November 11, 2013 7:00 am
Lessons – In this extensive list at Hardwood Paroxysm of lessons learned from the last week of basketball, just one of those lessons involved the Houston Rockets. Jared: The Rockets somehow still don’t have a better end-of-game play than “James Harden dribbles a lot and then takes a jumper.” True. Excuse me while I go relieve [...]
November 7, 2013 7:37 am
No Hard Feelings – Leading up to the showdown against L.A. on Thursday night, Pau Gasol is cool with Dwight. From ESPN Los Angeles: “He made his decision and felt like that was the best choice for him and so you respect him for it and that’s it,” Lakers forward Pau Gasol said. “A lot [...]
November 6, 2013 7:01 am
All You Need To Know – Is in this tweet: Rockets couldn’t hit their 3s, turned it over 20 times, and still stomped the Blazers in Portland. — Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) November 6, 2013 Ewww – The Dream Shake exposes James Harden’s defense against the Clippers the other night with video. You know how sometimes [...]
November 5, 2013 7:31 am
All That Power – The Houston Rockets rose to no. 2 behind the Pacers in Marc Stein’s ESPN Power Rankings on the strength of a 3-0 start. Stein writes: They were supposed to be good, so there’s little Philly-style shock value in the Rockets’ 3-0 launch. Yet you have to say that Saturday night’s big [...]
November 3, 2013 11:20 pm
Big Horse – Via Marc Stein, Kevin McHale has a new nickname for Dwight Howard: Don’t think it’s going to sell many T-shirts, but Big Horse is how Rockets coach Kevin McHale is regularly referring to Howard. And Dwight, for the record, seems to like it. The way Howard tells it, Orlando teammates used to [...]