Game Thread GAME# 19: ROCKETS @ BLAZERS - NOVEMBER 27, 2016 - SUNDAY, 6:00 PM (PDT), CSNNW

Stop switching, fight through screens. It's really not that difficult. I know we don't have a rim protector (and we definitely need one) but this team shouldn't be this bad defensively.

What I don't get is we had this same problem last year and then we stopped switching and improved. Why the fuck have we gone back to what didn't work?

 

The Blazers would switch at even the hint of a screen and Plums/Davis was stuck on Harden time and time again. After the game, a HOU media member even incredulously asked Harden if he was surprised he was guarded by Plumlee so many times. A complete joke of a defensive game plan. Either that or the players just aren't listening to what Stotts is trying to teach. Either way, it is bad.

Houston trapped Dame multiple times but not every time so they would switch it up. That D'Antoni out-game-planned Stotts on defense is downright embarrassing.

 

OK, we playing 19 games so far, and i still think we are like trash.

For real if we dont make a trade i dont see how we can make the playoffs this year, or if we make we go out in the first round and probaly go in the 8seed.

Im really worry, ok we just play 19 games, but our Defense is the worse in the league.



I wanna see this team with Aminu back and Festus, i was ok before last game but we cant make a winning streak, thats whats worry me the most...

 

I would not count on Festus at all

 

This is definitely disconcerting. But HOU did have Beverley, Ariza, and Brewer guarding Dame. And they have an elite rim protector in Capela.

Moe is our best and only good defender. And, we have (for all intents and purposes) 3 guys in Dame/CJ/Plums as bad defensively as Harden.

This is really a personnel issue. I think even Thibs would have trouble coaching defense with this roster. Not as bad as Terry, but still pretty damn bad.

 

We can hate Harden all we want but the Rockets are a good team this season and when Anderson and Ariza are hitting threes..they're a tough team to beat..Cappela is a good player...they have the perfect coach for that roster

 

That's what I'm saying this is a personnel issue. There's nothing that can improve this defense. Players must be changed

 

If this seemingly unbreakable aura of KingSpeed's positivity gets broken with out continued bad play, we're gonna need to put him on sui watch.

It's gonna be a loooooooooooooooooooooooong way down for him.

 

Daaaaamn

 

We've also climbed up to #8 in ORTG.

We move that DRTG to top 15, and we win 50 games pretty easily. ugh

 

Just like last season--once we got our defense in shape we started winning. Who would have thought?!

 

Welp.