How can Yao + scrub beat TD + Parker + Manu + deepest bench in the league on Sunday? Sorry guys, this is not Hollywood fantasy "Rocky" or "Hoosier". This is reality, baby.
I will force myself to watch this year's Oscar best picture winner "Crap", a 2 hour Chinese water torture to say the least. Deal.
Yao has to have a career night. there is no other way. i'm not talking 50-60 points and 10-15 rebounds. i'm talking Kobesha crazy ish. 70-90 points on 30-40 fg and 20-24 ft plus 23-30 rebounds. oh yeah, and 10 blocks/altered shots. and he needs to play 45-48 minutes. basically he needs to double his production from last game. even then, they still might not win.
Yeah. That's why I said that it's a huge opportunity. Let's hope that we capitalize on this opportunity and go into that game breathing fire. We gotta eat lightning and crap thunder.
I think if Yao stays outta foul trouble and maintains his defensive presence on the floor (and offensive explosion) we could realistically pull this off! Our matchups, IMHO, aren't so bad against them...(and Yao will lock up his 2nd Player of the Week Award! GO ROCKETS! (by the way--forget Crash, all u naysayers gotta watch BROKEBACK MT!)LOL
The question isn't about Yao at all. If he plays how he has been the last week we will be fine. Its will Tmac not only play, but be effective, and how will the guards shooting go? Also tonight is a big night. the Hornets play the Pacers tonight, the Lakers play San Antonio, and Sacramento plays Memphis, if they all lose these gamess and we beat San Antonio it puts us at 2 games out with 20 games to go and clearly in the playoff picture.
If Yao does that, or anything close to that, his global influence will be so huge that he might put the mid-eastern oil companies out of business and the Saudis will send assassins to kill him!!!
I agree. Unlike the Suns, who are a matchup nightmare for us, I think we matchup to the Spurs pretty well.
2 myths there. Since February 1, Laker are 8-10. Myth 1 busted - they have not been playing good. They are also a below average team on the road. That said their remain schedule is...... Code: [u]MARCH[/u] [u]OPPONENT[/u] [u]W/L[/u] Fri 10 at San Antonio L Sun 12 Seattle W Tue 14 at Sacramento L Wed 15 Minnesota W Fri 17 at New Jersey L Sun 19 at Cleveland L Mon 20 at Boston L Wed 22 Sacramento W Fri 24 Milwaukee W Sun 26 NO/Ok City W Thu 30 San Antonio L Fri 31 at Seattle L [u]APRIL[/u] [u]OPPONENT[/u] [u]W/L[/u] Sun 2 Houston L Thu 6 at Denver L Fri 7 at Phoenix L Sun 9 LA Clippers L Tue 11 Golden State W Fri 14 Portland W Sun 16 Phoenix L Wed 19 NO/Ok City W I see them doing at best only 6 wins (max 7) the rest of the way.
Well, LA just beat SA. I'm starting to believe Gene Petersen that the Lakers are going to move up and we'll have to battle NO and Sac for the 8th seed.
Well this morning I look at the scoreboard and the results are definitely not what I anticipated. LAL 100 : SAS 92 MEM 93 : SAC 105 IND 92 : NOK 90 GSW 111 : MIA 106 MIN 96: SEA 107 How many of you actually guessed the W/L of the above? I was hoping that IND could beat NOK and MEM may beat up on SAC but LAL and GSW over SAS and MIA? Good news is MIN is pretty much a goner. And now Tmac out for 5 weeks news Realisticly our chance of making the playoff this year is close to 0. LAL is running away and I checked their schedule, it's not nearly as brutal as ours. SAS is playing as good as we have been, and the thing is they're 2.5 games ahead of us and have an easlier schedule. NOK will fall short, and I don't see someone like AK47 the ultimate utility player leading UTA to the playoffs. On a side note: To beat the Spurs, we don't need Yao to have a 50/20/10 game, even with TD they'll still have 2-3 defenders collasping on Yao; all we need is for our guards to be able to hit WIDE OPEN shots. You know, like all those guards do in the rest of the league?
