Imagine attributing the losses to missing a role-player, who is basically a non-factor AND is a worse player than the player the other team has been missing since the start of the bubble. As if LeBron is thinking before he sleeps, "thank goodness i don't have to face House tomorrow!"
I get their thinking though. D'antoni runs a very tight rotation. Those 20+ minutes House plays now have to be absorbed by guys that are already playing 38+ a night. That's a lot to ask for. It'd be like us complaining about Morris being out. Is it the end of the world? No. Is he nonetheless a key part of our rotation? yeah
This. Not that complex
Not like y’all didn’t just have a role player make a difference just last game. If all hands can’t be on deck reach a conclusion and move on. If he broke a rule handle up on him and move on. Having him miss games while you investigate is hogwash. If you conclude he ain’t mess up then those games can’t be had back. Etc. It’s just poor handling all around.
I obviously want the Lakers to get this...but I'm sticking to my belief that we can't win this series playing small ball...I hope I'm wrong. But to me we're playing into their hands. I've mentioned before this team is very similar to the Suns team coached by D'Antoni, with Nash, Stoudemire, Richardson, Marion etc. Jax insisted that team match up with our bigs, Bynum, Odom and Gasol. We destroyed them. I remember Nash saying, "We're not getting any taller." I would punish these Rockets with Dwight, AD and Bron inside...the Rockets will always shoot 3's regardless...just make sure we're discipline when closing out on the shooters, don't jump or over run them..just close out with a hand up. But really punish them inside with our bigs. That would be my strategy. I could be 100% wrong..but I still don't think this series is over and trying to play small ball with a team that has done it all year is a mistake IMO.
You can’t beat the numbers bro...
When we go “small” we are actually not “small”
SF.LeBron huge SF
PF.Morris is a legit PF
C.Davis is a 7 footer
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Imagine if the Rockets lose because Danuele House is suspended for violating bubble rules. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 3:19 pm Post subject:
CandyCanes wrote:
Imagine if the Rockets lose because Danuele House is suspended for violating bubble rules.
Can we also imagine that the unnamed third player is James Harden and the league suspends him for game 5? The sheer amount of salt produced in Houston if that happens would be enough to sustain Morton salt co. for the next 3 decades.
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