Western Conference Power House, the diminutive Houston Rockets Basketball Team, once considered Contenders for the 2009 World Championships, has succumbed to the lowly Toronto Raptors. In fact they were crushed by the determined Raptors 94pts to 73 pts. The Rockets played with heart, so much so that they slightly raised their interest in the game to just above gutless. Their Coach, once great Coach Adelman of the famed Sacrament offence, was content to see that the Rockets play a complete game without an organized play. In fact they performed the Sacrament offence and defense as though they were Vlade Devac and Chris Webber to a tee (Retired of course!). Content in his seat, along with the other emotion less assistant coaches he was witness to a showing by his team, that there is something deeply wrong about the team and its play. By the end of this Road Trip possibly General Manager, Morey the Wizard, might be tempted to turn over the reigns to Tom Thibodeau, who is about the only Coach who could turn things around in the second half of the season. This team can’t play the Sacramento game and it almost can’t do anything by playing its injured players’ This team will go nowhere without a game plan that includes all the talented players, a new Floor General and a Back up athletic Center are desperately needed, Mutombo is incapable of being this person. If Von Wafer had continued to play his role of bench warmer we would have lost this game by more than 35points
I would have to say that since they only looked like a less than average team tonight, they only looked like former championship contenders. I just wonder if the 1982-83 Rocket team could have beaten the Rocket team that played tonight. Interesting.
