coach about Cole messing up and then getting pissed at Cole for a few more
possessions after. I guess as the starting PG it's sort of his job, but not
sure Cole deserves all the blame for tonight's performance. He shouldn't have
been on the court to begin with.
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Jeremy Lin's best attribute as a PG is he runs a great fast break.
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@MJ4Sports Also great at using a screen to set up a drive on the opposite
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J Sizzle
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Lin is great at setting people up, getting assists, and making the
unselfish play....but you can't only be good at that.
To truly be a good point guard, you have to have a sound offensive game,
and you have to be able to be a threat from the outside. The only proven
exception to this right now is Rondo, and even he is solid enough, but also has
far and away elite skills when it comes to defense, steals, rebounding,
passing, etc.
Simply put...Lin must improve his offense. You can only live off layups
and drives for so long.
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I'd say his upside is pretty big since this guy can't shoot long jumper
at all but still manage to put decent numbers.
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Lin's 3 point shooting is woeful. But his ability to attack the basket
& finish at the rim is impressive.Search
Tim PhamDecember 29, 2012 7:56 PM
Lin needs to stop trying to force the lob pass into the post. He has at
least two turnovers a game trying to force into the post when the defender is
fronting the post man. If it's not there, just kick it reverse side. I'm fine
with his turnovers when they are thing such as charging, overthrowing a fast
break pass, but i hate when the turnovers are from things that are preventable:
such as jumping in the air with no where to go and forcing it, getting stolen
when not looking, and forcing it into the post...he'll improve...once his three
point jump shots improve, hopefully the tos will come off of better
situations...ie.being aggessive..
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RachaDecember 29, 2012 8:13 PM
The game started out fine. JLin was schooling Westbrook in being a real
point guard by dishing and getting his teammates involved. Then he started to
shoot 3s and bricked twice, which is fine. He then shot another 3 an airball.

For heavens sake, it's ok that you airball sometimes but JLin hasn't been
shooting well so after two bricks you expect the 3rd one to either go in or
just brick again, but it has to be an airball. What made matters worst is his
TOs.
Like you said, JLin has a tendency to force a pass into the post. He did
that today and yesterday against the Spurs that resulted in TO. His long pass
ended up as a TO. His bounce pass was a TO. Everything that can go wrong went
wrong.
He should have understood OKC plays the passing lane well and they are
great defenders. He should have been ready for that. You just cant make the
same idiotic mistakes over and over again. Granted they played 4 games in 5
nights but there's no excuses for the TOs. I can give him a pass on the
shooting but not the TOs.
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To be frankly, some of us maybe spoiled with the sublime performances
during the 5 game winning streak, of course i am 1 of them. We enjoyed a lot
watching the team gelled, playing extraordinary good offensively. Harden and
Lin meshing like they are having years of co-ordination and the results were
against 1st, 4th and 9th defense by that time in the league, namely Grizzlies,
Bulls and Knicks. Of course even better is the grind out win in Minny, it's the
best occasion you can grow your young players mentally.
Paid credits where it's due, by that time, I honestly think McHale and
his co were doing great and earning lots of respect even though the league
didn't give the credits where they deserved. 1st in pace, 1st in offensive, 6th
in rebounding rate and 9th assisting rate by that time(7th right now, even
better), 29th in defense, I guess it's the normal rank with the youngest team
in the NBA. It's good that we nearly forgot what happened in the early season,
lots of ISO, lack of ball movement,no set plays in crunch time, just letting
the best man DIY on the court. Maybe that's we called growing pain.
And then these two games, we are expected to lose anyway. But it's the
process itself that raise me a question. When the talents played to their
strength, Lin being play maker and floor general, Harden being the finisher,
Parsons and Asik played to their strength, they are that good indeed, you don't
need any in match tuning or coaching that much. Thats why I appreciate McHale
did in Minny, played the bench in 3Q to see what happens cause our back court
was heavily guarded in 1st, 2nd Q, thats nice on court tuning. But the question
is, what if somebody likes Pop, Sloan, Dantoni did? Will they sacrifice 20
matches to know it's best to play PG as PG, SG as SG, better make substitutions
consistently which encouraged the young guys development. We see nearly zero
minutes for the 1st 15 games or so for DMO or TJones. And at this point, 16
wins 14 losses in WC is pretty good achievement but can it be even better? I think
so.
While it's still early to judge, McHale may be on its way to get his
Coach of the year in his 1st 82 game season which we all would like to see, I
hope we are not losing more games with some weird on court coaching or rotation
and somehow end up with the 14th pick which obviously, some of the internet
coaches on ESPN may think we are better enough to chase a 4/5th seed at the
end.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Commodore
we ran Memphis and Chicago out of the gym and those are top tier teams
perhaps SA and OKC are just awful matchups for what we do, hopefully we
can avoid them in 1st round of the playoffs
interested to see how we do against LAL/LAC/GSW going forward
The Memphis game was impressive by HOU but MEM was on the second night of
a back to back though & Rockets weren't have to keep that in consideration
We would get eaten alive by LAC dreading that game & GSW likes to play fast
as well kind of curious how we stand against them. GSW is playing great
basketball. LAL depends, they are old so I think we would kill them with our
pace & there D isn't particularly good. Neither is our D. So it would
literally be a game of who is scoring more.

