Game Day: Rockets (29-14) @ Suns (26-18), Fri 1/23/15

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Re: Game Day: Rockets (29-14) @ Suns (26-18), Fri 1/23/15

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Fuck...

That hurt. However, I didn't expect us to even comeback in that game. We played pretty bad for a majority of the game until about the last 6 minutes or so.

Harden. Dude is a beast. He's gotten much better than even the player we saw last season. I don't ever remember him being a facilitator but he had some pretty great assists tonight.
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iLLmatic wrote:
Indy wrote:Watching last night's Archer episode helped deal with this.
Never seen it, although I've been wanting to watch it on Netflix.
I'm so jealous. It's amazingly funny. It's like a cartoon arrested development.

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djy2j wrote:How many have the Suns lost on a last second shot this year, just curious. Seems like 5.
Griffin, Middleton and Harden have killed us with buzzer beaters.

On the other end of the floor, Eric Bledsoe missed a potential game winner at Memphis, and PJ Tucker and Marcus Morris both missed shots that could have forced a third overtime against Sacramento.
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Indy wrote:Eric Bledsoe is a really bad passer for a 70 million dollar point guard.
On the other hand, he's delivered back-to-back dominant performances.

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I'm not too mad about this loss. The Rockets are one of the best teams in the league, and we mostly hung with them despite not playing a great game. We have a lot of room to improve still. Bledsoe had a great stat line: 25 points, 9 assists, 8 boards.

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Mori Chu wrote:I'm not too mad about this loss.
The good thing for the Suns is that OKC lost tonight to the Hawks.

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Mori Chu wrote: The Rockets are one of the best teams in the league
...playing without their second best player. Props to the Rockets; it's a good win for them.

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I haven't watched the game yet, but looks like an absolutely brutal night from Dragic. And Thomas? 7-20 FGs and 5 turnovers. Ugh.

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Dragics got a T in the 3rd and Hornecek benched him for the rest of the game.

But yea....he was bad before that.
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INFORMER wrote:I haven't watched the game yet, but looks like an absolutely brutal night from Dragic. And Thomas? 7-20 FGs and 5 turnovers. Ugh.
You may want to watch the last 5 minutes of actual time in the game...other then that we were playing catch-up all the way through till the end and it was pretty frustrating to watch James Harden shred our defense apart.

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Do you guys think maybe Hornacek held out Dragic in order to make him look worse to Houston and reduce the chance that they'd go after him as a free agent? I know that sounds stupid, but hey, lots of FAs get pursued by teams that they torched in the previous season.

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I don't think Hornacek is that calculating or that "big-picture."

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Wally_West wrote:I predict we will make a big come back in the fourh and win the game...
So close... yet so far. :cry:
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iLLmatic wrote:I'm done with this game.
I was there too. Just wasn't our night (is what I was thinking.) Just goes to show you this team is never out of it. Never quits.
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Indy wrote:This game has heartbreaker written all over it.
So, YOU'RE the one! :x
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The Bobster wrote:P.J. Tucker just isn't going to stop Harden one-on-one on the last shot of the game. PJ played a nice game, but that's just asking to much of him there.
Like they say, good 'O' always beats good 'D'.
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Cap wrote:
djy2j wrote:How many have the Suns lost on a last second shot this year, just curious. Seems like 5.
Griffin, Middleton and Harden have killed us with buzzer beaters.
It's gotta be something about that last syllable. "in", "on", and "en".
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Mori Chu wrote:Do you guys think maybe Hornacek held out Dragic in order to make him look worse to Houston and reduce the chance that they'd go after him as a free agent? I know that sounds stupid, but hey, lots of FAs get pursued by teams that they torched in the previous season.
no. of all teams, houston has a familiarity with dragic and knows what they are getting with him.

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Heartbreak hotel!

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It was also one of those nights. Howard hits a three and many of their shots got extremely lucky bounces while we were missing layups.
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