Hope he returns soon healthy. The Rox need every game remaining and to go into the playoffs on a roll.
Wait...didn't he just say he was gonna play through it down the stretch? AND the team's been off since Sunday night and it's gotten worse?
they should hopefully pull this out seattle has some talent hopefully they just play so-so. with the lakers and hornets losing and the suns/jazz winning this a game where we must gain ground while not losing any to the teams below us.
Thanks a lot Matt. It will be good to heal him up. More playing time for Harris tonight??! And we will need some offense. Maybe we can get borrow some from the Astros.
Why don't you go say that to his face? Oh yeah, I forgot you're hiding behind the internet, where all the internet tough-guys hide.
Rest up everyone that needs it. I'd rather they be in the 8th spot and healthy than 4 or 5 and be hurting and tired. Besides, if the first round series goes to a game 7 it doesn't matter if they are home or away judging by this team's ability to lose game 7s with ease.
The Rockets did lose to the Celtics last season(back when they really really sucked) without Yao and T-Mac, so this won't be easy. Still, Seattle is a terrible team, so it's still a very winnable game.
we have struggled against seattle 2 out of 3 times this season so this one won't be easy without Yao and Tmac.
This is the game to rest TMac. It's the Sonics, and we should have Rafer, Luther, and Bobby driving to the basket all night long. We will win tonight, the Suns will lose to the Spurs, and then we clinch the #5 seed when TMac returns on Friday to defeat the Suns.
That's certainly easy for you to say when we all know the odds of any of us being put in that situation are slim to none. You wouldn't have said what you said to pchan if you were face to face with him either, so what's your point?
Being healthy for the playoffs is more important than winning this game. Maybe Adelman is brewing another 22 game streak like the last time TMAC went out.
Yeah I wish Tracy had strong bones like Karl Malone... it would be nice but we got to accept he's hurt as usually get well and be ready for playoffs.
We will definitely have better ball movement. We all know the ball stops, once it reaches Tmac hands. Luther is going to be important along with Bobby J. Get Novak and Harris ready to take up some scoring slack.
He still has to keep playing because we play Utah and Clips after this and need to stay in front of the Jazz.
I think him being out for this game is a good thing. Ever since towards the end of the winning streak when T-mac started playing the 48 minute games, we became too dependant on him on offense. Most of the plays were either pick and rolls & isolation type plays which doesn't involve much movement. With him being out it will force us to focus on movement again that made us sucessful during the streak. Without movement, our offense becomes stagnant and there's not a chance in hell we can win a round in the playoffs. This is a really good thing IMO.
Sucks but at the same time think it's the smart move, esp. with a massive game on Friday nite looming
