This loss is almost on Ime

Playing Tate, Holiday, and going zone were good moves. Letting Tari inbound was no bueno.

 

The offense ran smooth without KD and Reed as pg

 

Playing Reed and amen together mitigates each individual deficiency. They also play very well together and seem to find each others spots .

I think splitting the PG role is perfect because amen needs to be a slashing threat as he currently is. He’s been scoring great on insane efficiency as you noted.

the main reason the rockets aren’t as good as they should is still too much Durant iso and tari/DFS being dead weight. You can’t have 2 players with heavy minutes that give you nothing and are a negative

 

Agreed.

 

The Orlando comeback. He benched Amen and let Reed play almost the entire second half.

 

Yep just like I imagined. The anger around Ime is solely about only 2 players, Sengun & Reed. What connection do they both have?

 

You wanna know what happened? Playing Sengun & Reed per you idiots request, and we couldn't get a stop. Sengun's defense was worse down the stretch than normal, giving up layups over & over. Reed tries but only so much you can do. I favor Ime leaning on defense & not appeasing idiot sports fans

 

And leaning on defense got us knocked out of the first round with about the same number of wins as this year. The idiot fans want balance, the smart fans like you don’t think it matters, lol.

 

I think you could spread the blame around a bit more. Ime especially. Stone for not reinforcing the roster but, then again, see also "Ime." DFS, except it's bad taste to speak ill of the dead. Etcetera.

 

We lost the game because some scrub named Leonard Miller got 17 pts on us...typical Rockets game: got in the hole early last, took crazy effort to get back in the game, and Sengun/Reed was hunted on defense in pick-n-roll action.
Sengun/KD scoring got us back in the game, but our bench is so terrible...Tari should be sent down to the G-league just like Ime did to Cam and Reed when they were slumping...