ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Pistons 11/18/2006

Just highlight them and you can read clearly.

 

Everyone knows Rockets will be 20Pts ahead in the first three quarters. enough

 

detroit might be playing catch up. this could get ugly.

 

I agree with you
Trust the Rocket, go go go.

 

你认为火箭还会第三次经历像和马刺、公牛那样的被翻盘或者险些翻盘吗？

 

Pistons will front Yao.

Rox gotta figure out a way to get around it.

& all this talk last game about Yao being dominant, not being dominant.. Who gives a ****! As long as we are putting up W's & making it to the playoffs people will give Yao his respect. Now what we do in the playoffs will help the haters back off ridding Yao & T-Mac all thier carriers but untill than the critics will still hate. You must make some noise in the playoffs to get respect in this league.

 

rockets need rp, and cluthfans nedd hamburgerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
rockets 100
piston 99

 

My prediction for the game with my own ode to Daryl Morrey statistical analysis:

Rockets Starters
Yao - 9
Howard - 3
Battier - 5
McGrady - 8
Alston - 4
6th man
Head - 3
Bench
Snyder - 2
Mutombo - 2
Padgett - 1

Pistons Starters
Nazr – 4
Rasheed - 6
Prince - 6
Hamilton - 7
Billups - 7
6th man
Flip Murray - 3
Bench
McDyess - 3
Hunter - 1
Delfino - 2

Formula: (Starters x 2) + (6th man x 1.5) + (Bench x 1) + 3 for home court advantage + number of wins in last 10 games (momentum factor)

Rockets total: 73.5
Pistons total: 77.5

Therefore, Rockets lose!
Matador prediction record to date: 2-2

 

YAO need to beat fronting and TMAC need shoot more. last game was so ugly when TMAC off court and YAO on the court. Without TMAC, YAO even couldn't get the ball: Floor spacing horrible because YAO was too slow and no one can attack the hoop and create the space for YAO and other players.

 

If Rockets couldn't learn any thing from 4th qtr collapse of past games;
I rather rockets lost this game; So let the same problem embarrass JVG
& related again & again till they really think it is a problem.

T-mac is good, but he may share the ball to someone in better place on floor at 4th qtr; pick& roll is Cool but coulnt rely this all the mins.
Yao is still good, but seems he is too selfishless and move too slow.
may too tired or confidence issue.

let Novak play the game; put this pattern player on bench too longer could only let he lost the feeling and become a freezing turkey.

 

Go，rocket.

 

personally i don't mind how ugly a win is, a win is a win, yes we were leading by 20 and got our aXs whipped in the last quarter, but hey, a win is a win, we must have done sth right that we got such a huge lead, every game.

well. before the season started, i predicted 7-3 for the first 10 games, and it's on the right track right now. just don't want to jinx the team.

talking about not want to jinx the team, i remember when the information came out about us might sign Bonzi, i INTENSIONALLY wrote: i love Bonzi, but i don't think we could get him with the money we are offering

let it be 7-3

 

and about VGD haters, who's a better coach available?
Only two I could think of is Adelman and Brown.
well, I think everybody likes the offense from Adelman, but he has not proven anything as a coach in the defensive end.
as for Brown, I just think he's too expensive for Les and i don't think he want to coach in a city like houston which does not provide enough media attention to the team
so who else is left, please do not mention Lenny wilkins, although Don Nelson was dug out off his XXX

 

If only we could trade coaches. I don't understand why JVG is not giving his new players a chance to play even for 1-2 minutes. Sitting them down will just make them less confident about themselves, is not helping the team because the starters get tired. The young players are the future of this team. How will they develop if they don't play? How will they be ready if they don't see playing time? And why is Bonzi still inactive? If he played against San Antonio I think we would have won that game. He is in the doghouse because the idiot JVG wants to prove a point........at the expense of the team. FIRE JVG!!!!!!!!

 

I just am wondering do you really watch the rox/bulls game that night? Or are you really a rox fan who knows basketball even a bit? C'mon Man. PLS Dont make yourself look like a YOH or TOF. Stop bu****it!

 

rockets win

rockets 97
pistons 85


yao ming score 30+ and grabs 12+ rebounds

bonzi rides a bike

 

He's right. Both 3rd quarter comebacks came with Yao on the floor and Tmac on the bench. Not saying it's Yao's fault - but his struggles in the Spurs/Bulls game contributed to their comebacks.

 

i think that Snyder should start. he's the only one that has a realistic shot of guarding Rip. Billups is the only real mismatch the Pistons have against the Rockets, but on the other hand the Pistons have no answer for Yao. Shane on Sheed should be interesting, and Prince gives T-Mac problems. i still look for Yao to break his slump and have a huge game no matter what type of defense the Pistons play. they are nowhere near as good defensively without Big Ben, and their offense isn't that much better either.

 

Of course I watched the whole game on TNT, Rookie. Look at last 3 mins of second qtr and third. Don't be a YAO-only-fan.

It was TMAC dominating the third and made Rockets have 20 points lead.