ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Blazers 12/20/2006

The Rockets ball movement is crap without McGrady. Zero creativity. All those open looks Hayes used to get with McGrady in there are becoming less and less frequent. He's still doing a good job on the boards and is solid defensively, but his offense has vanished.

 

Again, he cant create his own offense. He just cant.

We are asking him to do something he is incapable of!

 

In games like this when the shots are not falling...championship coaches go DEEP in their bench.

JVG...not so much !

DD

 

... It looks a curse to me...

Now the way Rox running is just like last season when we completely loss T-mac. I dont see any different even though we have Bettier and Wells.

This is just same old Rockets. Nth changed.

 

They wanted to pressure a turnover, like the last one in Tmac's 13p/35s.
But too slow response after the ball passed to Roy.
Novak is the man for the last two mistakes,
or JVG first for putting in a rookie in the clutch times.

Same in game vs Warriors.

 

Agreed but when Yao Ming came back onto the court he was playing to avoid getting the ball and indicating that the others should play their game- was he exhausted or is this JVG and his so called game plan?

 

Dada.....his wife doesn't want him to do so....

 

I mean energy wise. He used to grab boards and get loose balls like crazey. Now he isn't.

 

Jim Jackson was a scoring machine in his younger days. So yeah that mentality did carry over.

But he was also creative with the ball and knew how to get separation. His upper body was also deceptively strong. Desptie all that I dont think he was particularly effective in his latter days in Houston.

Battier just doesn't have the footwork or creativity. Look at his footwork. It's very mechanical. Effective on defense but not going to work on offense.

 

Let him pitch the entry pass to Yao then and put everybody else on the far side of the court. That's how an older, slower, Jim Jackson got a lot of open shots.

PS - I'm not saying Jackson was productive, he was freqeuntly over matched - but he could get shots, which Battier just won't even try.

 

Lakers won today's game against the wolves with their bench!

Radman.
Evans,
Bynum,
Framar,
Cook

are very solid bench players and they are much more better than the rockets bench players.....

 

JVG is quite stupid when it comes to Novak!
He doesn't give Novak playing experience!
He expects Novak to come in and save the team in a couple of mins. at the end of a game.
Possibly Novaks great three point shot may not exist anymore.Thanks JVG!!

 

in the final 2 minutes, you can only foul someone with the ball or it's a technical. this rule was invented to avoid the endless hack-a-Shaq that occured in the 2000 playoffs.

 

Honestly though, do you feel comfortable when battier gets the ball in the post? I dont. How do you think he can create his own offense? What do you suggest?

As for the pitch entry pass, isnt that what Rockets run? If Yao is single covered when the ball gets thrown to him (like today), Battier's man is still on him. So how does that work?

Actually I like Battier's shot selection at times. He realizes what he is capable of and he is not capable of. Jim Jackson often hurt the team by taking ill-advised forced shots.

IMHO, Battier is not an option on offense. He is a Bruce Bowen type player.

 

If we want to win, want to survive in the west, we need a better PG.

Why we keep losing without T-mac, because he is the only person who can handle the ball well and creat opportunities. Also, we actually can not count on T-mac's, his back is not carring us anywhere, we all have to admit it, don't self-cheat anymore.

We need a better PG badly, who can handle the ball well.

 

Thank you Yao!!

 

T-mac, Rox's hope or headache?
Lets leave T-mac alone. He is not playing, so no ifs.

This rockets team is able to WIN. We just can not win a winnable game. JVG needs a little breakthrough, players need cut the TOs. I likes Head a lot, but he is not PG. He made a low grade TO in 2nd Q, cost us 2 points. He drove to basket, being blocked or missed, insead of passing to Yao for an easy lay-up several times. His 3 is great but not the 2 , i do not understand why JVG let he shoot in clutch. Jho is the better option since he is experienced, played well recently, should be good in clutch. Shoplifter is usually mentally tough.

 

Cannot agree more!

 

JVG needs to put at least ONE ****ING PENETRATING player on the court with Yao ming.

The offense is too stagnate without Tmac...someone needs to drive to the hole and create a rotation problem for the opponent.

I nominate V-Span or JL3...either one would make a difference when the outside set shots are not falling.

DD

 

Bruce Bowen didn't score 14.4 ppg as a rookie on realtively acceptable shooting %'s (37 and 42). In fact bowen's never been more than 8 ppg, while Shane has never been less than 9 point something.