If you pull the Yao Card, I bet 31 teams are despite to show their offers. So you don't think we could find a good match. No one saw CP3 could lead Hornets to this far for 08 season I love multiple offer situation when I sell
I bet if we trade you, no other team will want you as their fan, so we have to cut you loose. Oh wait, that can't happen to fans.....
he played within the offense in the first 3 quarters. he became the true tmac in the 4th. that's what he needed to do and he did. notice he again played well late. he didn't force anything that wasted his energy early in the game. if he did play tmac ball, he wouldn't have closed the game the way he did.
I dunno, I am pretty sure we've seen this Rockets team before. Only one superstar has a big game, while the other is sub-par? Check. All of the role players have mediocre nights? Check. That Rockets team is mediocre. They've never been able to get out of the first round. And they dropped a whole bunch of games earlier in the season struggling to get to .500. The new Rockets team, the one that's only been seen in peoples' imaginations, has both superstars going off and the role players stepping up. Five or six players in double figures and real offensive productivity. That Rockets team might be able to beat the beasts of the West in a playoff series and actually make a run. Since it doesn't exist and may never it's an open question.
the whole team shot 51%. tmac shot 14-27 -> 51%, so the entire team shot 50% themselves. so yes, the team played very good.
Good game by all the Rockets. When asked to do something, they all stepped up. Aaron and Rafer had poor shooting days, but that was about it. Bonzi was big on the boards and dishing it out. Yao had a solid game, but seemed to be frustrated by Bogut and his Bogus flopping that got Yao sent to the bench early. Scola, Hayes, Landry, and James contributed well in their minutes. Free Throw shooting was horrendous, led by Yao Ming's 2 for 5. You know its a bad night at the line when T-Mac and Bonzi are your best FT shooters. T-Mac was on, but do you honestly think if T-Mac had started missing shots he would have taken 27 of them?? I don't. If T-mac has the same stats going into the 4th but defers then and the Rockets get turnovers or other guys miss, you complain that the Rockets went away from the hot hand. Someone said before: "T-Mac is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't." Can't say I disagree with them. I just dont get the whole, if we play like this against good teams, we will lose argument. Hello, we just beat GSW, POR, and SAS, and played like this. We ran the offense well, moved the ball, and found the open shooters. Rockets only turned it over 11 times and handily won the rebound battle. Had 24 assists on 38 buckets.
T-Mac - playing out of his mind everynight = Kobe Bryant / Michael Jordan's heir. And frankly, me and every fan on this board wishes he and every team mate of his plays out of their mind every night.
