You said it, most of these threads should not even be worthy of the board. Apparently, this person hasn't been watching the rockets this year!
I agree with you on some of your points. However, one thing the rockets team has shown that collectively as a team they have pretty good chemistry. The offense is flowing fairly well with Brooks running the point. Many times some players don't mesh well with each other. The last couple of games while McGrady has been out; Artest has shown he can be productive in this offense. For the rest of the season, I feel the rockets will be ok; and depending on who they get in the first round, can probably advance to the 2nd round. TMAC was a negative force in the locker room, which trickled down to the rest of the team. Now he is gone. The real test will be to see if they can be consistent for the rest of the season. Go Rockets!!
So tell me, if Yao Ming were American, which 20/10 player that shoots well over 50% from the field and 80% from the free throw line would we be starting?
I agree on number 5 that we need t-mac, and there is no one else on our team that could play like him, he always have the ability to take over games, distribute the ball, and hit the big shots. but he needs the leadership. other than that your predictions are wrong, Ron Artest is overrated, how the hell he is overrated his defense is good as battier's defense, In my opinion the brawl in the palace is what put his whole career in jeopardy, even though it wasn't his fault, Ron Artest is great addition to this team, but he and tracy has to sit down and talk things out.... OOh and ya we will make the playoff..
Haha i love how everyone jumps right back to this thread after we beat the cavs, but if we would have lost by 20 tonight, no one would have said a word here. I'll admit a lot of our recent success makes me look wrong, but I stick by a lot of the things I said, some I am starting to question.
Uh...Yao's shotblocking skills are more than the official stats show. The scorekeepers have been undercounting the number of Yao's blocks in order to lower his Blocks Per Games stat. I myself have counted 7 <---yes, seven, different games now, where they have undercounted the number of blocked shots he has during the game. At first, I thought that it was just me, or maybe who knows, that maybe the scorekeepers just made an honest mistake, but then once I noticed the phenomenon after the second game, I myself started counting the number of blocked shots per game Yao had during the game myself. It's not that hard really--Yao usually gets less than 5 blocks per game, so its actually easy to count them, and its easy to remember them over the course of the game, or even to write them down on a piece of paper in a way you can remember them, like for example: the block, then who the block was on, and then the quarter and the time on the clock when he made the block. Like I said, at first, I could not believe it myself, then when I did this for 7 separate games, I realized that it wasn't just me or my imagination, and that the scorekeepers weren't just making honest mistakes, that they were probably doing it deliberately. Take tonight's game for example versus the Cavaliers. Yao actually blocked Lebron twice--one time on the left basket side when Lebron drove around his defender and made a baseline drive on the right side of the basket, and then Lebron kind of fell, and then yet another time on the right basket when Lebron was making a lefthanded drive towards the rim and Yao blocked Lebron's drive and it bounced high off the backboard. And yet, Yao was only credited for 1 block in total for this game. Trust me, even if I am wrong about this game, I have carefully tallied his number of blocks in 7 separate other games, even if I am not right about this one. This is not the only game that this has been done in, and I am definitely right about the other games where I have carefully tallied and counted and written down just to make sure that I am not crazy and imagining this whole thing the total number of blocks he has in the game. And, like I said before, after I noticed this the first 2 games that I counted this in, in order to see whether or not I was right or not and to make sure that I was not crazy and imagining the whole thing, I was extra careful to make sure that when I counted the blocks in the next few games that I watched, to make extra sure that they were clean and were not fouls called after the block, and that I counted them rightly. And yet still, after 7 games of carefully doing this and making sure, I just gave up and I realized that it turns out that I was right and that I wasn't crazy and imagining the whole things, that they weren't counting the number of blocks Yao Ming has per game rightly every single game, and that they were doing it deliberately, because there was too consistent a pattern, and I think that, without even me saying it, that you all know the reason why. It makes me think, if the American scorekeepers are cheating him on blocks, what other stats are they cheating him on And it also makes me think that they might do this to him in FIBA games and international competitions also, and cheat him out of stats that he has earned also. I say this because I also notice that whatever NBA refs do, FIBA refs tend to do also in international competition to Yao, and so why not their scorekeepers also? They really screw Yao over in the U.S...the refs, the fans, the scorekeepers, every 3 months like clockwork, the national press, (ESPN, FOXSPORTS, CBSSPORTS), comes out with a "objective news article", that says that Yao is really a bad player, and that he is overrated. I just hope that Yao can learn how to take this and tolerate this in silence without complaining and not blow up if he knows about this and that this stuff happens to him, and still play on and be a nice guy towards everyone and stay nice towards everyone despite the wrongs that he gore through throughout his career.
It is REALLY FUNNY, that you are the only person to jump back to this thread... (It must be on your mind huh?)
Actually, watching the Rockets the past two seasons is more indicative of how tough our team can get at the end of the season despite injuries.
I think most people disagreed with alot of your initial post (especially 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7), but the trade of Rafer and loss of McGrady is enough to shake most fans' confidence. Making bold predictions can make you look brilliant or stupid. Fortunately, for us Rockets fans, you're looking pretty stupid right now . I was pretty sure we would make the playoffs despite the McGrady's injury and the Rafer trade, but I wasn't sure how far. This game and hopefully the next few weeks will show us just how far we can get.
To the person that started this thread. IN YOURE FACE MOTHER @#%^&*!!!!!! What do you think of us now???????? Huh??????Huh???????Whats up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are a better team without TMac. He is just not who we hoped he was when we got him from Orlando. He is exactly what was advertised. The biggest contribution he will ever have for this franchise is as an expiring contract.
