Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) discusses the Houston Rockets getting blown out by the San Antonio Spurs for the second time in less than two weeks and what this loss tells us about the team. Backcourt struggles for Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Jr., Alperen Sengun the only positive out of the Rockets starters, defensive issues containing the Spurs as FIVE players scored in double-figures off the bench, reporting on trade interest surrounding Eric Gordon, Jae’Sean Tate, Tari Eason and more.
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24 Comments
A bit harsh to put poor Alpi's mug to "Blowout Loss". It made me laugh though, and God willing, Thursday's thumbnail may have Alpi again after he helped the team win against Orlando.
You know this is a sad review when we talk positively about Nix
You're reaching with the KPJ hate!
Alpie finally had a decent game he was 8 of 10 from inside the paint basically layups. Unfortunately when he has a good game it doesn't result in winning.
The best players on this team look at the breakdown of the player stats all splits this season is
Jalen Green
KPJ
Sengun
J. Smith
E.G
I'M SHOCKED THIS VIDEO DOESN'T SAY GOOD LOSS
Fire Silas
This isn’t just Slias as a bad coach while that’s a huge problem the problem is this front office. Stone is banking that KPJ can be the point guard from this team and he on the same tier as Jalen when he clearly not. KPJ would be great as a sixth man but I don’t think the FO would even bench him due to how they strongly believe KPJ is a point guard and is a co franchise player with Jalen
He was getting his frustration out with that dunk your hate on kpjs dunk is silly imo
I think worst thing about silas is that he doesn’t recognise a player when he got the rhythm. alpy get’s rhythm he subs him out, bruno subs in and actually makes strong plays then he subs bruno out! Cmon Man!!!
I think Stone is kinda fixated on being the guy that turned undrafted or lowly drafted players into superstars with KPJ, Tate and Nix. I can't think of any other reason for this organizational behaviour at this point.
I feel like Orlando game will be a huge game for Alpi ve başaracaksın kardeşim, seninleyiz.
Not surprised
I mean it was a disciplined well coached team in a proven system against an undisciplined poorly coached team without a real system.
I wonder who would win? 🙄
It’s coaching
I feel like jalen and Jabari our 2 corner stone pieces for the future need to put up 1000 after every game
They need to trade eg for 2024
Jackson does media ever get to talk X's& O's rotations etc off the record with coaches and GM 's?
If front office and coach intentionally made us lose this game to help tanking, my feedback to them is that apart from Wemby there is hardly any franchise altering players in next year draft, and we only have 14% chance of getting Wemby at best. If they were actually trying to win this game, then they are incompetent and need to go, both Silas and Stone need to go.
To much ball hogging and not enough moving the ball around… look at how everybody on the spurs touched the ball before they scored!!!
Kpj needs to be on the bench. It's obvious that Green and Sengun should be having the offense ran through them. By starting him you are stunting the growth of the other pieces
KPJ and Jalen do not fit together. Nearly every game an opposition guard has a field day against us, defensively they are terrible together. It's nothing against them, individually they are both good shooting guards and both have great NBA futures ahead of them, but just not together on the same starting lineup. Plus neither are good playmakers (…yet… maybe?) and players like Jabari are struggling because of it. Jabari is a great young player, but the one knock on him ,that we knew about when we selected him, is that he struggles to create his own shot, so he needs a good PG to get that ball to him, it's almost disrespectful sometimes in games how he is overlooked when he is wide open because our guards are playing hero ball. Idk if it's totally KPJ & Greens fault or if it's a system problem but I feel so bad for him, with how much disrespect Jabari cops outside of the Rockets because he hasn't performed as well as some of the other rookies in his draft, when a lot of the reasons come down to the fact our guard duo don't suit him. It's gonna be tough season for us, maybe we can get a temporary PG in a trade to help in the back half of the year, but really we need to be targeting a pass first PG in the draft like an Anthony Black or Amen Thompson, who are both big bodied PGs that defend well but also are great passers and make the players around them better. Disappointing game by the rockets hopefully we can turn it around against the Magic, a rebuild is tough and at least this is the last year of us proper tanking ,it should be on the up and up from next season, hopefully can nail the draft and get lottery lucky. Important trade period coming up to set ourselves up add the final pieces we need through the draft.
I don't think anyone is untouchable on this team but Sengun is surely ahead of Tari in that conversation. He's a year younger than Tari and clearly better player than him.
Its days like this I wish Daryl Morey was still around, man. He would have flipped, at least, Green and Sengun for a quality player and/or picks
He would have saw that Green is a flawed star talent like Westbrick; not knowing how to use his teammates to win games. And play with low I.Q.
And Sengun NEVER would have been acquired by Morey unless it was to facilitate a 3 team trade during the Draft.
We're a guard-orient team with emphasis on 3s. Why would you acquire a traditional big man that need the ball when we are not a deep post team like the Nuggets?
It's dumb decisions like that why management is not ready to build Playoff squads. Stone is a joke just like Silas.