Game Thread GAME# 58: ROCKETS @ BLAZERS - FEBRUARY 25, 2016 - THURSDAY, 7:30 PM (PST), TNT

I have a bad feeling about this game. This will be the 3rd time we play Houston in our last 7 games. We embarrassed them the previous two times. I don't care how badly the Rockets have played as of late, beating a decent team 3 times in that time span is tough. This one will be close which means the refs will be a factor. I wonder which ones we get and how they react to Harden's flopping. Because lets face it, some refs are fooled easier than others.

 

I will be satisfied with only total humiliation and domination of the Rockettes tonight! I want Kaman to shave Harden's beard at half court with a dull razor

 

We are NOT losing a game to that big gross smelly beard guy. He's probably got a Mike Rice buffet worth of food stuck inside there, or a bird's nest, and it's been declared a protected natural area.

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2013.html

....Are we the 2012-2013 Houston Rockets? We look oddly similar. 6th in ORTG and 16th in DRTG. A star with a bunch of unproven role players overachieving and having a feel-good story type of year.

Rockets signed Howard the off-season after btw. Could we follow a similar path?

 

With a trade for Brook Lopez this off-season? I could see it.

 

I'm really just using all this to fuel my (completely far fetched) Al Horford dream.

 

Shut your dirty whore mouth!

 

Houston didnt have the leader dame is. Their star was a premadona head flailing actress. They also dont have neil olshey who values hard work, chemistry, and fundamental skill over jersey sales and big shoulders. I think we are fine.

 

That is some pie in the sky there. He gets 5th year and a boatload more money per year if he stays in ATL. And only team that is supposedly tempting him otherwise is ORL (went to school at Florida). I don't see him going West at all.

 

My comparison to the Rockets wasn't a slight, it was a compliment more than anything.

The Rockets managed to sign a marquee free agent because of that season, then had two straight 50+ win seasons including making the conference finals. I'll be ecstatic if that happens to us.

Of course there were other issues that eventually manifested, but you hope that doesn't happen to us.

 

The one which started Lillard time? I don't think that was televised nationally.

I just remember Aldridge always had good games against Houston, and they were always at home and on TNT.

 

Mods, this is clearly a bannable offense.

Please give B-Roy the standard Ha Seung-jin signed jersey severance package and send him on his way.