gutsy win i was hoping to see mcgrady hit that tough jumper over 3 kings at the end of regulation but oh well. the way they play with composure in OT was great to see, outside of luther (bobbled ball out of bounds and horrible pass to rafer which lead to long 3 being shot to beat the 24) everyone played well on offense and did not force anything and was patient. Defensively was not as good, the kings have a bunch of tweener 4/5 guys who shoot midrange which hurts mutombo's rotations. artest hit a lucky (but i'll take lucky over good) 3 to send it to OT, but he was a load on the block. times like that i would prefer snyder on artest, not nearly as good as a defender as shane, but just as quick and stronger. artest just bullied his way through. (oh yeah i felt tmac was fouled a few times with no call, but we got away with a 5 sec count and the W)
An impressive win! I like the current chemistry and the flow of the game. Can Yao be integrated into that system without too much of adjustment when he is back? If so, this team is then really dangerous!
most striking is he said " i do not think one guy can win games in the NBA so even if i am the man they trust at the end of games, i am going to continue to find the open guy if thats what it takes to win the game"..... very classy....
he also added " i dont care if they miss one or two shots....i trust them enough that i will continue to find them"...
I'm kind of curious...how many back-to-back games have other teams played? It looks to me like we've had 10 back-to-back games, and the season is only 11 weeks old.
Okay I stopped watching when Tmac came back... because I couldnt bear to watch him go down again from having to shoulder the load... and we go on with a great winning record .... so I have decided not to watch anymore Rox games and check the box scores... last year I decided to watch Dallas on both of thier win streaks the minnie one and the 14 game one... both times I watched they lost.... maybe ill start watching Dallas, Phoenix and SA instead
This is gonna sound weird, but ... we won this game at the free-throw line. Every make mattered, and we made with uncanny consistency. Even Deke. We can win playoff games with that ****. All the way to the finals.
I really thought for a sec Tmac was gonna say "I scored like crap last night and I was gonna make that up. But you didn't think it was about me was it Bill? It takes 5 baby!" then zoom in on the shoes. That post game interview seemed liked something out of an adidas commercial. oh well, good win.
From Yahoo: Western Conference Team GB 1. * Dallas -- 2. * Phoenix 1.0 3. San Antonio 3.0 4. * Utah 5.5 5. Houston 5.0 6. LA Lakers 5.5 7. Minnesota 9.5 8. Denver 11.0 9. Golden State 12.0 10. LA Clippers 12.0 11. Sacramento 14.0 12. Portland 15.0 13. New Orl/OKC 15.0 14. Seattle 16.5 15. Memphis 21.0
yeah you are right about yao, but if the rockets do well, don't you think that would put the rockets in ELITE status? cause they still can win without yao. and meaningless? if the rockets lose, then people will say, oh, we need yao, rockets win, not just scary, bonafide championship team
Wow...even with Rafer Alston on the team? "Rafer you f***ing piece of sh!! It's not time for another one of your mental stutters. I swear we will never go anywhere until that idiotic garbage of a player just disappears from this team."
