Wed 6 at Minnesota W Fri 8 at Charlotte W Sat 9 at Washington W Tue 12 Home LA Lakers W Thu 14 at Golden State W Fri 15 at LA Lakers L Sun 17 at LA Clippers W Wed 20 at Portland W Fri 22 at San Antonio L Sat 23 Home LA Clippers W Tue 26 at Indiana W Wed 27 at New Jersey W 10-2! Yao is again a prime candidate for player of the month with averages of 28 pts, 10 rebs, 2 assists and 2 blocks for the month of December. He gets at least one player of the week award. T-Mac bounces back from Dikembe's elbow with a vengeance and averages 25 pts, 7 assists, 6 rebounds and 2 steals shooting at around 45% for this month.
Wed 6 at Minnesota W Fri 8 at Charlotte W Sat 9 at Washington W Tue 12 Home LA Lakers W Thu 14 at Golden State W Fri 15 at LA Lakers L Sun 17 at LA Clippers W Wed 20 at Portland W Fri 22 at San Antonio W Sat 23 Home LA Clippers W Tue 26 at Indiana W Wed 27 at New Jersey W Yea 11-1. I call a win in SA just because we owe them one. We match up VERY WELL against them, and they have been very vunerable at the Alamodome. Lakers I am calling a loss because its a tough venue in the middle of a 4 games in 5 days. All in all if the Rockets keep taking care of business versus the "lesser" teams like they have been it should be an 11-1.
Rockets are improving slightly on defense and chemistry every game so i think they'll win 9 games out of that. It might help if Bonzi, Sura, or Snyder come back sometime in between there.
Wed 6 at Minnesota W Fri 8 at Charlotte W Sat 9 at Washington W Tue 12 Home LA Lakers W Thu 14 at Golden State W Fri 15 at LA Lakers L Sun 17 at LA Clippers W Wed 20 at Portland W Fri 22 at San Antonio L Sat 23 Home LA Clippers W Tue 26 at Indiana W Wed 27 at New Jersey W 10:2
I expect that the fans here are in general very optimistic based on the 11-5 record. But something should be concerned: 1. T-mac's condition. Don't expect him be fully recovered soon and shoot even better. 2.Contribution from the Bench. Our starting lineup is superb and leads the lenovo stats, but the help from Novak, Span, JH, Head and co. will be a major factor to win, especially with so many road and 3 back to back games. 3.Don't under estimate every opponent. We have won all the games that are expected to win, and also loose the games with good reasons. If we can keep that for the whole season? That is, if we can keep the same intensity and energy nights in and nights out and in each quarter (esp. the last one). The same intensity should be brought out against the bobcats like against the spurs (Bobcats is highly motivated when they meet top teams in the league.) . The coming games in Dec. are good tests. I hope the players on the floor won't think "we should win it easily" before the game or before the 4. quarter when we are 20 pts ahead. At this point, I care more about how the players present themselves than the records. Records are the results. A win quote above 50% of the 12 games is for me fully acceptable.
I am not very optimistic with 8/4, but almost 90% people here don't think we could actually beat SAS. Why are we necessarily to loss? We once had a big lead in the last game, I bet we will take them this round.
Well considering they play in the SBC center, how do you propose we get the game moved to the Alamodome? DD
