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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Has Bad Days, James Harden Doesn’t Change
Sometimes there’s no grand conspiracy holding Jeremy Lin back. Yes, he is still used in the wrong way, but his performance for the Houston Rockets against the Miami Heat was disappointing on both ends of the floor, while James Harden showed everything good and bad about himself as a player.
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Miami Heat – Renewed Signs of Greatness
At the moment, the Miami Heat don’t look like a team good enough to win the NBA championship. However, their 113-104 win over the Houston Rockets brings back some sort of confidence not just in them as a group, but in Ray Allen as a capabale sidekick of the Big Three, outscoring the trio of LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Will Flourish When James Harden Isn’t His Teammate
The Houston Rockets have a head coach that doesn’t learn. After a rough performance against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the James Harden-Chandler Parsons duo of selfishness and ball hogging continued to create havoc and ruin another game for the team, while Jeremy Lin got a chance to put up some nice numbers, but as long as Kevin McHale is coaching the team it’s not going to help him get the minutes and role he deserves.
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Chicago Bulls – The Hard Way Towards a Championship
This is NBA season is shaping out to be one withotu real, untouchable favorites, and in such an eviornment the Chicago Bulls, especially after a very impressive 111-87 win over the Houston Rockets, should be considered as championship contenders, even if the group of Joakim Noah, Jimmy Butler, Mike Dunleavy and the rest don’t exactly look, on paper, like a team that can go all the way.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Not Used Enough, James Harden & Chandler Parson Too Much
The Houston Rockets keep crashing on the wall called the Oklahoma City Thunder, playing the wrong kind of basketball in trying to beat them. Jeremy Lin gets wasted with minimal minutes while James Harden and Chandler Parsons do nothing but try to show the world they can compete with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook in scoring, which they can’t.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Kevin Durant Makes it Look Too Easy
A big statement for the Oklahoma City Thunder as they beat the Houston Rockets 106-98. Russell Westbrook was fighting his inner demons with Patrick Beverley making life very difficult for him most of the night, but Kevin Durant seemed in a zone of his own, not for the first time this season, making yet another impressive scoring performance look almost effortless and easy.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Can Be Just Like James Harden
The Houston Rockets don’t beat the Portland Trail Blazers without Jeremy Lin making the most of his time off the bench, seemingly understanding that the only way for him to get minutes is to play like James Harden, which means becoming a score-first kind of player, and let someone else worry about trying to make others look better.
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Houston Rockets – James Harden on Fire, Jeremy Lin Makes the Most of his Time
There’s no getting around it: The Houston Rockets are the best team in the NBA since New Year’s, and their 112-86 win over the Indiana Pacers, with another excellent performance from James Harden and Dwight Howard while Jeremy Lin made the most of the limited minutes he’s been getting.
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Houston Rockets – James Harden Is The Star, Jeremy Lin a Bit Player
It seems the transformation is complete, although the life of an NBA constantly takes unexpected turns along the way. Jeremy Lin has now turned into a bit player, getting the minutes he knows no one will notice, while James Harden is back to leading the Houston Rockets unequivocally, leading them to another win, this time over the Houston Rockets.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Becoming Irrelevant & James Harden Almost Loses the Game
One of the more interesting things about the way Jeremy Lin has been treated by the Houston Rockets and specifically Kevin McHale is that he actually didn’t do anything wrong to deserve losing his role with the team and with that the minutes he’s used to playing. It’s hard to criticize James Harden and Patrick Beverley while the team is doing so well, but the wrongly appointed star of the team almost found a way to cost them a win with one of the dumbest decisions seen this season from a wrongly perceived elite player.