I'm going to blow up. I don't understand why we Rockets fans must keep suffering from watching his horrible play. His defense has been subpar. His shooting is crap. What does Rick find in this guy? He doesn't even get the ball to Yao as often as last year. He is pretty useless now. I don't even understand how he is the best option anymore. Last year I know we didn't have anything legit behind him, but this year we have Steve Francis and Aaron Brooks sitting on the bench. Is there anyway we can make a point? I honestly can not watch anymore Rafer games. I don't care if he was hitting a couple of lay-ups today, the point still stands that he is horrible. He made a horrible decision at the end of the game to take the ball to the basket. Head is just as bad. Why do our guards look like crap? Seriously.
i feel the same way u do brother. rafer need to go or the coach need to go. we cant compete with utah, suns, spurs, mavs, and NO like this.
U must be kidding man! Rafer shooted 4/10 tonite 1/5 in 3 pointers. So, if u say "If Rafer takes another 3 pointer", it seems more logical.
Really, r u kidding me? I don't understand why he shoot everyball which he should pass but didn't shoot the last one.
you must be kidding. HE ACTUALLY TOOK IT TO THE BASKET TONIGHT! Twice! Plus the three. thats three shots he made. he's not making the floater any better than he is the 3 pointer
He used to be able to just give it to Tmac once crossed the half court. Well, guess what, Tmac is out.
The magic tonite is some of his floaters are going in. If the stats in nba.com is correct and I recall correctly, Rafer only missed 1 floater & 1 layup tonite (3/5 in 2 pt shooting). So, what's your complain!? Rafer's 3 pt shooting is ridiculously bad.
he had to shade away from parker to play the pick and roll due to yao's lack of mobility at 7-6........parker had a sub-par game anyway.........i kinda hope adelman benches rafer just so it opens you guys' eyes that he's the best you got.
Then why did Parker perform below average? Why did Hubie Green mention how well Alston was defending Parker? With his team shooting nearly 50%, how come he only had 3 assists? Why does everyone here think they know more than JVG, Adelman and Green?
Echo you. Guys would have thought Coach Adelman was blind to put Rafer on the court heavy minutes given his poor shooting in the first 3 quarter.
Rafer and Head are playing atrocious, we seriously need to try something new out. Every game we've started slow, whether we've won or not we've started slow.. we haven't blown anyone out, we need to try some new rotations.. Rafer's 3pt's and floaters are atrocious and he is about as bad as you can possibly get at making decisions in CRUNCH TIME BTW to everyone saying how good Rafer was on D against Parker... explain this to me? I really don't give a damn how well a guy plays D if he doesn't play any D on that guy when it counts. Parker Assaulted Rafer Alston in the final 5 minutes of the game you can't denie it, where was Rafer's D on Parker when it counted? It was no-where... and thus it was embaressing.. almost as embaressing as that wide open airball he chunked up, Chuck Hayes has a better chance at nailing a three then Alston