有些可能我最后不翻，但是我会保留在这里，若要帮忙翻译的可以帮忙，或者会读英文的人，却很少到cf 的人可以阅读。

roxxy
Mon, Dec 31 Atlanta Win
Wed, Jan 2New Orleans Win
Fri, Jan 4 @Milwaukee Win
Sat, Jan 5 @Cleveland Win
Tue, Jan 8 Los Angeles Lakers Loss
Wed, Jan 9@New Orleans Win
Fri, Jan 11 @Boston Loss
Sat, Jan 12@Philadelphia Loss
Tue, Jan 15Los Angeles Clippers Loss
Wed, Jan 16 @Dallas Win
* We may end up splitting the Bucks vs Cavs game but I think we can pull out a win for both.
* Hope we beat NO on the 9th but could be tough with LAL the night before
*Hope we beat either BOS or PHI but i think we lose both depends.
* Hope we split LAC & Dallas but we may end up losing both, still I put my money on beating Dallas.

charles zed
I'm not sure where I've read this but from what I recall McHale noted that he didn't believe our team had the pieces for a half-court offense so he wanted to run.
According to Morey Les has always wanted a run & gun team and believes it's the future, and Morey felt that we had the appropriate team for it right now, but would not be hesitant in getting a low-post scorer and slowing down our pace a bit while still being opportunistically fast.
So there seems to have been some consensus in trying to change our offense to just have guys running, but I agree, there still isn't any structure.
Aldrich shouldn't be out there, and there needs to be more Harden/ Lin - Greg Smith PnR and more screens being set for shooters and our guards.
I'm disgusted by how much confidence is placed in Aldrich by McHale, prior to these last two abomination outings by him, I remember he had a couple of post-ups drawn for him. POST-UPS for ALDRICH. And Toney running the point. SMFH.

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Since: Jul 2012Posts: 152Member: #51755 Quote:Originally Posted by ERC I agree. Besides, Lin gets knocked down to the floor a lot when he attacks the rim. I get that he's young and absolutely fearless, but if he wants to have a very long NBA career, minimizing those hard falls and having another offensive weapon would only help.
His biggest problem is his disgusting jump-shot, but second to that is his mentality. He's gotten the idea that he needs to become a facilitating PG when that shouldn't be his role on this team. He needs to understand that he should be the 2nd option, and for his first priority to be to look for his own shot and to get into rhythm while deferring to Harden.
He might never have 3-point range, that happens to some players, but Lin is particularly adept at drawing contact while finishing in the interior and he's quite good at finishing around the rim.
In transition, Lin has been great at bringing the ball up, imo better than Harden (who is of course far superior to Lin at finishing in the open-court), and more often than not he makes the right play so he needs to assert himself as the lead guard when on fast-breaks rather than having debacles where Carlos Delfino is bringing the ball up.
Quite frankly, our players need to have their roles more clearly defined by the coaches. Parsons, Lin & Harden are great at handling the ball and it appears the coaching staff are confident in Douglas' and Delfino's facilitating aptitude so oftentimes we look like we're running the game through democracy, rather than playing to each player's strengths
Harden is such an incredible talent but he just doesn't seem to be the vocal leader & dominant floor general that Chris Paul or Rajon Rondo are (though it's still premature conjecture), so until we have such a team leader, we'll need to have coaching staff define better roles rather than just hoping our players will figure that out amongst themselves.

erc
More practice will no doubt help, but practice alone doesn't always get it done. After all, Lin does practice A LOT (always staying after team practice and always last to leave). You've mentioned that Lin shot around 80% in the offseason, and various fans have commented that Linconsistently
knocked down his 3's in pre-game shoot around this season. So why is he shooting so poorly during games? While Doc is helping Lin figure it out, it may not hurt to get a 2nd opinion.

