The Keys To The Rockets Beating The Clippers In Game 7

[@modetallah]

That high horns bluff play was a beauty.

[@mrtampham]

Nick, your videos are consistent, informational, and overall superb. Thank you for all of your hard work, you deserve to be a coach for the NBA or maybe having your own TV show :) Any thoughts on that?

[@ptadisbander7959]

Tam Pham I wonder if such practical basketball analysis would go that well on TV as you have to be quite familiar with basketball and at least played it a few times to understand the videos. However America is so big it has so many niche markets so maybe a lot of people would dig it.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Beau Jaco Exactly my thought. Coach Nick covers things that mainly attracts the hardcore NBA fans. The casual viewer will most likely not like this.

[@meesleering6968]

Beau Jaco As someone from the Netherlands who only plays 2k, I understand almost everything

[@ptadisbander7959]

Mees Leering 2k can do that, it can definitely teach basketball fundamentals.

[@MrYoumitube]

That game 6 against the Rockets 19 point lead, 2 min left in 3rd quarter is going to haunt the Clippers for a long time. I was very critical of Josh Smith through out the year, but he really stepped up during this series.

[@infinity1323]

MrYoumitube I agree, though it is easy for a player in the NBA to step up when their defender isn't doing their job. In saying that, Josh Smith, whom I think is a terrible basketball player, took full advantage of Blake Griffins' ineptitude. Credit to him.

[@mpn009]

blake griffin body language tho... It seemed like he quit

[@gingsSon]

Mauricio Nappa I thought it was more fatigue after 2 7-game series' no?

[@rahowhero]

stewie griffin not really, never saw bird, Jordan (or after same no. Of matches considering 5game series) or even LBJ, play that shit and uninterested in 2nd round of playoffs, or any other stars in this years playoffs unless they injured......harden comes close.

[@sergiofloresivan]

Blake is Garbo. If someone doesn't spoon feed him an easy shot, he tries to whiplash his way to a foul. Despise the man

[@mpn009]

stewie griffin well man, the spurs swept portland last year and beat oklahoma city after going to g7 with dallas, also you could at least contest shots instead of walking around doing nothing on defense

[@imsteezy1]

The Clippers lost bc no one besides CP showed up to play. Blake looked lost & uninterested at time, Barnes rather be a thug than a bball player, Crawford & Reddick were chucking shots that weren't falling, No more playoff Austin Rivers magic, and a non existing bench. Outside of there Big 3, this team needs serious roster changes. Now with that, there is no way I see the Rockets getting past Golden State.

[@X02Overdose]

imsteezy1 CP3 during 4th quarter of game 6: 1-6 FGvassists, 0 steals, 0 blocks with a garbage time 3

[@Jayh68AM]

blake griffin gave up

[@DerkuiDerkui]

In the first round, I went for Spurs. They lose in 7. Second round I go for Clippers and they lose in 7. In the western conference finals I'm going for... ... ...

[@XKiDCraZyX]

Please say Warriors

[@MrFlash119]

WARRIORS!!! COME OUT TO PLAYA!!!

[@munclesonkey]

The worst part of this result is CP3 is going to take a lot of blame for it and be called the guy who can't get past the second round again, when he was the only clipper who showed up for all the games he played in and was great. Crawford did nothing all series... Redick and Barnes were so inconsistent offensively... This team just can't win in the west without a bench. It's not about the Clippers choking it's about them having to overplay their starters til they're exhausted because every time the bench hits the floor they hemorrhage points.

[@rahowhero]

Bollox. It is about players with shitty attitudes. Blake Griffen for example - an all-star dunker power forward, whose rebounding rivals mugsy bougues stats.

[@t4d0W]

munclesonkey and yet if the roster stays anything the same as it was the last 2 seasons (though last year the Clippers ideally had perimeter depth but not important depth for their specific match ups) I would be surprised if Doc Rivers still gets a pass as the GM of the team. Thing is the Clips right now don't have a lot of money to throw for better established quality role players. They should have done what the other contending teams with tight budgets tied to their superstars have in a similar situation and try develop them.

[@ChillRichard]

I thought you were going to point out more of Blake Griffin bad help defense. It looked like sometimes he was in the right position to help but instead put no effort and gave up easy lay ups.

[@bballbreakdown]

I did show 2 of them...

