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We had a 6-man rotation in Game 7 of 2018

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by JW86, Jun 27, 2025.

  1. JW86

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    https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201805280HOU.html

    Joe Johnson was dead at that point and Ryan somehow lost the will to shoot, so those 5 and 8 minutes are bull. Maybe we had some dead legs…did not realize it was this bad until I just came across this while looking for Gordon stats, see if he was still happy somewhere.
     
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    What did you expect. Chris Paul was injured. Gerald Green played like **** tho
     
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    I remember staring at Ariza's line for two weeks. Tears were shed. 0-12
     
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    When you have “THE system” that’s all you should need. :rolleyes:
     
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    As a fanbase we generally think of Trevor fondly but I do remember he was wildly inconsistent at times. Weirdly, Dillon might actually have been more consistent for us.
     
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    How is this surprising? Most of our game was 1 player, we hardly needed to keep people "fresh" to stand and wait for Harden to get one of them open and give them an easy bucket haha.
     
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    Yea, every year for the past 30 years, everyone complains that the Rockets coach is an idiot for using a shortened playoff rotation. It's literally every single year. Never mind that the team that ultimately wins the championship does the same thing. This year, OKC used an 8-man rotation.
     
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    That season was so crazy , and looking back at Moreys roster , it sucks that Anderson and Luc were shells/ unavailable vs GS.

    And that CP3 went down of course

    For that final game , I don't know if he was healthy or not , but looking back at game logs he only played G1 vs GS ..... The player im talking about is NeNE .

    I think we didn't play dirty enough vs them. Nene should have been our Draymond .

    MDA made that mistake for sure.

    We also had poo poo at guard outside of Harden / CP3 / and Gordon.

    Imagine . Green was not really a guard in terms of dribbling and creating . We had markel brown looking good to us on some nights . Isaiah Canaan , Bobby Brown , ****in briante Webber . I did not remember that guy .

    Morey really gave up a lot of depth in the CP3 trade . Dekker was nice before he hurt his back , Harrell had a decent career , Beverley .

    Can you imagine if we had jaesean tate back then?
     
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    The cherry on top would be a few fair and unbiased referees.
     

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