popitrockets
Its really high arced which is why Jeremy always hits mostly the front end of the iron or airballs it. He needs to lower the arc a bit and maybe put a little more force into the shot. As i mentioned he airballs ALOT and watching him last year he hardly ever did that in fact i dont even remember an airball last year. Just fix the arc and i think his 3 pt shooting % should increase. The ball has serious hangtime when he shoots it too lol

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注：　用户在比赛现场，他说有听到球员讲话。
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Since: Feb 2010
Originally Posted by mirus Anything interesting you hear?
你有听到什么有趣的吗？
Nothing you wouldn't hear at the rec center pickup game. Perkins was interesting though. Found new respect for him. He really quarterbacks their defense at least vocally. I see now why he's so important to what they do defensively.
像你平常在街头比赛听到的。帕金斯的很有趣。我因这样而尊敬他。他真的是雷霆的防守中坚，至少在场上说话。我现在明白他为什么对雷霆的防守那么重要。

Speak about Aldrich
说到白阿德
roxxy
I don't know why Cole is out there on the court at all. People are sayingthat it is to up his trade value but I don't think that is it. I genuinelybelieve McHale likes Cole (McHale actually said as much) & this frightensme. Greg earned those back up minutes & Harden & Lin have betterchemistry with Asik & Greg. The starters have absolutely no chemistry withAldrich & Cole is just plain bad. It is frustrating to me seeing someonelike Greg who has legitimately hustled hard for us much this season not get theplaying time he deserves.
- 我不知道为什么白阿德可以出场。
- 每个人认为是增加他的交易值，但我不觉得。
- 觉得冰箱真的喜欢白阿德（他有说过类似的话），而这让我感到很害怕。
- 格雷自己赚来后补时间，而且哈/林与他的默契比较好 。与阿德却完全没有，而且他很烂。
- 觉得像格雷这种真的全力以赴的球员得不到他应该有的上场时间觉得很恼人。
Also McHale's love affair with Tony needs to end. The Rockets thrive onexecuting in the fast break & Tony consistently botches them amongst otherreally dumb things he does. McHale's substitution patterns are really odd aswell, even when we were winning I found his in game management to be baffling.Like for example, in the first quarter Lin, Asik & Morris were rolling butMcHale takes Lin & Asik out like he always does with 2 minutes left? Why ifthey are feeling it continue to ride the hot hand. - 而且冰箱与东尼的“关系”应该结束。
- 火箭擅长于执行快攻，但东尼一直做错事（是他做的蠢事的其中一部分）。
- 冰箱的轮换制度很奇怪，就算我们在赢球的时候。打比方林、西克、莫在第1节打的不错，
但林及西克像平时一样在剩下2分钟时被轮换出来？若他们手感不错为什么不要把他们留在场上。
dobro1229
Since: Feb 2010
Oh FYI... The Rockets must be prepping to move Aldrich. No excuse for himgetting that many minutes. Even in warmups you can tell that this guy is justnot a NBA basketball player. - 觉得火箭这样做是像交易阿德。
- 觉得他不该得到那么多时间。
- 就算在热身时都能知道他不是个nba球员。
He looks like the guy you pick last to be on your church basketball leaguecompared to pretty much everyone else. Just lacks too much skill andcoordination at this point in his career.
- 像那种你在教堂篮球联赛中最后才选的球员。
- 在他职业生涯这个阶段太少技术和协调性了。
He needs to be moved to a team that needs some kind of size desperatelyenough to take him in.
- 需要去个很需要大个子的球队。
Oh and I actually wanted the Rockets to draft him instead of Pattersonyears ago. Thank you Morey for not letting fans pick for you in the draft.
- 他以前想火箭选他（多过帕特森），要谢谢莫里不让粉丝自己选秀。

林3分球
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Since: Nov 2012Posts: 76Member: #53055 Lin's 3 point jump shots looks terrible. He likes to bring the ball all the way down before the jump. Also it seems he has less control at the release. Other than the shootings, he relied on his speed too much when driving to the hoop. Learn Europe step Jeremy.
- 林3分球看起来很烂 - 喜欢把球从老远带下来然后投篮。
- 在把求抛出时貌似缺乏控制。
- 突破时太依赖他的速度，应该学习欧洲步。