[@jpowers55]

BBALLBREAKDOWN well he did say "more". I guess two wasn't enough.

[@dan16000]

ChillRichard I think Blake is the type who would lose a game rather than be where he can get dunked on.

[@cnl1213]

I like how Coach Nick highlighted Redick's play and how his defense diligence on Harden took away from his offense. That said, there is a lot of talk on blowing up the core 3 for the Clippers, when the clear issue is the wing positions. May be a better athletic wing w a jump shot could help them... like a Reggie Bullock or CJ Wilcox... players they already had but never explored or developed.

[@Plague_Doc22]

I feel bad for CP3. The guy statisticly is one of the best to have ever played. And he truly is a great PG, can do it all.

[@gingsSon]

How about giving a little credit to the rockets?

[@gingsSon]

Just saying, I wish that the last two videos could've been at least a little bit about them, and not just the LA floppers.

[@natshirley101]

stewie griffin He did credit them. He praised Prigoni, Terry and Ariza. But lets face it the Clippers threw this series away more than anything. 3 blowouts and they still lose.

[@MrFlash119]

^lmao only 1 of our players have been fined for flopping this year...

[@Mxjwjoebd]

Darrius Arnold Cause Hardens an all star or he'd get fined every game.

[@kylevanilla3177]

Doc is a good coach but he's the Derick Fisher of NBA GMs. Most of the players in his bench were players that he used to play against in the playoffs with the Celtics (Hawes, Big Baby, Turgkolu, Crawford although he was there way before Doc, etc.)

[@matlit1859]

I really enjoyed the observation on how to defend against Harden's foul-fishing. I recall last year that Wesley Matthews had a lot of success doing the same thing. Coach Nick, what do you think of the Cleveland, Atlanta matchup? I have a hard time imagining the hawks moving to the finals, though I really hope they do.

[@t4d0W]

Mat Lit Its funny because some fans think James Harden is this amazing offensive player when he shits all over teams who can't defend him. Sure he'll get to the line somewhat but when you teams and players do know how to defend him well, he just resorts to chucking up the ball hoping he gets in rhythm. Or making the bad pass leading t a score for the other team.

[@Guopher]

Anybody else feel like this video was more about Clipper's turnovers and why they didn't run high horns enough? Not how the Rockets won?

[@basketballfreak24]

agree 100%. it was made apparent in the spurs series that the clippers play up or down depending on how aggressive CP3 is. he plays hard and is very smart but he doesn't look to push the ball enough or score enough and hopefully this was his wakeup call. Reddick's defense on Harden was the shocker though. made the MVP candidate look like an average 2 guard. Klay has the blueprint to stop Harden now and GS will move on.

[@makerKID5]

Series preview of the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets series maybe? How will that series be won or lost based on stats (past performances) and current make up of both teams (match ups).

[@varunalluri7891]

And it repeats in history 2020

[@PanzehVideos]

If Josh Smith could consistently shoot 34-36% from 3 he would be a massive threat. The offense looked really good when he was able to shoot 3s and then work off the tribble.

[@0ISanderI0]

Due to the last 3 to 4 postseasons I had completely lost faith in the clippers altogether. Then I watched blake go bananas and cp3 be an absolute hero in game 7, I thought I was a changed man. Three blowouts later I was considering them beating the warriors and getting the title, when all of a sudden that all too familiar clipper post season breakdown came. At first I couldn't believe it, until I remembered the way I felt when they lost to the grizzlies. At the time I blamed vinny del negro, but now I'm not so sure who's fault it all is.. Anyway, very strange team these clippers!

[@eunjaeshin1149]

the title says he is going to lay out key reasons why the rockets won.... but what i watched showed how well the clippers played.

[@ttv_cards8133]

Why didn't you break down the Hawks vs Wizards game 6?

[@Bibi51497]

JJ redick played GREAT defence this series. It's too bad that Barnes and Crawford were both pretty cold as well. Would have made a huge difference if at least one of the three got hot in game 7

[@tsbonand]

This is what Sportscenter is supposed to be like. Not TMZ.

