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Media Day (Tuesday)

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Jeff, Oct 3, 2006.

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Thank you so much for sharing those pictures and news.
Glad to see everybody are ready for the new season, inculding the fans

#121 papsi2010, Oct 4, 2006

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1. Battier is 6-9 in shoes, he's listed barefoot, juct look at his draft measurements.

2. No T-Mac is a good 2 inches taller than Battier. Battier is about 1 foot closer to the camera in EVERY image.

If you look at the games when you go in person, Battier is probably around Juwan's height, maybe a little shorter, but there's a good inch and a half to 2 inches of difference between him and T-Mac.

And look at the pics again and notice how much T-Mac slumps. You see the games in person and players like Lebron, Joe Johnson, T-Mac are WAY bigger than listed, because they don't want to play PF they are listed smaller.

Just like guys like KG, JO, Duncan magically shrink to 6-11 so people don't ask why they are afraid to play C.
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i don't know; the placement of TMac's and Battier's feet look about the same to me.

#122 akuma, Oct 4, 2006
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I saw TMac and Battier side-by-side and TMac is not taller. They are close to the same height. Snyder was actually taller than I expected.

But, what difference does it make if a guy is 6'7" or 6'9" anyway, particularly when they are swing players?

#123 Jeff, Oct 4, 2006
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Looks like Bruce Willis here.

#124 pradaxpimp, Oct 4, 2006
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Looks like Bruce Willis here.
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Yeah after the Meteor exploded.

#125 Old Man Rock, Oct 4, 2006
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Nevermind, too sleasy.

#126 forchette49, Oct 4, 2006
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Glad to see that everybody appears to be ready for the coming season. Cannot wait for the new season to start!

#127 lovemtracy, Oct 4, 2006

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Nice work as always, guys.

#128 DarkHorse, Oct 4, 2006
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Looks like Head was very busy in the gym all summer long! he is cut big time from head to toe!

#129 KALIKULI, Oct 4, 2006
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From the Chronicle:

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Is there a new relationship?!

#131 brantonli24, Oct 4, 2006
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Man I can't wait for the season to finally get started!

#132 RocketManJosh, Oct 4, 2006
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Faos said:

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Somebody should photochop that 610 microphone to say Clutchfans. That would be my new wallpaper.

#133 ima_drummer2k, Oct 4, 2006

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That mannerism is pure Rodney Dangerfield, "I get no respect I tell ya" should be the caption for that one. I'd love a wallpaper of the Battier, Yao, T-mac, and Bonzi photo.

#134 BONIERO1576, Oct 4, 2006
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Jeff said:

Nikon 28-70 f2.8

My friend offered to lend me his Sigma 25-70 f2.8, but I couldn't hook up with him before today. I also had my Nikon 50mm 1.8 with me, but it just moved to fast to consider a change and I didn't bring another camera body with me.

I really did not want to shoot with a flash at all and I managed not to by pushing the ISO up to 1000. That was as low as I could go to keep the shutter speed above 1/60th and avoid blurring.

Damn, that lens is heavy though.
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It was f2.8? Wow, I thought it was large than that. Did you use a tripod on those photos? They looks really sharp even with the low shutter speed.

#135 LegendZ3, Oct 4, 2006
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Battier was indeed listed at 6'9 in pre-draft measurements.

http://www.mynbadraft.com/2001

Judging from all the photos I've seen, I think that makes T-Mac his listed 6'8, but it also makes Wells about 6'7, if I'm not mistaken.

The funny thing about that is that I actually think I remember Wells being listed at 6'7 earlier in his career, and at some point in the last couple years, it was changed to 6'5. I don't get it.

Kinda like Yao being 7'6, yet they insist on listing him at 7'5...

#136 Drexlerfan22, Oct 4, 2006
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ima_drummer2k said:

Somebody should photochop that 610 microphone to say Clutchfans. That would be my new wallpaper.

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Here ya go...

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LegendZ3 said:

It was f2.8? Wow, I thought it was large than that. Did you use a tripod on those photos? They looks really sharp even with the low shutter speed.
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Well, they don't make zooms below 2.8. They did come out sharp - some sharper than others. No tripod was used. WAY too bulky for something like this.

Photoshop rocks for cleaning them up - adjusting light/contrast, managing color, sharpening and removing noise. Pretty cool.

#138 Jeff, Oct 4, 2006

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Thanks for all the pics, great work. Is it just me or after listening to these guys do others share the view that this may be the most intelligent group of players in the league?

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Clutch said:

I did not hear that about Bonzi, but in reviewing the tape, that seems to be correct. JVG was asked what Bonzi's health situation was exactly and what his timetable was, and he said you would "have to ask Keith [Jones] that" but then joked that he would make Keith unavailable to the media.

There were so many media members in there today and it was so loud, you miss a lot of what is being said in the effort to get it on tape (in other words: holding your arm up there with a tape recorder as long as possible)
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Clutch thanks for the coverage and Jeff thanks for the pics. It's amazing that there's so much media surrounding the Rockets yet our home town media does a poor job of covering the Rockets. These media guys must be from out of town.

#140 thewaterox, Oct 4, 2006

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