ClutchFans Game Thread: Lakers @ Rockets 4/23/2004 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 3)

I hope Kato injures shaq so he can't play the rest of the series. Or let's get one of our scrubs, Mike Wilks to punch Kobe in the groin so he can't play.

 

LOUD AND INSANE THROUGHOUT THE GAME ! ! !

 

Ready to do my part in Game 4. I'll be alternating "GO ROCKETS!" with "BEAT L.A.!" until I go horse.

 

Don't forget to bring towels, red and white!!

It's playoff time in Houston again baby!!

 

FANS will rock the house tomorrow night!!

 

It's going to be a 5.0 on the Ricter scale tomorow!!!! WHOOOOPPPPPPPP!!!! So excited about this game!!! Go ROx! Go Fans! Go TC!!! Go HOUSTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


GO ROX!!!! WE RULE!!!!

sorry fgor any misspelles. Just got back from da bars.

 

This is the first Rockets Playoff game I can watch in HK. Hopefully I could hear the most thunderous noise in Toyota Centre. GO ROCKETS!

 

As a Rockets fan to other Rockets fans, all I ask from all of us for at least the next two games is to give our full, unabashed enthusiastic support to the team as a whole -- every last 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 21, 29, 30, 31, 35 and 52 of them!

 

is there anyone left to do PBP on the net? (( i can't even watch the damn game.

 

Poor guy, where do you live?

 

after a horible Game 2, Shaq wants revenge, Kobe still wants to jack it up 40 times, GP says he aint shooting enough, and Karl Malone says..........I dunno, something the Karl Malone puppet would say............Go Rox, at least win 1!

 

BIG WIN TONIGHT! YAO GOES OFF FOR 30

GO ROCKETS!!

 

Man ... I hate being in SoCal right now. All I have to hear about on Sports Radio is the damn Lakers. I just keep getting madder and madder because all they are talking about is how the Lakers are going to do against San Antonio.

C'mon Rox ... Knock 'em down and give em a series so they can make SA the least of their worries.

 

here in chitown all my friends are Laker fans. i'll catch so much **** from them if we dont pull it out tonight (but atleast i'll be at a bar so if they dont i wont remember)!

Rockets - 92
Lakers - 87

Steve has 32 10 9

 

PLEEEASE let me post first in the game thread.. i promise the rockets will come out with the win!

 

5.0? that's a tremor... you can do better than that !

 

Sounds good to me.
GO ROCKETS!

 

We will win.
We must win.

 

That's not enough. Steve and Yao need to combine to have 55, 20, 15 for us to win the game.

 

Rockets need more efficiently utilize Yao's advantage, i.e. "soft touch" instead of keep "expecting him to tough up". Yao is who he is as of now. He has great soft touch can shoot ball well mid range to outside. On the other hand, his body only allows him to play tough and rough for at most first 10 minutes. After 10 min., he is out of rhythm and turns soft. Lost of people expects him to play as a great center and think that it is a waste to ask him swim at the mid range. I think that he should play low post combined with mid range jumper regularly. He can shoot over almost everyone at mid range and when his mid range shot hits consistently, they have to come out to defend him or even double team him there consistently, then he can go down low whenever he chooses to. It also opens up the lane for guard to penetrate. That way he won't get exhausted after 1st qtr. 7'6"'s mid range jumper is much more deadly than 6'-7''s because it is very hard to defend. Yao has the soft touch. If allowed to shot mid range jumper regularly instead of once a while, he is going to hit regularly.

The point here is to use what he has, not what he should have. Some day, he might grow tough to be a great center who everyone expects to be. Until then, take advantage of his "soft" touch instead of complaining his lack of toughness.