[@Sircinus3005]

I remember when Mark Cuban called out Stephen a Smith and Skip Bayless about that lol

[@Nate-iw9qx]

Another great video! #ballislife

[@ir0ckfartz]

Nate Durantini lol

[@aaronjohnson6622]

"The Clippers get by on their good looks" I like that. Man that was HORRIBLE defense by Blake when Harden came in. Zero effort. Great breakdown and I thought Redick played pretty good defense too. I have to say, I thought Doc was a better coach than this. When I see lack of effort on defense it makes me wonder if he has/had the attention of his team

[@shuttles5999]

Coach, what will the Rockets need to do in order to stay with the Warriors?

[@2XxStayFlyxX4]

Do the Atlanta Hawks stand any chance on winning at least 2 games versus Cleveland? I find it hard to believe that Hawks will give the Cavaliers competition.Hopefully I'm wrong, I'd like to see a great series between them.

[@julianaugusto1]

no video on bulls vs cavs game six?

[@aravindmantravadi4198]

Coach do you think Brewer should start over Jet to guard Curry?

[@Sl1ceSlice]

Nonexistent bench production pretty much doomed them.

[@lammatt]

blow out opponent twice and lost the series = weird? NO SAS 2 years ago.

[@durtX43]

matt lam thats also weird.

[@munclesonkey]

***** The Clippers also only blew the Rockets out twice. Game one was close all the way until the last 4 minutes. Going on a mini run at the very end of the game isn't a blowout.

[@chesschampion94]

Pretty sure clippers would have won game 7 if coach nick was there to coach them :)

[@akonvict]

Stfu dumbass

[@PR0BY717]

chesschampion94 if coach nick was there to coach them they would have won earlier lol i had no idea it would come to game 7 smh..

[@chesschampion94]

Techniec wow... rude :(

[@_lamar5059]

i know JJ played pretty good defense but why not put Barnes on Harden so JJ can have energy for his shot?

[@GloryAndy]

I feel Hou is gonna be in the final

[@jackcollins2758]

Coach Nick please be the coach of the Lakers

[@akadanielmaia]

Honestly I think the Rockets can beat the Warriors if they manage to play inside with Dwight and play hard because the Warriors are kinda soft sometimes and many of them don't like contact at all. Rockets need to keep their momentum.

[@kuczkens]

6:06 harden does three steps or am i crazy??

[@grinchstones8525]

Coach Nick you should use some Norwegian black metal as background music for one of your videos and just throw people completely off lol.

[@lauhugo3205]

Clippers ran fewer plays on Redick in playoffs and the majority of them were just simple hand off around the arc, which was too easy to read. Redick devoted so much into defending Harden, but the Clips need his 3s and they should look for a guy to replace Barnes.

[@moraboy5408]

Lau Hugo they should get rid of Barnes and Jamal, and Big Baby, and get a good SF and/or shooting guard, also a good backup point guard

[@marco901216]

Blake needs to improve his defense

[@JordanJumpin]

the clippers plays work like magic but they just dont use them enough

[@srirachasean5552]

6:03 TRAVEEEEL

[@avnerkreps]

Coach, who do you have making the finals? For my money, Warriors win in 5 and Cavs win in 7.

[@joeycheng8147]

LAC FTM-A 11-17 VS HOU FTM-A 31-41 here is the reason why

[@yungforensics]

I'd be surprised if Golden State doesn't sweep the rockets

[@WEEZYFANx2136]

Why no cavs breakdown?

[@bballbreakdown]

Didn't have time to get to it :(

[@willemdee]

HAWKS VS WARRIORS, calling this one early.

[@CustomFitted]

I'm with u on that

[@t4d0W]

willemdee Depends on what we see out of Cleveland. I am really surprised at the kind of play and production they are getting from Smith, Shumpert, Mozgov and even Tristan Thompson. I know the Hawks cannot stop Lebron but they need to be on all cylinders to beat a Cavs team that even when they are sloppy, will fight hard. Not saying the Hawks can't do it offensively but their buckets aren't falling easily, they don't have a player whose a constant threat to make 2 or 3 quick scores to get them back in.

[@t4d0W]

Sydni I don't think the NBA wanted the Spurs to come back to the finals in 2013-2014, but blame that to the best of the West for not trying hard enough to keep em out. I don't know if the NBA also wanted the Spurs to practically dismantle the Heat the way they did in 2014 finals and make the NBA golden boy look like a mere mortal against a bunch of old and young guys running amazingly beautiful basketball. But it happened.

