does anyone have a torrent of this game! it would be great to see the game! thanks guys! im glad YAO got threw his lil slump. I hope jimmy gets his game back!
Kings have 23 and 9. When was the last time the Rox had a better a/t ratio than the Kings??? I challenge anyone to find it.
Please, Please, add my email to the list for torrents. I would love to see this (and all) Rockets Games. I can't afford Leauge Pass.
Glad ward showed up at the end. . . but d*mmit He has those shots just about EVERY play. . .sometimes he and lue hesitate . . and I'm scream D*MMIT!! . . . .THAT WAS THE SHOT WE WERE WORKING FOR!!!! Rocket river
http://www.sacbee.com/content/sports/story/11346868p-12261449c.html Kings swept out of Texas Sacramento stumbles home 0-3 after OT loss in Houston By Martin McNeal -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 am PST Sunday, November 7, 2004 HOUSTON - All of that and still no victory. The defense was much better, the ball movement improved, and there even was a hint of a swagger. But when winning time showed up, the inability to make the ultimate shot or the ultimate stop left the Kings dragging an 0-3 mark back to Sacramento. The Houston Rockets twice rallied for a 104-101 overtime victory before a sellout crowd of 18,003 in their home opener at the Toyota Center. The Kings, 0-3 for the first time since 1997, had numerous opportunities to win but could not get the job accomplished. At the end of both regulation and overtime, Chris Webber had shots to either win or tie the game but could not get them to fall. Webber made a nice move to elude Yao Ming on the baseline, but he missed a one-handed, 10-foot runner with the score tied at 93-93 with 23.2 seconds left in regulation. And after the Kings scored the first four points of overtime, veteran point guard Charlie Ward follow Yao's basket with consecutive three-pointers to give Houston a 101-97 lead with 1:29 left. Webber and Brad Miller each made jump shots, and Houston made 3 of 6 free-throw attempts to make it 103-101 with 29 seconds to play. The Kings had been consistently involving Yao in pick-and-rolls that freed Webber for elbow jump shots. This time, it was Miller who came up to the elbow and extended the play farther with a nice bounce pass to Webber slicing through the lane. Yao got back and bothered Webber's one-handed attempt as he drove to the basket. Webber rebounded the ball, and then his two-handed follow caromed off the rim. "I just missed it, I guess," said Webber, who bounced back from two early fouls to score 20 points, grab 13 rebounds and hand out seven assists. "Whatever it was, I missed, so that's all that matters." That was the theme of the night for the Kings - they missed. Other than Mike Bibby's 10 of 20 shooting and Miller's 6 of 13 from the field, the Kings once again couldn't convert from the floor. They shot 37.5 percent (36 of 96), and usually that's not good enough to get a win on the road against a good, albeit tired, squad. "That was a tough, tough loss," Kings coach Rick Adelman said. "Their two main guys got it going and we couldn't do anything to get the win. It's not enough that we played better. We just have to go home Tuesday and get a win (against Toronto)." Led by Bibby's outstanding performance (seven rebounds, seven assists), the Kings jumped to a 53-38 lead early in the third quarter. However, quicker than they gained the lead with a 21-4 run spanning the second and third quarters, Houston jumped back into it. Tracy McGrady, who scored 23 points, hit three three-pointers in a 1:54 stretch to get his teammates and the crowd into the game. Houston (2-2) was playing its fourth game in five nights and clearly showed the effects of dealing with its second back-to-back set this early in the season. McGrady got the Rockets through that rough stretch, and then Yao who took over in the fourth quarter. Yao, who scored a season-high 33 points, had 12 of those in the fourth quarter. At one point, he made 7 of 8 field-goal attempts on an assortment of turnaround jumpers, baseline jumpers and hooks. "He's 7-5 and he knows what he's doing," Miller said of Yao. "I tried to push him early in the game and get into him, and it seemed to make it tough on him. Then later, he got going and made it tough on us." http://www.sacbee.com/content/sports/story/11346869p-12261442c.html Ailene Voisin: This night, Yao is the fire that makes Rockets burn By Ailene Voisin -- Bee Columnist Published 2:15 am PST Sunday, November 7, 2004 HOUSTON - Until Saturday night's intense, if unsuccessful effort against the Houston Rockets, the Kings could have been accused of false advertising. The same group of players who purchased a newspaper ad last week proclaiming their unity of spirit, in the previous two games had performed with all the togetherness of five solo artists auditioning for individual record deals. They can play together. They demonstrated that against the Rockets. But can they play together for 48 minutes? Can they win together? The suspense persists, the questions lingering. While there is much to be said for incremental progress, the Kings return home 0-3, having surrendered easily to