We played poorly and lost because the Rockets decided that they were the Phoenix Suns tonight for some reason. But honestly, you guys are acting like playing the Jazz is an automatic loss, and I am sick to death of crap like this - they are not as invincible as you people want to make them out to be. They are a good team, and beating them will take a lot of effort (which is why I don't want to face the Jazz in the first round - I think we can win, but it'll take a lot out of us.) And LOL at everyone going bring T-Mac back.
We lost all our momentum in this game when Von Wafer and Kyle Lowry decided to be cowboys in the 4th quarter and run two man fast breaks against 3-4 defenders. Not only did they miss, they also caused a reverse fastbreak for the Jazz that gave them easy points to open up that double digit lead. The game plan should've been simple and we need to remember this one...give the ball to Yao Ming, have him do his work in the paint. You saw how easily he was getting jump shots in the 2nd and 3rd quarter. The only way they can guard him is with an offside defender like Millsap or AK to block his shot. Instead, our stupid guards insisted on running directionless fast breaks and left the whole team behind, causing Yao to have to assert more energy making up for our lack of defense in the returning fast break from the Jazz. Main idea: our guards need to stay in the halfcourt offense, feed it to Yao, and run the play.
I hate losing to the Jazz, and Artest was horrible tonight... 9 games left though so hopefully we can reclaim the 2nd spot in the west
I count the days until artest leaves the team. Same with Wafer and Brooks. With these players you can't be a solid team, they don't have f*ing idea of what's basketball game.
Way to come up short for houston once again......I dont kno what is wrong with Artest but he needs to stop one on one basketball and play team ball his shooting tonite and decisions on offense were horrendous and Yao jus looked tired the whole night. I somehow knew they were going to lose this game.
The Jazz are just better than the Rockets... the end They controlled that entire game. There was never a thought in my mind where I saw the Rockets actually making a run for the win. It's almost like Utah is just toying with their record to make sure they play the Rockets in the 1st round of the playoffs hahah
Von Wafer is the worse player in Rockets uniform. I'm willing to bet he shoots more than anyone, relative to minutes played. He comes in and within 5 minutes, will have shot the ball 7 times. He runs and never finishes. There's a reason Phil Jackson won't give minutes to a selfish, stat-padding player.
Tank, tank, tank. If the standings stand the same as they are now, TANK so we don't have to play Utah.
Seriously, someone should make a epic fail montage with all of our missed layups from just today lol...