[@t4d0W]

Sydni I'd lay off the conspiracy theories a bit. 2012 Finals was all Heat and not much on the refs. Scott Brooks is a bad coach and he got outmaneuvered. Regular season results mean absolutely nothing considering extreme changes that can shift momentum for players and teams.

[@TheMarkmaysky1]

Sydni What is up with all the conspiracy theories? I'm just gonna say that you're unhappy Lebron is winning so much. He's a great player, live with it! As for Cavs vs Hawks, I give the Cavs the edge. They have size, they have Lebron, and the Hawks are going through a seriously cold streak. The fact that Washington took them to 6 games without John Wall for half the series is unbelievable to me. If they barely dealt with those guys in 6 painfully tight games, I shudder at what the depleted, injured, but still Lebron-led Cavs will do to them. Also, I think this is going to be a singularly ugly series, a lot of scrapping, and the Cavs will win on heart rather than basketball dominance.

[@onailuigillav]

cuz they have T-Mac, Hakeem and Yao

[@MatthewMoscotto]

Doc Rivers might not have as much job security if next season they don't make a conference finals or finals trip...period.

[@LukawitTheflu]

The clippers are tired and plus they really only have a 6 or 7 man rotation and Austin rivers only play good with momentum on his side and Chris Paul played 45 min and Blake played like 40 something minutes in game 7 and if they won game 7 they probably would have got sweep or it would have been 4-1

[@JaySee5]

Clippers need a new GM that will do a sign and trade with Griffin for LeBron, Leonard, or Marc.

[@BloodlessWolf]

Your analysis sounds more of a critique on failed Clippers execution a less like a favorable analysis of what the Rockets did right. Do you think the Rockets winning was a fluke or an occurrence of the better team not winning?

[@t4d0W]

Kelly Bond The failure of Clipper execution in tight playoff games has been a thing since Doc coached the team. It was similar to the Clippers/Spurs series in round 1 where ideally the Spurs are the better team overall. But Rivers adjustments got them ahead in situations where the Clippers could get them a game 7and in a favorable close game situation. And its sort of an interesting *what if* as Chris Paul with those double screens did amazing things. But overall it still comes down to executing down the stretch even in a series, whether its inspired by a coach or a player. Even last year with the first round match up the Clippers had against the Warriors. The Clippers not controlling the series without Bogut was hilarious. But the Clippers finally got it together in the end and Mark Jackson for the Warriors became predictable with letting Klay/Steph get stagnant and try take over the game by themselves.

[@sergiomelchor4399]

You wanna feel bad for the clippers, but why they just don't deserve it they Have no one too blame but themselves

[@infinity1323]

Over the past few seasons, I'm arriving at the conclusion that Doc Rivers is not a very good coach in the playoffs. Absolutely no adjustments were made in the entire series. I'm also starting to think that Tom Thibodeu was the reason for the success of the champion Boston Celtics. He did, after all, coach the defense of that Celtic team and we all know they won with their defense. I think it's time for a coaching change in LA as well as a roster update. They should also resign Jordan, no matter the cost. They should also dump Jamal Crawford. This guy is a genuine idiot when he is on the court. He has the basketball IQ of Dwight Howard, which is slightly higher than that of my right shoe.

[@Heskey4lyfe]

Vegas gives GS roughly an 82% chance of winning the series against Houston.. I think Houston's chances are way better than that; why do you think they hardly give Houston a shot?

[@raj8294]

The warriors have a way better defense then the clippers and Houston has no one the guard the splash bros....i see it going 4-1 to the warriors

[@t4d0W]

Heskey 4 Lyfe GS was tested well defensively against Memphis, even though Allen did annoy the team for 2-3 games. The Rockets beat on an old horse with the Mavs and sadly a Clippers team that ran out of steam and inspiration. And if the Rockets don't have a good answer to better ball movement of the Warriors along with Steph "I can't miss anything tonight" Curry, they are dumped on.

[@joshisonwheels]

To be fair, the Clippers were always a sort of weird team who was put in weird situations. Just look at Brent Barry right off the top of my head.

[@t4d0W]

***** U mean the Clipper Curse? The last time even before Rivers took over that the Clippers sniffed a 2nd round playoff run was in the mid 2000's with Elton Brand playing almost MVP-like. Its going to be more of a curse too if Rivers can't find quality guys to add on to his team. And it doesn't help him if he can't get more help when guys like REddick/Crawford are killing him in tight games.

