Rockets (2-2) at Celtics (3-3) Game #7 11/1/25

[Atzar]

on the plus side, it's easily Baylor's best game this year.

tp for the post and optimism!! 

i had hoped that scheierman would pan out into a rotation player. offensively he has a range of talents. all he had to do was get his defense up to "hauser" level and he would be a decent nba player. maybe his 3 point shot will finally click now.

p.s. on a bright note, toronto up 3-0 on the evil LA dodgers. but lots of innings left.

I think Scheierman's shot is just as big of a problem as his defense is. If he was shooting the ball at Hauser level, he'd be a rotation player in the NBA even with his bad defense.

He has two problems he has to fix (1) improve D despite bad physical gifts (2) make his shot consistent / reliable.

Currently, without either of those things, he is not even an NBA caliber player. Nevermind a rotation player.

I actually think his defense is fine-ish.  He's a negative on the ball but his floor awareness off the ball makes up for that a bit.  He has a good sense for jumping in passing lanes and generating deflections.  Not a good defender, but playable if the other skills were up to par.

Completely agree that the shot is a problem, and I'd add that his apparent belief that he's in the game to be a gunslinger is an equal problem.  IMO he needs to be a poor man's Jingles - a low-volume offensive player who makes the right connective plays and can acceptably run decent offense for a bench unit.  I thought coming into the league that he had the passing chops to do something like that but he hasn't successfully leveraged that in the NBA.  We don't need another guy who fires whenever he has the ball.  We already have a couple of those.

[Roy H.]

That game sucked, haha.

[scaryjerry]

Obviously Houston's up 26 and have overwhelmed us all game, but a 26-2 FT differential? Jesus...

?we fouled on nearly every play

[Neurotic Guy]

After three straight, it?s a good reminder not to get delusional about where the Cs are. The gap between them and contenders is significant. It was exacerbated by the schedule a bit but easy to see what the gap in talent and in size really looks like.  Adding JT back will help a ton, but I think last night illustrates that the Cs will need more than that to get back to contender status. 

Biggest surprise on the downside continues to be DWhite.  He?s not dealing well with the extra attention he?s getting.  Forcing shots and missing good looks.  More than anyone, he needs JT back.