Nik Stauskas is questionable with a knee injury. Houston has dropped three consecutive games and seven of its last eight. This team has allowed more than 100 points in almost every game this season, and not surprisingly, Kevin McHale was recently fired as head coach.
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Lawson has struggled in his first season in Houston so a role change is what the Rockets have decided on.
Fortunately for both the Rockets and Clippers, plenty of time still remains. The second confrontation was one of the Sixers more exciting games of the year. We’re getting a lot of open shots that we normally make but they’re just not falling. From there, the Sixers wouldn’t score again.
Trading an unhappy Howard is better than watching him leave another team in distress like the Magic and Los Angeles Lakers. Houston selected the Murray State product with the fourth pick in the second round of the 2013 NBA Draft.
If this rumor is true, it is no surprise that the Rockets would try to trade Howard before the deadline next February.
Lawson shared via CBS Sports, “Whatever for the team to win”. “James hasn’t played up to his standards”, Morey said via Real GM. “Me and Dwight [Howard] are still close”. (But) I don’t think that’s a factor at all. Patrick Beverly. We were together for two years. The Grizzlies doubled Harden, forcing him to pass. The Rockets went 3-for-12 from the field in the quarter and scored just 16 points. Isaiah Canaan is dishing 1.8 assist and Nerlens Noel is grabbing 8.4 rebounds. “He knows he can depend on me to knock down that shot when he throws it out to me”. It’s the charge he takes that gets the crowd going, gets his teammates going.
Through the first 16 games of the season, McConnell has shown a steady ability to serve as a helpful facilitator.
“It is hard”, forward Nerlens Noel said.
“It’s tough but we can’t quit”, Howard said. He didn’t get in enough positions to get the ball in the paint, though.
Harden hit a 3-pointer soon after that, but Houston’s offense went cold after that and the Rockets didn’t make another field goal until a layup by Pat Beverley with 2:18 left in the quarter. But according to Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today, one of the center pieces of the players-only meeting was unhappiness with Rockets superstar James Harden’s his style of play. “So it’s putting more pressure on our defense”. He doesn’t put any effort on the defensive end and only cares about scoring. This fall, metrics suggest he’s regressed.
So far, the team is just 1-2 since firing McHale. Overall, his wins over replacement statistic has slipped from 21 to just below 3.
“We are responsible”, Brewer said of McHale’s dismissal. “I’m numb to it”.
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Memphis Grizzlies guard Courtney Lee (5) shoots a three point shot in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 in Houston.