[@rahowhero]

BludAardvark a centre who can shoot free throws would help, or a power forward who rebounds and defends as well as dunking.

[@ToxicWolfBite]

the clippers were lucky in the start of the series to play such a lethargic rockets team, and if they had a good coach they'd have won it in 5... but the rockets actually have a top 3 roster when fully healthy - ariza and terry have been especially valuable and josh smith is getting really comfortable. I'm a warriors fan but Im betting the rockets will take this series to 6 or 7. btw i think doc rivers is a terrible coach if you didn't pick it up lol

[@DGKboy27]

I never blame the coach, but this series showed me how god awful Doc Rivers is.

[@t4d0W]

BamBam Perez eh. I think his flaw of overlooking slight details when it counts did him in. Ironic considering its the same slight attention to detail that helped get a game 7 against the defending champions and a situation to win against them in the first round. And now he's GM, if the team doesn't drastically change then the finger pointing will start going to him with whack ass decisions. Like going after Spencer Hawes when the Western Conference is getting stronger at the wing and the perimeter.

[@ssjwes]

ToxicWolfBite Your one of those "nice fans" huh? Wish more like you instead of the foam at the mouth we get. GL in the series I just hope its entertaining and fun. If yall win give all you got and tap down the East!

[@rahowhero]

Coach, is Blake Griffen the most overrated player in playoffs? Or just the most overrated power forward?

[@jackgolding5357]

rahowhero Alright as a griffin fan I'll admit it, he didn't really bring it the last two games of the series. But in in every other playoff game this season, he was the best player in basketball. Who else had three triple doubles? Who else even got freaking close? For the most part I don't think Griffin is overrated and the best PF in the game (although Anthony Davis gives him a run for his money)

[@MikkoTV]

Where are all these Rockets fans coming from???

[@celticsarebest]

I think the clippers are going to get rid of Jordan,Crawford,Barnes,and maybe someone else.The hack a Jordan kills the Clips in playoffs,as well as a aging Crawford.What does everyone else think? Blake and CP3 stay.

[@jackgolding5357]

celticsarebest I don't really know, but I sure hope Blake and CP3 stay!

[@khoinguyen22]

Wow this sucks GSW is gonna sweep the rockets lol

[@shaiapouf420]

harden traveled and scored more then 3 pts while doing so, i dont like the clips but thats just lame for them to win tht way. JH is just terrible

[@hunyango2k]

The keys to the rockets beating the clippers at game 7 is.... rockets wants it more than the clippers. 😊

[@thewarinessexcounty8467]

Clippers role players were awful in the last 3 games of this series

[@yulintsai562]

Seriously, James Harden is overrated. He's probably the only so-called "superstar" who would get locked down by J.J Reddick. Kobe, lebron, KD certainly would not

[@Hulkamania4eva]

The entire video is nothing but what the Clippers did. CP3 said it, the Clippers didn't treat Houston with the same respect they did the Spurs. The Rockets got some life in game 5, and started playing harder.

[@bballbreakdown]

Well, when u lose the game, you tend to want to know why...

[@Mystereevan]

BBALLBREAKDOWN So Coach, are you saying the clippers losing was more about what they did wrong than what the rockets did right?

[@Asmobia]

Mystereevan I guess what Coach meant is: Since Clippers lost, Coach wanted to find out what ELSE/MORE Clippers could have done. And since Rockets won, I guess Coach doesn't want to distract the winners by providing too many suggestions -- keep on doing what you did if it helped you to win a game. Just my two cents.

[@kefkapalazzo1]

No reason the clippers should've lost this series. Pathetic

[@dmytroskrypka]

Choke City

[@GofinkleGaming]

man these vids go DEEEP

[@ABOPRID3]

First! Fuck the haters big shout out to my momma and my fans

[@austin7761]

FAIL!

[@duanehp1668]

The public brandy provisionally earn because mask considerably license alongside a probable swordfish. tremendous, animated self

[@GreyGamerHD]

The keys to beat the Clippers in game 7: 1. Refs 2. Refs 3. Refs and 4th the Few clippers who didn't know it was game 7

[@sxnses]

Off topic but do you think Detroit should do everything in their power to retain and build around Reggie Jackson ? I've been hearing he'd fit better in Brooklyn what do you think coach nick?