ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Sonics 1/23/2008

Durant drove baseline and got denied by Hayes. With 1.6 secs left, Durant shot a 3, which took an eternity to fall, and hit the back of the rim. Game

 

Tmac is a teaser -- great, great talent, but doesn't always play to win.

It is pathetic to shoot FT at such low percentage as a top wing man in the league. Work on your freaking FTs!!!

 

Thanks. Close game.

 

Tmac got fouled and missed both FTs, Durant got his **** stuffed by Hayes, then caught in inbounds pass with less than 2 secs left and missed the 3.

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=280123025&period=4

 

Tmac looked like he twisted his left knee several times at the beginning of the 4th quarter, it scared the hell out of me. He was really showing heart tonight, just wouldn't let the rockets lose.
Oh, don't forget to practice your free throws.

 

It is 14/15 and 2/11.

 

after all those posts, i wonder why you are still a rookie

 

i'm still a Tmac hatter but games like these that makes me wanna go back to licking him.......but he is such a tease, watch the next game he wont take it to the basket like he did this game, he is gonna go back to his damm jumpers

 

Rafer was raining from 3
Shane with his key 3 late
Tmac with the pump fake, step back 3

Rafer again with a cold-blooded 3

Glad to see Yao lower his shoulder and take out Kurt the scrub Thomas.....he needs to do that more often.

Tmac was incredible, he needs to improve his FT shooting of course.
Landry with heart and muscle tonight
Yao was Mr. consistent and should have handled the ball late instead of Tmac like the announcers said.

I love how Bill Warrell gave up and said the rox dug a too deep hole to come out of and
Matt B. said, there is plenty of time (down by 10) and we hit a 3 and the comeback officially started.....the whole 3rd Q and early in the 4Q was so frustrating coming w/in 5-6 pts only to have Wally Scissorback come in and act all bad azz.......So glad the rox won and even more glad Seattle shatersonics lose a 12 straight game.

 

Although very close but a great win considering that Sonics had been leading the game most of the time.
Mac did a great job in the fourth quarter except for his terrible fts.
The rox should practice their their free throws everyday.
Also Chuck made a great defense in the last moment!
Carl still very efficient with 4 of 4 field goals!

 

Yao would have a brilliant game with a million rebs and a million pts going 999,999-1,000,000 FGs he'll miss his 2 shots at the end of the game and win anyway and we tear him down drag him through the mud..Tmac will do the same and we'll apologize for him doing the same thing yao ming did 2 games before..why is that?

 

UnFREAKIN Believable....

We win and there is still THE BS with the YOF AND TOF...

This crap is just getting STUPID...


This is a TEAM.... The TEAM won... Neither TMac or Yao could have won the game by themselves...

Dang... I miss the old days when all we discussed was the team execution on a nightly basis..

T_Man

 

I'd like to point out that our defense really wasn't THAT bad tonight. It's just that the Sonics wouldn't ****ing miss a jumpshot, even the off-balance, contested ones.

And to whoever brought it up, yeah, Landry is better offensively than Hayes of course, and just as good of a rebounder (probably) and hustler... but unfortunately, he is not yet as good of a defender.

 

Correction: Yao 14/15. Everyone else 2/11. Could we please have these guys practice as much as Yao??

 

Oh, please. You mean to. You want to.

 

he's playing v. roy next. roy is not in his league, but in terms of overall season, roy and his team have been better. roy is more deserving of an all-star spot than tmac.

then he faces baron davis and stephen jackson. then he has deron and boozer.

our guys will have their face game on.

 

He's playing a variation of the Yao strategy--force the defense to collapse on you and then pass to the open shooter. Notice that a lot of the open 3's came on drives to the basket. The biggest thing T-Mac did tonight is he didn't allow the Rockets offense to go stagnant. How many times have we seen a scoring drought in the fourth? T-Mac wouldn't allow that tonight. He was out of control for a couple of those drives but he really stepped it up. Instead of getting blown out by 20-30 points the Rockets came back and won, and that's all on T-Mac.

The offense still looks broken in a lot of ways, (everybody else needs to step up, only four players tonight in double figures), but what the heck. The big thing the Rockets have been missing recently is guts. It took some guts to fight back in this game and win.

 

its liking

and actually in this game he did take ALOT of jumpers and they WENT IN

he came around the picks and took tons of jumpers

but a natural tmac hater never notices these things

 

i think he got hit by durant when they bumped as he moved baseline. but it didn't look to bother him.

again, he still was not very quick or explosive. but that'll take time.

 

the missed 2ft didn't really bother me....he was the guy who dragged us back, so he should have that ball when the game is on the line,

we win or lose at his hand, in the end, t-mac didn't let us down...that's the old t-mac we all loved.

welcome back tracy!