ClutchFans Game Thread: Jazz @ Rockets 4/19/2008 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 1)

im so pissed! wow what a weak performance! it only makes me think if we only had yao! but it is what it is! A LOSS!

 

yes. i do think we can still a game in utah though..i just wish Bobby limits his shots a bit.. i mean even rafer doesnt go THAT bad..3/15 and the 2nd quarter TOs really hurt us.

 

Who needs layups and freebies when you can hustle? That's Scola and Hayes' specialty. That hustle and miss shots.

 

Well, I hope you are not right, not because I want to continue the discussion, but because we can not get Matt back...

 

Hayes should not play unless Scola and Landry are in foul trouble.

Bobby was tolerable tonight. Better than at some points during the regular season when he made you want to throw up.

Deke's got to be in there for his D.

Head just looks nervous as hell out there.

 

What this team really needs is Ron Artest. Sign & trade for him with Bobby Jackson, Brooks, and Novak. I love Battier, but on a championship caliber club, a guy like him should be coming off the bench.

 

Clearly, the difference was the bench play. They outscored us 28-17...which this discrepancy just so happens to be how much they won by. Jackson's 3 for 15 hurts.

 

Korver was shooting like kobe in 06 at one point

Dammit, I would send lorenz woods in the game and tell him to get in a fight with deron williams and get him suspended

 

no help? 20 million is enough help for a player to get some damn motivation.

again, i still love the rockets.

i feel bad for Rick. you get what you want, boozer and milsap on the bench cause of foul trouble, you are winning, have chance to extend it. but missing free throws. WTF. shane battier missin alot of free throws, tmac is below average, scola is below average, landry is below avaerage. what is going on.

 

What's the worst is that we werend half and than in the 3rd we got back in the game with great hard play. It was tied we were playing really well and suddenly everything crashed. That's all.

 

th 3's were just not going in and they were converting into layups on the other side, we couldn't get a cleat looks we are too short.

 

He is simply not that good and cannot take over games when most needed! Battier played an excellent game!

 

Rockets 3P shooting: 6-22 (.273)

 

Give Woods more mins, just try it what do you have to lose

 

our major problem is we can't get easy baskets. we can't or don't push the ball enough to get easy baskets and open things up for everyone.

when we did, we went on a run and took the lead. then utah started making shots and getting to the line and that was all she wrote.

we don't have the quickness to penetrate their defense, when we do we are too small to finish inside.

this SUCKS!!! we are just completely overmatched

 

What does it matter though when Novak's man scores at will on the other end? Everyone on the Jazz knew how bad he was defensively. As soon as he got in the game AK47 posted him up and went right by him.

 

Riiiiight. Nevermind the Jazz, knowing that no one else for the Rockets could make any plays offensively, just took the ball out of his hands.

I hate to break it to you, but the Jazz are trying to win also and Sloan is one of the best playoff coaches in history with his in-game strategy.


I STILL think the Rockets can win this series, but I don't know what people can expect when you have five players getting time who have NEVER played in the playoffs before.

Talent-wise, the Jazz are not that much better. Experience-wise, there is no match.

 

Reminds one of game seven last year....

 

I feel sorry for the Rockets. Utah overplayed ours all the time. Sigh! Why can't Macgrady touch the ball during the fourth quarter? It seems to me that Rockets dropped too early. Injuries cost Rockets another season.

 

It's going to be slow torture watching the rest of this series.