ClutchFans Game Thread: Hornets @ Rockets 1/13/2008

forget about Tmac, how many games have we won with him in the lineup? Stop spread these Tmac nonsense. I am seriously sick of it. Tmac penetration? He never did it when the game is at the stake.

 

Why the ball alwasy passed to YAO in the last minutes? It will be better if Ohter players shoted the ball.

 

how short people's memories are....

 

Well at least the next game will on Tuesday against the Sixers that killed the Rockets. I am looking forward to some pay back by the Rockets.

 

Tmac is no closer...puhhhleeease...he would jack up twenty foot fadeaways then come up lame.
I blame this loss on Rafer and Head for taking quick shots and not running the offense. Rox get a wing player that can take it to the hole and get fouls, this game would have been iced.

 

Exactly!!! I quit watching the soccer because the refs sucks! It won't take me too long to stop watching the NBA because the refs are so sucked!

 

didn't we win like 50 games last year with t-mac in the lineup? Didn't we go 19-11 or something like that with Yao out?

Admit you're a t-mac hater(or only want Yao to have the spotlight)

 

I agree. The game looked very strange.

 

Since when is T-Mac is bad thing for this team?

 

Yet we should have still won the game. The 5 pt swing due to crappy officiating on Yao probably lost us the game.

 

For a stretch Rafer took some ill-advised early shots, then it affected his confidence when those didn't fall for him.

 

Rockets loss a lot games that should have won this season.

 

To all of the T-Mac haters....you know NOTHING about Basketball!

 

Actually, remember when we played the clippers last year, we were down by 1 or 2 with like 8 sec left in the 4th. Mcgrady had the ball, drove to the basket, pulled in 3 defenders, kicked it out to Head at the corner and he drilled it. There you go

 

when can the hating on T-mac stop????? Geez, stop this nonsense. I'm seriously sick of it!

Fact is he's our best player, if you can't see it then get some glasses.

 

And you know EVERYTHING about being lazy, blaming on the fans for every missed free throws, shoots low IQ uncontested jump shots that bricks all day, faking injuries, letting your teammates down, etc.

Just admit it, Rockets are playing much better without Traci McLady. It's true! If McLady played today, we would've been blown out easily! McLady is a liability now. He plays softer than the whole WNBA!

 

My argument, all season long.

 

In the games that we have played without T-Mac against the good teams [the games that we lost, by the way.... Boston, Golden State, and New Orleans today] our starting 5, collectively, put us in a hole. It's not until RA starts bringing people off the bench [i.e. Scola {especially Scola}, Aaron Brooks, and Bonzi Wells] that we start to make an offensive push. Alston and Head were not having that good of games out there... why have them out there the last 5 minutes? Especially Alston - he might have been on fire coming into this game but he was clearly reverting back to form when matched up against Chris Paul - Who knows, maybe AB doesn't let Paul waltz to the basket...

Battier was an offensive non-factor today. If he's not taking any shots and he's on the floor with Hayes, and Rafer's having a poor shooting game, that pretty much means Yao and Head have to do ALL our scoring - that's not a recipe for sustainable success against what's turned into one of the premier teams in the west.

I love the way the team has been playing lately and those two non-calls at the end were terrible and frustrating to watch, but they still should have won. I don't fault Yao for 3 missed free throws as much as the blown layups from everyone and the big time defensive collapse on the Paul layup.

We seem to find ways to lose in the last five minutes, whether McGrady is out there or not. The lack of a 'killer' instinct has been an achilles heel for this team for a few years now. I'd like to see if AB, Scola, Wells, and/or Landry, at some point this season, can help us get over that problem on a more consistent basis when playing against top tier competition...

 

this game was winnable. Very bad coaching. I dont understand why he puts in head during those times. He cant defend. He cant pass. He barely makes his shots. We gave them this win

 

i was watching today's game on and off, because of football (lol @ billy volek)...but our execution continues to be poor at the end of games.....and that's both offensively and defensively.....you can't let Paul score a layup that easy at that point in the game, and you have to get a better shot at the end than Yao shooting a 3 pointer.....Yao should've been throwing the ball in in that situation.......