巨長，但是很公正，也很一針見血。
www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9997968/the-rockets-approach-nba-finals-worthy
比較有意思的節選：
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.
基本上讚揚了被窩裏的防守，說林很努力，但是還是有局限，水哥有點兒投機取巧，然後哈登就是整個眼神防守。
"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."
辛普森教練說的很實在，ＬＯＬ，希望教練組能強硬些。
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.
比較有意思的是，辛普森承認火箭隊會專門給火花喂球讓他籃下背打，用這樣的方式哄他高興，這樣他可以在防守端表現積極。
火箭目前這樣基本管不住兩個大牌明星，以損傷團隊的利益的方式哄他們高興，實在是太愚蠢了，這樣怎麽可能打季後賽呢。
希望火箭繼續擺爛，早點換教練組。。。。
