Not gonna be a cake walk Jazz have an athletic front line with Kantar and Favors. Hayward vs. Parsons will be a fun match up. Lin needs to take over and continue to DOMINATE the glass Dwight... and we should win this back to back
I think Howard, Asik and Parsons all want to play better than last night. I look for good intensity tonight.
Tough game b2b, but Utah is also on b2b, so that eases a bit. Hope we don't have any more injuries happening.
Tough loss to Suns last night will make Jazz on the road most challenging game thus far. I like their young bigs. If Parsons is a no show again and Casspi is out it will be a tough game. A game where H&H should basically say we are not going down to inferior teams even under tough conditions.
I think our main focus should be to stay attacking and try to limit our turnovers. If we do that, we win this game easily by 20 plus points, as long as we keep the heat on until the end and don't get comfortable once we get a lead. I predict that we come out the gate chewing them up and have a double digit lead out of the first quarter. Rockets - 108 Jazz - 92
I think they will go 9-1 for the first 10 games. May only lose one game to Clippers when cp3 goes nuts.
hopefully the jazz don't duplicate the defensive scheme the mavs used in the 2nd 1/2 because the rockets definitely need to work on playing against that type of d. i think they are going to be focused on starting and finishing strong, game should be over by 3rd quart. but you never know.
Of those 2...especially after seeing what happened last night, IMO, I'd go w/ T. Jones EASILY (depending on how limited Casspi will be w/ his ankle injury). I mean, D-Mo almost single-handedly cost the Rockets that game giving up all those wide-open 3s.
This is our game to really blast ahead, and show the league what we're about. I'd like to see a knockout - a 120:85 game. Let's burn them away with all our arsenal!
James and AB acknowledged that as well, about being able to beat the Zone Def...slowed them down and ruined the rhythm of that 2nd Half.
Maybe, maybe not. Often times after an injury, you feel like you can still play. But you will really find out the next day. It will stiffen up, hurt more, etc. the next day.
Looks like Gordon Hayward's extension talk didn't go through. Expect him to start balling out for contract year. I'm so excited, I'm all in on this Hayward/Parsons matchup!!! Need Parsons to exceed his career 3FGM so we can blow out the Jazz again!! First Rockets' game I'm really psyched about. Beat the Jazz. Let's go Rockets!
