battier's three ball has been amazingly accurate though. hopefully he'll come around. artest is really playing better coming off the bench.
As much as I hate Head, I have to love him tonight. AB with 10 defensive rebs shows how much Yao even tries to grab the board. I guess that is okay (not really) if he is trying to conserve energy for offense.
I wouldn't call it a good win,but it was important to win at all costs. I agree we let them hang around,and held on with difficulty.
Well we shot 52%, 52% and over 90% FT. We had 26 assists, 11 TOs, 41 rbs, 6 steals. The Wolves shot 44.9%, 38.5% and about 63% FT. They had 18 assists, 10 TOs, 40 rbs, 6 steals. We did lead in PFs - 22 vs 15, can this one aspect really offset the great work we have done in our shooting and general good overall play? GREAT WIN! But NBA games seem to have changed since last I followed one... SS999
YES the refs were jackasses. they prolly was tryin to help them get the -11 get to a +1. ridiculous how yao and scola had soooo many fouls. anywho we win..
i am not really impressed by Al. He has VERY VERY bad fundamentals. He travels every time on offense and pushing his man every time on defense. Besides, his efficiency is terrible. I can't imagine how will rockets' fan react if he is on rockets time
Well a win is a win, it was needed. But obviously we gave up. We tought it would be so easy. But eny team in the NBA will come back, if you only give them a chance. Obviously defense wasn't there. At least we were able to shoot well and the bench was damn big especially in the 2nd quarter. Yao made some big shots down the stretch, but Al ate him alive. He couldn't do anything. Hayes was not better.
We played with 60-70% of our energy tonight and I dont think we played hard enough and everyone included. But Timberwolves is really even given the facts that the Refs were so much biased. I think we didnt play 100% to save some ENERGY?! AB might be the player of the game. It's a big shame what the Refs had done.
Yao got murdered, beaten up, mugged, hacked, and punched. He probably was fouled over twenty times without a call. I have seen some ridiculous officiating, but that was the worst. Then they had the nerve to call tickey tacky fouls on him. Pathetic. The Rockets made Al Jefferson look like the best player in the league. Still playing down to the competition, and, so far, getting away with it.
the no calls were unbelievably lopsided. landry, scola and yao had one shooting foul between them. me thinks the refs are smoking something.
is it just me that feels the officiating is particularly bad this year, worse than any previous seaons?
Yao used all the fouls this month. He need to wait for January now. Refs have call to many fouls on him lately.
Good win! The Wolves put up some sort of fight. Bad officiating though, but the Rox came out with the W!
Luther head did very well in this game look at the stats FG- 6-7 3PT- 2-2 thats very good and efficient form a shooting guard
This is the NBA. You can get beat any night. It was second night of back to back and we traveled from Htown to Minne and the refs were terrible....Conscidering all that, we still got the W. I thought we played pretty well tonight.
Well this was a back-to-back night, long flight, and horribly officicated game. The result was the most important thing for this game. Lets get out of Minnesota ASAP. Aaron Brooks with 10 boards...that's something.