the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs before extending the Rockets into overtime and failing to capitalize on one of those precious and few NBA opportunities: Fatigue can be a foe and an ally. Of these two travel-weary teams - both having been to China and back within the past several weeks - the Rockets, who spent the previous evening squeezing out a victory in Memphis, figured to be gasping for air, desperate for rest, ready to be plucked by an invigorated, inspired opponent. "This was a big loss," Mike Bibby said later. "We played a lot better. We had a lot more energy out there, were a lot better defensively, so that was good. But we should have come out of here with a win." Were it not for the elongated arms of Yao Ming, the 7-foot-6 center who emerged from his own three-game slump with a dominating performance, including a defensive sequence that twice obstructed Chris Webber's view of the basket in overtime, the Kings might have prevailed, might have swatted away some of that early-season concern. Initially, the Kings seemed poised to do so, appeared to be the superior club, with better offensive balance and a significant advantage at point guard. Bibby absolutely dominated Charlie Ward, hitting long jumpers in his face, running him into screens, deceiving him with those hesitation dribble-drives and ensuing layups. Brad Miller dropped in several of those velvet jump shots from the foul line and aggressively pursued rebounds. Webber was a creative, willing passer from the high post for the first three periods. Peja Stojakovic continued to shoot the ball poorly in stretches, but compensated by cutting underneath, converting in transition and creating scoring opportunities with steals. Bobby Jackson, similarly off-target from the perimeter, managed one acrobatic three from the corner to go with four rebounds. Darius Songaila grabbed four boards in brief minutes. Yet as coach Rick Adelman would say later, "We have to get some consistency in the way we play. I see improvement, but we need to get a win." While Adelman went on to fret about the lack of bench production, the Kings didn't exactly lose because, as has become increasingly apparent, the roster lacks the depth of previous seasons. They weren't overcome because the Rockets' subs were that much better. In truth, neither of these teams has a bench that rivals, say, the Mavericks, Spurs or Grizzles. But in the deciding minutes, the Kings were overtaken because of Yao's exceptional talent, but mostly because they played hard, but not necessarily smart. And not all that together, either. They committed mental mistakes, the most costly affording Ward two open jumpers. They stopped moving the ball, stopped moving without the ball, stopped stroking jumpers, stopped involving all five players. The offense became a two-man game, then a one-man game, with Webber, no longer able to elevate and dominate, assuming too much of the scoring burden. In what remains perhaps the Kings' ultimate dilemma - whether the starting forwards can form a comfortable marriage - Webber and Stojakovic have yet to display anything resembling the offensive cohesiveness that Webber enjoys with Bibby, and Stojakovic with Doug Christie and the departed Vlade Divac. While Webber shoots too often, Stojakovic forces too many shots. While Webber too often looks only to one side of the floor, Stojakovic still fails to make himself enough of a target, either by cutting and moving with the assertiveness of the past, or utilizing his sturdy 6-10 frame to separate from his defender. "I think it is getting better, though," Stojakovic said. "It will come. We have many games to go." True, but the Kings have to find a better way to play, a new way to win. They can improve defensively, can occasionally bust loose for flurries of transition baskets, but they lack the liftoff to run opponents of the gym. These aren't those Kings. Offensively, who are they? At the moment, who can say?
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What a great game... good thing the refs called that ticky tack loose ball foul on yao or he might have never fired up. Everyone stepped up in that game last night.. woo, it was a classic. can you say CLUTCH CITY?
The game last night was great. I went and thought there was no way they could possibly win after the way they started the secodn half. But the TMac 3 point explosion and Yao 2nd half explosion was fun to watch. Yao could have had 20 assists last night...they took so many three pointers. I'm glad Charlie started hitting them.
Here's a small video from Rockets.com: http://www.nba.com/media/rockets/openerscenes.wmv It's footage of some of the liftoff opening ceremonies, crowd footage etc. The quality is terrible and it looks very amateurish, but it's a little something for people that weren't at the game.
"He's 7-5 and he knows what he's doing," Miller said of Yao. "I tried to push him early in the game and get into him, and it seemed to make it tough on him. Then later, he got going and made it tough on us." haha,funny quote! link
I don't think so. They were up by three. Hitting just one of two would have given them a 2 bucket lead.
