ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Celtics 1/2/2008

TRADE LUTHER HEAD!

BUY OUT LUTHER HEAD'S CONTRACT!

WAIVE HIM AND LET ANY TEAM WHO WANTS HIM TAKE HIM FOR FREE!

SHIP HIS ASS TO EUROPE!

KEEP HIM AND LET HIM ENTER THE 3-POINT CONTEST BUT DO NOT PLAY HIM IN REAL GAMES!

 

This one is coach RA fault. He should play Scola rather than Head at the last 4-5 minutes. celtics is not a 3-point team. Head can't pass and handle the ball and can't defend and Ray Allen got the key offence rebound!!!.

This one on coach.

 

Not a cheap shot to Yao, RA should have the guts to put Yao on the bench when the rest of team is rolling.

 

the problem is this team is built around a big man who's just not good enough to lead a team. yao ming cannot lead a team to victory. honestly i think we would have won if yao had not been playing in the 4th. Scola or Hayes wouldve gotten that rebound.

 

we doing so well on their benches.
Good game, if battier can hit that 2 times 3s even just hits one, we will be in different....

tought lost, at least we fight.

Go Rox.

 

very nice come back, we smelled the victory at certain point of the game, but still we lost.

 

The Rockets need to watch the game tape from the third quarter over and over. Yao's getting double teamed before the pass. Hayes is left untouched. Hayes sets a pick and Alston drives to the basket. Hayes sets a pick and then cuts to the basket for an easy layup.

To heck with trying to establish Yao early. Use him as a giant decoy that allows everyone else to get easy points in the paint, which is what Alston and Wells have been doing recently with great success. Think they don't like playing with Yao? Once the defense is confused feed Yao close in and let him slam the ball home a few times which is exactly what happened in the third. And if Hayes is going to be out there you need to give him opportunities by running plays that end with him under the basket for an easy layup--compensate for his offensive shortcomings.

Again, use the double on Yao to drive to the basket. When T-Mac gets back he needs to cut without the ball. And Alston should commit to living in the lane.

Finally, doesn't anyone else notice that the offense looks much better with Brooks running it? The Rockets hit a mini scoring drought tonight and it killed them in the 4th. Alston just isn't quick off the pass--next time you watch the game see how many times he passes the ball to the guy who just set the pick for him even though both defenders come after him.

 

this loss is on poor coaching at the end. scola and brooks needed to be in the game somehow because they helped the team turn the game around. *(#(# adelman so pissed at him right now

 

making 2-3 bone head plays is not the same as loser mentality. loser mentality would be giving up when we are down.

 

No the entire night, they came back from a 20 point deficit and ultimately played Boston 'as tough as anyone this season', per the Boston announcers.

This team could be getting very close to an extended winning streak.

 

RA should have had Scola on KG. I hated to see AB being taken out because the turn over.

 

at least we didn't lose by that much, but it was still a lose
great effort though

 

I don't normally blame anything on the refs. But didn't the ref basically kill Yao's game in the third quarter? Yao was warming up in the third quarter. Then there it was, three questionable calls in a row against Yao. That pretty much did it as far as shutting down Yao goes.

Yao did not play a good game. I was surprised to see the kind of looks Boston gave him in the first quarter. He normally would make at least haf of the shots. Something is still not right with him. Is he over the flu yet?

Call KG a good defender - he is - but the way he pushed Yao with both hands and dislodged Yao with his hip and knee, he could have fouled out in 3 minutes.

 

It was not a surprise that the team came back and took the lead with 2 penetrating players in there at one time.

But to try to finish with a bunch of 3 pt shooters surrounding a slow footed big man is not real smart.

DD

 

Give the Rockets credit for coming back and forcing Boston to play all the way to the end. Any number of other teams would have folded in the first or second quarter. The Rockets earlier this season might have. They're certainly playing better basketball right now.

 

Thats what I feel Cohen but I think we need T-Mac to do that ! If we can get better without him and he comes back his old self.....Watch Out !

 

If the refs aren't going to be fair with Yao then he needs to adjust his game.

 

a tough loss to swallow, besides that game against the heat, i don't think the celtics have ever been put in this position where they lost a big lead and then had to fight at the end to win, but you gotta be proud that this team didn't make this game turn into the knicks game against boston when they were down 20, they kept pushing at it and got back into the lead. I think those offensive rebounds at the end, KG taking over, and remember that battier rim out wide open 3 cost us...but pretty good effort out there, but now we're 2 games below .500 again

 

The team is getting better but I don't get RA coaching in the final minutes. I did want Yao back in the game but he took out Scola and Brooks, why not give Scola and Brooks time with Yao.

 

At least we now have 4 people averaging double digit scoring.