if they do not.)
Third quarter Harden to do his first game of the target as early as the quarterfinals, and get a few phone, swarming drive. Rockets run Thunder, to close the gap to the low double digits. Then Thunder answering. Even if there is a better job, and the other two pairs Asik mid-quarter, the Rockets narrow the gap to about 14.
This lasted until the fourth. Rockets will run close around 10-12pts behind, then in Thunder approximately 20. At any time, it seems like the Rockets would win, even with the.
In addition, the evening tonight, the San Antonio Spurs, for example, will remember ruefully in the playoffs, ibaka not miss. In the fourth quarter, he made three. Sergio - ibaka. Finally, he 23pts 11-13 shooting completed, nine rebounds and six (!) In just 23 minutes, usually looks like the money spent (although I think Asik is a better defender).
Durant scores dropped 37 and added seven rebounds and four assists (This must explain why he played 43 minutes, nothing else.) Do his. Kevin - Martin, Kevin - Martin fashion, did pretty well, but not great. He scored 17pts, 14 (efficiency is very low), or even three assists. Well, he did not really play D. Westbrook, making bricks to 6-15,17 pts, but he was also an increase of 9 cents.
Rockets game, they played very hard, but the Thunder, at this point, the West of the best teams. There is no offer for the end of the movie Rockets tonight. In fact, it seems clear that there is no end of the movie sometime early in the third quarter. Since there is no happy ending for the script, it may be time to face the facts. The fact is that Rockets horses just did not catch up with the Thunder, let alone hit them, but not tonight.
What are you doing here, if you are the head coach of the Rockets this? If you are an experienced, experienced NBA coach, you may send only the bench, sometime in the third quarter, to see what they will do. Expected loss tonight, and is expected to pass. Film Rockets will not show up, real tired, drained, Rockets. Thunder is clearly the better team. Who cares about the final margin, long night tonight?
Well, this is not Kelvin Sampson's way. He is a great teacher and leading man. He may be a strategic basketball genius. He may be some wonderful things, but one thing we can be sure, at this point, he is really, truly, a poor coach in the game (agreed to Grungedave here.) Sampson played starter about 40 minutes that night, a terrible back back. Him how to achieve it? Worst loss of the season - 22 points.
The Sampson allow beginners to it for about 28 minutes, then it fresh bench learning, and growth is lost opportunity. But really, what is the difference between a 22pt and a 32-point loss?
With the movie no end in sight, purely for practicality. Anyone, anywhere, will be to blame Sampson run the bench is good or bad. That would be the best outcome we can hope, and Rockets fans, not even. A sad day not much joy in the game, at least more than one.
Now, a brief usuals,: (unlike this piece)
Three cases
Patrick - Patterson - the best scorer of his career. He looks more like a real threat to a decrease of 20 + night. The three pointer is a real opportunity in the cast seems to come back. If he can finish a dunk, with the help of two worlds. However, 18 shots, 11 27pts is pretty good. He even notched six boards.
The Omer - Acic - at this point, and said, not a lot of difference between Tyson - Chandler. An excellent anti-keeper and rebounder, his own as a scorer. If he can make his free throw percentage, close to the all-star country.
Jeremy Lin - tempted sexual, but it suggests that the advantages of the forest, with his confidence is also a game.
Three down
James - Harden - get a job, like swarming the speed bag OKCs doubling and tripling. 3-16 shooting (9-11 FT), 3 assists. One night, we hope that he has forgotten.
Daequan - Cook - released from the bench, he tried to Bryant channel. He successfully shooting a lot, rather than a clever way. However, on July 17, seven rebounds and four assists than the beard is a better efforts.
Kelvin Sampson - you have to kill your starter? Do you know the Rockets is not a championship contender? Do you think Harden record 83 minutes, two nights will give you the performance of a head coach?
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