巨长，但是很公正，也很一针见血。
www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9997968/the-rockets-approach-nba-finals-worthy
比较有意思的节选：
Houston's defense on the perimeter is a well-chronicled mess outside of the delightfully feisty Patrick Beverley. Jeremy Lin works his tail off, but he's often at a quickness disadvantage, and he tends to ball-watch and lose his man on cuts off the ball. Chandler Parsons is smart as all hell, but he's not as fast as the league's speediest wings, and he often lunges himself out of possessions by jumping passing lanes in pursuit of steals he has little chance of snagging.
And James Harden … He has been a disaster on defense this season. There have been games in which he has barely bothered to try. He might be the first player in NBA history to become a mainstream (sports) Internet sensation because of his lazy, unfocused off-ball defense. When Harden is not feeling it, he tends to gaze wistfully upon the ball and stand upright, a nonathletic position from which it is very hard to muster quick-hitting movements when the need arises. That poor stance is behind the one-on-one blow-bys from luminaries such as Steve Blake. When drivers get by him, Harden has a habit of going for the desperate reach-around steal and then quitting on the play when he doesn't get it. He's a gambler like Parsons off the ball, only with less urgency and much worse risk/reward calculations.
基本上赞扬了被窝里的防守，说林很努力，但是还是有局限，水哥有点儿投机取巧，然后哈登就是整个眼神防守。
"There's no in-between with him," Sampson says of Harden's defense. "He's either really good or he's not there. He sometimes has slacked off as he adjusts to being a no. 1 option on offense, but being a no. 1 option comes with responsibilities on the other end."
辛普森教练说的很实在，ＬＯＬ，希望教练组能强硬些。
Houston has tried to have its cake and eat it, too, by calling for Howard post-ups out of timeouts and after dead-ball situations, Sampson says — basically, to let Dwight eat when the game has already come to a pause organically, rather than stop the flow to force-feed him on the block. "In the flow of the game, we want to play how we've always played," Sampson says.
比较有意思的是，辛普森承认火箭队会专门给火花喂球让他篮下背打，用这样的方式哄他高兴，这样他可以在防守端表现积极。
火箭目前这样基本管不住两个大牌明星，以损伤团队的利益的方式哄他们高兴，实在是太愚蠢了，这样怎么可能打季后赛呢。
希望火箭继续摆烂，早点换教练组。。。。
