ClutchFans Game Thread: Jazz @ Rockets 5/5/2007 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 7)

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, SOMEBODY EXPLAIN WHY WE WAITED SO LONG TO FOUL AT THE END OF THE GAME?!?!?!?!

WE HAD A F*CKING CHANCE

 

tmac is just not mentally tough enough. all he needed to do when there was 5 minutes left in the game and we were up by 5 was to attack attack and attack!!!!!! the FREAKING BASKET!!! but he went back to take the jumpshot.

attack attack attack the basket FOR CHRIST's SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!1

GEEEZ I WANT TO NUKE SALT LAKE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The jazz were what we thought they were

 

so what???

 

But they are Power Forwards NOT Centers!! So they can't be the best Center only the bestPOWER FORWARDS
Please get your facts straight!!

 

My blame all goes to JVG,

How did we lose,
1/We got too little from bench, how? JVG's stubborness, never use new people, lack of adjustment of rolls. Deke played well, but only got 3 mins, even while Yao was struggling, and gave nothing.

2/totally got outcoached by Sloan, hardly any changes of D, and very poor in Offence.

3/Not foul at the end, that is the biggest joke ever!

 

Totally disagree. Besides TMAC, Yao, Chuck, Shane, Kirk, and maybe Luther (although this is quite iffy), Rockets should get rid of the rest if they truly want to be contenders. Zeke, Jake, Rafer, JHo, JL3, & VSpan are not quality contributing type of players nor do they have much athleticism. When I watch the Phoenix Suns, Golden State Warriors, Mavs, Spurs, and even the Jazz, all of those teams seem to be so much deeper, faster, and seem to have several more players per team that can create, penetrate, and slash to the basket. The Rockets are way too much of a static outside shooting team and were badly exposed by the Jazz in this series. Rox only have 2 players that could qualify as slashers but unfortunately one of them (TMAC) chose not to do that and the other (Kirk) was stuck on the bench.

 

Next season, we should have a new lineup, take off Rafer, and we need to have Stevie Back!!!

I miss Stevie soooo much when I saw Rafer got abuse by Williams!!!!

 

WHY DOES THIS NOT HAVE IT'S OWN THREAD?!?!?!?!?!

9 SECONDS LEFT,

 

what sorta fan are you??

I nearly drowned...

in my own tears.

 

Seriously weak. Rox were up by four with only a few minutes left to play and Utah had no fouls to give. So what do the Rox do? They stop initiating the contact by driving the ball to the rim, which is what got them the lead, and instead, they start taking outside jump shots! WTF is that weak-ass sh#t?! I'm so dissappointed in this team (yet, I'm a sucker and will continue to root for them). Hopefully they can improve the bench this offseason and we'll try again next year (maybe with someone new on the coaching staff, perhaps?).

 

agreed yao, tmac, and battier should be untouchable.

 

2nd most disappointing loss in my sports-watching history

I am sick of those "mac ok, yao is the reason we lost" or "yao shows up in the end, mac should go" finger pointing here. Wake up, YOF and TOF, everybody is accountable tonight.

JVG should resign. Period.

 

You blame this on the management for sure.

Off-season move: Gay for Battier that's it. Doesn't solve the backup PG problem, does not solve the PF problem. No bench score help.
This is not a championship team anyway.

Up 2:0 with home court, I do think we should beat the Jazz, but lack of the 3rd option hurts.

 

Which makes it worse !!! Why didnt he dominate on the offesive end the whole series??? Nothing but fadeaways and turnovers!

 

somewhere Bonzi freaking Wells is smiling...

and eating doughnuts. frosted ones.

 

Steve is a TO machine. You don't want him back.

 

You know what I love? Aside from Battier, our offseason additions (VSPAN, Snyder, Bonzi) didn't even play in the playoffs. OK, Snyder played 2 minutes and Bonzi went MIA before the end of the season. But the point is, at the beginning of the year, we expected these guys to make a difference and either through ineptitude or JVG's doghouse, it didn't happen.

 

Precisely why I hope VSpan improves his game in the offseason to earn regular season playing time. That young man is a fiend for driving to the rim.

 

Hayes = bench player
Alston = bench player
Battier = bench player

we need at least two more starters

 

JVG's response? "There is no excuse." Thank's a lot Jeff, really insightful.